It’s Time to Get Dirty and Sexy All Over Again…

In case you missed it, “Dirty Sexy Money” returned last week to finally finish out its run.

But if you did miss it, you didn’t really miss much, which is why I didn’t tell you about it sooner…

Last week’s episode was the Thanksgiving episode that was supposed to air in November, but got pulled by ABC at the last minute. It was nothing but a filler episode—and a lame one at that—with clips that had been deleted from previous episodes strung together by Clark the chauffeur talking to a reporter (played by the increasingly annoying showkiller Rena Sofer).

There were small glimpses of what made me fall in love with the show to begin with but not enough. In fact, at the half-hour mark, I decided to just tape it and turn to something else. I have to admit the ending was pretty good, but it wasn’t enough to excuse the lame premise.

This week, we get back to business—I hope—if anyone can remember what that business was since the show last aired in December. Thanks to my own blog posts from December, I’ve managed to remember most of what was going on…

Simon Elder (Blair Underwood) was finally revealed as a big bad guy when he took a payoff from Tripp (Donald Sutherland) to not marry Karen (Natalie Zea). But Tripp, of course, had a plan, and instead of getting control of Darling Enterprises, Simon ended up as Tripp’s partner.

Karen, however, had actually fallen in love with Simon and was angry that the marriage didn’t happen—but not at Simon, at her first love, Nick (Peter Krause), who she felt had chosen her father’s interests over hers. But Karen forgave Nick and the possibility of the two of them getting together (since Nick is now single as well) surfaced again.

Meanwhile, Brian (Glenn Fitzgerald) did the right thing and married a dying Andrea (Sheryl Lee). But when he decided he couldn’t live without her, he made a deal with God to go back to the church if she lived. God kept up his part of the bargain, so Brian went back to the church and things became strained with Andrea. But Brian eventually admitted that he was trying to drive her away when he really didn’t want her to go anywhere.

Patrick (William Baldwin) became a Senator—thanks in part to his Chief-of-Staff Nola Lyons (Lucy Liu), who was secretly working for Simon. But tragedy struck when Patrick’s former brother-in-law killed Patrick’s true love, Carmelita, at his inauguration ceremony.

Jeremy (Seth Gabel) developed amnesia after he fell during the shooting, but revealed to Nola that he was faking it to get closer to Simon. Jeremy was trying to help the woman he loved after he had discovered that Simon was holding Nola’s brother hostage to make her do his dirty work.

And the mystery of who killed Nick and Brian’s father, Dutch, took another twist, as the possibility arose that Dutch was still alive…

I have read that the show actually does have some closure and that the central mystery about Dutch will be solved. But with only three episodes left, you know we’re in for a logic-defying Quantum Leaper that will only make me even sadder about what could have been…

It’s like “Commander In Chief” all over again. Hopefully, Donald Sutherland has learned his lesson with shows on ABC…

“Dirty Sexy Money” airs Saturday, July 24th at 10 p.m. on ABC…

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