'Housewives' Update
Okay, in what immediately made me think of Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction," Edie has succeeded in further wrecking Carlos's life in the first episode. That whole hanging herself thing in last year's "Desperate Housewives" finale? All carefully orchestrated so that Carlos would find her at the "perfect" moment (complete with candles and suicide love note, but just in time to not get any throat burns). Pesky Mrs. McCluskey interrupts, causing Edie a bit of wee discomfort before her knight comes calling, but she still gets what she wants. Carlos--who was planning to run off with Gaby (on her wedding night, no less)--feels that deep well of male responsibility for the poor shattered woman who loved him so much she'd.....okay, sorry, I can't eat another can of Cheez Wiz here. Wake up Carlos. Better yet, what kind of idiot are you that you'd leave records of your secret bank account in the Caymans lying around so Edie could find them?
Lynette, meanwhile, has decided that neither her friends nor her children get to know she has cancer (uh-huh). So she's running around hiding her bald head under a wig and puking in the purse of the PTA witch at her son's school play, which, of course, she couldn't possibly miss, even if she has been hurling all day and is having hot flashes. (Though, interestingly enough, her husband didn't manage to show for it, and he's not exactly going through chemo. But we digress). Can we mention again, though, that when Lynette puked, mid-play, she inadvertently grabbed the purse that belongs to the PTA witch? Priceless.
The whole Bree situation, in which she's sporting a faux pregnancy belly so she can pretend her daughter's--gasp!!!!!--out-of-wedlock child is her own becomes a running joke, especially when she walks her bump into a meat fork at a neighborhood BBQ. Both Orson (that would be Bree's freakish second husband) and Bree's son Andrew are convinced the family is on track to become the laughingstock of the block (which takes something major in this neighborhood). But Bree is determined to see this thing through because --cue the weepy noises--she wants a second chance to raise at least one child who isn't a disastrous nightmare.
Susan is (as usual) whiny and annoying in the first month of marriage, but it turns out it might be because of hormones. Is she menopausal or is she pregnant? Please. We all knew the answer to that a million miles away; what we want to know is why she didn't up and run when her new neighbor came in to do the pelvic. Ewwwwww. (Actually, what we really want to know is....well, we'll save that for later. See below).
Which brings us to those "new" neighbors.....what would Wisteria Lane be without some weird conspiracy thing going on? Let's just hope that newcomer Dana Delany (best known for "China Beach") and her one-upmanship of Bree in the anal, controlling category is better than the pathetic storyline handed to the mega-talented Alfre Woodard last season (housing a mentally disabled son in the basement? Please). Apparently, "Katherine" (Delany's character) is moving back to Wisteria Lane after 12 years, complete with hot new younger husband (the gynecologist Susan unfortunately visited) and her teenage daughter, Dylan, who supposedly was Julie's best friend as a child. Only Dylan doesn't remember Julie (CliffsNotes: Julie is Susan's daughter), or Wisteria Lane; and Mommy Dearest (Katherine) has some deep dark secret going on. Only this time, the locked-up room is upstairs, rather than in the dark, scary basement.
But that's enough recap. Let's just get to the major poll question of the moment: Is Mike really the father of Susan's baby? Or it could it, just maybe, be Ian's? I mean, really, let's do some math......
By Jennifer Frey |
October 1, 2007; 7:43 AM ET
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Posted by: RiverCityRoller | October 1, 2007 08:55 AM
I tried watching the show. The red headed woman, Marcia Cross, reminds me of a modern day "Lilly Munster". And I don't mean that in a good way. I find the entire character such a distraction that it spoils any scene with her in it.
I guess the show is supposed to be a comedy, or perhaps it's parody of a soap opera. But it tries so hard to be outrageous that it does it without any sort of clever writing that might make you laugh. Instead, you think this must be comedy for slow adults.
Or maybe it's so wickedly ironic that I'm not getting it? I tried going at it from that angle, but the red head was so frightening that I couldn't approach it from that viewpoint.
Anyway, flipping around on the pay channels, I found a pretty good show on "Showtime". It's called "Californication". My wife initially insisted it was a soap opera for guys (which I agree), but after we watched a couple episodes "On Demand", we came to the conclusion that although David Duchovney is a limited actor, this part suits him perfectly. The character is sympathetic, and the writing can be LOL funny at times.
But "Desperate Housewives"? I think it should be called "Desperate Viewers", because it's just not entertaining.
Posted by: Bunkley | October 1, 2007 11:38 PM
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I'm liking the new blog, but it's Dana Delany, not Dany.