Kyle XY: The Homecoming

Tonight on ABC Family: attempted rape, goo covered nudity, murder and lies! Talk about “A New Kind of Family.” Last week I had a huge problem with Kyle XY; this week’s episode wasn’t particularly awesome, but it was so much better than the season two premiere. It looks like Kyle XY is making my weekly Tivo list this summer.

This week, Jessie XX stumbles out of the woods and is promptly assaulted by a lecherous hunter, who she kills. That’s a traumatic fist encounter with humanity, which I’m sure will scar her for the rest of the season.

Bruce Thompson The dad on Kyle XY needs to invest in a different razor or electrolysis or something. Isn’t there a Nair for facial hair? The guy has perpetual stubble, the kind of stubble that has to be cultivated and fed like the sunflowers in my back porch. Stubble can say different things about different characters; like Dr. House’s stubble screams “I’m rebellious, yet dashing in a bug eyed way” (mmmmm. . . Hugh Laurie). I’m not sure what Bruce Thompson’s stubble says about his character on Kyle XY yet, other than “I have moderately rapid facial hair growth.”

I must be feeling overly nostalgic because the scenes with the Trager family really made me miss living with my parents and my brother. We were never that cute and sweet together, but we always managed to sit down at the dinner table together to get through a meal and my brother and I always had that “perpetually annoyed with each other, yet good natured” kind of relationship that the Trager siblings have.

Wonderful. Now I’m homesick. I haven’t been homesick since I was in the Peace Corps in 1999. And even then, it was hard to tell if it was homesickness or the intestinal parasite making me miserable. Oh, God! I’ve been taken in and manipulated by a family drama!