B&S Watch Update - Episode 14

Last week's episode clocked in at 50 minutes, ads included.

Kevin's story line with Chad was censored almost to nothing. In fact, I have a feeling the average non-Internet-checking viewer might not know that Chad and Kevin have been involved for a couple of episodes now. We did get to actually see Jason Lewis in person, which makes a nice change from just seeing his name in the guest star list. Kevin's ex-boyfriend, Scotty, also put in an appearance in this episode. It was supposed to be a romantic triangle of sorts, not that we would know based on what we get to see. The way that Kevin's story lines are censored, one has to wonder why Scotty and Chad randomly pop in and out of his life to have strangely truncated exchanges and share the occasional meaningful glance.

Again, I must give props to the censors for an adroit job in excising mentions of Kevin's sex life from the episode. The opening scene was a multi-way conversation about the Valentine's Days shenanigans of the brothers and sisters. Whoever wielded the scissors did a fantastic job to eliminate all evidence of Kevin's confession that he had slept with Scotty, mentioned initially by Kevin himself and then repeatedly brought up with both his sisters. It was masterful editing; as ever, the unsuspecting viewer would probably have thought of Kevin as celibate. However, one could easily tell from Matthew Rhys's expression that he was not simply lending a listening ear to his siblings' laments about their ill-advised hookups. Besides, the humour in the situation was that ALL of the single Walkers had somehow managed to sleep with someone against their own better judgment. This was censorship that undermined the comedy.