Was it a little dusty for anyone else watching last
night? I’m pretty sure it was over here…
Let’s start with the most annoying story, and work our way
backwards…
Sarah and Mark
have a wedding to attend on the weekend, but uh-oh, Hank is having a meltdown.
Turns out his ex is moving, and taking his daughter with to
Minnesota(holla!). Hank calls Sarah
completely blitzed at one in the morning, and she takes off, leaving Mark out in
the cold.
The next day, Hank tells Sarah that he wants her to go to LA with him that
weekend, but Sarah doesn’t want to, since she took the time off to go to the wedding
and all. Mark wants her skip as well,
but then Hank uses his sob story: he’s
using the job as an excuse to go to LA to try to talk his ex out of
moving. Sarah is conflicted, and her and
Mark fight several times, but the fight is exactly the same each time. It was super annoying. In the end, Mark disinvites her to the
wedding(it was his friend), and Sarah pouts around a bunch.
Oh, and Drew is a whiny little brat again, this time not
wanting to be babysat by his grandparents while Sarah is away, even though she
has VERY good reason not to trust him.
Crosby had his
very own annoying subplot as well, when a bitchy neighbor comes by, and bitches
at him bitchily for a million years.
Turns out the musicians in the studio are rather disrespectful to the
other tenants, and she can’t get into her parking space, and there is a lot of
noise and garbage. When the problem isn’t
fixed within a minute, she flips out, and complains to the city, finally ending
up threatening to sue, since the business is on a residentially zoned property. Now, if the annoying bitchy woman had voiced
her complaints in a more civil manner, I may have been more sympathetic toward
her, but her demeanor made me hate her the second I saw her. If you are going to be in an area with shared
spaces, you have to play like a grown-up, bitchy lady.
Julia and Joel had
their own problems, when Joel got an offer for a huge promotion, as a forman at
a construction site. Julia is playing
stay-at-home mom, and is clearly miserable.
She doesn’t want to hang out with the other moms, she spends her time at
home doing pointless things like making giant handfuls of pasta, and then the
kids hate it anyway. Julia doesn’t want
Joel to take the job, as she thinks it’ll make him have Viktor as less of a
priority, and when she voices this concern, everything hits the fan. Joel is incredibly pissed that Julia doesn’t respect
him enough to think that he can’t handle do the exact same thing she did when
Sydney was born: putting career on equal footing, and being able to balance it. They eventually do make up, and Julia admits
her anger comes from her insecurity at being a good stay-at-home mom, and not
anything Joel has done. Now, do have
just a tiny quibble with this, in that Julia could have had good reason for
feeling that way, in that she knew that SHE couldn’t balance, and didn’t feel
that SHE could give her all to the kids.
If she framed it that way, that her failings have her concerned, not
that he isn’t capable, just that it’s very difficult which she knows from
experience, the outcome could have been very different.
Amber and Ryan
have a small, but significant plot. Zeke is helping Ryan get ready for
interviews, and Amber’s being all supportive and whatnot. When Ryan goes out for his interview, the
interviewer is a total jerk, and only fixates on whether Ryan has killed
anyone. Ryan bailed on the interview
after that, and Amber is sympathetic, but Ryan needs space anyway, going for a
walk by himself when she tries to give him a hug. Amber goes to Zeke looking for advice, and
you can tell that she is really falling for him by how much he being hurt hurts
her.
Lastly, Adam and
Kristina, with a big helping of Max,
had the funish plot of the evening.
Max has started on his presidential duties, and has taken his single
issue campaign right to the forefront of each and every meeting. The rest of the councilmembers want to put on
a dance, but Max uses his (non-existent) veto powers to squelch that one, at
least until his parents hear about it.
They convince him to let the other students plan the dance, but he
refuses to go. Adam is fine with him not
going, but Kristina REALLY wants him to.
They argue back and forth for a bit, with Kristina even getting him some
nice collared shirts, but Max is having none of it.
Adam tries to talk to Kristina about having Max not go, but
she has a very good reason for wanting him to: What if she doesn’t make
it? What if this is the only dance she’s
around for? Adam is taken aback, and
manages to convince Max to go to the dance, if only for 30 minutes. When Max comes into the living room, Kristina
is so happy. She helps guide him in how
to ask a girl to dance, and what to do if she says no, or if she say yes. They dance around the living room a bit, with
Adam smiling in the background, and dang, is that dust back? It was so cute, I almost couldn’t handle it.
This was a pretty good episode. You can see the arcs falling into place, and
are starting to see where each character is going, or at least, is trying to
go. I could have done without the Crosby
plot, or at least, it should have been handled differently, but the Kristina
stuff was great. The Sarah/Mark/Hank
love triangle is already getting on my nerves, but writers don’t move an
unmarried couple in together cause they don’t want drama. Let’s hope it keeps up with the strong stuff
for the rest of the season.
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