Clareified

IS IT A SPOILER IF NO ONE WATCHES THE SHOW?

So last week Jack & Bobby entered television history as one of a handful of shows where a prominent character has an abortion. Heck, even Sex & the City chickened out and they explored the sensitive subject of sperm taste…so that tells you.

This was big.
And whoa was I surprised when Young Missy knocks on the door and says “I want to have an abotion.”
That’s right, they didn’t disguise it in lovely “procedure” language.
And Grace quickly packs Missy up and took her across state lines for an abortion sans parental consent.
Huuuge. Some would like to see what Grace did criminalized.
Then in slo-mo montage fashion we see her go into the clinic, see Grace waiting for her in the waiting room and then see the hug as Missy comes out of the office (of course, in what I can only suppose was a sop to the evangelicals or an ode to the Godfather, interspersed among Missy’s abortion scenes are scenes of Bobby getting baptised in the Episcopal church.)

Amazed, I stayed tuned for “scenes from next week.”
I mean oooh is Missy’s preacher dad gonna be mad. I bet she has to move in with Jack & Bobby!!
Uh oh.
No angry preacher man scenes. Instead: screeching tires, deer in the road, ominous narrator voice:
“A tragic accident will cost one of them their life…”
So now, spoiler warning if…I dunno…you had to tape Jack & Bobby last night.
Seriously, if you wanna wait for Sunday’s ‘Easy View’…go read this post, right now.

Okay, now that those wackos are gone.
I was very worried about Missy when I saw those promos.
Nothing says morality tale like girl who has abortion getting killed in car crash a week later.
And…well.
You know what happened.
Poor drunk Missy decides to climb in the back of a pick up truck…not the backseat–the flatbed. She was standing in the back when the truck hit a deer. Of course, her boyfriend Randy was also standing in the back of the truck, but he hadn’t had an abortion — so Missy was killed.
Don’t get me wrong, Missy needed to die. I suggested so myself last year.
But on the heels of her making a decision rarely seen on television, her death sends entirely the wrong message to people, whoever they may be, who take their cues from Jack & Bobby.
In an episode that seemed hellbent on making some point about drunk driving, underage drinking and alcoholism, it’s too bad they chose the only victim that would send the message that if you have an abortion, the almighty God himself will strike you dead.
It’s too bad, really. I liked it better when I didn’t like this show because it was dumb.

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