Drop Dead Diva – Recap & Review – Crazy

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Drop Dead Diva
Crazy

Original Air Date: August 30, 2009

Theresa – Staff Writer
theresa@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s time for Jane’s 15-year high school reunion, and a gentleman named Brian Young seems pretty interested in seeing her. But first, she has to defend an eccentric client who may not be as crazy as he seems.

Brandon Tharp, CEO of a multimillion dollar lawnmower company, is fighting to keep his company from being sold by his estranged surfer son, who owns 10% of the shares.

Unfortunately, a near-death experience has made him a little kooky (for example, Mr. Tharp sheds his suit in court because it’s too itchy, and wears bunny ears on the stand), and his son is arguing his insanity makes him unfit to hold the company. When Jane tells him she’s inclined to agree about his competence, he reveals that he chose her as his lawyer because of her own return from flatlining, but now she’s fired.

At the reunion, it turns out that the Brian who raved about prom night in her yearbook is actually gay, and prom night was when he came out to her. She gets drunk and tells him she’s really a young model, but he assumes it’s a joke and she plays it off. Stacy, who tagged along for support, spends the night talking Jane up to classmates who don’t remember her.

So, the reunion ends up pretty anticlimactic, but it gives Jane the boost she needs to tell Mr. Tharp that she has, in fact, seen that escalator and Return key that he saw when he died, and she wants to represent him. She tells the jury that he does indeed seem crazy, but so did many other geniuses. Unfortunately, Mr. Tharp collapses soon after while talking about a great energy. His son is moved by this new near-death experience, they reconcile, and the company moves forward with Mr. Tharp’s new vision.

In the episode’s other case, Marla Sokoloff (who, speaking of 15 years ago, will always be Full House’s Gia to me), guest stars as a bride who caught her fiancé with her maid of honor hours before her now-cancelled wedding. While both Grayson and the judge insist that Kim cannot litigate emotion, she finds a loophole in the financial loss associated with the wedding dress. Before the case can be presented, however, the bride admits she’s forgiven her fiancé after he came into the office and told Kim he screwed up and loves his wife-to-be. Kim is upset, mostly because she’s been ranting about how men get one chance to show who they are, due to her own issues with Grayson.
Yep, turns out icy nonchalant Kim is actually a clingy mood-swinging freak when she feels spurned. Her problem? Grayson doesn’t want to talk about their kiss while they’re in the middle of the office. When he finally does talk it out with Jane, who says she won’t stop him from pursuing this, he goes to Kim, confident that everything is fine now that he’s made up his mind. But Kim couldn’t deal with his hesitation for very long, and has already decided she’s not giving him another chance, and will instead pretend it never happened.

I have to say, this one was a little disappointing. I don’t think Kim would be so obviously illogical and desperate, given how calculating she generally is. It seemed off. And why did it take a second health scare to force a reconciliation among the Tharps? And what exactly was the point of the reunion at all – nothing happened there! As the “revelation moment” where Jane figures out how to win her case, it was weak and forced. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show, but this episode wasn’t as well put together as usual.

Maybe it’s just me – let me know what you think in the comments!