Maddie's parents arrive in Los Angeles to attend a friend's wedding. She is happy with his presence until she notices some sadness in her mother and she confesses that her father is having an affair with another woman. Willing to prove that she is wrong and that her father is an honorable man, she entrusts David to follow him and investigate him, but she is greatly disappointed when she finds that her mother was right. A truly moving episode, with very good performances from the entire cast.
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The PURSE OF FURY moment
Cristi_Ciopron5 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
By this point, the TV show was already looking for some innovations (--'already' is a figure of speech, as a matter of fact that's their 20th—or 21st episode—depending on how you count the famed pilot--). We already got two Agnes episodes (2.10 and 2.12), 2.14 is a Hayes episode. The 2nd Agnes episode (of the 2nd season, I mean) is one of the best in the whole series (--the girl got her episode in the 1st season as well—watch 1.6).
The '50s sexpot Eve Marie Saint guest stars as Maddie's angry mom; she's not angry at her daughter, but at her husband. Maddie decides to find out whether her dad is really cheating his wife. Addison takes the mission.
This episode, 2.14, one without a case, without a properly detective investigation (Addison spies on Hayes' daddy), is a MADDIE episode, her character gets the best writing—though perhaps not the best lines, and it features a singularly eerie moment, a shocking take on Hayes' violence, when, after a bourgeois but tensed dinner, Maddie, enraged, in a burst of towering hysteria, beats her dad, she literally hits him repeatedly, she smacks the oldster with her purse. (Maddie's mom will later say that Maddie is not hysterical, like herself, but the grumpy type, like her dad.) The old—timer looked indeed quite unlikable, but he's got his TV daughters jaws and square cheeks. (In fact, none of Hayes' parents was really likable. But Addison's brother wasn't, either.) For me, the best 6 episodes of the 2nd season are--The Lady in the Iron Mask, The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice, Knowing Her, Twas the Episode Before Christmas, North by North Dipesto, In God We Strongly Suspect—that is, the fancier and weirder episodes, of the sharpest humor . But this is a series to watch and re-watch in its entirety. If you like it too—go on, write a comment, show your appreciation—if you already didn't. Willis did a great role, in a great comedy—the greatest on TV; my understanding of the series changes a bit in that I now favor the romance accents, I find Hayes to be more affectionate and nice.
In some scenes of this TV series, Willis has a physical resemblance to Rourke—including the famed unkempt appearance; the nose is different, and the hair. The two streetwise gentlemen are of the same age. Artistically, Rourke was perhaps a bit more precocious and, sometimes, physically cleaner than Willis. In politics, they're both right—wing, and both were Bush supporters. Rourke has got cuter wives, and lives a sordid life. Willis is by far the most intelligent and commonsensical of the two. I discovered his creation, 'Addison', one year before I got to Rourke.
The '50s sexpot Eve Marie Saint guest stars as Maddie's angry mom; she's not angry at her daughter, but at her husband. Maddie decides to find out whether her dad is really cheating his wife. Addison takes the mission.
This episode, 2.14, one without a case, without a properly detective investigation (Addison spies on Hayes' daddy), is a MADDIE episode, her character gets the best writing—though perhaps not the best lines, and it features a singularly eerie moment, a shocking take on Hayes' violence, when, after a bourgeois but tensed dinner, Maddie, enraged, in a burst of towering hysteria, beats her dad, she literally hits him repeatedly, she smacks the oldster with her purse. (Maddie's mom will later say that Maddie is not hysterical, like herself, but the grumpy type, like her dad.) The old—timer looked indeed quite unlikable, but he's got his TV daughters jaws and square cheeks. (In fact, none of Hayes' parents was really likable. But Addison's brother wasn't, either.) For me, the best 6 episodes of the 2nd season are--The Lady in the Iron Mask, The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice, Knowing Her, Twas the Episode Before Christmas, North by North Dipesto, In God We Strongly Suspect—that is, the fancier and weirder episodes, of the sharpest humor . But this is a series to watch and re-watch in its entirety. If you like it too—go on, write a comment, show your appreciation—if you already didn't. Willis did a great role, in a great comedy—the greatest on TV; my understanding of the series changes a bit in that I now favor the romance accents, I find Hayes to be more affectionate and nice.
In some scenes of this TV series, Willis has a physical resemblance to Rourke—including the famed unkempt appearance; the nose is different, and the hair. The two streetwise gentlemen are of the same age. Artistically, Rourke was perhaps a bit more precocious and, sometimes, physically cleaner than Willis. In politics, they're both right—wing, and both were Bush supporters. Rourke has got cuter wives, and lives a sordid life. Willis is by far the most intelligent and commonsensical of the two. I discovered his creation, 'Addison', one year before I got to Rourke.
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