Meet The Browns Episode 2

Miss Daisy, channeling Gloria Swanson, glides down the stairs asking for her tea, but it’s reminiscent of the Sunset Blvd scene in which Gloria states “Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” They’ll need to watch this one to make sure her performance isn’t too over the top.

Ms. Simmons then gets a phone call from Mr. Brown who informs her that he’s in jail for making terrorist threats. While at the airport he referred to a box that he was shipping as “the bomb.” The tenants scramble to find a way to get Mr. Brown out of jail.

In the meantime the tenants begin interviewing candidates for the handyman position. The first candidate appears a bit odd and we soon learn that he’s suffering from post traumatic shock syndrome and hallucinations.

Shortly thereafter Mr. Brown is freed from jail (his nephew posts bail).

The next candidate for the handyman position is “Jesus” (Latino pronounciation “heh-sus”) which throws Mr. Brown for a loop. As you can imagine, Mr. Brown insists on pronoucing the name using the biblical pronunciation. After he successfully fixes a lamp Mr. Brown hires him.

London, a dense young pop star (read Paris Hilton or Britney Spears), also moves into the retirement home. Okay, at this point the establishment ceases to be a retirement home in my mind. It’s becoming more of a general boarding house than anything. Why a wealthy (albeit crazy) aging actress and a young and extremely popular pop star would want to reside at Mr. Brown’s rundown home is anyone’s guess. I hope we find out what brought all of them to the house instead of having to suspend reality and accept that they chose this place on their own. We at least find out that London is there serving out a community service sentence but why Mr. Brown’s home was chosen for this purpose and why he received a sizable check to keep her there is anyone’s guess. Some questions are better left unanswered.

Overall the show is entertaining. Mr. Brown is hilarious and incredibly endearing. Although there are several quirky characters on the show the show doesn’t really have a villain, which I think would add to the appeal of the show. The rival nursing home owner may be the person the fill this need but we’ll just have to wait and see.