Well, that's confusing.

WHAT??!!! OMIGOSH JOEL AND JULIA!! You signed the divorce papers and then you KISSEDDDD??!! I mean, I knew it was gonna happen, but still! YESSSSssssss. (Those P.Hood writers try to trick us--)

Okay but let's talk about Mark Cyr. DUDE. Stop teasing us with him, I'm sick of it. I don't want to hear about his marriage and his baby on the way, ugh. I want him back. I want him to be with Sarah. But he can't be, and we're supposed to be good with, "This is gonna sound weird but I'm glad I knew you." "I'm glad I knew you too." Well, I'm not.

I mean, it was a very cute moment between Sarah and Hank with the whole "I'm happy. There's nowhere else I want to be" blah blah, but still. Gosh, I can't even remember what happened with Mark or why she chose Hank, did she choose Hank? I don't think I was happy about that then either. But anyways, it's just weird to see Mark still so in love with her while he's having this supposed whole other life going on. I'm really waiting for the episode where he's like, "OKAY!! I'm gonna tell you the truth. I have no wife, no kid, I made it all up so I wouldn't look like I'm desperate for you, and now I want you back." But that would be really weird, and Parenthood would never do something so crazy, but still.

Okay but on to the basics:

Drew. I just love you. I don't know why. You're so simple. Helping your grandpa find that place in France, being caught between him and your grandma and figuring out how to be helpful but not lie. And everyone keeps acting like school's not important. (In their defense, it does seem like you're hardly ever doing school work lately, but anyways.) I'm just really glad to see on IMDB that you have a couple movies wrapping up because you're getting really good and I hope you take off in the movie world. What's your real name anyway? -IMDB CHECK- Miles. Miles Heizer. That's sort of a weird name. I may call you Drew forever, but anyway, I hope you go far.

Oh, and that was a great conversation Adam and Kristina had with Max, awwwwww. - "I don’t feel like we really gave you the full picture of what can happen in relationships. Remember when we talked about the number scale and how things can change? Well sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re stuck because the two people want different things." And then Max goes, "Well, that's confusing." Right??! And the rest of the talk was really good too, and then he did such a good job apologizing to her at her house, but it was so sad too! - "If you do decide to come back to Chambers Academy, I promise to never come near you again in any capacity." Aww.. but then Dylan shakes his hand, "See you at school tomorrow, Aspergers." So good!

A few good lines at the beginning:

• Hank's ex-wife to Sarah - "Oh, um, were you waving to the hot English teacher?" 
• Hank and Sarah - "You're not just my girlfriend." "I'm not? What am I then?" (I don't think that ever got answered.) 
• Oh and then when Hank's talking about the high school play and he's like, "Let's be honest, some of those kids... I mean, Ruby's good you know, but.." HA ha ha ha. 

Well I was really tired trying to watch this one, and my computer's being weird from playing music all day so the mouths were a little off from the sound (so annoying!), but I had to get this done because there's like three other blogs I still have to write about things, and I'm getting so behind!

LOVE IT

Wow. Okay so it took me a minute to get into this one, but omiGOSH. So many good moments, and lines. (I wrote some of them down during because I just had to.)

First of all. MAX. Oh Max, oh man, that scene with him in the cafeteria with Dylan. I got teary-eyed. And then when Kristina followed him outside and encouraged him about showing his feelings and told him that one day he'll do it again and he'll know it's the right girl because she'll like him back? I cried. I did. I seriously cried. (Well not like seriously, but like a little.) It was just so touching because Kristina hasn't been encouraging to Max at all through this whole thing, but the fact that this kid that can't show emotion, really lays it all out there for this girl, it's like a huge accomplishment, and her saying she was proud of him instead of trying to teach him to not do that to a girl in front of her friends cause it's weird blah blah, wow, Bravo Kristina. I love you right now. And I just loved that whole double scene.

And Crosby! Wow. It's not like I didn't like your story line before, but I just didn't really believe your acting before. But tonight was good. I felt your failure, I felt your frustration, I felt your vulnerability. And dude, the door guy kept your weed? Not cool, ha ha. JK. Crosby was way out of control about the weed, but even that was such a good scene because it showed how out of control he's becoming, reminded me of my brother a little bit, sheesh.

I'm still not a big fan of the girl that plays Ruby, but Hank, HANK, you're so awesome, I love you. You and the ex-wife, I love you guys! I barely even missed Sarah really. Can we please replay the scene after the party?

"We could discuss it over a drink. Did the kids bring anything good?"

"I feel like getting drunk."

"Oh yeah, that tastes like high school."

I also loved Ruby's mom's line to her before she throws the party: "I don't think you're an idiot, Ruby. I think some of your friends are idiots, and I think those idiots are gonna end up at my house."

Oh, and Drew. DREW. I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU. I mean, not like for real, but I just love your character, and your acting has grown like exponentially I can't even take it. Can you teach me your method? Anyways I loved his conversations with Amber, especially when he tells her he can't go out because he has to study and she's like, "Yeah I know, school sch-school school school." HA. Love it.

Oh, and skipping back, it was so beautiful with Ruby and Hank at the end, when he's surprised she's not going straight to her room, and she's like, "Well I can't watch TV or go online or talk to my friends, so... I hope you're prepared to entertain me." LOVE IT. And then he teaches her poker and says she's not supposed to show any emotion and she's like, "So then you're really good at it then." HA. (And I do wonder how much better we'd be getting to know the people around us if we couldn't watch TV or go online or talk with our long-distance friends. Probably WAY better. But I just don't really like cards, or puzzles. But maybe cooking? Yeah, maybe I should cook with people more. But I really just like cooking by myself. Hmm..)

Anyways, ParentHOOOOD. What WHAT.

You love her. You fight for her.

Oh man this was such a good episode! I haven't seen an episode this good in a while now, so it was much needed.

Best story lines -

• Omigosh Amber! Amber, you're going to make a great mom, don't be sad! I love seeing her with kids all the time lately, it's really changing her and making her pretty awesome. Stupid Max, ha ha, and why on earth did they plan a trip to Alcatraz, what were Adam and Kristina thinking letting them do that. LOVED the scene between Amber and her mom where she reminds her that babies start out tiny and all they do is poop, HA ha ha. So true. And baby poops are cute anyway. 
• The Drew and Zeek story. Omigosh I LOVE Drew's girlfriend. Not only is that girl a great actress (thought so from the beginning), but I love how her character pushes him to do the right thing and stop being selfish. SO great when Drew comes back and tells his grandpa they're going somewhere and it's on a "need to know basis." And he shoots a gun for him! Oh man, I need to live my life more like this. Oh yeah, and best dialogue between Drew and Natalie.. "Maybe it wasn't about you." "I know it wasn't about me." Ugh! Love it. We get so mad when stuff isn't about us or when we can see someone is just doing something for selfish reasons, so blind to ourselves and how we are being selfish as well. So I'm glad Drew saw the truth and made a change.
• JOEL AND JULIA!! Omigosh guys, you're gonna get back together, right? Joel gave her the house! Her heart is being warmed. She sent Old College Lover home, and Joel came back to fight for her. SO good. I hate that victim mentality.. "Well this is what Julia wants, so I'm just gonna let her go blah blah sob sob." Thank goodness for Zeek and waking Joel up, that needed to happen. 

Whew. Okay, so this was a great episode full of great truth and acting. Oh wait. Actually I'm not a big fan of Hank's daughter's acting, her fake crying and whining is sort of making me nuts, but I did really like that story line anyway, even if it is bringing Hank closer to his ex-wife. Loved how Sarah handled the Ruby situation with the guy, so funny, and it was great how concerned she was when Hank so casually mentioned her actual daughter had been crying. "Why was she crying?" "I don't know." "You didn't ASK her?" HA ha ha. Oh Hank, you're learning, and we're rooting for you.

Okay so I guess this was the episode Kristina, Adam, Crosby and the Crosby peeps were not on, but hey I still really liked it and didn't really miss 'em that much. Interesting how some missing characters are more obvious / missed than others. I'm being mean now. I should be done. 

Can't wait for next week!