Austin

This Austin is the original Austin, he went off to do Melrose Place and that’s when Austin Peck took over the roll. I never cared to much for his acting. Well at least they will be gone soon.

for my taste anyway.  Austin Peck was a good looker, but his acting was horrendous – again, IMO.  This time around, the writers have turned PM into this wishy-washy doormat that no one wants to see.  Carrie may be the serial cheating housewife who continues to walk all over Austin, but he’s the one who has never been unable to open his eyes and put his foot down, and his undying and forgiving love for Carrie just makes him look weak and all the more disgusting, like he’s her own personal little lap dog.  It probably would have been a better way to write him if he did stand before her and Rafe and tell them both to go to hell, pick up his marbles and leave.  Then, just when they thought they had it all, BANG, they find out Carrie is pregnant with Austin’s child.  I would really like to have seen him walk out on Carrie before the pregnancy was revealed.  It also bugs me that Kate and Billie never got all over Carrie the way they do to Sami.  Just another example of why Sami should have gone to Kate and reminded her that her daughter-in-law is cheating on one of her ‘precious’ children with her brother-in-law.  I don’t think they ever wrote anything about that, which would have been a typical, "right up her alley" story line for Kate.  Might have been interesting to watch what she might have planned for Carrie and/or Rafe.