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Originally posted: May 15, 2008
Did 'Brothers & Sisters' jump the shark?
Posted at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15
Rebecca and Justin's kiss might have caused "Brothers & Sisters" to jump the shark, but I think the season-ending plot twist did.
Did “Brothers & Sisters” jump the shark in its Season 2 finale?
I’m not talking about the kiss between Justin Walker (Dave Annable) and Rebecca (Emily VanCamp) who, up until recently, were thought to be brother and sister.
The cliffhanger is what did me in. The show seems to be repeating the same plot twist that ushered Rebecca into the Walker family in the first place. In the drama’s first season, viewers learned that Walker patriarch William had a decades-long affair with Rebecca’s mother, and we were led to believe, as the Walkers have been, that Rebecca was his child from that affair.
The Walker clan accepted Rebecca as a sibling, but a DNA test recently revealed that she is not biologically related to them.
In the finale, the Walker brothers and sisters decided that the baby photo they thought was Rebecca is actually a boy, Ryan, the son of another woman they now suspect had an affair with their father. So now they think they have a half-brother somewhere.
See how the show may be hopping over that shark?
I’m not saying this will prevent me from tuning in next fall. Maybe it’s nothing. But it does annoy me the writers would use the same plot device—and the same photo—for another storyline. How many women was William Walker wooing?
Oh, and if you think “Brothers & Sisters” jumped the shark with the Rebecca-Justin kiss, I have bad news. Their coupling will be further explored this fall, the show’s exec producers have said.
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