I guess I’ll start this week.
I really appreciated Nate’s dog symbolism: Brenda and her boyfriend likening him to a dog trying to pull out its stitches, leading to Nate’s dog guided trip to the psychic. And she tells him to sit in such a master-to-dog tone of voice–nice touch. But Brenda’s vision of him in the vet-collar was a bit too obvious–no need to hit it that much on the nose [with a rolled up newspaper].
For sheer comic gold, though you can’t beat the Sister Wendy segue. Priceless!
i’m not sure about this psychic storyline. and the dog. other than the wierdness, nothing much else happened this week. david tells keith to tell everyone he meets that he’s gay, then decides he doesn’t care. why should you tell your coworkers anything about your sex life, or anything personal, even? especially when you’ve been working with them for all of 2 weeks. i’m so sick of them fighting, then at the end of the episode, one of them invariably concedes, “i don;t care, i just don’t want to fight anymore.” well, DON’T, then!
so claire’s not quite as close to lesbianism as i thought… oh well, we have a whole season to lead up to that. and what’s with the facinelli character? i’m no ladies man, but i could figure out what to do with claire. damn, could i figure out what to do with claire… but i digress… looking at the guy, you’d think he would have plenty of practice with the ladies. i thought maybe he was gay at first, to continue the whole russell thing, but i don’t think they’re going in that direction.
we finally get to meet someone related to george. man, his son was fucked up. george HAS to be lying his ass off here. i’ve never seen anyone profess his honesty this many times without a huge shit-storm of dishonesty as the payoff in the end. they was he’s going, he’ll end up being jack the ripper before the season ends.
oh, i forgot about rico. i’m glad he’s distancing himself from “infinity.” she seemed understanding, but i have a feeling it’s going to be rough. she isn’t disappearing that easily. extortion, anyone?
This season has a lot of subtle stuff mixed in with the obvious.
When David told Keith he didn’t care about Keith coming out at work, I thought it was because David’s encounter with his former fiance had him thinking the same thing Keith had been thinking – wouldn’t it be nice not to be gay? So he understood where Keith was coming from.
I’m rethinking George. He was truthful about this son – that mom’s family was wealthy and didn’t want George in his life. If George was a complete fraud, I would expect Kyle to give something away to Ruth, and he didn’t.
George is hiding something, for sure, but I’m not thinking that he has a totally invented life anymore. And I like how he’s trying to stand up to Ruth; she hasn’t been included in her kids’ lives, so she’s turned her energies to George.
I was really struck by Ruth’s intense need to be a mother last night. It certainly looks like she wants to take poor disturbed Kyle under her motherly wing. At least that might stop the poop deliveries. And what a contrast she is with Brenda’s mother! That woman is a wreck! It’s no wonder Brenda and what’s-his-name-brother turned out kinky!
I think Nate has misunderstood the psychic. I think he thinks she is genuinely alive but I think the psychic meant that the dead wife’s spirit is trying to get back to Nate. And I knew he was going to think the dog WAS the dead wife!
Has anybody read STIFF, the book the kooky niece-in-law left with Nate for David? I have. . . and it’s really very interesting and funny, too.
Rico is toast. What a dilemma for Ruth when the hooker shows up at the funeral home looking for Rico. I’m guessing she’ll have a quiet heart-to-heart with Rico and try to help him out of his mess. Oh, what a tangled web we weave. . . .
Lisa’s voice freaked me out, and when I heard her on the phone I began praying she wouldn’t show up, or the dog would be holding her jawbone or something disgusting like that. My imagination tends to push things much further at times.
I have no words for Brenda’s mother’s behavior at dinner. That woman is a piece of work.
Any thoughts on the intense creepiness of the Dead Guy? “You’re beautiful.” Gah. What was going on, there?
I’m pretty sure that it’s another example of the writer playing with the audience. We all try to guess what the “death of the week” is going to be (well, my wife and I, anyway). Woman in a deserted office building except for a creepy guy in an elevator – rape-murder, right?
My wife guessed right, but she’s a little twisted.
I took this to mean that the guy was into kinky dirty sex talk while doin’ the deed, that’s why he kept pushing her to tell him what she wanted him to do. When she didn’t go along with the game, he quickly got turned off.
I thought the scene with Claire and her friends discussing orgasms was to again highlight how Claire talks a good game, but doesn’t really know much. She got angry earlier in the episode at the guy for not knowing what to do when they were making out and yet she didn’t even know whether she has had an orgasm - and how to give herself one.
Anyone else think it was kind weird when Lisa’s sister and BIL asked for $120 to cover Maya’s “share” of the hotel room and meals and whatever other expenses they might need for the weekend at LegoLand?
If I was taking my toddler-age niece for the weekend, I’d never ask for money to cover her share of the hotel and meals.
Was anybody else disturbed by Keith guarding Dawn from “Buffy?”
I wish they’d gotten somebody who was less synonymous with one character to play the role of faux-Britney Spears. All I keep thinking is, “OMG! Dawn is smoking!” :eek:
Bibliocat, I’m not sure how I feel about that. If they invited her, then Maya was their guest, and they shouldn’t have asked for money.
Normally, an aunt and uncle taking a toddler to LegoLand for the weekend wouldn’t ask for $120 at the last second.
But here I think the writers are trying to show that Nate isn’t considered a close family member to them. Or they are showing the social awkwardness that Nate is having with people lately, like with the rich woman he met last week.
I think Nate has misunderstood the psychic. I think he thinks she is genuinely alive but I think the psychic meant that the dead wife’s spirit is trying to get back to Nate. And I knew he was going to think the dog WAS the dead wife!
originally posted by annie claus.
I felt this too. I even thought it might have more sinister connotations…Lisa calling Nate from beyond the grave, somehow leading Nate to his death so they can be together forever. It’s a case of “you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone”. Nate is full of regrets about how he treated Lisa when she was alive and he desperately wants another chance.
I was a little surprised when Maya was brought back to Nate at the end. I could have sworn that Auntie was going to steal Maya. Actually, I don’t care what anybody says, I smell a nasty custody battle with Lisa’s family vs. Nate.
I think, really, that whole scene was really about Claire not knowing what the hell she wants. It was a turn-off to the guy that she didn’t care what he did to her. He seemed to be attracted to her enough, and wanted to please her, and when she turned on her typical Claire ‘Charm’, he didn’t want that.
I think there’s still the possibility of some girl-on-girl action. Maybe. Claire certainly didn’t say no.
I think it’s just not the need to be a mother, but hopefully a chance to ‘fix’ someone. She realizes she can’t fix her own children, but maybe it might work with poor Kyle.
Now that you say that, yeah, that sounds like a possibility, doesn’t it?
Especially after that blow-up with Lisa’s sister.
I was just surprised that Nate even had that much cash on him to give to her. I think it’s going to hit home to him that he has to get a job. What’s he been doing, anyway? He’s got to get a job. He has a kid to support.
And yes, I see a custody battle coming up.
What’s Brenda doing, for that matter? She’s got to be working. Is she still doing massages?
Nobody really needs to work in L.A. 
Well, I think with Nate, he seems to be living off the generosity of the family at the moment–no one is going to say anything right now while he’s still grieving and trying to get used to raising Maya on his own. I was surprised that he did have the cash to hand over, though.
Brenda has to have something stashed away–her family has money, so there might be a trust fund or something that she can lean on. An apartment like hers, even though it’s rather humble, runs about $900 or so on the Westside.
Oh, that reminds me - from an earlier show, when she went and rented that apartment, she commented to the landlady, “It’s very ‘Day of the Locust’, isn’t it?” and the landlady misunderstood and said, “Oh, there aren’t any locusts here!”
I’ve never seen the movie ‘Day of the Locust’ (or read the book, if it’s also a book), so even though I sort of got her comment (and the misunderstanding with the landlady), I still don’t quite understand what Brenda meant. I’m guessing it means she’s come down in the world, since it’s sort of a dump compared to that nicer place she had before.
Can anyone explain, please? Thanks!