This Sunday: Episode 320 -- “Missing"

Written by Jason Wilborn & Nancy Won
Directed by Michael Schultz

Nora prepares for the Center's opening gala. Upon learning that Tommy has disappeared, the family pulls together to try to help clear him of the charges that he seems to be running from. Kitty questions Robert’s commitment to family, and finds a sympathetic ear in her new friend at the park. With Rebecca’s help, Ryan searches for evidence that William might have been involved in his mother’s death.

Between episodes 320 and 321, there will be about a month of repeats. Sorry! But when the new episodes air in April, get ready for this…

Ep321: S3X
Written by Cliff Olin & David Marshall Grant
Directed by Laura Innes
What will the return of Chad Barry (Jason Lewis) mean for Kevin and Scotty?

Ep322: “Julia”
Written by Molly Newman & Michael Foley
Directed by Michael Morris
How much is that pony in the window?

Ep323: “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”
Written by Peter Calloway & Daniel Silk
Directed by Laura Innes
You say tomato, I say… fiasco?

Ep324: “Mexico”
Written by Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
Directed by Ken Olin
Is it humanly possible for the Walker family to dine in silence?

Okay, enough teasing for now. Go, go off into the world, and mull about these cryptic questions.

xoxo

Cole  & Elysse

Comments

[joy]

We have watched B&S since the beginning.. we have felt the music got in the way of the words. Too loud. Finally we turned off the program half way in. Just having a hard time with the music. Too bad, we like the show and looked forward to it but this season it feels like the music is more important than the story.
we will not be viewing B&S.
hate to let it go.

[Sean]

Are we ever seeing John Glover's character Henry again?

[Jo]

Great, can't wait to see the episode, then to be left hanging a month? Ok I will try survive,
I think the music is no problem it adds to the story

[Helen]

I sure hope in the new episodes Holly pains for all the heartaches she caused the family. We want to see her suffer! Please!!!

[S.L.]

I really don't know if I can wait that long for the Chad episode! I've been apprehensive about it since I first heard he was coming back, but I also am excited by the idea of an actual Kevin/Scotty plot that presumably will take up more than 2 minutes of screen time... Any chance we can switch episodes and have it air this Sunday???? :)

Also: "the charges that [Tommy] seems to be running from."

Seems?

[will]

Titles!

"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" - this title is missing an exclamation point (!) it seems to me. Ok, this is a George & Ira Gershwin tune and I originally thought it was Cole Porter before googling. There's a lurking gay sensibility peering through this title! ("let's call the whole thing off", as a title in 2009, has a slight campy edge to it - who else but a gay man or an 80-year-old woman would revive this lyric?).

Let's see? David or Dan??? -- Ah! Dan Silk. Yes, that explains it.

I actually like this title. It has a certain BOUNCE to it, a spring in its step (maybe cause I've heard the song). Light-hearted. It evokes a certain ANTICIPATORY feel for the coming episode. Kudos, Dan & Peter.

"S3X" - Gee, I don't know quite what to make of this title. Chad returns. Ok. Some many, many months ago I suggested a title for MY Chad returning episode - where Kevin gets involved all over again, and goes back & forth between Chad & Scotty (I titled this episode "Love Me Two Times", after a Doors song, as I was on that crazy '60's song title kick - AN IDEA WHICH B&S "BORROWED" by the way! Can we say: "Do You Believe in Magic?" -- "You Get What You Need" -- why do I never get any freaking CREDIT, dagnamit! I slave over titles and ideas... and OTHERS take fast credit! Pooooor me....!

Actually, this comment is running long enough. I'll return for more dissection of the remaining later...

[sam19]

OMG.........

I mean we have to wait for the Jason Lewis tango.. for a month.... I am pretty much hoping that this episode has to be Kevin~Scotty centralised.
apart from that I have seen the previews of episode 20 they seems to be all boring except when the family gets to know about Tommy the "fugitive".

And what about Tommy's family are you people gonna rip them off from the show, because his wife seems so infuriated to me.

where is kevin n scotty in whole of this???
Sam, New Delhi,
India

[catd.]

VERY excited about Laura Innes directing! She is, let's not kid ourselves, marvelous.

Waiting a whole month will be completely worth it.

[Sylviane]

I agree with Sam19 about 3.21. Finally an episode that might actually show us more than 20 seconds of Scotty and we have to wait another whole month for it.
(Sigh) Oh, well, I've survived worse. I hope it's worth it.

I'm sorry that you're already filming the finale. I am curious as to how you will end season 3. I only have one hope: that Kevin/Scotty are still together by the end of this season.

Time-line wise, aren't we close to the one year anniversary of Kevin/Scotty's marriage by the time 3.24 shows up on our screens?

It would be nice if there would be some hint to their wedding a year ago and I would be so glad if you will give us some romantic Kevin/Scotty-moment without "anybody"-interuptus in it, to celebrate that.

"I know I'm a dreamer" but I am in the good company of many Kevin/Scotty fans.

[Amanda]

I cant wait a whole month...ahhh...ok, well i guess i have to...i'm not like the whole justin/rebecca seperation one bit...then ryan seems or is...trying to move in on rebecca not cool...ugh....i cant wait....for justin and rebecca to get back together...Nora Needs a man....please....

[Alexis]

Regarding Episode 320

I'm not liking the Ryan character... he's evil!

The Justin & Rebeca romance is getting old. Justin should find another love interest. Rebeca's character is a bit boring.

Kitty's marriage... over. Bring back the journalist guy!

[S.L.]

Well, that's another one for me to put in the "not a fan" pile. Really, the only scenes I liked were the Kevin and Justin scenes. Otherwise, it felt way too much like filler (Kitty and Robert's never-ending problems, Ryan and Rebecca's "oh-so-interesting" quest to completely trash what little remains of William's good name, etc.)

There was also clearly too much tying-up of plots that were bad ideas to begin with (Greenatopia and Nora's charity, for example). And I really hope there's more to the Tommy plot because why go through several episodes of that just for a "they dropped the charges" in the last two seconds? What's the point?

My biggest complaint though - and I feel like such a broken record - but WHAT do we have to do to actually see Scotty do something besides cook or stand in the background? And can we please see Kevin and Scotty interacting as a couple? That minute and a half last week (or even spoilers for future episodes) is not enough to make up for the fact that you have entirely ignored them for the better part of the season.

[paigesweet]

In the closing minutes i loved how you played Jason Marz's "What a Beautiful Mess" in the backround.

Thanks

[Nicole]

Waiting a month for the next episode will drive me absolutely insane! I just started to get re-interested in the show all because of luke grimes and his character Ryan! The chaos that he brings to the Walker table is overwhelmingly thrilling! Not to mention that he is absolutely gorgeous... but again just when sunday nights began to have meaning and a purpose...the writers have to leave us hanging for an entire month... Ugh... re-runs it is....the 19th couldn't come soon enough.

[Marilyn]

About the loud music on many TV shows, including Brothers and Sisters: I have the same complaint. Why must the music be so loud that you can't hear the conversations? This is very frustrating to me and ruins an otherwise great show.

[will]

I'm kind of glad Kitty is hooking up with this other park dude. Robert has become so terribly storyless. Not quite as storyless and dull as Justin and Rebecca (who's first long scene tonight felt like an extended Folger's commercial), but Rob Lowe is being wasted in this series, so it feels right that Kitty finds a little action elsewhere. Maybe this'll give his character something to react to.

I don't know if it's me or what, but this show is slow-going. Nothing really feels fresh or kinetically inspired. I'm grateful for Ryan acting kind of demonic and getting into everybody's business and adding a bit of color. I could have really used some of Matthew's expert mugging and scenery-chewing tonight. Something quixotic and unexpected. Light a fire under this phlegmatic plot.

There's a central blandness to Justin and Rebecca. I think even the targeted 15-24 year-olds must be bored stiff. I get the same feeling watching them as I do if I randomly catch a soap opera in mid afternoon and some guy and girl are discussing their rocky love life. I have no emotional connection to this Justin. There's all this trumped-up action going on and nothing feels substantive. There is no meat and potatoes.

I see the plotline always veers in the direction of keeping Holly safely in the picture. Imagine that.

Park guy is kind of cute. I hope he and Kitty get into a really sexually graphic affair. Get dirty. Go so far off the deep end that you get into trouble with the censors and Evangelical Public Morality Groups start protesting and a little controversy ensues. This show needs an energy infusion at any cost. This dull, contrite Kitty has to be willfully sacrificed for the old season one Kitty. The Kitty that had a sharp, jittery personality and meant something to us.

I'm getting the nagging suspicion that there are better ways I could be spending my Sunday night than watching pablum with the ocassional ballad tossed under the images. This show has become goop. The equivalent of flipping through a glossy women's magazine at the doctor's office to kill a little time.

[trinity yanson]

totally agree with you S.L. as a big kevin/scotty fan, i really love to see them being normal couple-not necessarily hugging or kissing all the time whenever they have scenes but just "couple moments". well,the season is almost over,i just hope that next season will be different. and i'm just wondering why every married couple in this show are breaking up-sarah,tommy,and kitty.even rebecca and justin are making up and breaking up in just one episode. is that the only plot you have for couples? hope you're not planning to break up my kevin and scotty...

[Sylviane]

To sum it up:
Again Nora acted like frantic mother.
Again Saul was trying to be the voice of reason.
Again Holly is trying to be nice.
Again I don't believe her. Again Sarah is back at Ojai to fight with Holly.
Again Robert was an a--.
Again Kitty was upset with Robert.
Again Kevin was the bearer of bad news.
Again Scotty was catering, this time for Nora, not that it matters, because we hardly saw him.
Again Justin and Rebecca tried to make up.
Again (SURPRISE!!!) they broke up.

And I am stunned over the fact that for the family-picture Nora called all the Walkers, including the non-DNA-certified-bastard-son,...but not her sons-in-law?

And this while Robert and Scotty at least put in SOME effort to make the day a success. When all Ryan, the ungrateful little brat, did was mope around and fight with Justin.

Oh well, think positive:
It didn't really have a Kevin/Robert scene to bother me even more.

Scotty's "you should sit down." was the only sensible advice Robert followed this episode. That made me smile for a second.

We had another minute of Scotty, unfortunately not a real scene with Kevin. Are those two still married? They could have been perfect strangers.

And I'm really curious to see if this "kevin is depressed/dispointed/sad." attitude of Kevin's is going somewhere?

I've given up trying to make sense of Kevin lately, and I have to admit that for one moment I thought that Matthew Rhys had given up too.

But then I remembered Matthew is too professional an actor for that, so there must some ulterior motive to Kevin's attitude... I hope.

So now we have to wait a whole month until we get to see what Chad, Kevin and Scotty are up to...?That sounds way too long...

[Yrsa]

Like many others, I'd die for some more Kevin & Scotty scenes. I feel like they've been neglected for almost the whole season, and they are mainly the reason I watch this show!

The wedding at the end of the last season was, without doubt, the most powerful and beautiful thing I've seen on prime time TV!!

[md fan]

Hmmm, thinking about last nights episode. I don't like Ryan's character at all - he's obviously devious and is plotting to ruin/cause problems with the Walker. Don't like that he's trying to sully William's already muddied reputation. I am hoping the writers have more to Tommy's story than to wrap it up at the end of last nights' episode - a little too unbelievable. I like Sarah coming back to Ojai. I for one like Holly and particularly with David. More Ken Olin please - love him. Can't we bring back Tom Skerritt???

[Ro]

I've suspected right from the beginning that Ryan was up to no good. What an evil little snot. I think we're going to find that Holly had something to do with the suicide of Ryan's Mother. I'm depressed to learn that I'll have to wait a whole month for the next episode. Why is this?!

[Anna]

What is Rebecca doing helping Ryan? he seems to be looking for revenge and i think Justin should find another gal, Rebecca is becoming her mom....

[Ella]

Oh...I didn't like this episode. They took forever about the whole Tommy thing, and then in like the last minute they decide to drop the charges.
I don't trust Holly about this...might be because I hate her character. Didn't like how Sarah went back to Holly and Ojai AGAIN.
Rebecca's starting to become more Holly than herself...at the beginning of the season, I really liked her, but now she's starting to bug me. She and Justin should get back together...watching them fight together is more amusing than watching them disagree AGAIN about everything that tore them apart in the first place.
Seriously, where is Scotty in this? He's one of my favorite characters.
I really don't like Ryan, nor do I care about William's possible cause of his mom's death. He needs to go away and let Justin and Rebecca rekindle their relationship.
And also, I didn't like how Julia decided to let Tommy back into her life...it was really funny when she kicked him out, she should stand up for herself more!
All in all, not a very good show. But I can't wait for the 19th!

[S.L.]

One request - if you're going to insist on keeping Ryan around (although, PLEASE don't!), can you actually follow through with the manipulative, up-to-no-good personality? As annoying as that is, and as much as I think he's completely off the wall in his suicide speculation, it gives him something DIFFERENT.

You introduced Rebecca as a manipulative, up-to-no-good character and then expected the audience to just accept she really is just as sweet as can be and we should want her with Justin. The Ryan plot has just been Rebecca 2.0 so far, so why don't you have the courage to actually stick with that untrustworthy behavior?

And then as soon as Ryan's (ultimately unnecessary) plot is actually over, get rid of the character instead of trying to shoehorn him into the family for the rest of eternity like you have with the other "villains" of the show. That way we can devote story ideas and screentime to people the audience actually cares about! Thanks!

[Deb]

Holly is so devious, I bet she did have something to do with Ryan's mother.

And, Park boy is cute. I would love to see Kitty kick it up with him, and stir it up with Robert, as all he thinks about is his political future.

I don't agree that the storyline this season is lacking. For the first time, my husband has been hooked, and finally off of watching "Walker Texas Ranger" reruns!