Desperate Housewives

There was a few enjoyable moments this week, with a few funny gags.

Susans storlyine was probably the worst this week i mean how stupid is she wanting her son to fall of his bike on purpose.. but i did think the part where she screamed and said it was a big spider was a laugh out loud moment..

Lynette and bree shared a storyline this which i thought was pretty good, i like the fact that bree dosnt really see herself as a sucess due to the fact that her psersonal life is a mess

Gabys storyline was pretty weak, it was just boring The dave storyline is so obvious its so painfully obvious that he is after mike because it was his family in the car crash, this is the worst season mysterty so far

'Back in Business' while not quite up to the standards that Desperate Housewives can achieve, is still a rewarding episode, nicely structured around the theme of the 'green eyed monster' and offers up some wonderfully unexpected sequences: particularly the strands involving Orson and Bree, whose marriage is certainly suffering as a result of Mrs Van Der Kamp's success. While Lynette's descent into petty jealousy and, indeed, desperation is difficult to watch (I covered my eyes during a great deal of it), it is all the more successful because of it, Gabrielle and Carlos' decision to teach their child the facts of life results in a number of rather humorous moments and, of course, Susan's ludicrous attempt to hide her son's relationship with Jackson from Mike produce the usual round of unfortunate Myer related klutziness. Pretty good.

The only thing good about this episode is its reference to previous seasons. Which is not a good thing. Relating back to the hay days of Lynette's big advertising career in season 2 just manages to save the storyline of this episode from that grim mark called 'garbage'. While Bree's career is blossoming, and everything about her is (apparently) reeking of success, her friends find themselves uncomfortable with this development. Meanwhile Juanita witnesses her parents having sex, Susan teaches her son how to crash on a bike, Edie's suspicions about her husband grow, and Katherine... well, she's just there.



The mystery of Edie's husband doesn't really intrigue me. The Youngs, the Applewhites, Orson and Katherine Mayfair all succeeded in this, each embodying the mystery of the season, but this one... it has yet to convince me. Susan is never used for anything except forced comedy and love triangles these days, and her stunt this week just didn't work. Nor did Gabrielle's storyline of parental embarrasment. In general, there is precious little left of that refreshing vitality which Desperate Housewives served skilfully week after week. The show seems exhausted.



Bree saves the day, so to speak. To me, she was always the strongest character, even now, and the price she has to pay for her success does manage to move me. Not least due to Marcia Cross, who has by now proven herself the most apt actress of them all, managing to intrigue even with the weakest of storylines. Her confrontation with Lynette is with question the finest scene of the hour.



Desperate Housewives is sinking fast, and I hope the writers have another Tornado on the way. For it is really needed.

In this episode of Desperate Housewives the following happens. Bree invites Gabby, Susan, Lynette and Katherine over to give them advanced copies of her cook book. We learn that Orson has lost his job and has now been lying to Bree for 3 weeks. We see Eddies husband losing his temper and taking some tablets to calm himself down. Carlos and Gabby teach their oldest daughter about the facts of life after she catches them in bed together. She then passes them on to her friend and her sister. Bree wins the business woman of the year award. Bree then offers Orson a job at her company.

Another fine example of Desperate Housewives of The Future. There was so much funny in this episode. Gabby and Carlos having blind sex was great! The fact Carlos has increased his sexual levels now he's blind is interesting and the fact Gabby was willing to try just show how much she has grown. Her kids finding out and spreading it around the neighbourhood was extremely funny and well written.



Susan, Mike, Jackson and MJ continue to be a happy family. Mike moving back into the neighbourhood will be good for MJ but what about Susan? Hmm - but my reservations about Jackson have been quashed - he is generally a good guy (not too many of them about!)



Orson and Bree resolve their problems but in turn make Dana Delany/Katherine jealous. Its a shame - she is my new favourite character!



But the funniest moment is a drunk Lynette. Her drunkness at the dinner table was hilarious and her setting of the fire alarm - priceless!



Edie's Psycho Husband continues to grow weirder. The moment he snapped at Edie had me TERRIFIED!



Overall good stuff - please continue this!

Lynette's storyline was the one part of the episode that was meaningful. Her reaction to Bree's success was perfect. It was funny to see her get drunk and then have a heart to heart with Bree. I could not believe Stu had been so sucessful and she is running a pizza place. Susan's storyline was also really funny. I loved how she resorted to getting MJ to pretend to fall. I didn't really like Gabby's storyline. The blind sex wasn't very interesting and it seemed like they were just trying to find a way to get Gabby's daughter to watch them. Orson trying to find a job was a little boring, but at least it grew into a more interesting storyline. There also wasn't enough going on with Dave in this episode.

Bree: "Thank you, Katherine. I'll never become stuck up and full of myself".

Katherine: "I didn't say that".



Success comes to those who work really hard for it and have clear goals in sight. It's what we all want and need in order to survive and when someone becomes a bit more successful than us, it's often hard not to feel a little envious of that person.



Bree is obviously an excellent case in point given her recent development. Although it is her and Katherine who set up the catering, it is Bree who is garnering all of the attention. Now, perhaps this isn't entirely her fault but it's easy to see why her success has had negative effects on those around her.



With Gabby, it's a reminder of no longer being surrounded by a wealth of material good, which for someone like Gabby would be crucial. Gabby defines herself by status and even expressed fears in her declining one a few episodes ago.



With Susan, well I think it's probably not as personal. She's a lot less hung up on things and given that she and Bree are so fundamentally different, she might be the only person who doesn't have a serious issue with Bree's new found success.



Three people who clearly do though are Katherine, Orson and Lynette and with each of them, there's certain validity to their grievances I suppose. Okay, maybe not entirely with Orson but definitely with Katherine and Lynette who are blatantly jealous of Bree.



Well when it comes to Katherine, no-one wants to be a dogsbody and unfortunately her role in the catering business has gone from partner to that of a less flattering description. We've already seen her anger at Bree not giving her proper credit for the recipes and here, she's got more reason to be angry.



First off there's being handed a signed copy of Bree's cookbook which doesn't fill Katherine's heart with joy and then there's the issue of Orson wanting in on the business. Katherine's method of responding is to threaten to impale Bree, which is oddly funny. Although her role feels like a comedown from last season, I'm actually finding Katherine more bearable this season.



I also can understand why she feels anger towards Bree. Perhaps it's not Bree's fault that she was the one who became the household name so instantly but she hasn't actively done much to either share the fame with Katherine or make the woman feel appreciated. It's hard not to feel some annoyance towards that.



As for Orson, he seems to have it in his head that his unemployment woes are Bree's problems. While Bree has done a lot to damn herself, the fact that Orson can't hold down a job isn't entirely her doing. Yes she made him go to jail but Orson should be realistic enough to realise that lying about a criminal record was going to bite him in the butt.



Also the idea of mixing family with business isn't a smart idea for many reasons. First off all, Orson has no prior experience in catering and secondly, he only expected Bree to make him a partner because he couldn't find another job. Both of these are bad ideas and while Bree makes the wise decision to refuse him at first, a little emotional blackmail breaks her resolve.



That's another thing I hate – that this show can make Orson appear a victim when he really isn't one. He was being petulant and stupid for expecting Bree to make him a partner without consulting Katherine and sleeping in the guest bedroom was just manipulating her into changing her mind. I think Bree should've stuck to her guns and Orson should've realised that he had no right to impose on Bree and Katherine's business the way he did.



The other person feeling the brunt of Bree's success is Lynette. Unlike every other character, Lynette has always resented being a housewife and saw Bree's success as a means of reigniting her advertising roots by trying to come up with a snazzy campaign.



Much as I hate to agree with Bree, I'll give the woman her dues by refusing Lynette's help. Lynette might be good at her job but she was pitching a marketing strategy that clearly wouldn't appeal to the kind of audience that Bree's aiming for (i.e. middle America) but perhaps Bree could've let her down gently.



Then again Lynette did continue to badly handle the situation when she realised that Stuart from her old company Parcher and Murphy was the man behind the ad campaign Bree chose instead. It's brilliant of this show to bring back Stuart, even though he wasn't a character I would've expected to see on the show again.



Stuart to his credit seemed fairly nice to Lynette but Lynette balled things up by getting blind drunk at the Businesswoman Of The Year award and embarrassing Bree. Still in spite of the embarrassment, it did lead to a nice scene between Lynette and Bree where the latter discussed the down side to her success but the question remains – shouldn't Lynette just go back to advertising?



If Tom can still have his little hobbies and generally get his way, I don't see why Lynette should be stuck working in Scavos? For her, it's clearly not where she wants to be and her kids are mostly old enough to fend for themselves. Plus, why should Bree be the only one this season with a career?



Elsewhere Gabby and Carlos have bigger issues than a career to worry about – their dwindling sex life. It seems that having two kids has put a dampener on things and Gabby's so desperate to kick start things back again that she decides to pawn Juanita off with a geeky Bethany who the stroppy kid doesn't like.



Of course Carlos just thinks that Gabby is being unreasonable with Juanita until Gabby spells out the benefits of having a child-free area for a few hours. The more interesting part is that when the two of them do decide to hit the sack, Gabby suddenly becomes curious as to what it' like having blind sex.



For once the woman isn't being politically incorrect but instead makes a well judged observation. Carlos' answer about how certain senses are heightened also had the desired effect when Gabby wore a blindfold while sleeping with Carlos. It's good that she enjoyed her little experiment, just too bad that Juanita had to walk in on them while they were at it.



One thing I don't envy about parents is them having to explain the birds and the bees to their kids and needless to say, Gabby and Carlos are put into an awkward situation. Gabby's wrestling lie doesn't sit well with Carlos so he decides on the truth and of course, that also means some consequences.



Juanita's like any five year old which means that she was always going to tell Bethany and because of that, the latter's parents would freak out and cancel play dates with Gabby and Carlos. It also didn't help that she tried to divulge that information to younger sister Celia either.



Also to make things worse, when Carlos and Gabby finally manage to persuade Bethany's parents that they were looking out for Juanita and Celia's innocence, he makes the mistake of letting slip about Santa Claus not being real to Bethany. Okay, so it's not the most gripping plot in the world but it does raise a sly smile.



Elsewhere on the issue of children, Mike is finding himself feeling left out of MJ's life when Jackson features more prominently in a family picture at school than he does. Mike does at first make a lame attempt to deny that it bugs him until he buys MJ a bike and wants to teach him how to ride.



The problem is that Jackson got there first and when Susan stupidly encourages MJ to fake a fall for Mike's ego, the kid gets injured. Needless to say, Mike's furious about Jackson's growing role but Susan reminds him that there's down side to not living so close to your son.



Of course we can also thank Dave for making this problem go away. It seems that he has a fixation with Mike joining him and Tom's awful band to the point where he busts his own pipes to get Mike to talk to him and decides to buy Mary Alice's old house with Edie so that Mike can be near MJ.



With so many people on the street, it would almost feel lazy if Mike is the very guy that Dave is after but given Mike's criminal past I wouldn't rule it out. Of course, it's likely to be a red herring as Dave does seem to making his way to interacting with the neighbours almost one by one.



The interesting thing is that for the time being, he still also has Edie under his spell. While Karen raised some suspicions to Edie and while Dave also snapped at her for no reason, Edie does seem to be blissfully unaware that her husband is a psycho in the making. What's also just as noticeable is that Dave seems to be getting more to do than Edie herself as well.



Also in "Back In Business"



Keeping with minor characters, Miss Butters who was MJ's teacher in this episode, also deal with Porter and Preston back in Season One.



Mike (re picture): "The bug with the little hat?"

MJ: "That's because you're so far away".



For those viewers who dislike Mike, one of them pointed out on TWOP that the bug could be a comment on James Denton's acting. Carlos (re Bethany): "Why are you shoving that little weirdo down Juanita's throat?"

Gabrielle: "That little weirdo is the key to us having sex".



Katherine (re Orson): "You let him in; I'll cut you with these scissors".

Bree: "Oh, we don't need to do that".



Why am I not surprised that Lynette scored 'Businesswoman Of The Year' at one point? Mind you, Tom seemed threatened when Lynette suggested going back to advertising.



Bree (to Orson): "Katherine sees how I get".

Katherine: **** tyrannical, shrill".



Susan: "You could've walked away".

Jackson (re MJ): "I couldn't. He said pewees".



My youngest niece has a tendency to sometimes say 'oh man' in a similar tone to MJ.



Lynette (re ad campaign): "I see women responding to that".

Bree: "Do you because I see children crawling into ovens looking for dinosaurs".



Mike (re MJ): "You told him to fall?"

Susan: "Remember it's the pavement you're mad at".



I recently heard about Gale Harold's bike accident. I'm glad it's not going to affect the rest of his work on the series.



Celia: "Sperm".

Gabrielle: "Juanita, stop talking to your sister".



Mike (to Dave): "I might play guitar like a rock star but I don't earn like one".



Isn't it strange that before Dave arriving on Wisteria Lane that neither Mike nor Tom had this strong interest in playing in a band? Plus Dave got really creepy with Tom at one point.



Bree: "Lynette, you're drunk".

Lynette: "That's immaterial, what did you think of the coupons?"



Edie (to Dave): "Screw karma. I finally do something nice for this neighbourhood and I can't even brag about it".



No Scavo spawn, Karen, Bob or Lee in this episode and Andrew only had on scene.



While not one of my favourite episodes, "Back In Business" is however a lovely look into how the success you make can impact your relationships with your nearest and dearest but on the flipside, this episode did very little to slightly advance the Dave mystery but we'll have to wait that one out.

Not only did nothing happen in this DH episode...it was also very unoriginal and clichéd. The opening scene with Mike, Susan, MJ and the painting was funny but how many times has that been done before? Loads. The rest of there storyline was enjoyable enough thanks to Susan wanting to make MJ fall of his bike so Mike would feel like a father. Plus Mike moving back to Wisteria Lane was the only thing of meaning that took place.



Dave is a good enough character but he wasn't in this that much. We now know that he has some interest in Mike. Gabby and Carlos' storyline was completely pointless and filler, sure it was funny but couldn't they have done something else with the pair? A child seeing there parents while having sex has been done a lot too.



I was entertained by the drunk and jealous Lynette who wanted her business success back. It was funny to see the scene she pulled at Bree's events but to be honest it's nothing we haven't seen before and again I would have much preferred a more developed story on her. What happened to Karen investigating Dave here...that's a main storyline and it was just skipped for an episode! Why!?



Bree herself was alright but this thing with Orson annoyed me...he wanted a job and she said no. So he moved into the guest room. Bree finally gives him the job and he moves back...Wtf??? So yeah a 6 is a really low score for this show from me...disappointing. I could write better in fact I don't get how this episode was aired...!

Desperate Housewives seems to be stuck in gears right now. They are building toward some big storylines later on in the season: the clash between Katherine and Bree, whatever Dave Williams is up to and the eventual reunion of Mike and Susan, but until we get to that point things are progressing too slowly.



Dave wasn't as good as he's been the past few weeks, although him smashing the pipe with a baseball bat was classic. MJ is just being built up as such a rip-off of Jamie from One Tree Hill and the storyline with Susan forcing him to fall down was a little too farfetched.



Bree really made this episode as she was absolutely hilarious in every scene, but not one of the stronger Season 5 installments.

All things considered, I absolutely loved this episode! All of the story lines in this episode were great, especially Susan's. I loved Jackson in this episode. It's so great having Gale Harold on Desperate Housewives. The whole Gabrielle and Carlos story line was hilarious. Dana Delany was great in this episode as Katherine. I especially loved her in the scene where she's fighting with Bree about Orson wanting to work for their catering company. The part where Lynette got drunk at the party was hilarious! I think that Felicity Huffman plays drunk extremely well. Although, I just loved Felicity Huffman and Lynette's story line in this episode in general. Bree's story line in this episode was great too. I'm really interested to see where Bree's relationship with Orson goes from here. In closing, I thought that this was very well written, well acted and well made episode of Desperate Housewives from everyone involved, and I can't wait to see the next episode of Desperate Housewives.

I loved this episode! So, Gabrielle had a "blind sex" with Carlos. She has been blind-folded. During their intercourse, they couldn't see Juanita's watching them. They were done and then they have heard her drinking her juice. That scene was so funny! And then they've talked to Juanita about sex and that wasn't such a good idea because since that moment Juanita spread the words like "sperm" and "intercourse". Funny.. :)

Susan forced MJ to fall from his bike so Mike wouldn't know that Jackson already practiced with MJ. And MJ got a sprain so everything was cleared out to Mike.

Bree had problems with her husband which all ended up with Orson being her partner. Edie's husband wants Mike close to him for an unknown reason so he bought a house in Wisteria Lane and then rent it to him. We'll probably see why did he do that in future episodes.

Lynnette tried to do some advertising for Bree but that didn't go as planned. It end up with Lynnette drunk at Bree's award ceremony but then they've made up.

Can't wait for another episode! :)

Bree has to deal with the jealousy of her neighbours and her husband, Gabrielle discovers the disadvantages of having blind sex, Susan has to cover up Jackson teached MJ how to ride his bike for Mike, Lynette struggles with the succes of her friend and Edie is confronted with Dave's true nature.



Which irritates me the most about this episode, is that everything feels like I've seen it before on Desperate Housewives. Orson's jealousy when Bree has a lot of succes (Tom wants a job in season 2), Gabrielle and the other parents (the Scavo play dates with the parents and the sex tape, almost the very same) and Lynette wants to get back in business (obviously season 1). Of course, there were a lot of great scenes, such as the 'there's no Santa?!'-moment, Lynette's sneaky way of leaving the party and the touching moment between her and Bree at the end.

Dave's starting to annoy me: the neighbours need to discover that he has some serious anger issues and sadly, the mystery just isn't strong enough to carry the whole season.



This is the first time I've got the feeling that this show is losing it: a lot of touching moments weren't touching, funny moments weren't funny and scary moments weren't scary. The storylines, which are kinda weak, need to get mixed up big time and this season needs a huge twist like the tornado, because it feels like a whole other show that just (almost) doesn't interest me anymore. Let's say: there has to come an explosion between Bree and Katherine and Bree and Orson, Lynette needs a job (or something), Edie needs to see Dave's real face and get in danger, Gabby needs to become old Gabby again and Susan needs to be frikkin' happy with one guy! (not Jackson please:-))

Well, this season hasn't really been my favorite and while the quality has remained steady throughout these episodes so far, I'm really hoping that it picks up soon because there really isn't much to look forward to except for the usual laughs which quite honestly don't interest me as much as the mystery.



Susan: I loved her storyline as usual, Susan has become my favorite this season because she's just as fascinating as she was back in the first season although in a different way. I really like her son MJ and Jackson who is quite funny as well, it's good to see Mike move back in Wisteria Lain too. It's also good to see Mike & Susan talk about their divorce, they're quite mature about it. Overall, this was my favorite storyline of the episode.



Gabrielle: As usual, she gets the comical storylines which for the most part work for the best. She arranges playdates for Juanita so that she can have sex with Carlos during the day, and the plan works out (they even try blind sex) but Juanita catches her parents doing it. Gabby & Carlos explain the whole 'process' to their daughter but soon she begins to tell everyone about what she's learned and gets herself kicked out from the playdates. Overall, quite an enjoyable storyline that made me chuckle quite a few times.



Lynette: Tom is really excited about the garage band and Lynette hasn't really changed her attitude about it. When Lynette sees Bree's advertising plan she claims that it's not strong enough and offers Bree her own thoughts, but Bree rejects them. During the lunchet, Lynette continues to make remarks about the marketing campaign's weakness and soon realizes that her old assisstant Stu now has a company. Lynette gets drunk after getting herself embaressed and causes one huge scene when Bree asks her to leave and she enters the emergency room. Lynette & Bree make up in one very emotional scene that I really enjoyed, it was well written as well.



Bree: Well, this is a Bree-centric episode so she gets a lot of scenes that's for sure. Her friends visit her and she gives me early copies of her yet to-be-released cookbook, she also gets a call informing her that she's selected as Business Woman of the Year. In the meanwhile, Orson hasn't been working for the past three weeks but has been hiding the truth from Bree but she catches him and tells him that what's hers is his. After losing hope in finding a job he asks Bree to hire him but Katherine urges Bree to reject his offer, which she does. Orson feels rejected and moves out of the bedroom and it seems quite obvious that his marriage with Bree isn't as it used to be. After Orson doesn't show up for the lunchet where Bree is supposed to receive her award, she breaks down to Lynette and tells her the price of her newly-formed success. In the last scene, Orson finds a box with a hat inside which indicates that Bree has hired him and so he returns to the bedroom and promises not to leave her again.



Edie: Not much of her, she doesn't really interact with many of the housewives anyway. Dave screams at her when she keeps insisting about buying Mary Alice's house, then he quickly rushes upstairs and opens a suitcase full of pills and takes one. He also insists on Mike to join the band and even destroys one of his pipes to get Mike to his house. Eventually he apologizes to Edie and buys Mary Alice's house for her and offers it to Mike, which Mike accepts and now he has a very high chance of entering Tom & Dave's newly-formed garage band.



Overall, it was an enjoyable episode for sure but definitely not season one or season four quality mainly because the mystery isn't exactly clear about where it's heading and doesn't have many leads, also this episode wasn't exactly filled with classic DH moments which were very common in the fourth season. I did however absolutely love the music in this episode, especially the music played during the ending narration... it was absolutely beautiful!

The episode was not bad, but I would definitely not be trying to rewatch the episode. Bree and her relationship with the rest of the cast was explored in this episode and it seemed like of bland. The good part was a bit of insight into Dave. At least we know that he is obsessed over Mike right now. Also he has TOTAL ANGER problem. So is it possible he's somehow related to Mike? But how? Mike seem to have only a few people who hated him.



As for Bree and Katherine, I am just waiting for that to explode. I mean Katherine looks like a breath away from just breaking into a cat fight with Bree.



Lynette did get jealous and the climax of her getting drunk did provide for good amusement. Plus it was a very good portrayal of Lynette. The introduction of her assistant was VERY embarrassing. I had been hoping that he would offer her some freelance work, not the delivery of pizza of course.



Also why has Gabrielle become comic relief? She seems to have no character progress in these episodes. One minute she's trying to help her children become thinner and then the next there is no mention or even a clue into that. It just feels so crammed now. Maybe having this many leading ladies and focusing on all of their families is just not working out anymore for Desperate Housewives.

Good episode. I liked the whole beginning with how the friends are jealous of Bree's fame and perfect life. I don't like that Celia is barely seen. Orson has been pretending to go to work for the past three weeks. Maynard draws an unflattering picture of Mike and Susan (and Jackson), and Mike buys him a bike. Bree is named Business Woman of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce. Orson wants Bree to hire him. Bree with glasses was so different! Gabby and Carlos have blind sex, but Juanita sees them, and they don't notice! LMAO! "Sometimes I fake it when I wrestle with Daddy." Great episode, LMAO!