Connected S1:E20 | The Colder the Winter, the Brighter the Spring

Bella Breakdown All our New Yorkers are finally all in one place in this episode of Connected. Derek makes it back to New York in on epic after his harrowing brush with death on the roads of the West Coast. He’s settling back into life, hugging his mom and doing laundry. “Clean rooms means clean minds” is what the Bishop taught him, along with how to be a man. Then he finally get’s to return to his true love; stand up comedy. Our beautiful Rosie finally hears back from Fox and it turns out that she didn’t get the...

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Connected S1:E19 | A Place to Call Home

Bella Breakdown One of the best parts about a long vacation is coming home. On this episode of Connected, some are looking for a new home, thinking about the home they left behind half a country away and some are missing a home that’s half a world away.   First we meet up with Lori after an unenthusiastic dinner where her presence was not making Jan’s daughter Jane very happy and neither is their hunt for a new family home. Throughout the episode we see a heart-warming turn of events as Jane gets to know her new step-mom a...

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Connected S1:E18 | Estranged, Long-Lost and In Love

Bella Breakdown For better or for worse. That’s the way a marriage is supposed to work, but sometimes when there’s so much more worse than better it needs to end. Divorce is everywhere in life, and since Connected is the real world there’s plenty of it here too. This episode catches back up with Jonathan, sees who the newlyweds are doing and see how the superstars faring in L.A.. From the sandy beaches of Miami straight to the snowy mountains of Montana, Jonathan’s visiting his mother who just lost her boy friends and inherited his mountain ranch. His parents...

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Connected S1:E17 | Tray Tables Up for Landing

Bella Breakdown It feels like it’s been eons since we last checked in on our favorite Connected peeps! With newly weds, newborns and newbies there’s plenty to get caught up. We can’t wait to hear how Nina and Stefano’s little one is doing, and see what shenanigans newly single Jonathan’s been getting up to. Speaking of polyamorous relationships, Jonathan’s been busy and might have met his match in a fellow New Yorker who’s been exploring the possibilities of an open relationship for years. Fresh from his breakup with Susan, he hits the beach in Miami with a perfect stranger...

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Connected S1:E16 With Change Comes Challenge

Bella Breakdown We’ve been rooting for Rosie’s career to take off for a long time. Anyone can see that she’s crazy talented, gorgeous and really freakin’ deserves her big break and the sooner the better. It looks like this one might be it, FOX was starting a new sitcom and requested her to audition in L.A. but just when it looks like she might get the part, Josh gets nervous. It’s a big day for everyone, Lori and Jan’s New York Times article about how they met finally hit the press! A full page with color pictures, we wouldn’t...

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