During the series, it was revealed that Pratt had a mentally handicapped stepbrother named Leon living with him, a man who kept Pratt safe and focused on school during his childhood but was left with the IQ of a small child after surviving a gunshot to the head. Due to his handicap, Leon often got into trouble and would disrupt Pratt's professional and personal life, especially when he became involved with a group of thugs who stabbed him in the hindquarters over a confiscated gun, got him thrown in jail overnight, and then made him join them on a robbery that ended with one of the thugs dead and a cop badly injured (though he recovered thanks to good surgical work by Dr. Elizabeth Corday). To help give Pratt a break, Carter suggested his brother move away for a while, leading Pratt to send his stepbrother away to stay with other family members in Baltimore.

Easty, since you loved Six Feet Under, have you tried Alan Ball's new show, True Blood?

It's terrific. Interesting characters, great plot, metaphors, and well acted and written.

East...True Blood is on tonight Sunday on HBO at 9:00. I haven't tried it yet, but since Fran is recommending it, I'm going to record it.

babs,

If you have HBO OnDemand, you can watch all of the episodes from the beginning.