McTavish made sense with her history with GL (playing Lola, writing for the show) and her "success" on AMC. Brent/Marion...excuse my French but she blew her load on that one and was limp afterwards. I loved B/M and I did not mind the "switching the HIV tests" plot...she could be very "meta" in her first 6 months...the switched tests mimicked the tired and true pregnancy/dna test switches and I loved the scene where Brent unmasks himself virtually to the cops by "The part of Marion Crane is now being played by....BRENT LAWRENCE" as his face morphs like Auntie Em to the WW. She COULD be creative but I think she needed a producer and coheadwriter to reign her in.
But the rest of her time was a dud or poor choices. Brent killing Nadine, which nowhere but for one shock scene, Marcus, who we didnt know getting framed, Holly and Fletch and the downs syndrome baby.. It would have furthered story if he killed Fletch (he could frame Roger and Holly and the rest of the town believes it, except Alan, who manipulates more things to get Roger convicted...Holly going a bit wacko in her pursuit of Roger to get justice turning to booze to asuage her guilt, Ed and her slowly getting together as he knows what it is like to loose and spouse and also go off the deep end..) Family relationships were forgotten, (Bridget stopped calling Ed, "Uncle" and was never in the Bauer sphere, Chelle calling her aunt "Mrs. Chamberline") Alex, who did have funny lines during this time, was just a totaly bumbling shrew..Amanda the Malibu Madame and the twins by two fathers was just "ripped from the headlines" type crap..turning Dinah into a heroine, Roger loosing all his layers and the Lonatrat storyline...Vanessa just sighing away with boring Matt, things played for comic relief when it didnt work (Rick and Blakes one night drunken stand was played for laughs...Rick just screwed his stepsister who is married to the guy who is like an uncle to him, but it all yucksss.)And the tasteless plot of Gilly trying to screw her own dad (of course she doesnt know it..) which wasted both the actress and the actor playing the dad (who could have actually been a black romantic lead...) It all fell apart after Brent, and she floundered..and you could tell she had no respect or love for GL and just seemed to hate to be there..(funny you could see that in the material of a writer.)
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