IMHO "Brothers & Sisters" Episode 307: “Do You Believe in Magic?” I will if it makes Kitty disappear!

Last night's episode of Brothers & Sisters was the "Proposition 8" episode that was supposed to air the week before the election rather than the week after. Although, given how little it really had to say about Prop 8, I doubt the delay made much difference. And that's just part of the reason I'm giving the episode a side arrow. 

Find out why I didn't love it (and watch a clip) after the jump!

When I first heard last Sunday night's episode was going to include some discussion of California's recently passed Proposition 8, I wasn't expecting the whole episode to be devoted to it, but given that the show includes network's television highest profile gay couple, I was expecting to at least see Kevin and Scotty discussing the issue, talking about whether they might want to get married some day, the unfairness of it all, etc.

Instead, we got a brief scene at the beginning of Kevin pushing Senator McCallister to issue another statement opposing the proposition (he'd issued one months before), and then a scene at the end of Kevin explaining how he had deflected rumors of McCallister having an affair with California's female governor by "leaking" info that McCallister had actually met with the governor to discuss opposing Prop 8. Or something. It didn't really make sense.

Here is the clip of McCallister confronting Kevin:

Frankly, that whole subplot didn't work for me (no newspaper would report an affair on such flimsy info) and I didn't much care about it. Nor did I care about whackjob Kitty causing their birthmother a neurosurgeon to dump her and Robert because she's just a neurotic nutball. But I loved the fact that she did dump them even after Kitty went back to plead her case. In fact, that's why the episode is getting a side arrow rather than a down arrow.

What did you think?