Last night's episode of Drop Dead Diva was all about moving on and accepting that people change and that you yourself can change. The love triangle(square if you count new love interest Travis) of Kim, Grayson, and Jane changes structure and we get a little of the Deb Jane used to be with her new case.
A great television episode will always parallel the main characters drama with the cases they are handling. You see this in Grey's Anatomy, House, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This week Diva paralleled Grayson's inability to move on from Deb with his pro-bono case. He's representing an older woman, whose house is about to be destroyed by a major corporation. Not wanting to part with the house that she shared with her soul mate, she has Grayson, and eventually Kim (who only joins the case to log some pro-bono hours in order to become partner) do anything to stop the razing of her beloved house. The parallel represented here is Grayson's reluctance to allow Kim to sleep-over at the home that he and Deb shared once. There's a sentimentality to the memories he shared with his soul mate that interferes with him moving on. Although this show can be a little silly at times, with this story we get to see the heart of the series, which is where to we go when everything we know changes? How do we move on and become another version of ourselves, one separate from our lost loves? In the end, Kim decides that Grayson isn't ready to move on,and their love comes to an end.
Of course, the show couldn't be all serious. At the end, it's reveled that the older woman doesn't want them to destroy her house, not because of sentimentality, but because she offed her husband twenty years back and buried him under the floor boards. But, she had a good reason;he was just getting on her nerves. We've all felt that way...right?
Continuing the comedy, Jane gets a case defending her idol, model Christie Talbot, who is charged with killing her millionaire husband. Here's another case where Jane's past as Deb gives her insight into a client. It's a credit to the show's writers;how well they have combined both Jane's new lawyer speak with Deb's personality. When she tells the prosecutor, "you're just harassing her because she's fabulous," Deb's personality shines through in the most wonderfully way.
We get another example of how fabulously silly this show can be, when Jane solves the case with a lipstick being the smoking gun. The model's deceased husband was sporting a lipstick kiss on his neck, but the lipstick didn't match up with what Christie would ever wear. A fashion don't that leads to being acquitted of all charges.
What's most enjoyable about this show is that it doesn't take its self too seriously. But don't misunderstand, underneath this guilty pleasure is a wonderfully written show about new beginnings.
Next week it's Drop Dead Diva's season finale. In the previews, Jane and Grayson share a kiss and Paula Abdul returns as a judge. Now, last time Jane and Grayson kissed it was in a dream, so I can't help but wondered if this kiss is also a fantasy.
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