Conor McNamara, 2026

In 2026, 20-year-old Conor (Stark Sands) copes with his emotional scars at a family gathering prior to surgery on his other hand, but Annie (Jennifer Elise Cox) can't shake the torment left by her upbringing. And in 2006, Sean and Julia's marriage is at a crossroads.

I like the future-y-ness they've made, seems believable to me, I don't know. Sean looks great, Julia too, and Christian all dandyed up. nice to see Matt a successful surgeon, the actor for Conor seems really good to play the child of Sean and Julia, and this Annie with phone chip in her ear and all her rebellious quavery "this is my boyfriend, just so you know, he's bisexual" is so funny.
ah. I've seen Jennifer Elise Cox as the receptionist on LoveSpring, she was great there too.
had I seen her somewhere else before? huh - six feet under in 2005 as 'mary' in several episodes, but who is that? that's the last season, wh I saw,

where's Kimber? -nope. no show.

and this therapist we hear but don't see, is he going to turn out to be someone we know? (who could it be, to have an impact?) -nope.

twop cmmts on this episode begin on thread p 970
-Annie was a hoot and a half! Every stereotype of the middle child/child of divorced parents run amuck and it was AWESOME!!
-Annie was perfect. PERFECT. And God, as much as I hate to say it, it was REALLY nice to see her used as comic relief, esp. given such little development of her character during the show.
-I was skeptical when I read that Jennifer Elise Cox was playing grownup Annie, because she's so much the "goofy" comic actress-type and I didn't think she had the right, hmm, presence I suppose to play f'ed-up/tormented/hating her parents 30-year-old Annie. But the way Annie is totally f'ed up--yeah, Jennifer was perfect. And it was hilarious.
-the actress was Jennifer Elise Cox who played Jan in the Brady Bunch movies.
--Funny, cause I turned to my husband at one point and said, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha," without really knowing why, but she had the same mannerisms.
-I thought giving us satire Jan Brady as future Annie was a total gift. How many words have been written here about how fucked up Annie should be in the future due to all the clueless things Julia, in particular, did to her - all of which the future Annie brought up? So funny.
-It was still kind of believable that they had grown-up Annie turn out this way, while Matt--the poster boy for WTF?!?!! in "present day"--apparently turns out perfectly well-adjusted. (At least by the time he's 38, anyway.) I guess the difference between Matt's and Annie's experiences with their parents' dysfunctions, with regards to how they each came out of it, was that Annie was still in those formative years when it all goes down. I can believe that Matt, who is well into young adulthood, can get over it, while Annie, whose childhood was destroyed at a crucial point, cannot.

-Great casting (as always on this show) the boy REALLY looked like a cross between Sean irish features and Julia's fine boned features. yep yep.
-Am I the only one who was kind of hoping we'd actually see Conor's therapist and wondering if there was supposed to be some kind of surprise in who it was?
--Was it ever revealed? I figure, who else could it have been--Kimber with a sex change and a PhD? ah nice, having my two qstns wh both went unanswered answer each other

-I usually hate Julia but the end scene with her and Sean was perfection.
-I was surprised that I loved Julia in this episode, both her present and future self. The scene with her and Sean at the end was perfect. wow two votes for perfect. I didnt really attend to that scene, shld have.
-I was a little sad at the airport scene. Sean and Julia were a terrible couple, but it was still sad seeing them say goodbye. This could be the beginning of a new era for this show.

-I just hope that by showing what will happen 20 years in the future, Ryan Murphy hasn't painted himself into a corner, i.e. - he can't kill any of the major characters and Sean and Julia can never get back together but he still has to find a way to keep her on the opening credits. this cmmtr doesnt know that JoelyR is leaving th show?
-RM left the next five years open. OldSean said they stopped trying to be friends 15 years ago.right that seems a good move. In just the last three Julia has left and returned once already.
-I wish they'd mentioned Kimber but I assume they wanted to leave that for the rest of the season. right that's what I am thinking now.

-Also, notice when Julia commented that, 20 years in the future, polygamy is now legal in the USA but same-sex marriage still isn't? Nice social commentary.

-I had fun with this episode. Isn't it funny how people in the future always dress and design their homes in a lot of white? And they've been doing it since 1960s sci fi movies, but all that white never really comes into fashion?

next morning lot of strong criticism in the thread - and ok, that's true, the aging looks way past age 60 on Sean, and the whole thing maybe was 'low camp'. that seems okay to me. on reflection, though, it is sort of untrue to Christian, he lost all darkness... but, if look at this as from the perspective of the next generation, dsnt seem so bad to play future Christian as the incorrigible uncle.
-Christian's storyline was soo shallow and weak. I know this episode was about Connor but Julian really got shortchanged on this one. Christian was religated to a supporting player in this episode and I have never felt that before.
-As already mentioned, Sean and Christian looked more like octagenerians than their actual ages and that was a little annoying. However, Christian doing two women straight from a Robert Palmer music video almost made up for it. I did like that they didn't mention Kimber or Matt's baby and that Matt becomes a kind doctor if only because that means that there's hope that he'll finally realize what a crazy bitch she is and left that open for interpretation.
-Yes, the make-up was a little overboard. But Future Christian was dead-on... I'd figure he'd go out swinging a-la Hefner. I laughed really hard at the scenes with Christian.I think Annie's development is a shout-out to all of us who have mentioned the poor thing must be traumatized. Yeah it was filler, but it was good. I liked it. To make it better we needed Liz and Kimber. Plus, my secret? I was hoping the psychologist turned out to be... Escobar! oh of course. good good call.
-And....Matt-38 is hot! JH looks good aged. huh general agreement on this.
-What a claustrophobic little world the future turned out to be... the only new character (therapist) remained shrouded in anonymity, which to me is another clue that this whole episode will turn out to have been someone's dream... maybe Annie's! That would really jump-start my interest in her character.
-Nicest scene in the whole episode, I thought, was present-day Sean and Matt in the house where Sean was completely wilding out and Matt just held him. It was very sweet.I really liked this episode.
-Maybe I'm just slow, but it took this episode for me to notice that Conor's first surgery was on his LEFT hand, which seems an odd choice. Any surgery experts out there who can explain why they didn't put a priority on modifying his right hand first? Not only is it 10X more likely that he has a natural right-hand dominance, but it would have provided him with that 'normal handshake' he longed for.