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Brighton Beach memoirs
jotix10022 December 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Jonathan is contacted by a Russian ex-con that wants to find Irina, the love of his life. He is afraid to go to the Brighton Beach area, for obvious reasons. This lady is a singer at a local club favored by Russians. He decides to include Ray and Lea when he goes to dinner. The mysterious chanteuse makes an impression on Jonathan, the only thing is she is going by a different name now.

When Jonathan meets Suzanne, he asks her to accompany him back to the Brighton Beach club. She is appalled when the waiter arrives with an over sized vodka bottle. They all have a toast, but Suzanne thinks Jonathan is going back to his heavy drinking. Jonathan gets to meet the mysterious Irina, who has a surprise of her own for the amateur detective as well as her former boyfriend.

George's magazine is losing a lot of readers. Jonathan offers his advice as to what to do to attract more women. George consults his analyst who wants him to try to get more in touch with his feminine side. For that, he contacts a black male escort who turns out to be on the same wave length as George. The topic of their conversation turned to be the affair between Lawrence Olivier and Danny Kaye. Both George and the escort love "The Inspector General". As Jonathan comes to visit, he sits with the two men to watch the film.

Another good episode on this surprising new series. Paul Feig directed this installment. Donick Cary wrote the screenplay. Good all around fun is what comes out in this chapter, helped by the deadpan approach of its star, Jason Schwartzman, as well as by the other two regulars, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis. Ted Danson is hilarious as the man exploring his bisexuality. Romany Malso appears as the escort.
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Could have been one of the higher rated episodes
Unknownian2 December 2023
After watching all three seasons, I've come to the conclusion that Jonathan Ames is a closet case twisted fetish homosexual. Not the character, the "creator" and writer of the series.

Considering factually that the greater percentage of society are heterosexual, Mr. Ames has subjected us to George, Ray, and Jonathan spooning in bed while sleeping together, Ray and Greene making out, Ray dating elderly old ladies and enjoying them sexually, Johnathan doing a 3 way with one girl and two guys, and he can't stop commenting on the other guy's penis size, George describing to Johnathan his obsession with women that don't shave their underarm hair, a Police officer addicted to S&M, and craving getting his rear end slapped while eating his wife's birth control pills, a trip to a local spa to help a transvestite marry is male Doctor, George's daughter was a "plushy" (makes love to people dressed up in furry animal costumes), half of an episode devoted to George and Johnathan fulfilling a Jewish comedian's fetish to have her feet massaged, Ray's career is drawing a man with a 20 foot penis, and has a fetish cult following group, a Sperm Bank owner, and Johnathan's real father, supplied all the sperm for the bank himself (to cut costs by not paying for spluge from sperm donors), and has more kids than our minds can comprehend, Ray is also a sperm supplier, by jacking off 37 times a day in his bathroom in a cup (as long as he eats enough sunflower seeds) and lastly in this episode George is spooning with a black queer, and trying to connect to his "homosexual other side".

If you remove the aforementioned activity with George experimenting with homosexuality in this episode, I believe it could have been rated one of the highest of the series offerings.

The queer aspects aside, this episode has very interesting characters as well as all of the cast members including Olivia Thirlby, (whom I get a kick out of listening to her run out of breath at the end of each sentence she speaks) all rolled up into one clever episode filmed in a unique and entertaining restaurant. However, the creator of this series just can't seem to leave his sexual hangups out of his episodes, he uses this show to express them. Lucky us. Well, I guess HBO just had enough if it, and the nail in the coffin was when Ted Danson's wife shows up, and totally destroys the second half of the last season.

If this series followed the example of the first few episodes in Season 1, it would still be on HBO. The longer it ran, the more twisted it became..

This chapter could have been one of the series best episodes.
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