“Brothers & Sisters” Episode 115 Recap: "Love is Difficult"

Greetings Brothers & Sisters fans. This is our recap for the fifteenth aired episode, entitled: “Love is Difficult.” We are in the home stretch now. ABC ordered 22 episodes of the show for this season, but the unaired original pilot counts as one, as does an early episode that the network decided to shelve. So, by my count, we only have five original episodes left after this week.

Let's get started, shall we?

The show opens on Sarah and Joe in bed. They are in the midst of not-so-passionate lovemaking. It is so desultory in fact that Joe can't bring himself to release. Maybe he's thinking about baseball. Although that never works for me. (I always wind up thinking about Billy Bean.) But I digress. Joe sighs and rolls off of Sarah.

Sarah: But Joe, you didn't…. Did you?
Joe: No. It's fine. Really.

Oh Joe, you should've faked it. Something tells me she's faked it with you before.

Cut to the next day at the therapist's office. Joe and Sarah's couple's counselor is none other than Joel Grey. I notice the actor has aged significantly, but he still retains the same androgynous quality that he had in Cabaret. Oh, wait a minute, maybe it's not Joel Grey after all. Maybe it's his, daughter Jennifer “Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” Grey, with yet another nose job. It's hard to tell.

Sarah: Something's been happening in bed.

Uh, I guess technically, nothing's been happening in bed. Hence the couples' counseling.

Joe: Lately I haven't been able to “let go.” I mean when I'm about to, you know, let go, something uh blocks it.
Sarah: Do you think maybe you're thinking about someone else?

Sarah is convinced Joe has a thing for a woman named Vanessa. (Vanessa's daughter has a weekly play date with Paige.) Joe denies it, but Sarah is unconvinced. Just then the therapist says their time is up. Their time is up? What, they waited until the last two minutes of the session to tell the counselor Joe can't climax? You know, that's the sort of significant disclosure I might start off a counseling session with. I'm just saying. The therapist makes another session for Thursday at 4:00. He must be making a mint off these two.