BROTHERS & SISTERS - TV watching made easy

Brothers & Sisters is another ABC show that I had not watched prior to entering the high-stakes, high-stress world of professional TV watching. I take my trade seriously, though, and have made every effort to get up to speed on the comings and goings and couplings and dinner parties of the Walker clan. I’ve put season one of the show in my Netflix queue and have burned through the season 2 shows available for viewing on ABC.com. In short, I am a dedicated professional and will soon consider myself an expert on Brothers & Sisters.

It would really suck if I put all this energy into Brothers & Sisters and just ended up hating it. I mean, I can’t be expected to love every ABC show, can I? (Just kidding boss! I love all ABC programming.)But I will admit there are some shows I love a little bit more than others. After all, they can’t all be Dance War. Happily, I sincerely like Brothers & Sisters, and I’m totally not just saying that.

The acting and writing on Brothers & Sisters is consistently top notch, and that’s reason enough to watch. Sally Field rules as Nora the meddling matriarch of the Walkers. Field has always had such a charming, easy manner in front of the camera and it’s nice to see an actress of her caliber getting to sort of anchor a show like this. I like her, I really like her.  Welsh actor Mathew Rys, who plays the driven Kevin Walker, is really compelling - as is Balthazar Getty, who plays Tommy. Whoever cast those guys deserves a raise, because they both always deliver strong performances and have really created three-dimensional characters.  This season we also have Rob Lowe as Senator McCallister full-time as well as veteran actors Steven Weber and Danny Glover. It’s an embarrassment of actorly riches, and yes, I know that “actorly” is not a real word. 

So anyway, I’m stoked to see more new Brothers & Sisters episodes now that the Writer’s Strike is over and the natural order is slowly being restored to the TV Universe. I only ask that they keep writing nuanced, subtle, character-driven episodes, and that none of the characters get hit by a bus or anything now that I’m getting used to them. Seriously, Brothers & Sisters must have one of the most solid and capable casts on television and it’d be a shame to lose even one of the current ensemble.

However, if they could somehow work Dance War’s Bruno Tonioli into the mix? That would be perfect. But then, my idea of “perfect” is not the same as everyone else’s.

--Dave Campbell

 

Comments

[main sonf]

Hello, just I really want to know, which the principal song in "brothers and Sisters" is and who sing. The song which is always in the beginning, Please.
Cynthia

[David D. Campbell]

Hmmm, not sure which one you're referring to. I'd check out tunefind.com, which has a breakdown of the music that appears on TV shows. It's a cool resource. Go here:

http://www.tunefind.com/show/Brothers+and+Sisters/Season+2

Good luck Cynthia!

[JL]

It doesn't even look like we're going to have the opportunity to enjoy any more episodes this season. If I'm wrong I wish the wizard would come out from behind the curtain and give the peons some info!
Ah well, I guess we loyal viewers who wait from season to season and even through strikes really don't count.