Critic's Notebook

Merely beloved

'Brother & Sisters' uses a civil union to draw viewers. How times have changed.

By Matthew Gilbert

Globe Staff / May 11, 2008

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Tonight on "Brothers & Sisters," ABC is featuring the quintessential May sweeps event, but with a critical twist. It's a big fat wedding, which, along with burials and casting stunts, is how the networks inflate ratings during those months when ad rates are set. But the "Brothers & Sisters" marriage is a gay marriage - technically, a civil union, since ... (Full article: 980 words)