The Summer Season Begins part 2

The Scholar:
Real life nerds compete for $250,000 scholarship and each week someone wins $50,000. Unlike the Hollywood stereotypical nerds like in Beauty and the Geek the smarties can dress and speak with looking like a scared mouse. And yes there is even sexual tension, from both the guys and girls. Melissa wins the first 50k during the competition of 19th & 20th century literature. The questions are intellectually based but were clearly written towards older people. The question that stumped the second place contestant was "Who wrote Gone wtih Wind?", these kids weren't alive when the movie played on constant rotation during the 70' and 80's but there parents were. When the second-placer calls his mother to tell how he stumbled she laugh out loud knowing the answer without even thinking, he got little consolation from her. Other than the simple question there are spacial puzzles and leadership roles that there graded on. It's like the Real World meets Jeopardy.

Six Feet Under:

The Fisher family is back and are as nutty as ever. Now on Mondays the show is still as fascinating, well written and uncomfortable to watch. Nate and Brenda are happily expecting their baby, Ruth is expecting George coming home from the hospital, Claire has a new love life, David and Keith expect to be parents and Rico is dating badly while his soon to be ex-wife is alone.

Spoiler: Sounds like a good life if this was another show instead Brenda miscarries for her wedding day, but the wedding goes on. George is crazy but happy and Ruth is now getting a bit slap happy. David and Keith fight over how to have baby and decide every way possible will be fine. Claire is scared of her scary boyfriend. Rico is gettong dating advice from Ruth and his wife, so of course that will end well. We also learn that all normal people having massive amounts of pot readily available.

Quote: " I hope you pick me so that I won't have to resort to other obvious forms of prostitution" --- dream-woman talking to David about surrogacy