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I was pleased to see the actual business of running a funeral take some screentime this week, as it’s been kind of sidelined, and I think it’s always a useful plot trigger. And of course David’s as good as out of that side of things whilst Nate’s rather good at it, which shows a certain progress of the characters.
It feels a little like it’s treading water a bit at the moment – George is well, then he’s not, David and Keith are going to adopt, then surrogate, then adopt, and the like, and it’d be nice to see a sense of progress. Especially as an end is coming.
That said, the programme’s always watchable, and generally the leads are very good in it – I liked the dialogue about Maya’s upbringing being influenced ‘by a book Brenda hasn’t even finished yet’, and the way George’s apparently inappropriate behaviour provided a viewer recap and also made Nate have to talk about the Lisa situation.
The notion of Nate and Maggie seems a bit obvious to me, and strikes me as in considerable contrast to the abortive encounter between David and the hairdresser the other week; it’s often the case that in drama characters like Maggie are introduced with a sense of near-inevitability that they’ll be somehow involved as a love interest for the core characters (which is, of course, done to death with soap operas, with everyone being with everyone over the years), but David’s fumblings were presented more as a spontaneous, and arguably more promiscuous, kind of behaviour. I don’t know if there’s any kind of generalisation about presentation of gay and straight sexuality to necessarily be extrapolated from this, as I may just be thinking ‘oh, don’t go with the Maggie/Nate/Brenda triangle story, that’d be the kind of incestuous and fairly predictable plotline I’d hope not to see in this programme…’and looking to be unimpressed as a result. |
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