High school is a bitch.
Look it’s the best of times and the worst of times. It’s also the scariest of times when you get into a fight at school and your parents decide that there is a bunch of drama that you have to figure shit out.
The Walter Boys have something precious. What is that? Brotherhood.
The thing is when it come brothers (or sisters for that matter) you’re going to have to find your way through. Spreading rumors about each other isn’t something that is going to get you anywhere.
What it will do is break you if you let it. Getting let down by people that you love – well, that’s not something you can easily get over.
The Walter brothers have a code – a loyalty to each other. But is that loyalty warranted? Is it something that they can move past and see that the people that they need the most is each other.
THE RUMORS
With Cole having a black eye and there being a million things happening between the brothers, there are a lot of rumors happening around the school. At home, Cole and Alex were both spoken to by their parents and neither of them wanted to listen.
However at school, other students are getting involved in the issues that are happening between the two – spreading rumors. Coles “friend” spreading rumors about Alex, Alex’s “friend” spreading rumors about Paige, and well, you know that the rumors are going to make their way back to the brothers.
And it results in Alex and Cole getting into a fight.
The brothers aren’t supposed to be fighting. It’s not acceptable. But what I did love was that there wasn’t a single one of them that didn’t go running to their brothers sides and tried their best to break it all up.
Cole and Alex are so angry at each other and have been for years. They’ve spent so much time fighting, that to a point, I don’t even think that they know why they are fighting. What they do know is that they need each other. At least, I want to believe deep down that they know that.
The brothers all get suspended and that won’t even be the worst thing that happens to them. Having to face their parents and explain why are they are acting like idiots, is worse IMO.
Alex is too intense. I said what I said.
Cole is too pissed off. I said what I said.
They both need to figure it out (and that will be a reoccurring theme with me).
Katherine and George aren’t allowing any of them out of the kitchen until Cole and Alex fix everything.
Brothers and all.
THE SEIZURES
One of the best characters in this show has been Nathan. He’s stronger than anyone in this show because for him showing his strength and his vulnerability come easy. He’s so open to everything and lives his life with so much love.
And I wish that we all could live our lives like that.
So when they are all trapped in the kitchen, waiting for Cole and Alex to work their stuff out, and he collapsed, I broke out in tears. I wanted to protect him.
Nathan is misunderstood a lot by his brothers and the world around him. But he’s a beautiful soul.
Seeing him get diagnosed with epilepsy and his breakdown in his Mom’s arms… I cried. I cried because he cried. Corey Fogelmanis’ portrayal of Nathan is priceless.
But also it’s seeing the way that everyone came together to welcome him home, I loved it. I lived for it.
The thing about this show is that Katherine and George love their kids so very much and they want nothing more than to make sure that their kids have a good life. Katherine is blaming herself and she can’t do that. This isn’t about them.
This is about Nathan and how they can be there for him and help him.
GETTING LOST
I can’t blame Jackie for not wanting to go to the hospital, because going to the hospital would have meant that she’d have to face her past. She’s done a great job at avoiding healing (IMO) and she does a great job at staying trapped in her grief.
But you wouldn’t know it – really.
Cole called Jackie to tell her about Nathan, but she didn’t answer. Alex tells her he didn’t call to not worry her, but I don’t think it’s that either. I think Alex didn’t think of her.
Cole did.
Regardless of what is going on with everyone, Jackie is still family. She’s still a part of who the Walter family is. Cole knows that Jackie loves Nathan and she’d want to know. Alex is more worried about the fact that Jackie could have answered Cole’s phone call.
Alex is doing everything to hang onto Jackie, but in my opinion, he’s too intense and is gaslighting her all the time.
The day that Nathan is coming home, Jackie goes on a run and ends up getting lost. She calls the house and when Cole answers, he doesn’t hesitate, he goes right out to get her. He somehow knows where she is.
There’s something about this show and car rides with Jackie and Cole that make everything better or more intense. When Jackie tries to apologize, even she does it wrong. She tells Cole that she’s trying to make things right for Alex, but that infuriates Cole even more.
THE PAIGE OF IT ALL
Look, Paige is just, IDK. I don’t know what to say.
She’s just wanting to be the center of attention, but she’s the one that who has created a lot of this drama, by coming on to Cole. And then by going to Cole and yelling at him in the middle of the cafeteria.
But while we’re on the subject of Paige and Cole – Jackie says some shit to Cole about the situation not knowing the truth.
She’s willing to judge Cole and gets so angry at him for the possibility of what he could have done, not knowing if he did something wrong. When she gets out of the car in the rain and he goes after her, he tells her the truth of what happened.
Cole spills his heart right then and there and doesn’t think twice about it. He doesn’t care that it’s a rainstorm, but I have to admit that I do love arguments in a rainstorm. He wasn’t going to let Jackie think the worst, but he also never had thought that she would.
It’s crazy though what happens.
Because the tension that was built up in that moment – the kind that made you believe that they were gonna straight up make out right there and then in the rain – well, I was on the edge of my seat.
Until those last words came out of Cole Walters mouth.
These two are their own worst enemies.
Here for it all.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Cole going to school to try and get with Erin… he’s being gross
- Katherine and George handling these boys – they deserve a medal
- Have to laugh at Danny practicing his monologue when they are all stuck in the kitchen
- I will stand by the fact that Danny and Nathan deserve more screen time
- Nathan getting his kiss! HERE FOR IT!
My Life With The Walter Boys is streaming now on Netflix.
List of My Life With The Walter Boys episode reviews –
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×01 Review: “Welcome to Colorado”
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×02 Review: “Live a Little”
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×03 Review: “The Cole Effect”
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×04 Review: “Nineteen”
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×05 Review: “Thanksgiving”
- ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ 1×06 Review: “Baggage”
- My Life With The Walter Boys 1×07 Review: Small Town Rumors
- My Life With The Walter Boys 1×08 Review: Spinning Out
- My Life With The Walter Boys 1×09 Review: Revolutions
- My Life With The Walter Boys 1×10 Review: Happily Ever After