Brothers & Sisters (4.08) "The Wine Festival" Recap

When a gay couple looks at a computer monitor together, they're looking for...?

Instead of opening with the usual shots of Justin and Rebecca pawing at each other, we open on Rebecca trying to calculate which of those pawing sessions got her knocked up. She doesn’t trust the math which says she's six weeks preggers, and while I’d say Justin’s lab partner is a better choice to help her doublecheck it, she tries to reach Justin instead, who’s too busy to care.

Meanwhile, in front of a computer over at the loft, Kevin and Scotty are choosing an egg donor. Or trying to. Scotty finds it weird they’re choosing a mother online when he’s never even hooked up online, which draws an incredulous “Really?!!?” from Kevin, followed by and innocent “Me either.”

After the Jerry Springer-like Who-you-think-you’re-fooling-tramp look from Scotty, he admits to doing it once. He doesn’t specify if that’s once, once/day, once/week and Scotty doesn’t ask. So maybe Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell can work as a policy in some cases.

Successful relationships can be had by making faces instead of issues.

Since they’re trying to be all politically correct about not caring about ethnicity, etc., narrowing their choices down proves difficult.  Gay Aryan Nation couples doing this have a much easier time.

When Kevin tries to select blue eyes, Scotty rightly calls him out on using that as a cheat on ethnicity, so they decide to plow through the hundreds of candidates one-by-one, searching for “the best one.” Or at least Kevin does.

Meanwhile, over at the Walker manse, Nora obsesses about her age in relation to her boy toy, while Sarah obsesses about the employment status of her live-in hunk.  After trying to assuage Nora's neuroses, Sarah dashes out to a meeting about a wine competition. There Sarah, Saul and Holly decide, under pressure from an uptight woman I’ve never seen before (who looks like she wandered in from the set of Gossip Girl where she was Grandmother #1), to taste their cheap wine. Knowing the Walkers, I think it’s an excuse to introduce alcohol to business meetings.

Turns out Saul, the wine snob, loves the wine (his face is as rapturous as the first time he saw Luc exit the pool soaking wet), and they decide they can brand it, bottle it, label it and get it into a festival by the next day. This makes Ryan, who’s been betting against the company, look uncomfortable.

Wine at work. Just like the AfterElton.com newsroom.

Kitty appears very little in the episode, but it’s mostly about her sex life, so a little goes a long way. I seems Robert loves the wig, as it adds the excitement of another woman without the hassle of covering it up. Eventually, she’ll let him see her bald, and find he finds it hot, too – apparently, as long as she doesn’t look like she normally looks, he’s turned on.