Desperate Housewives

Season 6; Episode 6

“Don’t Walk On The Grass”

(Originally Aired 11.01.09)

Where do I begin with this week’s episode of Desperate Housewives?

Bree is still cheating on Orson, Katherine is still thinks she has a chance with Mike, Juanita accidentally blurts out a four-letter word in her school’s recital and Gaby’s bad parenting has her home-schooling her. Tom is failing in college and has two of his classmates help him cheat on finals and Angie is being, well, Angie.  Read on…

During Juanita’s Thanksgiving pageant, she repeatedly blows her line and drops an F-bomb, causing the Principal to have a sit-down with Gabby and Carlos, and when Gabby thinks Juanita’s punishment is too severe, pulls her child out of the school, but since there are no private schools available to enroll Juanita in, Carlos insists that Gabby home-school the child, since it was obviously her fault that Juanita learned the naughty word. And, of course, nothing goes right. Juanita misses going to school and refuses to cooperate with her Mom.

Meanwhile, Tom is flunking out of college, so he enlists the help of a couple of school buddies to get answers for a final exam, which of course, does not sit well with Lynette. Tom counter-attacks her with the fact that she is hiding her pregnancy from her friends and her boss at work (Carlos), for fear that she could get fired.  Not a good season for the Scavo’s so far. When will Tom’s mid-life crisis end?

Katherine tries to patch things up with Susan, on the advice of Angie, but of course things turn ugly when Katherine calls Mike for a late-night plumbing emergency (which of course there was none) not expecting Susan to tag along. Susan wanders into Katherine’s bedroom after the way she was dressed when she answered the door and finds Katherine’s bedroom prepared for a seductive evening and the bathtub filled with bubblebath, which of course Susan and Katherine end up fighting in. That scene reminded me of a classic fight between Alexis and Crystal on Dynasty.

Bree does Not want to fall in love with Karl, but she is starting to develop actual “feelings” for him. Then, he gives her the brooch that Susan recognizes as her grandmother’s that she thought she lost when she divorced Karl only to find Bree in possession of. I thought the whole jig was going to be up right there, but Bree covered up by saying she found it at an antique store. Whoever found it must have sold it to the antique store she bought it from. Nice move. I don’t see how long Bree and Karl are going to be able to keep the charade much longer, and after Orson visits the same antique store, only to have the owner tell him they only sell furniture, he may end up figuring it out. Karl proposes to Bree, telling her he wants to be a changed man and Bree marrying him will be the best way to do it. Bree tells him she needs to see Karl change before she will even consider it.

And of course, there’s Angie. This storyline is becoming my favorite so far of the season. Angie tells Katherine her mother died and then walks in on her talking to her mother on the phone later. Thinking quickly, Angie tells her it was her mother-in-law. But, what was more interesting was the fact that Angie tells her mother it’s too risky for her to visit yet, so I am guessing that Angie and her family might be in a witness protection program, but obviously in hiding.  I am very excited to see how this is going to pan out.

So, what did you think of this episode? Who do you think Bree will/should choose? How messy are things going to get between Katherine, Susan and Mike? Will Tom ever grow up? Will he drop out of college? Is Gabby really a good mom? And what the hell is up with Angie?

Confused? Yeah, me too!

Guess we’ll just have to keep watching!

Until Next Time!

Happy Viewing

Michael Queenstown

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“Desperate Housewives”

Season 6; Episode 5

“Everybody Ought to Have a Maid”

Originally Aired: Oct. 25, 2009

In this week’s episode, Gabby’s skills as a mother are seriously doubted when Juanita and a friend get hurt playing together. Julie comes home from the hospital and informs Nick (Dominick) that their affair is over.  Since Bree has fired Katherine, the rest of the gals agree Katherine needs help before they have another Mary Alice on their hands. Mike tells Susan about Katherine hitting on him, but not to worry about it. Nick and Danny discuss the affair with Julie and threatens to tell Angie if it persists.

Mrs. McCluskey asks Lynette if she and Tom can hire Roy as a handyman so he can have some walking around money, and therefore, improve her sex life, which Lynette was none too pleased to know about. She agrees anyway.

The maid at Bree and Karl’s coital motel, is none too pleased when she finds out that Bree is cheating on her husband. Which leads to a heartwarming confrontation between the two women, but resulting in Bree continuing the affair, convinced that she doesn’t deserve the love that Orson still has for her.

Everyone’s canceling on Juanita’s birthday because one of the mother’s on the block is spreading the rumor that kids aren’t safe at Gaby’s house. Gaby asks Carlos for cash to solve the problem. He wonders if it wouldn’t be easier to just watch the kids while the play. Yeah, right. Like a normal mom? Gabby goes all out for Juanita’s Birthday with bouncy houses, a clown and a live chimp, which makes the other girls in the neighborhood demand their mothers allow them to attend Juanita’s party after all. The other moms reluctantly give in and it seems that Gabby has the upper hand until the chimp goes berserk and tries to kill the clown, reaffirming what the other mother’s suspected all along about Gabby’s effectiveness as a Mother, until Carlos reminds her that the girls have turned out quite well and were able to protect themselves from the psycho chimp, even with Gabby’s lack of responsibility.

Roy and Lynette argue over where to put a birdhouse. Tom wanted to put it in one part of the yard, Lynette another. Roy calls Tom the man of the house and, unlike Lynette, wants to treat the guy with a little respect. They fight, she fires him and in the process destroys the birdhouse. Tom smoothes everything over with Roy, by telling him why Lynette’s a control freak: an absent dad, a drunkard mom, and he lets her control him because it makes her feel safe and that’s his job as her husband. One of the finest written and acted scenes this season so far! And Lynette and Roy patch things up.

Danny Gives Julie a gun for protection, which ends up being used by Susan on someone outside their home. Katherine ends up getting grazed by the gun, not being seriously hurt, yet the Bolens end up having to cover the mess up. Katherine wants to call the police on Susan but Angie talks her out of it.

What’s in store for the ladies in the next episode?

Keep it here to find out!

Until Next Time,

Michael Queenstown

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