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Desperate Housewives

Season 6; Episode 14

“The Glamorous Life”

(Originally Aired: 1/31/10)

Lynette doesn’t like that Dr. Graham always sides with Tom. Tom convinces her to attend a play the doctor is in. She’s terrible, which Lynette tells her, but Tom lies and says she was “Great.” Tom admits he likes to be the good cop, forcing Lynette to always be the bad cop. Tom finally admits he hated the play too, and the therapist orders them both out.

Bree is puzzled by Orson’s new found happiness, until she finds his suicide letter! She vows to watch him 24 hours a day.

Angie and Gaby clash over Ana and Danny. Angie convinces Gaby that it’s time for a safe sex talk, but when Carlos sees Gaby’s bought condoms for Ana, he threatens to kill Danny. He tells her that if Ana gets pregnant, she’ll be the one taking care of the baby.

Gaby writes Ana an unsigned check, which she’ll sign if Ana graduates high school without having had sex. But as Ana sees it, her promise not to have sex doesn’t include Danny. Carlos catches Danny with Ana and threatens to kill him. Angie barges in and shouts, “You ever touch him again, you’re dead.” Carlos and Gaby come over the next night to apologize and overhear Nick telling Angie that soon the truth about them will come out. I think Gaby will be keeping a closer eye on the Bolens from here on out.

As Susan is signing her self out of ownership of  Double D’s she meets stripper Robin, who she tells that it’s never too late to change your life, so she quits! And shows up at her house the next day. Now Susan feels responsible for her, so she hires Robin as her assistant at school. One of the students’ fathers, who just so happens to be one of the schools’ biggest financial supporters, recognizes her and she’s fired on the spot. Susan talks Mike into letting Robin move in until she finds a job.

Orson dares Bree to say she loves him and she can’t do it. She forces him to attend an anniversary celebration for an elderly couple and leaves him by the pool. She sees him about to wheel himself in and she runs to stop him. He asks what he’s got to live for her, if she doesn’t love him anymore, and she says, “I loved you once. I can’t recapture that if you’re not here.”

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Original Air Date: January 17,  2010 (Season 6, Episode 13)

Lynette balks at the idea of seeing a couples’ therapist. Meanwhile, Katherine is seeing her own psychiatrist, Gaby and Susan are determined to find out which of if their kids are in the smartest group at school, and Angie disapproves of Danny’s new girlfriend, Ana!

Let me first start out by saying I used to love Bree and Orson together until the writers wrecked their storyline and made me hate Orson to the point I wanted him off the show.  Don’t get me wrong, I love Kyle MacLachlan, but Orson has been a pain in the behind and things are getting worse every week.

Tom and Lynette’s storyline this week was fun and touching at the same time. Tom told Lynette last week that they needed to talk about the loss of the baby and they desperately needed it even if Lynette denied it all the way to the shrink’s office. I could feel her pain as Lynette reluctantly started talking to the shrink (played by Frasier’s Jane Leeves). It will be interesting to see how the Scavos cope with the upcoming therapy sessions and how it’ll affect them as a couple.

I’d like to go on the record right now by saying I was not a bit surprised that Angie didn’t like Ana and was ready to do anything possible to break Danny and Ana up. What surprised me about this story line was when Lee put in his two cents about the situation, and Angie actually following his suggestion to give Ana a chance.

And how cute was it to see Gabby and Susan try to discover what the animal groups really meant but it got old soon. Once again, both characters needed to make fools of themselves in order to learn how to be moms.

And FINALLY, we get to see Katherine!! Since we last saw her about 3 episodes ago when she was sent to the looney bin, she has had weeks of one-on-one time with her shrink to analyze her actions and return to reality.  I thought she looked genuinely better, and I did not believe she was faking it to her shrink, do you?

McCluskey comes to the rescue again! This time, she helped Katherine realize that she could return to Wisteria Lane and even convinced Lynette, Gaby, Bree, and Susan to come see Katherine.  It’ll be interesting to see how everyone copes with her return, including Katherine herself. I truly believe that Katherine is one of the best characters on the show right now, and she has been pretty much one of the people that kept me watching the show.

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Desperate Housewives

Season 6; Episode 12

“You Gotta Get a Gimmick”

(Originally aired 1/10/10)

Family members gather to hear the details of Karl’s last will and testament. Much to her surprise, Susan receives ownership in a business. And what “very successful” business could Karl have been part owner of ? A strip club, of course! Susan meets the man who co-owned the place with Karl, when a stripper named Destiny introduces her self to Susan and mentions that she knows a Mike Delfino, and that he’s a regular customer. This is not going to go well for Mike.

Carlos and Gabrielle present Lynette and Tom with a new 60-inch TV. It’s the least they can do for saving their daughter from death. Tom offers to fill in for Lynette going to work for Carlos to take some of the workload off of him while Lynette is indisposed due to her pregnancy.  Of course Lynette hates the idea. Bree confesses to her reverand that she had an affair with dead Karl, and the guilt is killing her because she blames herself for Orson being paralyzed from the plane crash. The reverand urges Bree to take care of Orson — even if it’s the last thing she wants to do.Gabrielle, Juanita and Carlos meet with the principal of a private school for Juanita. This is where Juanita finds out she’s Mexican, even though she was born in America.  Bree meets wheelchair-bound Orson at the hospital and offers to bring him home. He would rather be taken care of by a “helper monkey”, but Bree insists.  Susan confronts Mike about the strip club, and he explains that the strip club is one of his accounts. She forbids him from going to the club. He doesn’t take it well.  Tom returns home from work and shows his wife a proposal he wrote. She volunteers to “fix it,” but it turns out that Tom doesn’t need the help. Carlos called the proposal “the best he had ever read”, which makes Lynette see red.

Bree discovers that Mrs. McCluskey has volunteered to take in Orson, claiming that “Once he gets the divorce settlement, he’s writing me a big, fat check!”  Bree forcibly wheels her not-yet-ex out of her home and into her own. And there’s nothing Orson can do about it. Or is there?? We’ll have to see how he plans his revenge.  Lynette goes to work to visit Carlos and make it clear that Tom is only a temporary fix and she is coming back to work after she has the baby. Carlos reassures Lynette that she can have her job back anytime she is ready. Turns out Tom told Carlos that Lynette was planning to be stay at home Mom to take care of the baby. This is not going to go well for Tom.

Ana wants to get closer to Danny, but “There’s not a lot of room to be into to you, because of how much you’re into you,” he explains.  Ouch.  Ana throws his overdose back in his face. At first he is furious at her, then suddenly interested in her.

Back at home, Gabrielle is preparing to celebrate the fact that Juanita got accepted into the private school.  Carlos has second thoughts and wants to send her to a public school with a large Latino population instead, forcing Gabrielle to face her Mexican Heritage.  At the strip club, Mike shows up to fix a bathroom under false pretenses. It was all a set-up by Susan who appears onstage as “Ms. Fix It” and begins dancing seductively on a pole.  Mike apologizes and swears to never come back to the club if Susan will stop gyrating, which he does, thank God!

Back at home, Orson has taken a new tactic with Bree: He is demanding EVERYTHING, including re-heated soup and dessert made from scratch. “I would get it myself, but …” he trails off as he gestures to his wheelchair.

So, what did you all think of the episode? I would love to hear from you!

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Desperate Housewives: Season 6; Episode 11

“If…” (originally aired 1/3/10)

In the hospital after the plane crash Carlos, Gaby, Lynette, Tom, Nick, Angie, Bob, and Susan are waiting for news on those hurt in the accident. Bree was banged up but will be okay. Karl, Mona, and Orson are all still in surgery. Celia has a concussion, but Carlos quickly points out that they have Lynette to thank for her still being alive.  Lynette suddenly experiences pain in her belly, and fears that there’s something wrong with the babies. As Lynette is taken to see a doctor, each housewife experiences a “what if” scenario:
Susan wonders what would have happened if she had stayed married to Karl. He promises to change and she promises to swallow her rage, so she gets fat. Mike arrives to fix the sink, and tells Susan if she’s unhappy she should do something about it. Fast forward three years later: she loses the weight but Karl leaves her anyway and Mike is married to someone else.  As Susan snaps out of it, the doctor tells her Karl is dead.

Bree is lying in a hospital bed, and dreams about what her life would’ve been like with Karl. He says being with her will make him into a changed man. But, of course, it doesn’t. He cheats on her and she kicks him to the curb. Seven years later, Orson dies of a heart attack and she’s called by his land lady to go clean out his apartment. It is full of pictures of Bree and the landlady says she thinks he died of a a broken heart. Bree awakes and the doctor says Orson’s out of danger, but there were complications and he may be paralyzed.

Angie and Nick wait to hear about Mona’s condition. She’s in a coma, but the nurse says she’s a fighter. Angie imagines Mona awakening and calling the police and pictures a future in which she gets life in prison without possibility of parole.  Back in reality at the hospital, Angie gets the word Mona is dead.

In Celia’s hospital room, Gaby says she thinks God saved Celia because she has a special gift. She’s not sure what yet, but knows it will be amazing. Gaby climbs in with Celia and falls asleep and dreams of what Celia’s amazing life will be. Gaby decides she’s meant to be an actress, even though she sucks at it. Carlos wants to send Celia to camp so she can have a normal life. Gaby won’t allow it, and Carlos leaves her. Many more years pass and a gray-haired Gaby, living in a dilapidated house is still pushing 25-year old Celia to be an actress. Gaby says she has to since she doesn’t want her life to have been for nothing. Gaby awakes a bit wiser knowing Celia doesn’t have to do anything amazing to be special, she just is.

A doctor looks over Lynette who has a tear in her placenta. One baby is fine but the other is at risk of being born developmentally challenged if they don’t operate. During surgery, Lynette imagines a life with a disabled child from the difficult physical therapy and lack of discernible progress, to watching him graduate from law school many years later and pay tribute to her for being where he is today. She awakens from surgery and Tom informs her they lost one of the babies. They were going to name him Patrick and he was going to be amazing!

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HOW DESPERATE CAN THE

HOUSEWIVES GET?

One of the hardest working actresses on television is moving to Wisteria Lane.

Drea De Matteo, the Emmy winning actress best known for her roles as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO series The Sopranos, as Joey Tribbiani’s sister Gina on the short-lived NBC series Joey, and most recently for her role as Wendy Case on the hit FX cable series Sons of Anarchy, has signed a lease and is moving to Wisteria Lane.Matteo will be portraying the head of a new Italian family, the Vitale’s who move to the block for the upcoming  sixth season of Desperate Housewives.  Also joining her will be landscaping architect husband Nick and neurotic son Dominic, whose roles have not yet been cast.

Not to poo-poo the idea before the season even airs, it already sounds like the Vitale Family is going to be similar to the Soprano Family?  Well, only time will tell, but I’ll be glad to see Drea De Matteo joining the cast.  She is one of my favorite television actress, and should be a great compliment to the rest of the ladies on the show, since the departure of Nicolette Sheridan’s character Edie Britt.  And she was one of my favorites on the show.

On a side note, Kathryn Joosten and Lily Tomlin are in talks to play Karen McCluskey and her sister, Roberta, in a possible Desperate Housewives spin-off.

I would definitely watch that show!

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After seeing  Sunday’s season 5 finale of Desperate Housewives, I would be lying if I said I was not worried about this show’s future.

Don’t get me wrong by any means.  I will be right in front of my television set for the Season 6 premier,  and even though I thought this season held its own compared to the previous four seasons, it still left somewhat of a bitter aftertaste in my mouth (not unlike drinking “TAB”) when it was all over.   I am glad to see the Dave Williams (David Dash, if you prefer) “seeking revenge for the death of his wife and daughter”  storyline come to an end.  Though I thought it to be anti-climatic, the  fact he is alive and back in a mental health facility where he belongs, leaves the door open to return in future episodes.  The appearance of Edie’s ghost appearing to Dave,  ball-busting him even from the grave, made me realize I already miss her.  Though the character was going nowhere, she still added a bit of spice to the show.   We have Tom going back to college to major in Mandarin Chinese so he’ll be more desirable when and if he goes back to work.   Lynette, going back to the doctor thinking her cancer is back, only to find out she is pregnant.  Again.  With Twins.  AGAIN!  “Are you sure it’s not cancer?” she asks the doctor.  Then there’s Bree, Orson and Carl.  Can you say “dysfunctional”?  Why did the show stop at killing off Edie?   Would anyone have missed Orson?  A Carl and Bree affair?  It could be interesting, except for Carl’s track record. We’ll see.  A family reunion/picnic with Carlos’ family winds up with Carlos and Gabby becoming foster parents to the granddaughter of Carlos’ dying Aunt Anna.  The same Aunt who took Carlos and his mother in when Carlos’ Dad ran off.  So, Carlos feels it would only be right, since he and Gabby have been so blessed (this season).  The granddaughter has the ability to wrap men, and as we saw, all three Scavo Boys, around her little finger.  We also learn the granddaughter has a “secret” which Aunt Anna says Carlos and Gabby will find out “soon enough”.   Has Gabby finally met her match? What ever happened to Karen and her sister Roberta (guest star Lily Tomlin, who, in my opinion, should have had more air time this season)? Did they help the idiot cops finally make their case concrete against Dave?

Finally, what can be said about Mike,  Katherine, Susan and Jackson?   Mike proposes to Katherine  after learning Jackson and Susan were getting married.  Mike was not in on Jackson and Susan’s reasons for getting married, but Katherine was.  We know Mike still loves Susan, and vice-versa.  And so does Katherine.  We know Mike leaves Katherine alone at the airport waiting for their flight to elope in Vegas when he sees Dave’s video.  We already know where Dave ends up.   Fast forward 2 months, in church. Who is  the mystery bride, face covered by a veil, that Mike is about to marry in a church  in the final scene?  Was it Katherine?  Was it Susan?  I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Jackson.  Or was it?  If  the mystery bride was Susan, where was MJ?  If it was Katherine, why was Carl at the church, and if  Mike and Katherine were eloping to Vegas, why get married in church? Why were Bob and Lee not there?  Where was Andrew and Justin?  Why was Mike unsure if he made the right choice, as Mary Alice said before the screen goes black?   Which “charatcters from seasons past”  (if any) will return to Wisteria Lane next season?  Will we find out season 5 was all a dream?

These and other questions will be answered on the thrilling season 6 premier.

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Michael Queenstown