'Desperate Housewives': Why so crabby?
Tonight's episode of Desperate Housewives slipped a bit from last week's triumph, but certainly provided a lot for us to think about. And honestly, without Susan's plot gumming up the works, I think it would've been another great hour of television. Especially since we finally get to meet the new gay neighbors! (Spoilers ahead...)
Bob and Lee have moved to Wisteria lane, at Bob's urging, to get away from the squalor of the big city. Sadly for Bob and Lee, they've chosen to move in next door to Susan, who goes from being weirdly enthusiastic about their being gay, to almost killing Lee with possibly nut-containing cookies, to kidnapping their dog and thus indirectly ruining Bob's $2,000 suit. It's painful and, worse, predictable to watch, and Mike is as pissed at her as I am by the end of the whole thing. Can't the writers try to not make Susan a moronic screw-up, just for one episode? I mean, she did manage to raise Julie -- she must have some adult qualities, right?
On the other hand, I'm loving the whole Bree situation. Partly because Andrew's back to his trouble-making ways (inviting Rex's mom to the surprise baby shower he got everyone to throw for Bree = genius), partly because things are getting shaken up a little. But did anyone NOT call Rex's mom taking Danielle out of the convent once Bree spilled the beans? I mean, come on. So obvious. Although seriously, do people really want to parade around their great-grandchildren? I feel like that makes her seem a tad bit ancient.
Also in the "I love it" category: Gabby's crabs via Edie. GROSS. Also? Crabs are totally the funniest STD, you guys. And I couldn't stop laughing at Gabby's "hot nurse" routine as she tried to get the crabs medicine on Victor without his finding out. She really sold it, medicinal smell, stinging, lice comb, and all. And I can't wait to find out what happens next week, now that Edie has pieced together why the "new cologne" Gabby gave Victor smells straaangely familiar.
Also doing a little role play this week is Lynette, who is between rounds of chemo and feeling randy. I have to say, I'm kind of with Tom on not finding her wigless self a turn-on. I know I've said it before, but it bears repeating: that bald cap covering up all her hair makes her head look freakishly huge. Will nobody shave their head for a part anymore? Aaanyway, her efforts at branching out wig-wise, thanks to Gabby's urging, get an A for effort and a C+ for costume. I mean, Brandy the slutty redheaded cheerleader wasn't even dressed remotely like a cheerleader! However, the role play turns into a serious relationship conversation, where Tom admits to Lynette that he'd like her to be a bit more sensitive to his feelings, since her having cancer is hard on him, too. And you know, much as those two are absurd most of the time, they really do have the most mature relationship on this show (not that that's saying much). Way to talk to each other, guys. And way to coin the phrase, "cancer bitch."
And here are some additional pieces to the Mystery Room puzzle:
- Aunt Lily has returned home to die, and Katherine is curious what it dying feels like. Almost as if she's feeling guilty about having killed someone? Maybe?
- Aunt Lily and Katherine covered up something that happened in the Mystery Room, and haven't told anyone to this day, although Aunt Lily, unlike Katherine, thinks Dylan should know about it.
- Thanks to Aunt Lily's interrupted attempt at a confession, Dylan now knows that there's a reason she doesn't remember living on Wisteria Lane.
- Katherine is totally hardcore when it comes to protecting Dylan from knowing whatever happened in the Mystery Room, to the point of ignoring Aunt Lily as she dies.
- Aunt Lily's written last confession is waiting in the Mystery Room to be found.
Mysterious! Next week, political drama on Wisteria Lane as Katherine and Lynette both run for president of...something.
What do you think of the new neighbors? Do you have any interesting Mystery Room theories?
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Tom is mature? Tom forfeited the right to accuse anyone of being self-absorbed about an illness when he spent three frickin' months whining about his bad back while making Lynette run the house and the business. (Sorry, I hate him so, so much for that. And, yes, chemo is worse than a bad back.)
Tom is a wuss from the word go. In fact, if the whole dang Scavo clan moved far, far away from Wisteria Lane, I wouldn't miss them for a second.
I'm not up on my STDs but surely you get craps if you're to put it delicately "messing around"? So how did Edie get crabs in the first place? No one in this threesome is coming out smelling of roses - everyone except Victor is whoring themselves out, Edie to get a boyfriend/husband; Carlos just because he doesn't care so long as he gets sex and Gaby to keep her affair secret!! Serves them alright - Karma's having a field day!
I'm glad they're covering the non-cancer person's point of view - whiny Tom's right, no-one ever asks how they're feeling, they just have to suck it up and be brave but that's hard for anyone to do least of all when you're supposd to pretend that you're still attracted to someone who's bald and sick - where's the fun in that?
BTW, Dana Delany scares me...
Your Right I would hate to be Teri I mean her Character of Susan its just insane Teri always says her and Susan are alot alike Yeah I highly doubt Teri is as dumb as Susan, Susan need to move away.
Sirius, in the ep Edie said she got crabs from the tanning salon (can't remember the person's name she said she followed). However, my take is that the line is actually backwards in that Victor got it from messing around and gave it to Gabby who gave them to Carlos who gave them to Edie. Also in regards to the whoring themselves out part, Victor also is in that he only married Gabby to help with the Latino vote in his Gubanatorial campaign.
Someone want to explain to me how Danielle's grandmother can sign her out of the convent?
It wouldn't matter even if Lynette shaved her head instead of wearing the cap... bald chicks are not hot, no exceptions. It is likely that the crabs originated from Victor, but Edie's explanation isn't unreasonable.
I was thinking last night that Victor might have got them first. Also, Yes, How can her grandmother override her Mother and sign her out of the convent?
While I understand that it is important to address the caregiver's feelings in a situation such as this, Tom did not go about it in the right way AT ALL. Here is Lynette, trying to work through her illness and the changes it is putting her body through, and he starts whining about how it effects him and the fact that she doesn't ask how HE'S doing?! No way. I work with cancer patients and there are other outlets for that, including other family and friends. Being honest is always important, but not to the degree where it becomes selfish.
As for her being bald, she is his wife who he loves that is going through a major event in her life. While it may not be ideal, I do not understand why he could not see her as the beautiful woman she still is. That entire scene made him seem callous and selfish and it really bugged me.
As for Andrew, it is great to have him back to his old ways, at least temporarily. I used to think he was so evil and was so proud of him when he reformed, but now I long for the days when he could twist everything to his liking. Awesome.
I saw an interview with Felicity Huffman where it was revealed that she DID shave her head for the part - I specifically remember hearing that because the interviewer made a big deal out of it because no one else has done that for a bald part before.
I'm in agreement that Victor is whoring around unbeknownst to anyone else - he doesn't love Gabby at all, he's just using her.
I've watched desperate since the beginning. This season seems to be back to verging on the line between actual drama and campiness which makes it dark but fun. That is until Susan's antics-- over three seasons she's still a self absorbed screw-up whereas even Gabby has her mature moments. Last night was just painful, stupid and painful, and not even believable as her accidentally backing into Edie at least was. Am loving Bree and Dana delany this season though. And Andrew's back, and he's got gay neighbors to get mischievous with. Hope they do something with Andrew. He deserves better than being a pizza delivery boy.