3 posts tagged “kath”

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,

I wish I could say that I believe Kath loves Mike Caffee, and that he loves her!  People keep telling him that Kath is the best thing that ever happened to him, but is it really true?

Maybe we need a definition of love!  Mike was right to tell her he could not cope with her having his baby.  I do not see her pregnancy as a light from above!  Maybe, if he had not been beaten by Declan, that wonderful cop who thinks he did the right thing in almost murdering Mike, the sexual heat between Mike and Kath, which is built mainly on old-time memories, could grow into a loving relationship.

Kath describes Mike as an animal in bed.  Is that necessarily love?  Come on now!  Since when does that mean the same thing as treasuring another person, enduring their good and bad sides, making the harsh decisions yourself and not blaming the other companion in life.

If Kath really loved Mike she would know he could not cope with her pregnancy, with her changes, with her presenting him with a child for which he must take a full fatherly responsibility.  I think Kath is lucky Mike made the right decision.  And I think part of his decision should be to move on, move ahead, move past the girl of his youth, and grow up!

If Mike is to survive in the dangerous world of his business -- murder, mayhem, and mobs-- he must find his strength in himself.  He has plenty of it.

Episode 5 is a violent banger!  Mike has a really scary incident of brain damage seizure, and could have killed both himself and Kath, though he finally comes out of his lack of memory and automatic violence to let her go.  Poor Kath!  She has to tell him she is pregnant, and he seems happy at the idea.  But during one of his roughneck assignments he vandalizes a beautiful suburban home for Freddie and likes the place so much he wants to buy it!  I am surprised that the bank would tell the realtor who Mike really is!  Around my town, the banks have long served as money laundering places, by selling prime real estate to drug dealers, both here and along the beautiful coast, especially on our barrier islands.  But that is aside!  Mike sees only the lovely house, polished and beautiful, and the manicured yard with lush grass and flower beds, and he sees his Kath in that setting.  But Kath is not exactly convinced.  She is facing the reality of who she and Mike really are! 

The best part of this episode for me was when MamaCaffee took poor Colin to meet his father, Judd, the once-powerful politico on The Hill, but now reduced by age and illness to a chair-bound cripple who hardly knows who or where he is, let alone who Colin or his mother might be!  Rose was probably only doing it to hurt Judd's mean wife, but it was still a good thing to do.  The scene where Colin understands the condition of the father he has sought for many years is excellent.