They had removed her uterus in the hospital, what caused the hemorrhaging problem - I don’t know.
As for the photo in the book theory - I must say that I’m impressed. I knew Lisa’s freaky niece would have some sort of predominate role to play in this story line.
Or it could just mean that she’s “in” the episode. Sometimes IMBD lists people as “guest stars” when they’re just appearing in the episode. It doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll be listed in the opening credits.
I’m thinking there are going to be a lot of loose ends in this season-ender.
David maybe freaking out over confronting his attacker, George maybe freaking out and locking himself and Ruth (and some of the others?) in the bomb shelter, a definite showdown between Nate and Barb and Lisa’s parents over Maya, some sort of confrontation between Claire and Russell at her art show…
Maybe Nate and Brenda will cut and run with Maya?
George has some sort of meltdown over what he sees as a coming apocalyse?
David has a complete breakdown (or perhaps becomes stronger) after seeing his attacker?
If it isn’t a dream sequence (which it definetly could be), I think you are on the money. Why? Because that would be the ONLY way, IMO, to get Lisa’s sister to not tell anyone that Lisa wasn’t really cremated. If she tells, then Nate lets it known that Lisa’s sister didn’t help her sister or covered up what really happened to her (I don’t think she killed her).
Btw, I think George is awesome. The way he talked to the door-to-door Bible thumper was awesome. I clapped after the scene :D. Only if we still had Arthur along with George in the house… that’d be awesome!
When he asked George if he had thought about his eternal happiness, I thought he was peddeling funeral homes, and just didn’t pay attention to the door he was knocking on. I was expecting George to have a lot of fun with that (I was also expecting him to call other family members in as well to discuss it).
Does anyone else think Claire needs to get over herself? She can’t share anything with Russell? He was there, and was a part of it, but the “my art is mine… MINE” attitude is getting really annoying.
I loved Ruth’s reaction to the marijuana.
Is it realistically possible for the Kimmels to take Maya from Nate? I thought courts were reluctant to take kids away from a custodial parent, esp. if that parent isn’t obviously abusive or negligent. I’m not sure on what basis they’d be able to try this-- even though Nate lied about Lisa’s burial.
Als her husband, I think Nate had the right to bury Lisa how he saw fit. The only problem there is that I believe it’s not legal to bury human beings just anywhere, so that could be a problem. He may also have defrauded the Kimmels by deceiving them about Lisa’s remains. However, would a judge really take Maya way from Nate because of that?
I liked how Brenda and Billy chuckled over something mom said in the hospital room, and their previous discomfort disappeared. They’ve been too close for too long to not want to have a relationship, if only a united defense against mom’s attacks.
Lisa’s death not an accident? My vote goes to the brother-in-law being involved, but mostly because he’s been such a cipher.
I’m just about to give up on this series entirely.
Nate is way too obsessed with his daughter. He’ll never have a mature relationship with anyone as long as he insists on Maya being the center of everything.
David has been reminding me of a whiny, pre-teen girl. In the first season, he was an actual adult.
What’s this crap with George and the survivalism? Where did that come from? I don’t recall him ever even alluding to it - if it’s so important, you’d think he’d have mentioned it to Ruth eons ago.
Claire is a brat.
I find I just don’t care about any of them any longer. I’ll see the season to the end, just out of habit, but I’m not so sure I’ll bother with it any longer. Did they recently replace all the writers? What happened to the show that grabbed me when it started?
David has been reminding me of a whiny, pre-teen girl. In the first season, he was an actual adult.
posted by Fairychatmom
He was freaking out because he had to ID the guy who carjacked and tortured him in a lineup. I would have felt relieved that the guy was caught and wouldn’t carjack anybody else. I would have run over to the police station and identified this guy. But then, I thought David was so passive during that whole episode. I would have tried to crash the van, just to get away from the creep.
Also, Claire is surprisingly petty about the art idea she and Russell came up with together.
It’s not just in this episode - it’s been the entire season - at least it seems that way to me. I’ve been wanting to slap him and tell him to grow a spine. Big baby…
I think the survivalism is George’s own way of reacting to depression. We saw him have the little breakdown when he was alone with Maya a few episodes back, which was TV shorthand for “I’m depressed”. He’s been shown to be interested in environmental concerns all season long, and having a supply of “earthquake water” is a perfectly sane idea for all Californians. I’m not even sure he went all that far overboard, I mean, about 10 people are living at the house at the moment. But his discovery of the bomb shelter has allowed him to go completely around the bend. Sorta like an alcoholic teetering on the edge of a relapse being told that their house features a secret and fully stocked wine cellar.
Such a loss! I can think a bunch of fun ideas to refit a Cuban Missile Crisis era bomb shelter in near perfect condition…
Actually I was pissed at Russell for trying to take credit for something which was in no way his. So what if he put the cut outs on Claire? She told him to take pictures of it and then came up with the idea for the paper mache thing. Russell butting in during the critique was highly rude.
russell did come up with the seed of the concept. this was the one project that got claire some props, and she acted like she just came up with the idea out of the blue. russell sparked the process, and she should give him credit for that. a lot of the time in art the difficult part is just getting the ball rolling, that’s what russell did, insignificant as it may seem.
i’m wondering if lisa’s sister pushed the family into the cremation decision to hide something, maybe some sort of clue, to lisa’s death. maybe that’s why she and her husband are so upset about it. but this might stop them short of telling anyone else, as to not raise suspicion. come to think of it, the husband was pretty intent on finding out exactly where she was buried.
but it seems kind of contrived to me that they’d be involved. it doesn’t fit the show’s tone. but neither did david’s carjacking, so who knows?
I can see how Russell may have sparked the idea of the collage masks by putting the torn-out pieces over Claire’s eyes, but I don’t believe he should at all be trying to take credit in the way he did for her latest work. He doesn’t deserve a collaborative credit for the masks. I do, however, think it was disingenous of Claire to tell the gallery guy that she’d always done collages as an explanation of how she came up with the idea. I don’t know; did I just contradict myself? In a nutshell, I think Russell might have deserved some props for collaborating on the original eye piece, but doesn’t deserve it for the masks, which seemed to me a more original idea. But then again, I think there’s so much baggage between Claire and Russell that every little thing that happens is fraught with much more angst and turmoil than is warranted, so I can explain a lot of their dispute away by simply believing that it’s mostly unresolved issues coming to the fore. Theirs was a terribly messy relationship.
Russell definitely deserves some credit…just not nearly as much as he thinks he deserves.
And this is where I really see the core of Russell’s problem–he’s still hurting from their breakup and Claire’s abortion. He’s still madly in love with her and in his own screwed up way, is trying to be a part of her life by trying to get some credit. Claire wants to completely write him off, as if he never existed in her life, and in a way, this is him telling her, ‘hey, I am a part of your life, whether you like it or not.’
You know he’d dump Anita like yesterday’s garbage if Claire wanted him back.