"Worst. Birthday. Ever."
One thing I have been harping on all season is that if Greek has not done one thing well throughout its run its introduce exterior characters that the audience cares enough about to stick around. Because of this, an episode like Midnight Clear was inevitable. It involved basically every person that we were introduced to in the pilot episode of the show, being forced to interact with one another because of a contrived snow storm. I say contrived because from what it seems like the show runners somehow found an area of Ohio where it’s basically always 75 and sunny. We have never seen the temperature drop to a point where a winter coat was needed let alone a 10 inch snowstorm. But I can get over that. What I can’t get over is how this was the 3rd to last episode of the show EVER, and there are some many storylines that just don’t work
Obviously all are main players being stuck together was going to bring up some drama. It just seemed like so much of it was very forced or uncomfortable, and not in a good way. I didn’t buy the severity of the Casey and Ashleigh fight at all. These 2 have gotten over liking the same guy, lying to each other, and sneaking around each other. So I am supposed to believe that they wouldn’t speak for weeks just because of a verbal spat? We as fans love this friendship and it is one of the relationships that is at the core of the show, so it just was not believable to me that their fight was that severe. Another thing that I have trouble believing in the chemistry between Rusty and Ashleigh. It is nothing against either actor because I find them both very amusing most of the time, but every time they brought up feeling something between them all I could think of was I wish I could see it. They act a lot more like brother and sister around each other then potential love interests. The last thing that is not working for me at all is the Dale storyline. When he was first set to pledge Omega Chi, I wrote that as forced as that storyline sounds and least it was bound to put Dale in some hilarious situations. So far though we have barely seen Dale interact with the other Omega Chi’s and his whole pledgeship has felt really flat. Seriously, all he said in this episode was “Omega Chi is better than Kappa Tau”
That’s not to say the episode was all bad. The main thing I really liked in this episode was the Casey/Cappie dynamic. Even though they just got back together last week, it would have been really tempting for there to be drama between them, because let’s face it, there was drama between all of them. But in all of Casey’s worry about the “Law School Curse”, their relationship survived a tough test in a situation where you could cut the tension with the knife. Another thing I enjoyed was our brief glimpses in to old, slimy, vindictive Evan. I like that Evan as a character has grown a lot since sleeping with Rebecca in episode 1, but it was still a lot of fun to see him revert back to that, even threatening case that the “gloves were off in law school”
SOME OTHER THOUGHTS
It was good to see Rebecca find her backbone after missing it for much of this season. The show works
best when Rebecca is a strong willed person, not arm candy for Mr. Chambers
Cappie and Evan kiss? I don’t know whether it was amusing or extremely disturbing
Along the lines of the weather, it seemed a little too convenient that Heath couldn’t even make and appearance at Calvin’s party but the whole gang could walk to Dobler’s.
I loved Josh Randall on Ed and actually think he does great here as law professor Simon, but can he be in the episode for more then 5 minutes? Thanks!
So this was not the best episode. I give it a 6 out 10. With 2 hours of the show left, i have faith that the writers can at least come to a satisfying conclusion.
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