Eastwick - Mooning and Crooning, S01E05

I am a huge fan of Eastwick and I hope that it gets picked up...or that at least the last episode is conclusive enough to satisfy rather than frustrate me. I really wish that shows would take that into account. If they booked 12 episodes, with the choice of either making a 13th finale or a back 10. Then, if the series was not successful enough to get picked up, but all the episodes aired, the fans would still be satisfied. And it would then sell very well as a box set and more people could be introduced to a complete show, almost a miniseries, rather than interested parties not picking it up because they know they will be left unsatisfied.

Last Wednesday's episode generated another question about what is going to happen in the future, and how soon that future is. On top of the menace that Jamie (Jack Huston) represents to Roxie (Rebecca Romijn), she has now seen herself, with her daughter Mia (Ashley Benson), crying at a funeral. Since she was looking at her boyfriend Chad (Matt Dallas) at the time, it may have been his grave.

Otherwise, the episode was...well, not disappointing, but a little contrived. The premise was that the alignment of the full moon was going to make the town a little wacky. Gone wacky, Joanna (Lindsay Price) publishes a derisive front page article about Darryl (Paul Gross), exposing all her theories, but containing no proof or substance. Not only is Darryl mad at her for it, despite having orchestrated it in the first place, but she got fired for her troubles.

Kat (Jaime Ray Newman) did something far worse. At the beginning of the episode, she was an awesome friend. She chewed Will (Johann Urb) out for ignoring Joanna and refusing to listen to her apology or give her a second chance. Later, having been rescued by our favourite volunteer firefighter when her smoky singing set the cafe on fire, she and Will exchanged a spark and a moonlight kiss.

Neither Joanna nor Kat would have behaved in such a manner while fully in control of themselves, so I appreciate that there was a reason for the uncharacteristic actions...but there are a lot of other ways to bring about this kind of drama. This was the easy way to manage it.

But next week, I will be watching again.