Family: A Drop Dead Diva Recap

Continuing the smack down on feels this Sunday, Drop Dead Diva assaulted me with an episode about family and grief.  Thankfully, the two weren’t mixed, unlike Grayson’s feelings about Jane/Deb.  They didn’t even wait to smack you with it either, with Kim being the focal case on family.  After ordering her pretentious soy latte she is approached by a young scruffy boy who asks her to adopt him, and away the feels flow.

So what’s the deal with this bundle of sadness?  Well it would appear that Drop Dead Diva wants to delve into the world of the foster care and adoption system.  As a mother it’s like someone at life time decided to harpoon all of our maternal hormones, is lifetime tied to any tissue companies?  The child in question is 12 years old, and the tragic thing about a child of that age is that adoption is extremely rare as more and more couples want a “baby” to raise.  It’s as if these children are defective toaster ovens, we as a society have overloaded the system with petty paperwork that makes it so difficult for an older child to find a forever home that they end up in overcrowded group facilities with no idea when or if they will ever find a home of their own.  So how do you find an adorable child a set of parents?  Market him with a video.

While Kim and Owen set to work on finding Ryan his forever home, Jane and Grayson set to work on helping a grieving widower get his wife’s body back from her family so that he can honor her wishes to be buried at home in the garden they planted together.  So that’s how they want to play it, move me from family less child to desperate widower.  My feels are aching.  Until Grayson decides to make this case about him and how Jane can’t understand grief, really what the case is about is those left behind having a place to grieve and take solace by being close to the deceased.

To relieve your feels, thankfully we get Paul and Terri back to remind us to laugh as Paul searches for a way to get around town.  Searching through craigslist he finds a luxury car for 100 bucks.  Sounds like a scam to you?  Try angry wife trying to relieve her garage of her husbands “baby.”  Either way, Paul bought the car legally and is trying desperately to keep it, but with a luxury car comes gas and insurance up the whazu.

On the child’s case everything is going well until the Sioux nation gets ahold of the footage, discovering his mother was 10% Sioux.  With this knowledge the government must turn him over to a group home within the tribe, essentially square one in South Dakota.  So how do you trump a trip to South Dakota?  You would need to find a first degree relative to sign over rights, so they would need someone on his father’s side.  The trouble with that? finding Ryan’s biological father, not the deceased on the birth certificate.  In a sad turn, Ryan’s mother hid him in a sham certificate to protect him from a walk away dad.  Now, all that’s left is for his walk away dad to sign away the son he never knew he had, but first he want to see Ryan.  Get your tissues ready for the reunion because my heart grew 10 sizes and I became a fountain.  That’s all I can tell you.

In Jane and Grayson’s case, there is an unusual solution.  The widower’s garden will become a church, the church of “Everlasting Love” where the body will be buried and everyone can come together and celebrate her life.  It’s beautiful and tears evoking.  I’m telling you, tissues get a lot of them!

So as we turn the page on this diva chapter we have families coming together, Grayson coming to terms that he has feelings not for Jane or Deb but for the woman that she is shaping up to be, and Paul getting rid of the car in exchange for a bike.  All is well in L.A.  See you next week Divas!