Roush on Brothers & Sisters and Calista Flockhart
Question: What do you think of
Calista Flockhart's performance recently on
Brothers & Sisters? Initially she was my least favorite character on the show, but I've been really impressed with how she's infused humanity into Kitty as of late, what with the loss of her unborn child (that image of her curled up sobbing on the couch, knowing her deceased fetus is still inside her, choked me up) and how she handled Justin's intervention this week. I really believed her pain and admired how much she must love her brother to push through her recent loss and stand up to him, for his protection. Kitty and Justin have always been the closest of the siblings, so how hard it must have been for her to tell him she would change the locks if he left and call the police if he returned. OK, that's the writers' brilliance, but I really believed Calista's delivery. I know you hate the obligatory Emmy questions, so I will refrain. But I would expect she'd be on the short list come next year.
— Jeffrey K.
Matt Roush: Much like the show itself, Kitty and Calista Flockhart's performance have grown on me. She has been especially good in these recent episodes, and I remarked on the Kitty-Justin scene from last week's episode in my
Dispatch on the intervention episode. When she massaged his scalp and got him relaxed enough to finally go to sleep, that felt so genuinely sisterly, I was quite moved. Her Emmy chances — who knows? That's a big and talented cast of scene-stealers she's competing for attention against, and
Rachel Griffiths has already (deservedly) made the cut once.
