Greek – Daley as Thomas Crown? I see it

Nothing personal, but when Jonathan Silverman’s the guy giving Cappie sagely advice about life — and what sounded like a job offer — you know Greek‘s gone in an unusual direction. “The Single Guy” simply cannot be the voice of reason.

It may just be me, but something’s really off with this march-to-the-end season of Greek, last week’s awesome episode about Beaver notwithstanding. I have no clear understanding of what any of the characters are doing, or what their stories might be all about as we near the series finale.

Cappie’s trying to find himself, but we don’t see that as much as we’re told he’s doing it from time to time. And he’s the man, but sleeping with Casey when she was drunk was a terrible idea.

Rusty is … what? Fighting to keep the KT house afloat? Okay, except then I don’t see why the writers decided that Cappie would stay on as president. If he’s focused on his future, and Rusty’s focused on the house, why didn’t we see a passing of the torch already?

Pledge Spidey is there to allow Rusty to be for him what Cappie was for Rusty, but Spidey’s a bit too mouthy and confrontational for that. Plus Rusty never will be Cappie, unless he decides to drop his scholastic focus to spend more time building the legacy of the KTs. It’s cool that Spidey’s father created Joshua Whopper — the computer program that has single-handedly kept the KTs an academically eligible fraternity — but he really bugs me. I miss Andylicious. Plus, Mr. Parkes is paying $7,000 a month in pledge dues? Meaning, with a pledge class of let’s say twenty, each pledge would be paying $350 a month, or more than four thousand dollars per year for dues? That doesn’t sound right.

I have no idea what’s going on with Casey and Ashleigh — they lived together for two or three years, so what’s the problem now? — nor do I know why Evan and Casey seem to be competing ruthlessly for the favor of one professor out of the many that they obviously have. And why in the world is Rebecca back to being such a horrible person, a persona she’d seemingly left behind a season or two ago? I just don’t get it.

But this being Greek, there of course were moments of enjoyment. Daley being all squirrelly with first Rusty and then Cappie was awesome; I loved how he was suspiciously watching The Thomas Crown Affair, and what that ended up meaning.

Stealing the goat was okay, although I was left wondering what “A&M” they kept on referring to. Clearly it wasn’t Texas, but since when has there been a rival school practically next door? And how is it that CRU can be both one of the top ten party schools and also have an elite system of graduate programs? Seems a bit too convenient (and unlikely).

I loved that scene between Heath and Calvin, where Heath blew all of his secrets in one shot. But the character’s consistency is all over the place. Since the show started he’s gone from being somewhat thick to pre-med to really dumb … couldn’t he just be bright but not a sharer? Or why not stick with the dumb thing in the first place?

Speaking of, how is it that Heath’s sister Heather (Caitlin Thompson) is Rebecca’s number one pledge? Seriously, does she keep ignoring the fact that Heather’s legacy is as the sister of a KT? What am I missing there?

And what am I missing with this season? Does anyone get what the show’s doing, or where things are headed?

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Feb 01, 2011 @ 12:00 EST5EDT