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The Fosters 1X2: Consequently
🕑 Added 2025-02-05 19:00:07 +0000 UTCUm, I know I only have 84 minutes of experience with this show, but I am solidly on not Team Mike. How can you have a say in this if you don't live in the damn house? Or talk to your kid less than 15 minutes a week? No. You can express frustration, but ultimately, the decisions are Stef's and Lena's.
Anyway, after the antics of last week, Stef sits down with Brandon and decides he's not going to get grounded. She and Lena really think he understands the situation, why he shouldn't have put himself in it, and that he doesn't have plans to do it again. However, Mike doesn't agree. He thinks Brandon should be punished. A huge fight ensues and Brandon claims his dad doesn't see or talk to him often enough to have an opinion about this. I think I made my feelings on this clear already. But somehow, we all end up agreeing with Mike? Don't like it. Brandon calls to apologize. Don't like it. Mike says he wants to be a more active parent. I support this.
And speaking of Brandon, he's been spending some time with Callie lately. They share both a house and an affinity for music. However, Brandon's girlfriend (whose name start with a 'T' but that's all I've got) is starting to get jealous of how much time he's with her. After the grounding, he was going to make a grand gesture of sneaking out so he could spend the night with her, but ended up lying and saying he couldn't get away, when really, he was just hanging out with Callie. I don't know how I feel about this. It's probably a bad idea for foster siblings to date.
It seems like Mariana (I got her name wrong 100 times in this episode. I'm sorry. I looked it up for this description) is finally about to get busted for selling Jesus' meds. So, a teacher finds a note about pills in the trash and brings it to Lena. They have a random locker search, which doesn't turn up anything, but Mariana and Jesus looked freaked out. Later, Lena is in the bathroom when one of the girls Mariana sold the drugs to (I assume they are Adderall) and demands to know who she got them from. Bitch LIES and says Callie since she's an easy scapegoat.
Now, to be fair, I think Stef and Lena handle the situation with Callie as best they can. They don't accuse her. They ask. They say, 'we heard this, is it true?' Callie says no. And they send her away to figure out what to do. Mariana comes out to ask if Callie ratted her out and she didn't. Who would believe her anyway?
Jesus is all like, really, you're gonna let her take the fall for this? They're gonna send her back to juvie. Mariana decides to come clean. But, at the last second, Jesus jumps in and takes the fall for her. I'm pretty sure Jesus is my favorite character right now. I might regret that as it's only episode 2, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
I'm worried. So much shit has happened since Callie has shown up (and most of it isn't her fault) that I'm afraid she might get blamed for. But, after they hear the 'truth' from Jesus, they tell Callie they still need to earn her trust and it's a pretty nice moment.
But, not long after, they decide that they cannot be the permanent home for Callie and Jude. I hate this. However, they are willing to house them for as long as it takes to find a forever place. I still hate it. Just let them stay! I mean, maybe they do. It ran for 5 seasons (I think). But it could be about this family fostering other kids. I'm sad. And I'm not sure I need to be. Lol.
Comments
Dana Licciardello
Yay, I love that for me. I'm always excited when I agree with other fans. Lol.
skye
Jesus is also my favorite character during this point. I just love characters who are fun and goofy but is very protective when it comes to those they love and will come through for you when needed and that’s him in a nutshell. 😭🥹
The great mist of Gaming
Jesus has ADHD and that's what the pills are for. Also Jesus is also my favourite character at this point. Mariana needs to own up to taking and selling the pills and not let her brother take the fall for her. Right now Mike is not doing himself any favours especially if he want's any sort of future relationship with his son and although I can kinda see his point (even though I think that if he want's to punish his son he should do so under his own roof and not somebody else's roof and should not push things when Stef and Lena already came to an agreement on not punishing him) but it is immediantly invalidated by the fact that he isn't an active father in his sons life right now but also expects active father privilages whilst also invalidating Lena's non punishment even though she is literally more active in Brandons life than he currently is and would know how out of character it is for him to do what he did than he would normally and therefore came to the correct conclusion in my opinion of giving him a warning instead of grounding him because of how out of character this is for him. Like im not saying Mike can't have parental say in the way his son is parented because he absoluetly can and should but not punishments given to Brandom whilst he breaks rules living under Stef and Lena's home not his. Like yes Stef and Lena should involve him more in the parental decisions of Brandon but he should also just be a more active parent aswell because like he said he thought it would be easier to hand over the bulk of the parenting to Stef and Lena after he and Stef split and as a result he got lazy with being an active parent in his sons life and he needs to change that if he's serious about having a relationship with his son. I hate that the girls at school judge and therefore think less of Callie just because she's been to juvie and therefore put their own pre-existing bias onto her on what they think kids who have not only been in the foster system as long as she has but also been to juive are like when she's just had a hard life. I love that atleast Brandon is being nice to Callie and not allienating her and letting her hang out with him even though his girlfriend is clearly jelaous. I just love how you can tell how much Callie loves her brother and can tell that she would do just about anything either for his safety and wellbeing including risking her own future and life because of how much she loves him. I love that the Foster family and how they took in both Callie and her brother Jude despite not having the room to because they didn't want them to be seperated again and new how difficult that would be for them and how they saw how clearly abusive Jude's current living situation was and didn't want to risk that happening to him again and how they would be better of with them than back in the system where the could be abused and how Callie would most likely be worried sick about where her brother had been taken to and just love that they did the right thing. But now due to taking them in Stef and Lena might soon start to think that all these sudden bad things that are happening with the kids started happening when Callie and Jude came here even though Mariana was already selling the drugs in school way before they got their and would have been caught eventually anyway cause someome would have slipped up like they did in this episode and Brandons, girlfriends issues of jealousy was possibly always their and just brought her issues to the surface and they can now either move past the fact that Callie lives in the same house as him or break up. I know they said at the end of this episode that they are gonna start to try and earn Callie's trust and try not to dout her so easily just because she is an easy target but how long will that last because if something else happens with one of their kids and Callie is somehow blamed are they gonna believe their kids or someone who they've only knows for at most a couple of weeks to a month a this point. Also this shows intro music is one of my favourites and I sing it every time its played.
C. J. Ramirez
Yeah Jesus has adhd
