A Million Little Things: Game of your Life

On this week’s A Million Little Things, Gary sets out to woo Maggie and get her open up to him about her cancer recurrence and agree to proceed with treatment while Eddie and Katherine separate and tell son Theo. Rome starts with a new therapist and a new treatment plan. Sophie gets in a fight with a classmate and Delilah gets unexpected, but not unwelcome, news.

Here are Cay and Rueben’s thoughts:

Cay:

Oh boy, tonight was another sad one! I have to say that I’ve been adjusting my first impression of Gary. He was such a great guy in this episode! It was so sweet how he wanted to give Maggie the perfect date and how he refused to give up. He fell hard and fast for her. I’ve been thinking about how I feel about her decision not to pursue treatment. If her survival chances were dismal, I can completely understand deciding to just live the life that you have left to the fullest. However, breast cancer usually has a relatively good prognosis, so I’m not clear if things really are that dire with treatment (does she have metastasis vs just recurrence?) or just that the first round of chemotherapy was so horrible that she can’t really see past it.

There’s no doubt that Katherine deserves better than Eddie, or at least than Eddie at this worst. Like in so many relationship post-mortems, if only they would have talked honestly with each other more, perhaps they could have repaired what they had before it became so toxic. Gotta feel bad for poor Theo!

Totally didn’t see Delilah’s pregnancy coming! And of course the big question is whether it is Eddie’s, or Jon’s. I really hope that it is Jon’s, but that makes it all the more sad that he killed himself. Speaking of, we didn’t get any more insight into that during this episode. I did feel bad for Rome, though – he seemed to have started warming to the idea of being a dad right when he found out that he wouldn’t. It will be interesting if he’ll realize that is maybe what he wants afterall, and if Regina will go along.

And lastly – Rainbow Connection!!! <sniff sniff>

Rueben: Gary really did put his best foot forward in this episode, didn’t he? I don’t think we saw that good guy hiding under all the veneer until now. I agree he really did fall hard and fast for Maggie. I have to give him credit that he decided to tell her “I’m in” on that balloon given how adamantly he was against her choice prior to that.

While Maggie was telling Gary about her decision, and why she made it, I kinda understood, as I’m extremely leary of anything to do with the medical profession, but you have a valid point that her cancer could be treatable unless there is something more serious that she hasn’t shared yet.

Where Sophie is concerned, I thought she was just going to be another angsty teenager, acting out at school; but when she revealed what that girl Chloe at school had done, I had to admit that I probably would’ve decked that little witch too. They didn’t show it, but Chloe better have gotten in trouble just as much as Sophie did with getting suspended.

It was quite fun watching Sophie and Delilah spending their day of suspension together at home, bunching the daylights out of Doug the Dummy, eating up a storm and talking about “Rainbow Connection.” That was such a sweet, tender moment in an otherwise horrible situation that the family is going through. I really liked that whole scene, and couldn’t help but tear up a little when Sophie and Delilah both imitated Kermit.

The whole school play story between Katherine and Eddie was nice to see, but I think we all saw Katherine’s decision coming beforehand. The saddest part was seeing poor little Theo’s reaction after the fact. I actually felt sorry for him (and that’s saying a lot since I’m not “kid person”).

Where the surprise pregnancy is concerned, I kinda guessed that it might be Delilah rather than Regina – since she and Rome had both made it clear in an earlier episode that neither of them wanted kids. Sure “accidents” happen, but I have a feeling they are being extremely careful. I, too, hope that the baby daddy is Jon – rather than Eddie – as it’ll only make a really bad situation even more, but if it is Jon’s child, damn, it’s just going to make things so much more difficult.

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The next episode of A Million Little Things will air on ABC on Wednesday, October 31 at 10/9c.