By Scott Patrick Wagner
Fancast.com
[watch series creator Greg Berlanti talk about writing Brothers & Sisters]
In this first original episode of Brothers & Sisters since the writers srike, this one titled "Separation Anxiety," we open on various Walkers watching election results, which show Rob Lowe losing the nomination. Also, Nora (Sally Field) is evidently sleeping with Isaac (the network must think it’s an issue that he’s black, since they avoid showing them kiss in two different scenes). The show then cuts to three months later (roughly the length of a Hollywood writers' strike), and we learn Kitty and Robert’s life-altering decision: she is now harvesting eggs (with Rob Lowe) for a prospective little Republican. Sarah is having big business and monkey business with the cute guy from Wings, and Nora has been living with (but apparently still not kissing) Isaac.
For half-sister Rebecca's birthday, preparations for a Walker train-wreck party are in fully swing. Slutty Holly and her old boyfriend (the blonde one and the dark one from thirtysomething) are now an item. In Nora news, she has accepted Isaac’s invitation to move to Washington, D.C., thus shocking her family. Everybody confronts her, causing the scheduled train wreck at poor Rebecca's party. Nora develops her first backbone of the season and tells them all to suck it, then Kitty — feeling hormonal from the Lowe-spawn harvesting — tearfully asks her not to go. Justin hears the thirtysomethings bickering about Rebecca's paternity: it might be Dark Thirtysomething instead of Nora's dead husband.
Then Rob Lowe gets a sudden phone call from the guy who beat him for the nomination, possibly courting him for Vice President. Sarah asks Uncle Sol to nix the business deal with Wings guy, so she can keep dating him without it being weird (too late). And Nora actually manages to kiss Isaac one time, this one on-camera, before she kisses him off altogether, spending the last shot of the episode poignantly eating all alone in her big house. There's gonna be guilt to spread for this.
