Previously on Brothers and Sisters: Sarah teamed up with two guys in their twenties, who were trying to launch a website. They needed lots of money to attend some tech conference, where they were hoping to get picked up by an investor. Nora agreed to let Rodger Grant design The Center and they made cutesy faces at each other. Kevin agreed to go quail hunting with The Senator and that fat cat realty guy, Gordon Alexander.
And Rebecca and Justin were an item, despite the fact that that's almost incest and that we haven't seen them together in like months. Oh, and I spelled "Greenatopia" wrong. Moving on.
We start in medias res, which I looove. You know, when everything is so crazy and messed up that you know they're going to go back in time to explain how everything got so weird? That's what's going on right now.
Walk of Shame.
An elevator opens at some swank hotel, and we see that Nora is doing the Walk of Shame. She's not too pleased to see Sarah waiting in said elevator, with equally ridiculous sex hair. They go back and forth, trying to figure out who the other spent the night with, without answering any questions themselves. The elevator dings and we see that Rebecca has also apparently spent the night, only she has rose petals in her hair. Awesome.
Nora grabs a rose petal out of her hair, looking at it like she's never seen anything like it before, and asks if Justin is still sleeping. Rebecca says she doesn't know where Justin is. And I call bullshit on Sarah and Nora's blasé reactions to this statement. I think they'd be a little more upset that she was cheating on their brother/son. Whatever, show.
48 Hours Earlier. Nora is fawning all over Rodger and the eco-friendly stuff he's showing her for The Center. Saul keeps trailing behind them, not being able to get a word in. I already don't like where this is going. Why did they have him acting like such a jerk last week if we're supposed to want him with Nora? Because I want Danny Glover to come back. Or that silver fox from a few episodes ago, Ryan's dad (who's not really his dad because William is his dad, but you get my point).
Rodger kisses Nora on both cheeks before he goes and Saul's all, "Cheerio!" Heh. He asks when they fell in lust and Nora falls all over herself denying it, but eventually admits to drooling.
Some parking garage, where Sarah and the boys are leaving the all-important tech conference. Sarah thinks it went horribly, what with her not knowing how to Twittter or having a Facebook Page. That was funny the first time I heard it, but not so much after she repeats it like a hundred times throughout the episode. The boys try to encourage her that they covered the techy stuff, so they should be fine. Also, one of the investors is coming to their launch party tonight, but I'm distracted because they never explain how they got the money to throw this party. I guess they got a huuuge loan from the bank, given that $120,000 of it was supposed to only cover the actual conference.
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Sarah gets a call from Paige and after feeling bad that Nora has to take her daughter shopping for a party dress, she stupidly says that Paige can get whatever she wants under $40. So, I think you can figure out where that's going. Even though Paige is only ten and I wouldn't expect this plotline for at least another year or so, but maybe times have changed since I was younger. But I mean, she's like in fifth grade and I know I didn't go to a "dance party" until middle school and even that was during the school day, like in the cafeteria. So yeah, I'm having trouble talking this whole thing seriously, even though Rachel Griffiths rocks the hell out of this episode.
Ojai. Rebecca is putting together the swag bags for the party, where Walker Landing is going to get some free advertising by giving away bottles of wine. They briefly discuss that Tommy is in Ojai trying to partner up with a neighboring orchard, and at least the show is taking the two seconds to explain where he is during the episode. Sometimes, it's like they just forget he exists and I hate it when shows do that - it's just lazy writing. (I'm looking at you, Gossip Girl, and your repeated misplacing of Chace Crawford!)
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