Fairly Legal – Brazilian love songs are dangerous

It’s almost the end of Fairly Legal, season two, and Lauren gets to have her hair down, dance, and kiss someone.  I liked Lauren last season, but I love the new, more relaxed Lauren. She’s still tough and smart, but she also gets to tell jokes and make out with Archer (I was calling him Richard Branson Lite in my head during the episode). Lauren breaks it off with him and I think makes the good point that she doesn’t need complicated which is what he is.  Even aside from the lie he told her about his son, I suspect Lauren knows too much about the lifestyle to want to be part of it. She seems to regret it a little bit, at the end, but I don’t know, he was charming, but if it’s not right, it’s not. She at least makes a decision.

Meanwhile, Kate and Justin get entangled in a Brazilian singer/activist’s problems from home when they are stupid and decide to party with her. It was obviously a set up when the car hit the limo, so the only question was whether Davidson was dirty enough to pay it off himself or he was taking advantage of the situation. Luckily the show didn’t push it so far that he was at fault himself. But wow, Connor Trinneer‘s character Barber, way to be a douche and burn all your bridges with your co-worker and possible new boss. I’d think the better thing to do would’ve been to try to be sympathetic and explain how he was caught in the middle, but he was not at all. He backed the wrong horse, and I definitely want there to be a season three with Justin as the new DA and he makes Barber squirm for the whole B-plot of an episode.

I liked very much how the whole cast was involved in the case, with Lauren as his strategist and Ben (and Leo) helping on Claudia’s defense.  Kate was cute in her fangirl enthusiasm for Claudia in the bar. I also liked that Justin didn’t take the low road and blame Kate, accepting his own responsibility.

Then, after an episode of Ben being useful and funny, we get more anvils with the world’s longest song about ‘following your heart.’  Well, okay, show, I get it, already. Thank goodness the finale is next week so Kate can finally stop stringing Justin along. If she’s as indecisive as the show is making her seem, then it’s about time she break it off and just do it. I’ll be sad, because if Kate and Justin aren’t together, I don’t see much need for Justin in the cast and I like Michael Trucco consistently on my television screen. But this show already threw Justin under the metaphorical bus at the beginning of the season, and now they’re doing the same with Kate, with her junior high school maturity level of needing songs and heart-shaped rocks to tell her what to do with her life. I want to like Kate, but the show is making it very difficult for me to want another season if we have more of this coming.

It was a shame, too, because the episode before that was quite enjoyable.

Quotes:

• “I deserve a fairy tale. and that’s what this was. But I’m smart enough to know when to say ‘the end.'” – Lauren
• “Not enough booze in the world.” – Kate after being told by her soundly defeated opponent “Screw you.”
• “They’re gonna treat her like she blew up an orphanage field trip to an animal shelter.” – Ben

Questions:

• Is it a coincidence that Connor Trinneer is in the same episode with a character named Archer?  It was good for a chuckle at least for fans of Trinneer’s previous show, Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Is Kate actually still a lawyer/member of the State Bar?  She must be if she sat at the table during the trial, and yet previous episodes made a big deal of Ben being the client’s attorney and Kate was not.
• Will Kate hook up with Ben? Will there be food fights? Will Justin win the election? Will Lauren and Justin get together? Will Leo… who am I kidding? Leo will never have an actual story.
• Will this show get a third season? Does it deserve a third season?

Clacked by Liz Tamura
on Jun 09, 2012 @ 09:10 EST5EDT