TOO GOOD!

Sometimes an actor is too good, too believeable, just too much to handle!

Jason Isaacs is one of those, and in Brotherhood he seems to have absorbed the sociopathic Michael Caffee into himself entirely too well!  Episode 8 is really a sorrowful commentary on these men with completely antisocial personalities. 

I was glad to see Mike realize at last that he simply could not handle being a father to a child with Kath.  Poor foolish Kath, who has paid a stern price for her relationship with Mike.  Helping him, mothering him, trying to manage his brain damage without being murdered by him in a state of seizure, makes it no surprise when she finally sees him as he really is!  Poor dumb woman!  She thought kindness and love could change him into what she wanted him to be!  And perhaps she confused his sexuality and need for some kind of intimacy as love. 

For the first time in the two-year series we are "treated" or is that "mistreated" to the joys of Mike and another man in the local bordello together!  Ugh!  Too bad that had to be included to show us how far down Mike is going in his descent into reality.

And seeing Mike planning and executing his practical plans for eliminating his socialpathic rivals is a very clear wallow through what is probably the truth about such gangs and their actions.  Though I regret seeing it, I feel the truth of it, and hope it will guarantee that I do NOT memorize lines from it as I have from GODFATHER,