Let's get it out the way right now, the blurb that will be quoted after this review is run: If you see nothing else this summer, watch 'Brotherhood. While I never consciously try to arrange a review so that quotes can easily be lifted, "Brotherhood" deserves every boost it can get. Blake Masters, series creator and writer of five of the 11 episodes, including the premiere, doesn't shrink from the dilemma of problems without solutions and compromises without acceptance; he embraces them.

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