Brothers and Sisters

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Sarah Getting Married?
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Welcome to the series finale of Brothers & Sisters. What better way to wrap up a show than with a wedding! You see, Sarah is getting married today. Unless Luc comes to his senses and runs away from the Sarah that we have met this season. The Sarah who creates pointless drama, the Sarah that has BANGS, the Sarah who seems to have lost every last shred of common sense, the Sarah who drives to Modesto just to have a two-minute conversation where she tells her new bio-dad, Brody, that she doesn't want to see him ever again. Let's get started and see if Luc makes it down the aisle.

As a gentle reminder to the viewing audience, that yes, Nora does have a job, the show opens with Nora on the air sharing her daughter's paternity with whatever sort of person would listen to a call-in radio show called "Dear Mom." I'm guessing the few long-haul truckers who aren't serial killers and, thus, are lonely, receptionists at the local Y, and the small river mammals that populate the countryside surrounding Pasadena. I'm not sure if Nora has discussed this particular sermon with Sarah, because it seems to me that if I was quite literally the boss of my mom, I would not let her air my own mixed up genetic history with my employees, let alone the aforementioned audience. I mean, why mix the professional with the personal? If she doesn't put her foot down now, where is "dear mom" going to draw the line? Will she discuss Sarah's inevitable fertility issues? Her struggle with foot corns? Her predilection for camel-toe inducing pantsuits?

Nora is telling her audience of woodland creatures and lonely truckers that Charles Dickens' "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" was written about her daughter's wedding. Rather, her and Brody's daughter's wedding. So I guess Nora has told the beavers and muskrats all about her Jerry Springer worthy-past? You know that one box turtle was all, "TMI! TMI!" over that. Then in typical television show fashion, Nora says something like, "But that was the least of our problems" and then it fades to Sarah sitting up in bed looking anxious and staring into space. She turns and asks, "Are you awake yet, honey?" But it's not Luc! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahha. It's Kitty! This show has a serious sense of humor. Kitty is awake and Sarah reports that she had a terrible sleep because of this deep sense of foreboding plaguing her. Perhaps she psychically knows that her mother is spilling all her personal details to her employees? Kitty reminds her that she slept over so that she wouldn't see Luc in the morning and jinx the whole damn marriage. Because that is a thing that can happen to a marriage. You see your fiancé on your wedding day and that's it: DOOMED. You may as well not even walk down the aisle. Although, Luc didn't sign a pre-nup, so he should just go for it.

Brothers and Sisters