We reached the obligatory “parents try to get their baby into a good preschool” episode in “Preschool Auction,” this week’s Up All Night. To my surprise, Regan and Chris pulled it off with almost no craziness…unless you count Regan volunteering to run an elaborate charity auction for a school at which her child is not yet enrolled crazy. Not to mention dragging her celebrity BFF (Ava) into the mix and using the power of her daughter’s cuteness to force her into being the emcee. Totally not crazy.
I have to give Regan snaps for realizing that the school cared more about her famous friends than they did about educating Amy. She turned them down and didn’t even keep the onsie they gave her, which was a shame because it was cute. But the best thing about the whole auction plot was getting to see some of the old Ava when she arrived half-smashed after spending a day on her pyschadelic yacht. Glad to see that Kevin hasn’t totally tamed her.
Meanwhile, Chris’s younger (older?) brother, Casey (Dean Winters), arrived in Los Angeles for his first visit in well over a year. In keeping with their long tradition of competition, Chris didn’t tell Casey that he quit his job to take care of Amy full-time, and it was only after Regan coaxed the truth out of him that Casey admitted he’d been fired over a year ago.
While this made for a nice moment of fraternal friendship, it was almost a little too mushy for me. I would have liked it if Chris had been forced to stand up to his brother and say that his choice to raise his daughter was just as valid and important as being a partner in a law firm. This ending almost felt too nice and neat and wrapped up. Fourteen episodes in, a little more conflict wouldn’t hurt Up All Night at all.
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