The first season of Brothers & Sisters truly ended with a splash. The season finale was simply amazing, and I don't think it's possible for the writers to have ended the season any better than they did. I watched both the Desperate Housewives and the Brothers & Sisters finale, and I have to admit that I thought that the Brothers & Sisters season finale was a thousand times much better than the Desperate Housewives finale, even with the ending that Desperate Housewives had.
I just simply don't think that the season finale of Desperate Housewives could possibly make up for the lackluster third season that Desperate Houswives has had. Brothers & Sisters on the other hand has been great all season long. It started with a bang and the season ened with a bang. I love how the writers went full circle with the pool. The first episode ended with the dad, William, falling into the pool as he was dying of a heart attack, and the season finale ended with the whole family jumping into the pool as a celebration.
The season finale definitely had its sad moments with Justin preparing to go back to Iraq and Julia dealing with her grief over the death of baby William, but the season finale was definitely much lighter and more fun filled than I expected it to be, but that's fine with me.
The season finale had some really great storylines what with Nora trying to plan an engagement party for Senator Rob and Kitty, Kevin helping with the plans for the party and running into Jason McCallister again in the process as well as Justin preparing for his return to Iraq. I loved the McCallister family, especially the uncle. Nora and Kitty's fight during the whole telophon for the party was great. Sally Field and Calista Flockhart were great in that scene. Sally Field was great in this whole episode. The whole cast did a great job in this episopde.
I have to say that my favorite storyline from the finale was definitely Kevin helping to plan Kitty's engagement party with Jason. Those scenes were definitely the most enjoyable to watch. I especially enjoyed watching Jason and Kevin's scenes together. I think that Eric Winter and Matthew Rhys have really great chemistry together. I especially enjoyed the scene where Jason and Kevin end up making out in the the pantry of the Walker house. I'm so glad that Jason and Kevin hooked up at the end of the episode. I really hope that Eric Winter (Jason) will be able to return for the second season so the Jason and Kevin relationship can continue to develop, but we'll have to wait and see about that since Eric Winter's Viva Lauglin pilot was picked up. I'm a huge Eric Winter fan, so I really hope that he will be able to return as a guest star for season two.
This episode sure had a lot of plot twists. I found out about Jason being a minister and Saul being gay before the episode aired, so those two twists weren't very shocking to me. I was really surprised about the whole thing with Rebecca though. I loved the whole Jason being a minister thing, especially Kevin's reaction to it. That was hilarious!
All in all, this was a really great episode, and I thought that it was a fantastic way to end the first season of Brothers & Sistsers which was really outstanding. I can't wait for season one to be released on DVD so I can watch the episodes over and over again, and I'm really excited for the second season to start in the fall. I think it's going to be a really long summer without any new episodes of Brothers & Sisters to watch.