AfterElton - 20/Sep/2010

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What Does the New Season of "Brothers & Sisters" Have in Store For Kevin, Scotty and Saul?
Posted by Michael Jensen, Editor on September 20, 2010

When ABC’s Brothers & Sisters kicks off its fifth season on September 26, viewers are going to find the Walkers still putting their lives back together a year after the horrific car crash that ended last season with the death of Robert McCallister.

According to B&S showrunner David Marshall Grant, the twelve month leap forward offered an opportunity to put all of the characters in very different places in their lives. Naturally, that includes Kevin and Scotty, as well as Uncle Saul, whom viewers last saw covered in blood and forced to tell his family that he had lied about not being HIV positive.

Matthew Rhys, Ron Rifkin, Luke Macfarlane

Meanwhile, Kevin and Scotty were excited about becoming parents, having only recently learned their surrogate was finally pregnant.

Unfortunately for them, Grant tells AfterElton.com, the surrogacy ultimately failed, and Kevin and Scotty will have to find a different way to become parents.

It’s clear that for Grant, himself a gay man, telling Kevin and Scotty’s story as truthfully as possible is very important to him. Says Grant:

I think that gay relationships, as the argument with Prop 8 goes, are equal in all ways to straight relationships. That means, you know, the good, the bad, the sublime, and the ugly. I just felt it was really important here to explore that in all ways, shape, and form because that's the truth of love and that's what I think is the most powerful.
I think it's one of the things that's most powerful about Kevin and Scotty throughout the season, which is that they're just a very real couple and we're not trying to hold them up as anything but people.

Here is what else Grant told AfterElton about the new season:

• Scotty and Saul have opened up a restaurant

• Kevin is working as a libertarian lawyer mostly working pro bono

• Initially, Kevin and Scotty’s relationship will be affected as they work through the disappointment of surrogacy not working

• Through Kevin’s law practice they meet a teenager they might end up fostering/adopting (Bobby Soto has been cast as Mateo who is likely the teen they foster)

• In terms of the ‘risqué” storyline for Kevin and Scotty about which rumors have been rampant, Grant was tightlipped and would only say, “It's always going to be about Kevin and Scotty’s marriage and their love.”

• Saul won’t be getting sick but the show will explore the “struggle of moving forward and being honest with himself and what that means. And also to have to deal with some of the consequences of living a life that [is] ever-so-secretive and ever-so-furtive”

• While Stephen Collins will appear for an episode as Saul’s love interest, Grant can’t promise how much happiness Saul will find.

• We’ll continue to see Kevin, Scotty and Saul together as a way to explore intergenerational friendships among gay men.