I can't have been the only one last night that thought (or was hoping) they would kill somebody off.Indeed, a few characters found themselves in mortal peril last night. Fortunately, they included some of the whiniest, most tiresome characters in the show's history, so I didn't really care if they got taken out.
As we saw from the previews for this week's episode, Julia and Olivia were robbed at gunpoint. It was good timing in that the robber appeared just as Julia and Olivia were perhaps about to breakup (about Julia's straightness), but it was bad timing in that Olivia folded like a lawn chair throughout the whole ordeal. In a welcome reversal, it was Julia who was the strong one as Olivia cried virtually the entire time. Nice job out of both Joely Richardson and Portia di Rossi in these scenes, making them feel harrowing even though we all knew they'd probably get away alive last night (though I'll admit to a fleeting moment where I hoped the guy would cap Julia and end all our suffering).
That fleeting moment went away when Julia finally stood up for herself (and for Sean) and told Eden off for having an "affair" with Sean (not sure why it's an affair since neither of them are attached) and messing with her friends. Sure, her threat to have her shipped to boarding school was empty because Eden is 18, but still. In fact, I really enjoyed all the scenes with Julia, Sean and Christian coming together as friends. Those three characters have always been the core of the show.
Of course, all of that got blown to hell in the final scene with Julia running into Christian's manly protective arms. Now it looks like those two are going to start up again, and we're in for some more overdone melodrama there. Yawn. Hopefully, they'll sprinkle in some more gems like Sean chiding Christian for encouraging Julia to get a gun by saying, "This from a man whose idea of responsibility is pulling out." GREAT line.
I'm not sure why the show decided that's the best way to go, especially since last night's episode "Dr. Joshua Lee" was one of the funniest and sexiest of the season.
Let's talk about the funny first — it was great to see Bradley Cooper back as actor Aidan Stone (pictured, right) who took Sean under his wing after he was having a mid-life crisis of sorts. Basically I loved everything Cooper did and said last night, from hosting a hell-themed party to undergoing a new age-y treatment with Sean (even the yoga in his tiny underwear inside his trailer). I realize Cooper and Oliver Platt as "Hearts N' Scalpels" producer Freddy Prune are busy, in-demand actors, but this show has to find a way to sprinkle them in more often and liven things up.
As for the sexy, well we got not one, but two scorching hot sex montages between Sean and Eden (who was back to her bad girl self after showing her vulnerable side last week). Honestly, it can't really get that much more risqué (on basic cable at least). Of course, Eden dropped him like a bad habit once she'd finally had him and threw in a "gray pubes" burn just for good measure. Second best line of the night. AnnaLynne McCord has been a very nice job in and injected life into a role that's basically the "clichéd temptress". I also loved watching Sean a little later get her back by playing hard to get because Dylan Walsh is an underrated comedic actor.
I'm only going to spend one sentence on this week's patient, a seemingly crazy old man who wanted to have an alien device removed from his back, because it was pointless and completely predictable that, perhaps, he isn't as crazy as we all think.
Then there's Matt and Kimber (damn, this episode was jam-packed!) They actually kicked off the episode by fessing up about their meth-addiction and begging for money and plastic surgery for Kimber so she could return to porn, only to be rebuffed by Matt's dads. Christian's line to Kimber "Your face looks like a frat's couch" was my third favorite line of the night, but eventually Christian did the surgery after Kimber offered to leave Matt. Kimber was appropriately convincing (especially for a porn actress) in her cruel dumping of Matt, though we did see a twinge of guilt. Oh well, whatever. Everything she said (about never really loving Matt) was probably true, so how broken up about it can you get?
Of course, that led Matt, Burger King's latest employee to cook up some crystal meth in a scene I was SURE was going to led to an explosion and the end of Mr. Creepy Eyebrows. Instead, he set himself on fire and took a dive into the pool, Golden God style.
So what'd you think of this episode? Is Matt dead? Would you care at all if he was? Are you excited about more Julia/Christian drama as they try to hide their relationship from Sean (I'm clearly not)? Are Julia and Olivia officially over? Finally, has there EVER been a patient that's been a bigger waste of time? (unless this alien storyline inexplicably comes back) I mean, even the seemingly random ones (like the ventriloquist who wanted to look like his dummy) at least serve as a metaphor of whatever Sean or Christian are going through?
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