Big gay round-up on last night's Brothers & Sisters

*** Spoilers ahead ***

Last night’s episode of Brothers & Sisters, “Compromises”, was chock full of gay stuff. First, Kevin meets Scotty’s friends. I hope they’re just his “bar” friends and not his closest friends, because they make a very arch, catty and unpleasant little sewing circle if you ask me. Anyway, they think Kevin is stuck up and button-downed. Me, I’m totally siding with Kev on this one.

Still, Kevin is incensed at being thought uptight so he takes Sarah back to the bar the next night (because Scotty and his friends are there every night) to prove them wrong by getting drunk and performing some really tragic karaoke. The bar is called “Cinammon Jack’s” — not to be confused with the lesbian bar down the street, “Nutmeg Nancy’s.”

Meanwhile, Jason joins brother Robert on the campaign trail in Michigan where he discovers that Isaac, the Machiavellian political consultant who publicly outed him years ago, is now working for his brother’s campaign. Needless to say he’s a little miffed.

And if that weren’t enough, Saul finally got some screen time — first fending off Nora’s request to talk about his personal life, and then sharing a glass of pinot with Veronica Mars’ dad, who must be working undercover or something.

Even though the gay content quotient on this last pre-strike episode was through the roof, I can’t say the show went out on a really high note. Me, I felt in trying to cover so much gay ground, this episode didn’t do anything particularly well. Scotty’s friends wound up being pearl-clutching one-note characters rather than three dimensional people.

Jason’s confrontation with Robert over Isaac seemed muffled at best and way too hastily resolved.

Finally, while I love the casting of Eric Colantoni as Uncle Saul’s potential love interest, given that we only see Saul every six episodes or so, it might take them forever to actually get past the wine-drinking stage.

Anyway, we'll have the full recap as usual on Wednesday, but I'm curious what others' initial impressions were. What did you think of last night's episode?