When it comes to My Life With The Walter Boys, you can expect a lot of drama. Then again, I have to admit that the drama is what keeps me watching.
Now, though I did like the book, I have to admit that I love the show. I love the show because of it’s cheese, but also the way that these kids are bringing the complexity of their lives to the forefront. I love the show because they managed to take a book and adapt it so it’s actually staying true to the essence of the book and yet managed to make it a story of its own.
And that’s a good thing.
As we near the end of the season things are getting really complicated. Some things are falling apart and some things are coming together.
But one thing that we have to realize is that the truth will always come out.
RUNNING SHORT
It breaks my heart that the Walkers would have to sell any of their land. Their beautiful land. I do get that life is hard and I do understand that there are times where things don’t work out. But the way that they love their kids, their land, and everything in between is something so comforting. The way that they want to make everything perfect for each other and their kids.
But what I hate for them is that they would have to get rid of their land. That land is a place tha they love. It’s where they have started and built their family. It’s the place where they have all of their memories.
So seeing the man come out there to look at the land and George thinking that it’s best to take the offer – I wanted to puke. I wanted to puke, because I can’t imagine them loosing that place.
I know that home for the Walters is wherever they are together. However, that being said, sometimes it’s more than that. It’s history and it’s nostalgia. Loosing that place or any of it, feels like they would be loosing a part of their souls.
And that feels like it hurts, because it does.
BROTHER ISSUES
Alex and Cole need to figure their shit out. Truly, the issues that these two have is somewhat annoying, but mostly because they are brothers and they should not be fighting over a girl. But then again, Jackie isn’t making this any better either. What’s the old saying, you shouldn’t shit where you eat?
But they are teenagers and well, love is complicated. Hormones are complicated.
The way that Alex and Cole have spent so much time miscommunicating and not talking doesn’t make sense.
But there is this thing that we have to say – Alex, you need to get all of your insecurities out and put your shit aside. Cole and Alex are spending their life fighting, but what I think is that if they both just saw the greatness that both of them do have and the way that they are both special – everything would be different.
So yes, them arguing after the rein snapped while Alex was riding, it was about damn time. They needed to make up. They needed to get everything out. They needed to understand that they both love each other and that whatever happens next, they have each other.
Family is everything and the Walter boys need to see that. They also need to see that they are not failures or a burden because they don’t place first in things. They have to remember that there is a life to live and people do see potential.
While the first few episodes, Alex wasn’t so bad, he’s now such an annoyance that I can’t handle it. He’s always playing this victim or not putting himself first. He’s getting this opprotunity to go to a camp and potential scholarship money for college, and he has to check with Jackie? Boy, please.
Alex seems to be a nice guy and you know, that’s not a bad thing. But he seems to want to punish himself to try and find a way for everyone to like him. Life doesn’t revolve around being liked or trying to outdo your brother. The person that you should be comfortable with is yourself and if you can’t be, well, then you won’t have anyone ever comfortable with you.
It really feels like Alex wants to be with Jackie to beat his brother at something versus really liking Jackie.
The whole situation is uncomfortable. Yes, I am glad that Cole and Alex had a good talk, but with the way that Alex acts that feels like it’s never going to last and quite fake on Alex’s part.
THE SUMMER INTERNSHIP RIDE
Jackie got an interview for an internship, with a Princeton alum. She’s so excited about it and tells Alex she’s going to have to miss his next ride. For once, Alex shocked me and actually wasn’t an idiot. He supported her. This is something that is so important to her and if he didn’t support her, I woulda jumped into the television and slapped him.
Jackie is taking this seriously and even practicing in front of the mirror. You can tell how much she wants this. You can tell how much she needs this.
But I loved her for taking a break when she gets a knock at the door and it’s Danny. Sweet, sweet, Danny.
Danny is underrated and he’s kinda one of the MVP’s in this show. Seeing him walk into Jackies room and holding his envelope, so very scared and afraid.
Dreams are big and they are scary, but they are something worth striving for. So seeing Danny handing Jackie the letter, full of fear… and then the way that he’s like I can’t go and seeing that disappointment in his eyes. There may have been a scream at the television that he needed to have more faith.
But seeing Jackie immediately jump in and tell him that she would call Uncle Richard – it just made us love her more. Seeing his excitement over the way she was wanting to be there for him, the way he’s been there for her.
No one should ever have their dreams crushed and seeing him feel defeated for even a second, broke us.
But Jackie’s dreams seem on the line. When it’s time for her interview, the interviewer admits she knew Jackie’s father.
And then asks one last question.
How would you describe the color of gold to a blind person?
I don’t think I would know how to answer that question, especially after the interviewer brought up her Dad passing. I would have frozen and probably broken down in tears, swearing that I would rather be dead than have to be there.
But Jackie handles it well and doesn’t break. She instead leaves with her head held high, expecting Danny to be there to get her. But instead, Cole is there to get her and she isn’t thrilled about it.
The thing about Jackie and Cole is that there is so much tension between them that they can’t deny it. So it’s easier to be angry, to be distant, and to act oblivious to the world. They thing is though, you can’t shut down feelings. You can’t make them go away.
I think that Jackie feels like she needs to give up her dreams for Alex. She acts as though that’s the only way to live, but what she’s doing is denying herself her own life. She’s stuck in this bubble to not want to rock a boat, because she is afraid of loosing things again.
She’s grieving.
Alex is safe. Cole isn’t. And in her position, I would choose safe too. But I would also want what keeps me remembering that I am alive.
Cole and Jackie are very different and yet so much the same. They both are searching for something and hey, them finding it in each other isn’t a bad thing. The two of them are complicated and both of them are trying to not hurt anyone else, but in their effort to not hurt Alex, they are hurting him more.
Alex is building his life around Jackie, but what he’s forgotten is that he needs to actually experience life also.
Look, when Cole explains to Jackie what he meant when he said that she wished that she would have never come to Colorado and how complicated things are with his brother, it is thie weird feeling. It’s a feeling that these two are comfortable and fit.
Do I think that Jackie and Cole are forever? No. But what I do know is that they don’t have to be. What they need to be is now. What they need to be is honest.
While Cole has his moment to be just that – which I applaud – of course Will and Alex show up just in time to stop that.
GIRL CODE
Trying to figure out why it is that Olivia still doesn’t get why Erin is mad. You slept with your best friends man and you want her to forgive you? Well, thats cute. Olivia, you did wrong.
Now, where I don’t get why it is that everyone and their sister is fawning over Cole, I do know that I would never sleep with my best friends boyfriend. I do get that Olivia wants forgiveness, and I do get that she would do anything and everything to be Erin’s friend, but girl, it starts with being loyal.
I don’t understand why Erin forgave her so easily. I woulda pushed her off that ferris wheel and not blinked.
I won’t be able to understand why Erin forgave. It doesn’t feel real. But what it does feel is fake and forced.
And I hated this whole part of the episode.
Erin is never realizing what she deserves and how she deserves to be treated. It’s kinda hard to watch, because you want her to do better. You want her to be better. You want her to believe in just how good of a person that she is.
WILL AND HAYLEY
I can’t help but love these two. Will and Hayley belong together. Relationships have a learning curve and sometimes no matter how old you are, sometimes things have to fall apart for them to fall back together.
The way that Will loves Hayley – that’s the way that we want to be loved.
I want that – can’t live without them, cannonball in the deep end kind of love. So, yes, I can admit that I cried when the two stood by the river and decided that they wanted to get back together. I cried when Will realized that he loved her and that he made so many mistakes, but he wanted to make it right.
And seeing that they both wanted it – that they both wanted to have the joy that they used to bring each other. But seeing them both realize that they wanted to be married and that they wanted to get it out of the way, whatever it took, made me smile.
Relationships aren’t easy. They don’t even come close. However, when you love someone – truly love someone – you find a way to make it through. The bad times won’t stop you. The bad times will motivate you to find a way through and to have the love that you know you two live for.
Will and Hayley – it may not be easy – but it will be worth it. That’s one thing that we’ve all definitely learned from The Walters.
List of episode reviews below –
- ‘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