![]() Reggie goes head-to-head with the Goon-in-Charge named Joe Connelly, who doesn’t hesitate to school his new Dorchester friend about “the Troubles.” (Reggie accidentally delivered the ultimate insult by attempting to bribe Connelly with a bottle of Northern Ireland-produced Bushmills whiskey.) Connelly also doesn’t seem too keen on giving special handicapped seating to “those who fluffernuttered themselves into oblivion.” The real challenge for Reggie was going up against the emerald-blazer-and-tie-wearing “Arena Goons” (I’m not kidding - that’s how all of them, with the exception of their boss, were billed in the credits) to get courtside seating for Healey. ![]() Getting the contractor and the forklift driver? That was the easy part. Reggie’s voice of reason might as well have laryngitis for all the good it did in convincing Cam that he is not responsible for Healey’s weight gain.īut, hey, if Cam is going to make his cousin-manager go on a wild goose chase around town to find a contractor who will remove a wall from Healey’s house, and a forklift driver willing to work overtime, we might as well get an entertaining montage out of it, right? That and a great scene where Survivor’s Remorse creator and New Englander Mike O’Malley gets to rip into the Irish-American stereotype with one punch line after another. ![]() He becomes obsessed with getting Healey to his game, refusing to take no for an answer, from Healey or Reggie. Except that when he and Reggie arrive at Healey’s house, they discover that the coach is now an obese shut-in who can’t even move off of his bed without assistance - “Homebound,” get it? (Coach Healey is played by Boston actor-comedian Lenny Clarke, under a lot of prosthetics.) All of a sudden, Healey’s pathetic existence - his wife left him and he’s no longer coaching - compounded with Cam’s rapidly snowballing insecurity, sends the athlete’s survivor’s remorse into overdrive. He gets it into his head that if Coach Healey is at the game, he’ll be slam-dunking his way to glory in no time. “All this drama that you create,” Reggie tells Cam, “you don’t even realize that it is beneath you.”ĭesperate for a lucky charm to break his losing streak, Cam decides the answer to all of his problems lies with his onetime high school basketball coach. As long as Cam makes these demands, it means he’s not growing up - and that’s what’s so devastating to Reggie, who views Cam as more of a brother than a cousin. Reggie doesn’t care that he has to acquiesce to all of Cam’s petty requests - what worries him is that the basketball star keeps asking him to do these ludicrous things, like arrange for his morbidly overweight former coach to be forklifted to his game in Boston. And what’s probably the scariest outcome of all after “Homebound” is that we’ve been given no sign that Cam even understands how his childlike behavior isn’t going to fly in the long run. Whatever it is, this saint-like persona can’t last forever, and to everyone’s relief, Reggie finally unleashes his frustrations on the still-immature Cam (“Grown-Ass Man”? Hardly) this episode. Call it love, call it loyalty, or call it a straight-up desire to maintain a multimillion-dollar lifestyle (can’t blame him). And she may have given it to Cam.This is a guy who spends most of “Homebound” running around Boston in a desperate attempt to appease every one of Cam’s fears, superstitions, and unreasonable demands. No, he’s not going to be a dad - nice fake-out there, Survivor’s Remorse - but Isa has HPV. Their attempt to “exorcise” their pent-up sexual feelings for each other in a single hotel-room sesh quickly turns into a sizzling affair, but a shot of Cam’s sex buddy exiting a doctor’s office and an ominous “We need to talk phone call” brings the rising basketball star back down to earth. After an Anchorman- inspired scene where Cam sheepishly admits he’s been blowing off post-game interviews with a smart, beautiful sports reporter because she makes his pants get all pointy, the journalist, Isa Catalano, stands up to reveal her own, yes-you-really-just-saw-that sweet secret: a pair of soaked-through chinos. ![]() What began as a humorous story line about Cam and a beat reporter having an insatiable appetite for each other suddenly shifted into a sobering wake-up call about sexually transmitted diseases and an on-point commentary about Always. While Cassie’s dangerous liaison may still work out in her favor, Cam’s most certainly did not this week, with his reckless behavior producing an outcome that Reggie, for once, can’t fix.
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