Desperate Housewives

Another fine ep of season six - not sure why the ratings are so low as I am quite enjoying it. Bree: Once again, its nice to see Marcia Cross be naughty (Horny Karl was hilarious) but she also receives a wake up call from Angie about the affair.



Lynette: Her pregnancy is out and its only a matter of time before a full scale war erupts on The Lane



Gabby: some classic Eva Longoria moments - her trying to bribe the priest, her yelling at Carlos over the phone and her discovering Lynette is pregnant, which is going to cause some friction. Katherine: once again Dana Delany steals the spotlight as her breakdown continues. Her 'five times with Mike' and 'Guess I won after all' were extremely funny. Some great character development



Susan: Teri Hatcher gets to be sexy and it works. Her attempts to have her wicked way with Mike were so funny. But she needn't worry - Mike loves her. Lastly Angie is proving to be a great housewife I wish she would become the sixth lead as her tough as nails persona is excellent for the show. And there's another strangle-death. Just who is it?

Desperates are in form defienietly. What a great episode we were watched ... producers give us everything we can imaginate, a lot of comedy beetwen Susan and Katherine and of course Gaby Solis, some drama from Bolen`s life and beetwen Lynette & Carlos , action - Bree and Karl ...



That episode continue fighting susan and Katherine. On start Katherine got some won but her mistakes give Susan advantage so that fight end of collect the trash from lawn and Susan has Mike for herself.



Gaby is searchign new schole for daughter , she choose one - catholic school but put there child isn`t so easy . Gaby try a lot of stuff but Juanita is still without school. Carlos already know about Lynette pregnant and he offer her choice - new job in Miami or resignation...



When Orson going out for playing gold Bree invite Karl to her house ,unfotunately Orson got some injure and he back to home earlier than he talk. In the same time Bree was in bed with Karl, if Angie did not help Bree calling to her and talking about Orson`s back Bree will be expose and may be killed by Orson :-)



AT the end we find some new secrets from Bolen`s family ... - they were agents or something ??!! - I think now we are sure who strangle Julie Mayer but we also know Bolem family make anything for cover them secrets.... ANYTHING



I want more Desperate Housewives like that ....



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I love Drea de Matteo and I'd not like that her character was the murderer. But Angie is my principal suspicious. She can see in the coffee girl a new lover of her husband. In other order of things, the IMDB website told that, in this episode, Dominic Monaghan (Charlie for ever) was the guest star. Meanwhile, he didn't come. Anyone knows?



Finally, I think that Carlos can't fire Lynette!!! When he was blind, he was very cool; but now, he seems the cold person of the first and second seasons. In Spain, to fire someone when is pregnant is illegal. So shocks to me this kind of story.

The 6th season found Lynette pregnant (again - are you serious? Have those people never heard of condoms?), which is stupid enough, seems like a cheap way to get their side of the plot going. Even more stupid, she decides to hide the pregnancy from everyone (because every time you get pregnant, your belly is smaller and smaller and easier to conceal, I'm guessing?). I'm not sure what she was thinking of, and how on earth she would explain the state of her belly six month into the pregnancy, but I guess the cat's out of the bag now. Supposedly laughable moments (like the one in the restaurant, where she couldn't drink any of the wine, so Tom had to drink her share) caused by the situation are rather embarrassing than funny, not to mention she could have said he's taking allergy drugs, for example, which don't allow consumption of alcoholic beverages. Gabi, on the other hand, is back to her own self, selfish, slutty and high-maintenance, only without the wit and smarts of the old Gabi. Her character is absolutely depleted of anything likable; she blows the chances for her daughter's education because of her stupid pride, and fails at home-schooling her (no surprise there). Now remember Melrose Place, or Beverly Hills 90210 back in the old days (some of you probably won't), where when the makers ran out of ideas for the plot, she would have the characters sleep with everyone in the pack, literally mixing it up a little bit? It seems like it's happening in Wisteria Lane, too: Bree has taken a lover, and no ordinary lover, but Carl himself , Susan's first husband. Obviously keeping it a secret (not for long, I'm guessing), she 'must choose now'. I wouldn't have a problem with Bree finally finding her libido, but must it be Carl? Again, feels cheap to me.

Susan's Susan. And that's that. Six years of her immaturity and flakiness is too much for me; makes me want to change the channel everytime she's on.

Katherine, being the 5th housewife from now on, was supposed to get her old wit back: instead, she's gone totally crazy, and in a very annoying way.

And of course, with the new season, there's a new mystery, and it's the least intriguing of them all. Not really dark (apart from Angie's horrifying scars on her back) and not really that engaging, will probably turn out to be not that thought-out either. Desperate Housewives is (was?) one of the most interesting and smart titles on television, but as the years pass, the same old tricks lose their shine. The show's had some interesting moments (the episode 'Bang', later the tornado episode) with some interesting action taken by the producers in between of 4th and 5th seasons (the time gap), but now it's not even that apparent that the gap has been there. I'm guessing there will be a lot of fans who will disagree on this review, but to prove my point, watch the first season again, and then try to watch some new episodes/ You'll see the sad difference and the sadder truth.

A thoroughly hopeless episode that feels like it's been written on the back of one of the coasters that adorn the tables in the quaint ol' 'Coffee Cup.' Honestly, is anyone bothered about what happens in this show any more? Is there a single soul left who actually cares about which tired scraps of plot that it's going to pilfer this week? Who looks forward to seeing just how many of the episode's narratives that they can predict the outcome of after the first five minutes? Well, I guess the answer to that can be found in the ratings, which continue to impress so I guess someone out there's satisfied... but not this cantankerous old get, oh no. He's too bloody irritated by the idiocy that runs rampant throughout the script, that seems to suggest that the writers don't think that their viewers have a shred of intelligence between them. Just look at that teaser, for God's sake. Susan is sentenced by a judge with a warped sense of humour? Who seems to have something of a callous disregard for what makes the law what it is? Well, of course! It just wouldn't be crazy old Mrs. Delfino's life if she wasn't being hampered by absurd circumstance at every turn. But wait - there's more! Katherine gets to parade around the courtroom in the most ridiculous of outfits, firing accusations and generally acting the fool, as if she's in some black and white dramedy from the 40s, playing the duplicitous femme fatale and painting herself into a stereotype. No, this isn't going a tad overboard at all guys. Really.



Things get steadily worse as the narrative careers onwards. The pair end up doing community service together, picking up rubbish, which manages to be resolutely unfunny, before a connivingly plotted remark from Mayfair about her proactive sex life with Mike results in Susan completely abandoning every one of her senses and trying to lay the poor bugger at every possible moment, and probably every which way too. It's silly and it's completely predictable - it is absolutely guaranteed from the moment the craziness begins that Mike will utter a few calming 'I love yous', Susan will regret what she's done and they'll end the episode snuggled up together, watching The Bachelor. Which they do. Huzzah! Except really, really not. No huzzahs at all. Just yawns. Lots and lots of yawns. Yawns compounded by just about everything else in the episode; Gabrielle's woefully over-the-top attempts to get her daughter into Catholic school being the next best offender, closely followed by the complete gumf that goes on in the Scavo household as they hound that wonderful employee of Carlos's and dissuade him from moving to Florida. Honestly, if I was that guy, I'd be asking why the hosts were taking such a great interest in my movements... their behaviour absolutely screams 'ulterior motive' and would be called out almost instantly. As it is though, the couple are blissfully blind to all of this and coast along, lapping it all up, just so that the plot can move forward another few paces. Frankly, it's bloody ludicrous. Hell, even the arc plot's losing its grip... if it turns out to be Angie, to be that bleeding predictable, I might just pitch a fit. There are occasional flashes of improvement: the grossly underused Orson finally claws his head out of the sand and catches a clue, giving Kyle MacLachlan something interesting to do for once, and the moments with both Bree and Angie while he's listening to Madame Butterfly are genuinely touching. It's nice to see Bree acknowledge the depth of her conflict too; it seems that things aren't as simple as having fallen completely out of love with her husband. Lynette's impending conundrum regarding work is also a brave move, and her 'reveal' scene with Carlos is distinctly well written. Unfortunately, these are mere snippets and they aren't enough to paper over the deep, deep cracks made by the whole. The ship's sinking guys... somebody better think of something fast.

Okay, funny episode, from the first scene with the judge to the scene where Orson almost caught Bree having sex with Carl. However, as soon as the last scene ocurred, I just knew who was Julie's attacker. Aaaand, nope, it's not Dominic, it's Angie. It so housewife-y, it's insane. It made it look like he was the one who killed that girl, and that he looses his temper quickly when he threatened Lynette, and all the other stuff. This is 100% just a red herring, whilst the real attacker is Angie. She said she knew about the affair for weeks, and she saw the girl who was later killed brushing crumbs off Nick, and accused him of having an another affair. I'm really sure this is what will come out of the season. Or, maybe I'm wrong.

Another great episode with laughs and a good plot. There were also serious parts to this episode. The highlights of this episode for me was When Susan is picking up trash on the side of the road. Katherine comes by and gloats at Susan. I love Katherine's sweet and sour personality. Katherine also pulled off the orange jumpsuit better than Susan. Katherine dose have the advantage of having redish hair. I'm really liking Angie and I hope she becomes a regular to the neigborhood. Lynett's secret is out and Gaby one liner when she finds out was funny. "Your stomach kicked me".

Desperate Housewives is generating more laughs than all the NBC comedies put together. And to top that off, Cherry sure does know how put a sudden and unexpected end to comedy and throw in some drama. Susan still continues to be the funny one beating Gaby by quite a margin. Lynette and Gaby were funny till the point when the former's pregnancy secret was finally revealed. Angie figures out Bree's affair, and in one scene she saves her from the brink of disaster, when Orson almost catches Bree in bed with Karl. It's still a little dark. Though Angie might seem like the perfect friend for Bree, I am sure this should be a foil for some ulterior motive.



The darkness surrounding Nick Bolen's character is up another notch as witnessed in the last scene. The phone call to some cop and murder of the waitress, are hardly comprehensible. Looks like the mystery is finally building up.

I have thought about it and I think Orson is the strangler because both woman so far are red heads and Orson had a steeling problem last season and I think it has escalated to strangling because of his problems with Brie.

Poor Lynette! Carlos is being a huge jerk! What's the big deal, it's not like she is obligated to tell him anything about her life. Susan's story line was hilarious! I love that Katherine got community service too. LOL

Gabby needs to grow up!!!!!!!!!!! I got nothing else to say. I got nothing else to say. I got nothing else to say.

Everything about this episode was simply perfect, starting from Susan and Katherine's hilarious scene to the strangling of the waitress. Many scenes were simply histerical such as Gabrielle trying to bribe the priest as well as Lynette and Tom scaring the guy who got the promotion.. classic DH moments!



Other highlights include Bree and Angie's constantly-growing friendship, Nick's phone call which has finally moved the plot a tad more and of course the tension between Lynette and Carlos! It will surely be interesting to see what happens next with everyone.



I'm also happy with the ending narration, it was so much better than last week's.

What a shock, Dominic is the one doing the strangling. If you didn't see that coming, you must be as blind as Carlos was in Season 5.



The episode was still good though. Full of laughs, storyline development and some good all around scenes. Gaby continues to be one of the funniest women on TV right now, and Lynette's sarcastic dialogue is always a welcome addition to a boring Sunday evening.



The only thing I am not enjoying right now is this Susan/Katherine feud that seems to have run its course. Just have something major happen or end it because I think we've all grown tired of this.

This episode was amazing. Incredible mystery build-up and the ending brought value and amazing closure to the episode. The opening had a strong entrance and drama and humor cleverly combined together. I loved all of the storylines and was intrigued by each and every single scene. By far one of my favorite Desperate Housewives episodes, and despite that it was a late arrival to November sweeps, the next two will be stronger than ever. Season six is probably my favorite season now. The mystery is going all over the place and is quite unpredictable. All the wives are going against each other (kinda) and it's very interesting to see them neck-to-neck.