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Brotherhood: Matthew 22:10 (season finale)
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, OpEd, Brotherhood  (S01E11) Matthew 22:10: The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests.
A big Irish wedding, and Freddie Cork finally makes a move, ordering a hit on pain-in-the-ass Michael (Jason Isaacs), after going back and forth every other week over whether they are friends or enemies. The first surprise is Pete, who appears at the wedding all cleaned up -- this, after the last time we saw him, snorting coke outside an AA meeting with Eileen Caffee (Annabeth Gish). Judging from the selection...
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Showtime renews Brotherhood for second season
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Brotherhood, Pickups and Renewals  If you've been enjoying the series Brotherhood (and Mike C.'s reviews of the show), then Showtime gave you some good news the other day when it renewed the original series for a second season. The show is about two Irish-American brothers -- one is a local politician, and one is involved in their neighborhood's Irish mob, and he's back from being in hiding -- and it has been getting tons of great reviews from critics.
It looks like Showtime is finally starting to get a roster of original...
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Brotherhood: Vivekachudamani :51
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, OpEd, Brotherhood  Vivekachudamani :51: A father has got his sons and others to free him from his debts, but he has got none but himself to remove his bondage.
The long-lost father of the Caffee clan shows up to make his miserable family even more miserable.
Pete's still trying to help Eileen along with AA, even holding private sessions for her, since she won't go to a public one. Pete's a little too soft-hearted of late in his management of the teen street dealers for Michael's taste. After a lecture from the elder Caffee brother, Pete...
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Brotherhood: Ecclesiastes 7:2
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, OpEd, Brotherhood (S01E9) Ecclesiastes 7:2: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every man, and the living should take it to heart.
Now that Tommy has worked his way into the second most-important position in the legislature, the Speaker orders him to get a crucial vote on passing the budget. Naturally Tommy's mob ties (by blood anyway, to brother Michael) come into play. And, just as naturally, the vote he needs this time comes from the one representative that last week called Tommy's installation...
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Brotherhood: Job 31:5-6
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Brotherhood  (S01E08) Job 31:5-6: If I have walked in falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; Let God weigh me in the scales of justice; thus will he know my innocence!
Eileen tries to tough it out alone and go cold turkey. Michael heads down to Jersey on a "milk run" with his old flame, while his mother Rose drives the rest of the family nuts planning a surprise birthday dinner for him. The House of Representatives gets a new Speaker after a scandal, and the power goes straight to his head. He immediately takes $100K away from Tommy's...
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Brotherhood: Genesis 27:39
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Brotherhood  (S01E07) Genesis 27:29: Finally Isaac spoke again and said to him: "Ah, far from the fertile earth shall be your dwelling; far from the dew of the heavens above!"
Last week Tommy (Jason Clarke) asked Eileen (Annabeth Gish) point blank if she was "on something." Well she is, but her husband isn't the one she admits it to. She turns to someone else instead, and gets dealt a pretty intense initial reaction -- even for this twisted family. Those Caffee's are one cold bunch, but then, that's how they'ved survived this long, and change is tough, this...
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Brotherhood: Samyutta 11:10
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Brotherhood  (S01E06) Samyutta 11:10* The line separating the bad guys and the worse guys gets further obliterated this week. Caffe brother Michael does a favor that taints those involved. Poor brother Tommy, meanwhile, already torn up inside after having to ask his father-in-law for help last week, now has his lovely mother Rose rub his nose in it at the weekly family dinner. Just when was almost beginning to sympathize with her. Never again, she's foul.Continue reading Brotherhood: Samyutta 11:10
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Brotherhood: Matthew 12:25
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Brotherhood  (S01E05) Matthew 12:25: But he knew what they were thinking and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no town or house divided against itself will stand."
Mike Caffee (Jason Isaacs) appears at times a kind of off-kilter Robin Hood, but more and more it's clear he is really an evil Peter Pan. He won't, probably can't, grow-up, and that's one source of his misery. (Spoilers below the jump.)
Continue reading Brotherhood: Matthew 12:25 Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Brotherhood  (S01E04) Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied."
Family loyalty trumps all again this week. A combination of Mike's littering the neighborhood with counterfeit bills and his slicing off a fellow mob soldier's ear (in the pilot -- who then turned informant) gets the secret service to show up at mama Rose Caffee's Sunday dinner with a search warrent. They toss the house and come up empty. Almost empty anyway, as the particular timing of the search appears to be planned to embarrass state assemblyman...
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Brotherhood: Matthew 13:57
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Premium Cable, Brotherhood  (S01E03) Matthew 13:57: "And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house.' "
But this one could have been: "What will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? "(Matthew 16:26) as Tommy slices off yet another piece of his integrity in order to address another political expediency -- this time a garbage strike, the full impact of which is well shown in an effective opening...
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