By Sabrina Cognata

Here’s a massively helpful hint I learned while watching BROTHERHOOD today, MIXING A RAW EGG WITH SOME WHISKEY CAN KILL YOUR MONSTER HANGOVER.  Thanks guys!  I wish more television would give helpful life hints for the lowlifes and party animals of this great country.  Thank god for Brotherhood, thinking of the other guy & taking care of its own kind.  Just like tradition says it should.

Dear Michael (Jason Issacs), how do I love thee—probably in an infinite amount of ways.  Michael gets stuck trying to find this guy that stole a ton of money from Freddie Cork.  The guy takes off and no one can seem to find him.  Declan (Ethan Embry) actually runs into the guy while he’s visiting his daughter at school, but doesn’t have the heart to call Freddie.  He tells the guy to skip the state and hide for good because he is not totally soulless yet. 

That doesn’t matter cause Freddie and Michael are hot on his trail.  Michael goes through the guys house destroying it to see if the money is hidden in there.  When nothing turns up Michel decides that maybe he should try buying the house.  His girlfriend Mona (Francine Mona Bouska) tells him she’s possibly pregnant so he gets all paternal.  On the way back from visiting the house as a potential buyer he flips out at a gas station during one of this seizure/episodes and sprays gasoline everywhere.  Mona tells him he has to get a checkup or she’s finished, even though she’s preggo.  Michael agrees & makes an appointment with his doctor saying they can put him on meds to help control the seizures.  Then he gets a call from Freddie.  Freddie has captured the guy regardless of Declan’s warning and Michael says he’ll beat the money out of him if he can get a 10% cut of it.  I guess he’s thinking ahead now that there’s a baby on the way.


Tommy (Jason Clarke) acts like a total dickhead this entire episode.  His assistant, Alex, asks for his support in getting nominated to run as State Representative in the 3rd district.  When Tommy realizes that he’s completely dependant on Alex he refuses to back him so that he can keep him for himself instead.  Meanwhile, Eileen (Annabeth Gish) confronts Tommy about their problems, telling him she has to leave if he doesn’t want to work things out—he immediately retorts that she should.  After a couple of days of her being gone Tommy shows up at the hotel and asks her to come back.  He apologizes for acting like cold hearted, but Eileen wants to know if he even has any idea why she cheated on him.  Tommy gets more pissed and leaves, but she calls him back and they return home together.  When Eileen gets back to the house he tells her he has a business dinner and he goes over to his whore’s house and gets a handjob.  I guess Tommy’s decided to get down off his cross now that the shoe is on the other foot.  This entire bad guy persona makes Tommy’s character a trillion times hotter.  Thank god, I was getting sick of worshipping Michael.

In the interim, Colin (Brian F. O’Byrne) goes to Rose and asks her to help him find out who his father is.  At first she tells him it doesn’t matter, but after she gets snubbed by her own lover, Judd, (Colin’s actual father) she let’s Colin in on the family secret:  Judd and Rose were in love, but they were both married, her sister was sort of a whore and let him bang her even though it was only cause he could never have Rose.  Rose finally does something that proves she is not a heartless bitch; she promises Judd’s wife she’ll never see Judd again if Colin is allowed to meet his father.  How precious.


Next week more people will have illicit consensual sex, more people will die & more underhanded deals will be done because that’s the way it goes on The Hills in Rhode Island.  I wouldn’t be watching if that wasn’t the case, would you?