Posted by Dustin on 12.18.2012 at 2:31 pm

So as usual it’s been a few episodes since I blogged about “Parenthood,” which just had its winter finale last week. I have to say I was so happy that Crosby and Adam won their fight to keep the Luncheonette against their horrible new neighbor. I also had a LOT of issues with that story. First, who pays that much money for a nice condo if it was not the kinda of neighborhood she wanted. Did she not scope out the place first? Maybe she was hoping to clean things up? Second, she claimed the neighborhood or property wasn’t zoned for their business . . . but that business had been there years, no decades before! Also there was a dry cleaners across the street as the owner and others in the neighborhood testified for the Bravermans. Frankly given all who showed up to support them, I get the feeling that woman was bitching and complaining about all of them too!

I haven’t been a fan of the whole Mark, Sarah and Hank story. Sarah once again shot herself in the foot. Mark, before finally dumping her, made an excellent point. It seems Sarah can’t be happy unless she’s saving someone . . . she did it with Seth and now she’s doing it with Hank. Fortunately Amber isn’t going to be making that mistake. She broke things off with Ryan, a temporary time apart so she said, because he clearly needed to get himself and his head together. He’s screwed up at work, he’s drinking too much, and there is still the matter of those pills. She told him she watched her mom take care of her dad for years, and Amber wasn’t gunna play that game. My guess though is that Amber is going to find out she’s pregnant.

Speaking of pregnancy, Crosby and Jasmine have decided to have another baby. Aww . . . NOT! I don’t see good things coming from this to be honest! Meanwhile Joel is back to work, and Julia is trying to make the mom thing work. Victor is slowly beginning to accept the family.

The big story for the Christmas episode was that Christina went into septic shock from the chemo treatments. She ended up in the hospital, but Adam didn’t want the family all gathered around her while they waited . . . He waited there alone with her, and it was touch and go. However she pulled through. Meanwhile the Bravermans all gathered at Zeke and Camille’s to have Christmas and of course wait for the news. I found it fairly odd that they were all opening their gifts and being happy while not knowing if Christina was dead or alive! They eventually got the call from Adam and the whole gang went to the hospital to see them.