Desperate Housewives
Season 6
Episode 10
“Boom, Crunch!”
Disaster strikes the fair citizens of Fairview and particularly Wisteria Lane yet again. When will everyone finally realize this block is cursed and move!?
The hotly awaited and much talked about 10th episode of the 6th season, entitled, befittingly enough, “Boom, Crash!” When I was expecting more drama, which i was in no mood for, this was probably the wittiest “disaster” episode in the series history. Of course, there’s the mid-season cliff-hanger which every network seems to be high on nowadays, but the scenes leading up to the big plane crash scene were pretty great.
With the neighborhood setting up for their annual Christmas celebration, the episode goes back three days before the crash so everything can be set up for the impending tragedy. The married couple (the husband being portrayed by guest star Dan Castellaneta, otherwise known as the voice of Homer simpson) hired by Karl to fly their small plane over Wisteria Lane pulling a banner that reads, BREE, WILL YOU MARRY ME? LOVE KARL, was classic! While the couple bickers, the husband has a fatal heart attack and the wife is left to land the plane safely. Preferably NOT on a residential street. Of course we know that won’t happen.
Susan has finally gone completely nuts after losing Mike, to the point of stabbing herself and then pinning the blame on him. Susan calls Katherine’s daughter Dylan (away since season 4) under false pretenses only to have Dylan tell Susan that her mother has been filling her head with stories of how Susan was trying to steal Mike away from her until Susan shows her pictures from the wedding. A confused Dylan then confronts her mother in the hospital, where she tries to say that Susan stabbed her and she never pointed the finger at Mike. When confronted with the truth, Katherine has what was probably her final meltdown.
The feud between Gabby and Lynette shows no signs of letting up, forcing Tom to drop out of college (when will this guy get a break already?) and Lynette to try and apologize to Gabby, but to no avail. Bree presents Orson with divorce papers, and he finally finds out that Bree is indeed having an affair. A fight ensues in Santa’s Workshop. Bree tries to break up the scuffle to no avail and that’s the last we see of them before the plane destroys Santa’s Workshop with, assuming, all three left inside.
The Bolens on the other hand, have even bigger problems now that nurse Mona knows the truth about everything after Danny unwittingly told her. Mona tries to extort a huge sum of money from them or go to the police with what she knows. But, since at that moment the small plane crash lands and nurse Mona is presumed to be the first one to be offed. We see everyone scatter as the plane slides down the lane, Lynette grabs a petrified Celia and pulls her out of the plane’s path (which should, by right, end her and Gabbys feud), but as I said, the plane took out most of Santa’s Workshop where Bree, Karl and Orson were last seen alive, we’re left with the realization from Mary Alice in the end, that one of them will have seen their last Christmas.
I have tried to avoid all the gossip about who dies and who lives, and I’ve read it all. The reports are that 3 will parish. I prefer to wait it out until the season continues in January. How bout you? Any predictions? Comments?
Until Next Time!
Happy Holidays to All!
Michael “the red-nosed reindeer” Queenstown
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