Greek does big brother and little brother

Interesting episode, with a lot of time paid to the aforementioned relationships, many of which will hopefully play a starring role in the series from here on out.

But first to the rest: Dale was missing again. What the hell? Sure, Rusty mentioned him in passing as having seen Jesus’ face in a pile of lawn clippings, a plot which the show followed through on, but no Clark Duke is a week without laughter. Beaver, however, does provide some comic relief whenever he’s around … how perfect that he’s not allowed to take on a little brother? The reason was kind of anticlimactic, but the thought rocked.

ZBZ and its members are starting to seriously irritate me. Ashleigh sucks as president, and I’m not quite sure how the house hasn’t gone broke and lost its charter yet. Rebecca is now a third member of the Ashleigh/Casey relationship, and that just sucks, too. And Casey? Talk about boring! Where’s her personality?

Rusty’s starting to get a little weird (relative to his normal). It seems almost as if the show is setting him up to become pledge to Andy’s (Jesse McCartney) active, which is just kind of dumb. It would give Rusty a recurring storyline that I’ve been looking forward to him moving beyond. Plus, we’ll just end up with more of Rusty lashing out against Andy, without being the guy we’ve grown to love. What’s happening to the Cartwrights?

In other non-brother news, I threw up a little when Frannie told Evan that she and his mother were text buddies. Thank God she should be disappearing before too long: with her out of the ZBZ house and not dating Evan any longer (fingers crossed!), her only role will be as Casey’s nemesis, which will be minimal. Somebody’s listening!

Also, Cappie and Evan (reluctantly) put in some time together, and I have to say that I really enjoy them. I know why they’re feuding, but here’s hoping they reunite as bros. There’s a chemistry between the two that can’t be written; it’s a natural connection between the actors, and I can only hope the show goes somewhere with it. Maybe a secret friendship?

This week we also met Evan’s brother, Patrick (Robert Hoffman). Obviously, as the familial black sheep, Patrick was in town for money. It’s the arc the show’s been hastily stacking for Evan. But when Evan said he’s been buying himself out of trouble since getting his trust? There’s almost no foundation for the new direction Evan’s heading in. What’s with all of the half-baked ideas? I like Evan leaving Frannie and maybe finding happiness with a townie, hopefully even building a life for himself outside of his family’s rules. However, they simply haven’t laid the groundwork solidly enough for him to reach the breaking point now. Maybe by the end of the season, but this is jumping the gun.

Rusty and Andy could potentially build towards being a solid pillar of the show, assuming that Rusty can move past his pettiness and Andy can work a little harder towards not being the big man on campus that he no longer is as a pledge. What I did love, however, was how Rusty becoming a big bro brought his relationship with Cappie into focus. Cappie is really awesome, and he so often shows a side of himself that just tells you that this guy is no stunted frat boy who refuses to grow up. When we see the real Cappie, you just want him to run to Casey and show her who he can be. Then maybe she’ll wake up from her science-induced delirium that is her relationship with Max (Michael Rady). The show clicks just fine without him anyway, week after week.

Which bro-ship (I’m anti the widely accepted slang) makes Greek hum for you?

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Apr 22, 2009 @ 09:00 EST5EDT