Mistresses - US TV Series Review - Series 1, Episode 2 - Spoiler Alert

Okay, I decided to give Mistresses another chance but I am still not sure if this is the TV show for me. So far there is only one character (out of the 4) that I like and so far it is only her storyline that I have been interested in. However, here is my review of episode 2.

Savi is feeling the aftershocks of cheating on her husband, which did turn out to be a one off and not some ongoing affair. I can't believe how quickly and easily she managed to cheat on her husband but I guess I should keep reminding myself of the name of the show and stop being shocked and so disapproving. Savi is in no mood for wild club tales from Josslyn, who is walking around in her Thor’s sister outfit. Apparently, it’s very hard to dance with hammer in hand. 

Karen advises Savi to take a beat before going forward with her plan to tell Harry that she was unfaithful. She wants her to be sure this won’t happen again. As for Harry, Josslyn gives him advice on how to make things right with her sister. He needs to make an effort to talk with her. No really? Apparently he needs Josslyn to state the obvious. 
 
Savi lets Dominic know that what happened between them was a mistake. She loves her husband. Dominic respects that, but he also reminds Savi that she’s the one who kissed him first. There’s tension in the office when Harry shows up to apologise. He lets his wife know that their fertility issues aren’t as dire as he thought. They can keep trying. Savi can’t deal with this at the moment. She has a meeting with Elizabeth Grey, who is being hassled by an insurance investigator regarding her husband’s death. That same investigator also questions Karen about her deceased patient.

April (this is the only character that I like so far) clues in her friends about the news that her deceased husband, Paul, may have had a baby with another woman. There’s a chance this Miranda woman is running a scam, since Savi points out that she only started contacting April after she received her husband's life insurance, but Paul (the dead husband) used to stay at the Orlando hotel where she works. 

April can’t understand how someone would cheat. That’s why she’s furious at Savi when she learns that she’s a cheater, too. April does a stakeout on Miranda’s motel. She sees her loading her son into a yellow SUV, but doesn’t approach her. She later finds an auto dealer’s business card amongst her hubby’s things. A call to the place reveals that Paul purchased the yellow SUV.

Karen is doing her best to avoid Sam Grey. Her colleague, Jacob, advises her to deal with her problem head on. Karen meets with Sam. She feels it’s harmless since the kid is going back to school soon. They have a pleasant conversation that ends after Sam accidentally spills water on Karen’s dress. Oops! Sam shows up at the office offering to pay for the dry cleaning. Karen goes off on him. She makes it clear that she doesn’t want to see him again. A dejected Sam says “no problem” before exiting out the door.

Josslyn makes lunch plans with Alex, who is one half of the lesbian couple she’s been showing houses to lately. They chat about their very different takes on relationships. Josslyn convinces Alex to check out a great house without her significant other. The two ladies do a little snooping while in the place to find a kinky Japanese bondage rope. Naturally, they decide to take for a little fully-clothed test drive. How unrealistic?? Surely no one in the real world would do such a thing with their own real estate agent? But then the one I used to work for didn't look like Joss.

Josslyn then uses the rope in a more naked manner on a guy when she gets home, but her experiment gets put on pause when Alex calls. The two ladies chat while Josslyn’s bound-up bed buddy looks on in disbelief. Again, surely this isn't realistic? She must really want to sell Alex a house. I guess no one will be surprised if something happens between Josslyn and Alex later on down the line. 

April learns that Miranda wants money from her. She wants her son to have the same kind of life her former lover’s legitimate daughter has. I personally would tell her to go to hell. 

April confides in Karen because she’s still angry at Savi. Both ladies have conflicted feelings of how they should be grieving. As for Savi, she has a heart-to-heart with Harry. It’s all about putting their plans to have a baby on hold. Savi doesn’t mention Dominic, who happens to be the incoming caller on her cell phone. She ignores the call choosing to make love to her husband instead.

Like I have said I don't think this is the show for me but I will probably stick with it for a little while longer to see how it goes.

Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 4 - Spoiler Alert

It's Gonna Kill Me But I'll Do It

Wow! I really never saw that coming. Not this soon. Episode 4 'It's Gonna Kill Me But I'll Do It' let one of Ringer's biggest secrets out of the bag and I couldn't be more shocked or delighted.
But let's review the rest of the episode and save the best for last.

Even though the end of the episode was a big shock the beginning of the episode started with something I really hate when it comes to TV shows / films. 

It begins with Andrew calling Bridget by her real name and asking when she has done with Siobhan. Yes to begin with I was really shocked and pretty much on the edge of my seat. However, as Bridget tries to explain and apologise Andrew says it isn't him she should be apologising too. Then a dead Siobhan, yes dead (see picture below), walks in. Bridget then wakes up. Yes it was all a dream. I really hate it when people do that. But I suppose at least the dream only lasted a couple of minutes, unlike TV programmes where the person wakes up at the end of the episode and the whole episode was a dream. 

Anyway, moving on Andrew then starts to talk about Siobhan and what to do for her birthday. Bridget then says that she forgot about her birthday. Umm HELLO you are twins! Siobhan's birthday is your birthday! You could understand her forgetting if they had different birthdays but the don't?

Anyway, moving on again .... In Paris, Siobhan manipulates Tyler into paying for her hotel room when her money runs out. Then she steals papers from his briefcase concerning Andrew's accounts. I am glad I watched this episode twice because I missed that the first time round. Dam rubbish eyesight (but don't get me started on that).

Speaking of Siobhan, she seemed to have men falling all over her.  First Andrew, then Henry, now Tyler, who literally got shoved out of her bed and still came back for more. So, was Siobhan simply searching to steal funds or was she out to destroy Andrew? Time will tell.

Bridget (as Siobhan), Andrew, Henry, and Gemma head to the Hamptons for her birthday. Bridget grieves for her sister on their birthday and we see some flash backs.

The birthday necklace was a sweet way to give us a glimpse into Bridget and Siobhan's childhood, along with another look at their falling out. Siobhan was furious with her sister and looking to move on when she met Andrew. It appeared she had started to soften towards her sibling but maybe not since she seems to be actively trying to kill her now.

Agent Machado retrieves a Coast Guard recording of Bridget calling for help for her sister. He assumes it's Siobhan calling about Bridget and goes to the Hamptons to confront her. 

Agent Machado finds Gemma in town and shows her a photo of Bridget Kelly and obviously Gemma had no idea that Bridget even existed. Well she does now. Bridget (as Siobhan) is then forced to explain the Bridget situation to Gemma.

Did anyone else find Agent Machado's ability to pop into a room a little creepy? Was it his FBI training that allowed him to sneak up on people like that? It was rather disconcerting but I'm guessing Bridget found his recording more of an issue. Thankfully for her, he interpreted it wrong. He thought that Siobhan was calling about Bridget, not the other way around. I do find it funny when he feels pleased with himself, assuming he has figured something out. I just sit there smiling to myself thinking 'close but completely wrong'.
Of course, once he figures out the truth, our mystery may be over... and who wants that?!?

Henry still wants to renew their affair but Bridget puts off his advances. A part of me wants to just tell him to get the hint and move on because he is embarrassing himself but then I guess that will be too easy. He says he'll back off if that's what she really wants but believes the baby is his. Gemma overhears their conversation (of course she does) cue one of many EastEnders duff duff moments.

Henry really wasn't getting the message and I almost felt sorry for the poor sap. Yes, your married lover has gone back to her husband now that she's pregnant. As a writer, you'd think that storyline would be something he'd understand. Then again, writing it and living it are two different things.

We saw some flash backs of Henry and Siobhan's affair as well which included the birthday necklace, again nice to see some more of the back story. 

Given all of their incredibly compromising conversations with Andrew and Gemma in the same house, you'd think the adulterous couple would have the common sense to close a door. Someone overhearing was really just a matter of time... yet I still didn't expect it when Gemma heard all of their sordid details.

The poor woman looked like she'd just gotten hit with something. The whole thing must have seemed surreal. Her entire reality turned upside down as she sat at this lovely party and the truth sunk in that her husband's lover was her pregnant best friend. Talk about feeling sucker punched.

When Gemma threatens to tell Andrew, Bridget admits to her that she's not the real Siobhan, she is Bridget. Wow God knows what is going through Gemma's head now, she only found out about Bridget a few hours before and now this.

I don't know what I expected Bridget to do when Gemma threatened to tell Andrew but it certainly wasn't that. How do you explain that you took your sister's identity and have it go well?

I have no idea where Ringer goes with this, but I can't wait for next week to find out. And that should be the goal of every episode.

Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 3 - Spoiler Alert

If You Ever Want a French Lesson 

Siobhan meets Tyler Barrett, an international banker in Paris. She begins an affair but kicks him out when she becomes nauseous. She takes a pregnancy test and calls Henry but only listens to his voice over the phone.

Watching Ringer is like playing a game of musical identities. Half the fun of this mystery is trying to figure out who will lose their seat in the game first. Like I said above, we start off with Siobhan, who has assumed a new identity. As Cora Farrell, she picks up Tyler at a bar, telling the international banker to meet her at her hotel "If You Ever Want a French Lesson." But poor Tyler doesn't get very far. Things were looking rather promising until suddenly Siobhan was and shoving him off the bed and out the door.

At first, I'm thinking perhaps she's having second thoughts. Not quite. Siobhan's nauseous and that's when it hits me. Siobhan doesn't know that she's pregnant. That's what makes this show so interesting. Trying to remember who knows what about whom takes all of my attention.

The most telling part is what Siobhan does as she holds the positive pregnancy test. She calls Henry and simply listens to his voice. Obviously this isn't news to us because we found out that she was pregnant in episode 1. But it was Henry she called and she seemed genuinely upset and it appears that she does care for him, so it appears that Siobhan believes that the baby is Henry's and not Andrews. 

Back in New York Bridget isn't pregnant but everyone thinks she is, that will certainly come back to bite Bridget at some point.  I keep waiting for her to address that issue but I guess having armed assassins after her is a bit more pressing.

Malcolm is kidnapped, beaten, and pumped full of drugs by the people looking for Bridget. He must really care about Bridget because he goes through a lot and still doesn't tell them anything.

Henry tries to cash out funds from Andrew's firm without telling Gemma. Andrew's partner makes sure Gemma finds out. It appears she likes to cause problems for everyone. She does mention wanting to get Gemma's dad as a client because he is rich but with everything else that is going on I didn't really care about this and didn't think it was necessary. Maybe it will develop into something more interesting later.

Bridget finds paperwork that leads her to a divorce attorney Siobhan had visited. They thought that Andrew was hiding assets from her. When Bridget tries to investigate, Andrew catches her. Someone saw her at the divorce attorney's and told Andrew.  He's hurt and angry.  He thought their marriage had gotten better. Bridget goes to see the property 227 Pratt Street that she thought Andrew was hiding from her, again this bit seemed a bit pointless but who knows, after all this is Ringer. 

So... do you think Andrew is really hiding something from her when it comes to the building at 227 Pratt? Everyone is keeping so many secrets it's hard to tell.

As Bridget tries to get information off of the dead man's cell phone, it rings. The voice on the other end tells her to hand over the phone and she won't be harmed. Bridget keeps the phone and calls Agent Machado. She pretends to be Siobhan asking about Bridget but it's enough so that the bad guys think she's speaking to the FBI. She tells the man on the phone that if anything happens to her, the FBI gets the phone.

Taking the phone back from the bench is a gutsy move on Bridget's part, but she must figure that phone is her only leverage with whoever is after her.

Bridget apologizes to Andrew and they decide to work on their marriage. Her apology at the end was heartfelt. I believe she has really grown to care for Andrew and she'd like to make it work, but it's unclear if Bridget is thinking in the moment or long term.

Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 2 - Spoiler Alert

 She's Ruining Everything 

Bridget leaves Malcolm a voicemail saying that she shot and killed a man (in self defence) because he was trying to kill her (Siobhan). Yes I know what you are thinking, if you do ever kill someone the last thing you do is confess on someone's voicemail. But luckily Bridget deleted that message to Malcolm. Confessing to a murder via voicemail is never a a smart idea. I'd ask what she was thinking, but given that she just shot and killed her attacker, who at first she thought was trying to kill her but then found out he was trying to kill Siobhan I'll give her this moment of stupidity.

She then has to try to hide the body. It was pretty funny watching poor petite Bridget drag that body across the floor, leaving a huge blood smear across the concrete. I hope she bought the value size bottle of bleach. After a few close calls of the body being discovered, first by Gemma, then by Agent Machado and then by about 20 workers that Andrew has hired to organsise a party in the loft Bridget finally hides the body in a steamer trunk. Yes it was one problem after another again, it seems like this is going to be typical of Ringer but it ensures that there is never a dull moment. 


However, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see her try and haul that 200-plus pound body into the trunk. Now that could have been entertaining. Even though, I have to admit, that I did think to myself, Buffy could do it. This is only episode 2 and I still think of Buffy whenever any sort of strength or fighting is involved, but any other time I do not compare Sarah Michelle Gellar's characters to Buffy.

In between hiding the body in different places and almost getting caught, not knowing what to do with the body, Bridget plans to run to Malcolm. She finds that Siobhan had a secret emergency bank account and she withdrawals the cash and closes the account. But when Andrew informs her about the party in the loft she realises she has to stay a bit longer to ensure that the body stays hidden. 

Gemma continues to search for the woman her husband is having an affair with.
Agent Machado crashes the party at the loft to question Siobhan about Bridget but she tells him nothing.

Bridget spends the whole party ensure that the body in the truck is not discovered. 

And why would Andrew think the loft was the perfect place for a party? I suppose he was in a bind, but the place was a construction zone. Little did he know about the added bonus of a decomposing body in the corner.

The body in the trunk was a nice touch during the party scene, but eventually it's going to start to smell. And it was certainly disconcerting having Agent Machado walk up as Bridget was moping up a dead man's blood.

During a speech that Andrew is giving to his party guests a phone starts ringing, and people quickly realise that it is coming from the truck, of course it is. Luckily Bridget gets to the truck and phone before anyone else, but someone is watching her. 

After the party Bridget grows closer to Andrew but she is still planning on running off to Malcolm. As she is trying to sneak out she finds Juliet throwing up in the bathroom because she took something at a party and didn't know what is was. Its a lovely scene and it appears that Siobhan and Juliet may start getting alone as Juliet asks Siobhan to stay with her. In flashbacks we see that years ago a fed up Siobhan frequently helped a drunk Bridget. Bridget stays and leaves Malcolm a voicemail.

The flashbacks were obviously meant to give us some insight into Bridget's past but I found Siobhan's scene the most interesting. She was fed up with her sister, yet wasn't nearly as cold and certainly didn't have the money she has now. Perhaps both came with her marriage.

Slowly, Bridget's going to care more and more about her new "family" and that will make things even more complicated. Heck, it already has. And at some point she'll have to deal with the fact that she isn't actually pregnant. I'm looking forward to her dealing with that twist. 
 
When Malcolm is listening to the voicemail we see that the man Bridget was suppose to testify against is following him.

In Paris, Siobhan tries to cash out her emergency fund only to find the money gone. She makes a phone call to someone and tells them, "She's ruining everything."

So we got another look at Siobhan in Paris. Tough break when your doppelgänger sister steals your secret stash. Was Siobhan's plan to kill her sibling and make the world believe she was dead, therefore having a clean slate with which to start over? If so, what was so horrible with her life that a nice divorce settlement wouldn't cure?

When Bridget goes back to the loft to, I assume, move the body again, although I am not quite sure what she was planning on doing with it, she discovers that the body is gone. Who saw that coming? My other half did and was waiting the whole episode for it to happen. 

Ringer, has again left us with more questions than answers but that's the fun of this show. I'm looking forward to seeing where this mystery leads next.

Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 1 - Spoiler Alert

If you like Sarah Michelle Gellar then I would say that you would definitely like this programme because there are two of them! 

Sarah plays twins Bridget Kelly and Siobhan Martin. 

I saw it advertising last year on Sky and I was really excited about watching it but some how I managed to miss the first episode so I started watching it on demand but after watching just 2 episodes Sky deleted it from on demand. I wasn't impressed and spend the next year searching the Sky TV guide for it in the hope that it would come back on and a few weeks ago it did, so YAY! 

They put either 2 or 3 episodes on a week so I don't have to wait long and I am already up to episode 10 without writing any reviews. But last night I convinced my other half to watch it with me so I have just watched the Pilot again. My other half joked that every end of part ends on an 'EastEnders duff duff' and it does and so does the end of each episode. 

So this here is my review of the Pilot Episode. 

Pilot 

The episode begins with Sarah Michelle Gellar getting chased and then attacked in a large building. When her attacker catches her and wrestles her to the ground she shouts out 'You've got the wrong girl'. 
I found myself willing her to do some sort of 'Buffy move' and put him in his place but obviously she doesn't. However, she plays the roles of both twins extremely well I soon stopped comparing her to Buffy and even forgot she was. 

The story then goes back to 9 days before and we see Bridget Kelly at an AA meeting.

Bridget Kelly a newly sober exotic dancer is about to testify as the sole witness in a murder trial. Fearing for her safety she ditches her FBI handlers, steals one of their guns and sneaks off to reconnect with her twin sister Siobhan.

We discover that Bridget and Siobhan haven't spoken in over 6 years and it is implied that it was because of Bridget's drug problem. Bridget then mentions someone called Sean, but Siobhan doesn't want to talk about him. Later on Bridget finds a photo of Sean (a young boy) and Siobhan. No one else mentions Sean so I am assuming that he was Siobhan's son who ended up dead because of Bridget. However, this hasn't been confirmed yet, just implied. 

Siobhan informs Bridget that her husband of 5 years, Andrew, doesn't know that she has a twin sister. I kind of wanted him to walk in and see the two of them but that didn't happen. If it did then it would have ruined the whole series, but it would have been funny. 

Siobhan takes Bridget out on her boat and Bridget falls asleep. When Bridget wakes up, Siobhan has disappeared but left her wedding ring behind in an empty pill bottle. Bridget assumes that Siobhan has committed suicide.

We then fast forward a few days and Bridget’s on the phone, confessing to Malcolm. “I saw a way out and I took it,” Bridget says.
Apparently, when she couldn’t find Siobhan (or her body), Bridget didn’t call the cops instead, she assumed her sister’s identity. She heads back to her sister’s summer mansion where she changes into her sister’s clothes, puts on Siobhan’s wedding ring, and pulls her hair back up into a socialite’s bun. 

She locks her belongings up in a locker at the bus station and then heads in to Manhattan as the new Mrs. Siobhan Martin.
As Bridget slips into her sister’s Park Avenue life, we discover that she may have exchanged her mob boss woes for her sister’s even messier problems. 

Turns out, Siobhan was not a nice woman. She was an ice queen to her husband, Andrew Martin, and Siobhan and her stepdaughter, Juliet hate each other. 

When Bridget is on the phone to her sponsor Malcolm she sees an unknown man watching her. 
 
When her “husband” returning from a two-week business trip he finds his wife thinner and nicer than he ever remembered and Bridget begins to realise that the marriage might not be perfect.

The next day she gets a phone call from Siobhan's best mate Gemma because she didn't turn up for their meeting. When they do meet up Gemma tells her that she thinks her husband is having an affair. I could kind of see where this was going.

That night Bridget and Andrew go to a fund raiser together and they seem to be getting on much better. However, Bridget then sees the same guy that was watching her earlier. When they are alone this mystery guy kisses her. It turns out to be Henry, Gemma's husband and yes Siobhan was having an affair with her best mate's husband. 

When they get home Andrew starts being cold to her again and she asks what is wrong, since they were getting on so well at the fund raiser. He 'reminded' her that it was all an act and it was her game and that he was just playing by her rules. She replies by saying that she wants to be nice for real and stop playing games. Andrew says that will be great but he doesn't believe it.

Now that she’s stepped into Siobhan’s shoes, Bridget can’t just walk away. So she tries to make things better. She makes nice with Andrew, ends the affair with Henry and lamely consoles Gemma by suggesting that Henry could be sleeping with their nanny. 

But then Agent Machado shows up looking for his runaway. Bridget thinks that she has been found but Agent Machado assumes that she is Siobhan and explains the situation with Bridget and says they are looking for her and she could be in danger. 

Next Bridget finds out Siobhan was pregnant and doesn't know which one could be the father and to make things worse Andrew over hears her on the phone to her doctor so he knows about the pregnancy and tells Henry and Gemma. Henry knows the baby is probably his and tells Siobhan (Bridget) to choose between him and Andrew, she chooses Andrew. 

While Bridget tries to get rid of the gun she stole from her former police bodyguard, Machado is busy meeting with Hampton police who have found her driver’s license and clothes in the bus station locker. Along with a letter from Siobhan. Now he knows that 'Siobhan' lied about seeing her sister.

Meanwhile Gemma’s busy uncovering—or so she thinks—the identity of her husband’s mistress. She leaves Siobhan a message asking her to meet her at the loft in an hour.

This brings us back, full circle, to that moment at the beginning of the show. We now know that the blonde cowering in the loft is Bridget, pretending to be Siobhan and like I said, somehow, we are hoping she somehow 'Buffy' kicks her attacker’s butt. 

“You have the wrong girl,” Bridget yells. Then she kicks him off her (yay go Buffy) and runs. He follows and tackles her. They crash through the newly erected wall where Bridget had hidden the gun.She grabs it. Shouts “I’m not Bridget,” He man lunges for her and Bridget shoots.

After he falls, Bridget searches his pocket and finds a picture of Siobhan (with Siobhan Martin actually written on it). Turns out her attacker wasn’t one of the mob boss’s men and it was Siobhan he was after all along. She is stunned.
Then a phone rings. From the view outside the window, we can tell it’s ringing in an apartment in Paris. Bridget’s supposedly dead sister picks up. We then here a man's voice saying “Siobhan, we have a problem,” 

 

And here would be the last EastEnders Duff Duff of the episode. 

Wow what a lot to cram into one episode, but it didn't get boring it was just one problem / mystery after another. Yes from seeing the trailers I knew that Siobhan wasn't really dead but it was still exciting. What's the rule for dead people on TV? If you don't see the body then they are not really dead. 

And so many reasons to watch the next episode: - 

What is Siobhan up too?
Will Bridget get found out?
What will she do about the pregnancy? 
Will Gemma find out who her husband is having the affair with. 

I had to watch the next episode straight away when I was watching it by myself a couple weeks ago and also last night when I watched it again with my partner we had to watch the next episode straight away. 

I think Ringer is becoming on of my favourite TV Shows already and looking forward to writing many more reviews.

Mistresses - US TV Series Review - Spoiler Alert

Episode 1 - Pilot 

Mistresses is an American drama series based on the 2008–10 British series of the same name about the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships.

I decided to start watching it because some people that I follow on Twitter are always saying how great it is and then when I recently saw it advertising I thought why not I will give it a go.

It begins with Savannah "Savi" Davis (Alyssa Milano) meeting a  man at a hotel bar. After a few minutes of flirting, the two of them end up in a hotel room. This was no chance meeting. It was just some role playing to help Savi and her hubby, Harry (Brett Tucker), get in the mood. The two of them are trying to make a baby. They’ve been trying for some time now. 

This first scene already caused me to doubt watching the program for two reasons. First of all I wasn't keen on Alyssa Milano, sorry Alyssa. I have never seen her in anything else before so I am not really sure if it is just the character of Savi I don't like or whether it is Alyssa Milano. If I can't get over this then I guess I wont be able to stick it out until the end of the series since she is the main character. But I will persevere for a bit longer and see what happens. 

Secondly, the husband and wife role playing act has been done so many times before it was just completely obviously that they were married and not strangers but moving on.

You then get introduced to Josslyn Carver (Jes Macallan) who is Savi’s free spirit younger sister, although this wasn't made clear until near the end of the episode and by then I had to check on wikipedia to see if they were sisters or whether it was just a turn of phrase. She’s a real estate agent who is sleeping with her married boss. Well, they don’t really sleep. It’s all sex. That’s the way Joss likes it. Why else would she order her illicit lover to never leave his wife? Josslyn is trying to sell a house to a lesbian couple, who get really annoying by always changing their minds, if I was Josslyn I would have ended up saying something to them, but then I guess that's why I am not a real estate agent. Her bossman lover offers to make the home she’s trying to sell their own personal love nest. The place is gorgeous, but the lesbian couple won’t be moving in any time soon. Neither will Josslyn out of fear of becoming a kept woman. She, instead, moves in to big sis Savi’s pool house. I personally would have taken the house from the boss.

The third character we are introduced to is Karen Kim (Yunjin Kim) who is a psychiatrist who has fallen for one of her patients, Thomas Grey (guest star John Schneider). Completely wrong casting here. Yes John Schneider was great in Smallville, loved him as Jonathan Kent but he really didn't suit the character of Thomas Grey. However, this didn't matter for long because, he tells Karen that he has feelings for her (which are returned) and that he is dying. The episode then jumps forward 6 weeks and Thomas is dead and it is now his funeral funeral. Savi’s law firm had ties with the guy, so she hitches a ride to the ceremony with her flirty colleague Dominic Taylor (Jason George). She runs into her good friend, Karen, at the church. It’s been awhile since these two have seen each other. Karen had been spending lots of time with Thomas, who asked her to help him die when the time came.

Thomas’s wife, Elizabeth (guest star Penelope Ann Miller), introduces Karen to her son, Sam (Erik Stocklin). The young man wants to know if his dad’s therapist knows anything about the woman his father was having an affair with. Karen avoids the issue by attending the birthday party for the daughter of their other close friend, April Malloy (Rochelle Aytes), who is still dealing with the passing of her husband. She believes that prank phone calls she’s been getting are from her long-dead love. It makes it seem that her husband is recently dead but it turns out that it was a number of years ago. So why would her dead husband start calling her after all these years? Another part of the story I thought was a bit stupid but it was all explained by the end of the episode which was a good thing.

A single dad, Richard, drops off his daughter at the birthday party. He’s charming enough to make April act like a little giddy. She accepts his invitation for a date. 

Sam Grey shows up at Karen’s office. He wants to knows who is dad's lover was because he didn't want his dad to have died alone and hating him (from an earlier argument). Karen says she doesn't know who the women was. She also sees how much pain Sam is in. Karen later learns that Elizabeth Grey gave her husband a lethal dose of drugs she prescribed when the end was near. This upsets her because this means that her lover chose to be with his wife at the end rather than her. Well obviously you stupid women. Married men nearly always chose their wives. I felt like shaking her.

Savi gets the news that Harry’s low sperm count is the cause of their inability to have a child. She also has a problem at work that needs to be dealt with ASAP. Dominic notices her hot little undergarment when Savi’s dress rides up a bit. He offers to do his colleague’s work for her if she’ll give him another sneak peek. Savi agrees. I thought this was completely unrealistic, he got to look at her legs for 5 seconds and then stayed late at the office to do her work for her? No man would be that desperate.

Savi then uses her free time to try to seduce her husband. That doesn’t go over well. Harry isn’t feeling like much of a man after the earlier doctor’s appointment. It was so obvious that this was going to happen since the majority of men act like this when they get told they have a low sperm count so god knows why she even tried and why she was surprised at his reaction.

April gets another ghost call. It freaks her out enough to cancel her date. She ends up spending the evening with her friends as Karen reveals the details of her affair with Thomas Grey. She’s upset because he chose to be with his wife at the end. Savi lets her friend know that she needs to cut ties with the family, but Karen feels Sam needs her. She convinces the distraught young man that his dad loved him. They share a long hug. Sam later shows up at Karen’s office with thank you flowers. He’s looking for more than therapy.

By this point I had pretty much decided that I wasn't going to watch anymore but then the next part of the story interested me slightly more than the rest of the episode.

Savi helps April track down the source of the prank calls. They’ve been coming from a hotel room. The woman inside says her young son must have been doing it. This is a relief to April, who now knows it’s time to move on. She makes a second date with Richard until the woman she met at the hotel shows up at her front door with her young son. Her name is Miranda. She claims she and April’s husband were in love. A horrified April stares down at the young boy who appears to be her late husband’s love child. This was probably the first part of the story line that I found surprising and interesting.

Savi tries to get Harry to connect with her. It’s something she hasn’t felt in a long time. The two of them have a nasty blowup that leaves Savi in tears. Dominic offers to help out Savi during a late night work session. Savi turns down his offer, but doesn’t want him to leave. She leans in to kiss him passionately. Soon the two of them are ripping each other’s clothes off. Dominic climbs atop Savi on the desk. Okay this part did completely shock me but then I guess because of the title of the show it shouldn't have done. It seemed that just one argument made Savi jump into bed with someone else and it also made my dislike of her increase. 

However, even after saying all of the above I have decided to give Mistresses another go. Mainly just to find out more about April's husband's love child and also to find out if Savi and Dominic were a first time / one time thing or if they have been having an affair for a while. 

I will let you know if it gets better.

Longleat Safari Park - March 2013

Taken from my Tripadvisor Reviews 

 

“Not as good second time around but still enjoyed it” Reviewed 27 March 2013 

 

We went on the 8th March 2013 and this was our second visit (please see previous review), however, we didn't find it as good second time around, I think it was because of the time of year we went.

Last time we spent the whole day there but this time left at 3pm.

At the time we went the park was only open from Friday to Monday and not all week and I think this was the reason why we didn't see as many animals.

On the safari there was no where near as many animals as last time. There wasn't the giraffe feeding like last time, the lemurs were shut in on the Walk with Lemurs and a lot of other animals that were around on the safari last time just weren't there this time.

It is a good and fun place to go (see previous review), but I wouldn't recommend going in March, wait until later in the year when there are more things to do and see