TV-Reviewed

After months of hiatus, Dirty Sexy Money is back showing the remaining episodes of the season. I’m unclear if these were made after the crew heard about the cancellation or before, but it really feels like it was made after. This episode has no bearing on any of the main storylines whatsoever and it’s not very interesting at all. I’m glad that this show is finishing its season, but this episode wasn’t very good at all.

This episode had Clark house sitting for the Darling’s while they are away on vacation. A gossip columnist comes over and is threatening to run a story about the family and the many escapades that have been going on in the Darling household. Clark decides to set the record straight and give her an in detailed interview on what’s really been happening with the Darling household. I have to say all these stories weren’t very entertaining. The only one that was even amusing was the story about Juliet meeting someone and ending up having to go to an island to help restore power. It was just cool to see Samaire Armstrong back and even though the story ended up being somewhat lame, Samaire proved that she can still play the character very well. The gossip columnist was played by Rena Sofer, who most of us know as Nathan Petrelli’s ex-wife who hasn’t been seen since season one. While she was decent in heroes, I found her overacting most of the time this episode. I also hated the way the show kept going to commercial on what is supposed to be shocking news, but it didn’t come off as shocking, but came off as more of a cheesy soap opera.

In the end, the whole episode ended up being a complete lie fabricated by Clark to throw the reporter off the trail. This brings up a lot of questions with the most important being what really happened to Juliet, and if Clark came up with a lie, does that mean that everything the columnist had was actually the truth. So Juliet really is in a mental institution.

I can’t recommend this episode at all, it’s actually kind of horrible. The only redeeming quality is that we get to see more of how loyal Clark is, but really after all the things he’s done, we really didn’t need further proof. I’m looking forward to forgetting this episode and skipping on to the next which hopefully will put us back on the regular story and start building up towards an ending. Hopefully all of this comes to fruition with the next episode.

Score: 3.5