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Kudos to those of you who suspected there was more to the story of Susan and Mike's car accident! We got a few additional details tonight on "Desperate Housewives" -- a minor twist, but I'll take what I can get these days. We also learned that marriage is fraught with jealousy, lying, and knick-knack stealing. Just something to keep in mind.
Let's start off with the biggest development: Susan checks on a drunken Dave, and assumes him to be suicidal when she spots (and steals) a gun in the house. After he confesses to fighting with Edie and causing her to drive off, Susan tries to empathize by telling him about the car accident she was in a couple years back. Uh-oh. Turns out SHE was the one driving the car - not Mike. They lied because she didn't have her license on her. MJ had better watch his tiny little back.
I'm pleased that there's more to this story, but still can't help but feel that the central mystery is a bit less epic than years past. Good in the sense that it's more believable...unless you started watching the show because you love the crazy over-the-top-ness of it all. Like me. But we're not through yet, so I'll hold judgment. After all, there are plenty of things to love about this season, too. (Everything about Gaby and Carlos, for example.)
Alright, let's talk Orson. He's taken a page out of Dave's playbook, having the witness to his role in Edie's accident (Rose, the old lady he tried to rob before she whacked him with a bat) committed to a nursing home for "dementia." When Bree finds out what he was up to, she rightfully decides to divorce him, to Andrew's relief. I mean, slipping a figurine into your pocket while you're at someone's house is one (still bad) thing, but breaking and entering is a definite deal breaker. And I'm not sure Bree even knows that he caused Edie's accident. This plot has me really over Orson...anyone else ready for him to depart Wisteria Lane?
Tom, Lynette, Gaby, and Carlos are embroiled in a web of secrets, showers, and gardening clubs. Carlos is seriously growing on me with every episode...though if it were my friend's wife I might've grabbed Penny and gotten her to throw a towel over Lynette before rescuing her in the shower. But that's why I'd probably make a terrible rescuer. And Gaby staging a gardening club coup so she could drink instead of plant flowers was priceless. "You know what? I'm thirsty. Let's start a book club!" was my favorite line of the night. That, or Carlos's observation that it's great Lynette and Tom still care enough to get jealous. It's that kind of twisted logic that makes Desperate Housewives special.
To round things out on this relationshippy night, Katherine and Mike may be in trouble. Here's a tip, Katherine: Don't just blurt out that you want to spend the rest of your life with a guy like it's a given. Especially if he just got divorced. Poor Katherine! I really want things to end well for her, but Mike's wide open, panicked eyes don't bode well...
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I've been done with Orson for a while now but tonight in his lilac sweater... that was IT! Good riddance. I loved Dave's reaction when Susan admitted it was her driving and not Mike. Very subtle for her but intense for us. The whole Gaby and whoever thing was stupid and boring and I don't care about Lynette and Tom anymore. I stopped caring a while ago. She just became sooo idiotic, matching his idiocy. I'll be sticking with this show till the end, but they really need to kick it in the pants now. Gimme something good that doesn't kill one of the best characters!
I used to like Orson but the writers are turning him into a total jerk. Having some poor woman hospitalized for dementia to cover up his petty crimes is really low. Katherine doesn't seem to be on the same show as everyone else. The actress underplays her scenes so much that she practically disappears into the wallpaper. There's a place for subtlety but DH isn't that place.
I might understand Mike covering for Susan if she had some wine just before the accident occurred, but isn't it awfully minor that she left her licence at home? Their car flipped over several times and was totalled. I wouldn't expect her to be able to produce her shoes, much less a piece of paper. This was an accident where people died. To me, Susan comes off as cowardly and Mike is a chump. "We did what we had to do"... really?
I wonder if the original reason was drinking, then the writers realized that this would make her a genuine villain rather than careless.
Regarding Lynette: Shouldn't someone be concerned that she p***ed out in the shower? Healthy people don't do that. Instead, the focus was on Carlos seeing her nekkid.
I almost felt sorry for Dave in this episode, harr***ed by well-meaning neighbors. At least Susan gave him a reason to live.
My favorite scene was the Scavo/Solis dinner party, with the great dialogue and snappy one-liners DH used to deliver up more often. Lynette's comment re the neighborhood married man hunter was good too: "You should be on antibiotics just for sitting in her car!"
What they've done over the years with Orson's character gives me whiplash - I'm a bad guy, now I'm a good guy, bad, good, bad... I'd hate to see him go, but can't imagine what they can do with that character at this point.
There's zero chemistry between Katherine and Mike! I guess that's so they can get Mike and Susan back together, but they could have made it a little more heartwrenching.
Agree that the central mystery isn't up to past years.
And as for Carlos, liking him snuck up on me, but now I want to jump his bones every time I see him and I'm too old for that kind of activity!
Lynette didn't p*** out -- she slipped and fell while rushing to make the morning meeting. That's why she yelped. She hit her head after falling. Which is still concerning. I don't know why Carlos didn't make her go to a doctor just to be safe.
LOVED the whole Caros, Gabby, Lynette, & Tom story line! I agree--the snappy patter has been missing, but it was back for tonight. The whole car accident thing with Susan & Mike had already been 'telegraphed' way back and wasn't really interesting. I think they should be through with this story line. Yes, Katherine & Mike just haven't really gotten it together--maybe so the breakup won't be so traumatic to us viewers when Mike goes back with Susan. I'm bummed about how they've handled Orson all season. The yo-yo-ing back and forth between good and back has been rediculous. I like him as an actor, but the story line stinks.
Total snooze-fest!!! Sooooooo tired of Orson. Enough already!!
We were shown a long time ago that it was Susan driving, so that wasn't a surprise at all. I saw her telling him a mile away. I do think the license excuse is ridiculous. And from what I remember, it wasn't entirely Susan's fault. Wasn't there a stop sign missing or something?
Hope Orson is out and soon. Have we forgotten that Dave killed his Dr. in that fire and was 'supposedly' a real nut case. Like crimminally insane if I recall. And let Kahtherine take a long sea voyage..her character has been wishy washy since coming back the the Lane. Maybe someone new moving into Wisteria Lane could put some life back into it. Really don't want to see it wither away and die.
I thought Lynette had p***ed out while leaning over to pick up soap she had dropped. No? It would make sense if she slipped on the soap, but I didn't understand the reason that she p***ed out.
I don't think anyone has forgotten that Dave is a psycho killer, although I never knew why his psychiatrist felt entitled to chase him around the country. Until the night club, it didn't appear that Dave had ever done anything violent or illegal.
And no, we didn't know who was driving until Susan's confession.