Cinerant

Two takes

It's interesting when two shows deal with the same storyline on the same night, which is exactly what happened on Everwood and What About Brian? last night. Both shows had characters stepping out on their partners. Unfortunately, it's likely that only Everwood will ever be able to overcome it. (Partially because Brian has about two weeks left and then it's probably history at the rate its ratings are going.)

Everwood had Bright sweating the fact that his girlfriend still doesn't want to have pre-marital sex with him, so he ends up sleeping with Kimber from Nip/Tuck. (Thankfully, the Carver didn't show up and hopefully she wasn't making a secret porn movie!) Immediately, he knew he'd done something wrong, and refused to talk to Hannah. Even when she barges in to finally talk to him about the fact she hasn't seen him in a couple of days, he doesn't tell her anything. Bad Bright! I guess that just means that he'll spill the beans next week and we'll get more relationship drama. (Because that boy is not good at keeping secrets!)


As for Brian, the show went exactly where I feared it would go and Deena consummated her desire to have an open marriage. It happened at the end of the hour, so we didn't get a sense of whether she thought it was a good idea or not after the fact, but after Brian's two in twenty-four last week and this, it's quickly becoming difficult to promote the show as something other than smarmy. However, before it deserves to be labeled with that, we get a great counterbalance story where Adam is told by smarmy client not to get married, but when he gets home and finds his fiance there, he realizes he really does want to get married. (But don't tell him that if the show does manage to make it to season two, she might decide she doesn't want to marry him!)

The problem with Brian's storyline is that we don't know Deena like we know Bright, so it's less likely we'll just be able to forgive her. (And let's not even get into the difference between cheating on a spouse versus a girlfriend.) Additionally, Brian has yet to prove itself to be as earnest as Everwood, so it makes it more difficult because we know Bright's sincere heart. The only thing we know about Deena is that she's a mom who's only slept with four people and wants to sleep with more, even though she clearly loves her husband.

But does she love her husband as much as Martha Logan? I hope not, because at least Deena's husband's not some psycho-President who's intent on creating a legacy and killing millions of people in the process. Go Martha! Work with Jack and bring your crazy loon of a man to his knees. Make him know what "till death do us part" feels like!

posted by cinegod @ 9:58 AM