Desperate Housewives

I’m sorry it’s been so long since we’ve had a post!  But it’s also been a long time since there’s been a new episode to talk about.  Darn that writer’s strike anyhow!  (not that I can blame that, it was really the American Music Awards’ fault)  Anyhow, to see what I thought about the last episode, check this post here.

Gaby is at church and trying not to think too hard about Victor being missing.  She’s meeting Carlos who is feeling extra guilty and wants to go to the police.  She thinks they should play dumb and ride it out.  She is sure that Victor would have killed them had he lived.  And we see Victor washed up on shore.  Is he dead?  As for Mike, he’s still on the pills.  And he’s got a dealer.   But he has no money for more pills.  Meanwhile, Susan obsesses over Julie’s dating life.  Over at Bree’s house, Orson wants to put the baby in the crib but she wants him in the bed with her.  There is an ensuing argument with the same issues brought up on both sides that you’d expect.  Lynette is looking for her mother, calling around bars hoping to find her.  She’s feeling guilty for what her mother may have heard her say about her.  Gaby is packing a suitcase when the police come calling.  Victor is apparently, *gasp*, missing.  The coast guard found his empty boat in the bay and his office said he hasn’t been in in several days.  She hopes the cops will assume Victor went out to sea and did something foolish after finding out she was leaving him.  They don’t, since the boat was found with nary a fingerprint on it, even Victor’s.  D’oh!  Didn’t think that one through, did they?  So foul play is especially suspected.

Susan is upset to see Julie is out on a date again when Mike’s dealer comes knocking on the door.  She hears the dealer is pre-med and hopes that maybe she can hook him up with Julie.  Oy.  Orson is annoyed at the lack of sleep he’s getting because of sharing the bed with Ben.  Bree is determined to learn from her mistakes with her own children and refuses to budge.  He thinks maybe he should sleep in the den.  Susan continues to try to match-make.  She shows the dealer pictures of Julie, hoping to impress him.  He’s impressed.  He leaves shortly after (has to go make a deal) and Susan is all but gushing over him.   Bree asks Tom if they did the “family bed” in their house and wonders if it caused issues between them.  Tom freely opens up with the methods he and Lynette had “special time”  together.  Meanwhile, Andrew lurks in the background and perhaps feels a little bad that his mother has so easily cast him aside.

Mike replaces a gasket for Adam and Katherine when someone named Sylvia shows up on Adam’s doorstep.  He’s upset to see her, doesn’t want her in the house.  She apparently ruined his life.  He finally gets her to leave, but not before Mike sees her.  Adam asks Mike not to tell Katherine about Sylvia’s appearance.  Mike has a favor too.  He wonders if Adam could write a prescription for pain pills for him.  Adam is reluctant, since him being a gyno and writing a script for a guy would be suspicious.  Bree shows up at Orson’s office and she’s got sex on the brain.  It’s pretty funny.  Lynette gets home and her step-father is there.  Glenn is his name.   She’s so happy to see him.  He’s there because Lynette’s mother called him asking for money and he was going to deliver it to her at Fairview Park.  Did Lynette want to go with?  Of course!  Adam stops by to visit Orson (and runs into Bree who is leaving).  He wants Orson to write this prescription for Mike.  It is implied that if he does, Orson will keep Bree’s baby secret.  Back at home, Andrew is leaving.  He’s moving into an apartment in a crappy neighborhood.  To give Bree room from her “past mistakes”.  She’s stunned that he got so upset over everything.

Orson delivers the script to Mike, along with a warning that he should be seeing a physical therapist.  Mike would like to, but he’s got be working around the clock to live up to Susan’s shopping habits.  Mike makes mention of whomever it was that ran him down that one time and since it was Orson and he doesn’t want that to exactly get out, he hands over the script.   Susan tells Mike about the dealer showing up and misses her comment about this guy being perfect for Julie.  He calls Barrett up on the phone and warns him to stay away from the house.  Edie reads about the missing mayor in the paper and makes a phone call to the police.  She wants to leave an anonymous tip.  Carlos is freaked out about the whole fingerprints thing and really wants to go to the cops.  He’s going to go and fess up and urges Gaby to go with him.  She wants a drink first, to calm her nerves.  And his, to which she adds some sleeping pills.  Oh dear.  This girl deserves to go to jail.  Barrett is visiting with Julie and they’re getting along great.  Of course, then Mike comes home and finds this guy is there and sorta freaks out.  Mike does not want Julie leaving the house with this guy and Barrett threatens to let Mike’s secret out.  So what does Mike do?  He outs Barrett as a drug dealer in front of Susan as the guy who sold Mike the pills she found.  Susan kicks him out and that is a problem solved.  Sorta.  Except now Susan is turning eyes on Mike once again.  Carlos is feeling tired and just about then, the police show up at her door.  Convenient!  They ask her about having an affair with Carlos.  And they tell her that Edie is the one who called him (so much for anonymous!).  They get a call, they found Victor and he’s alive!  Unconscious but stable and in the hospital!  Yay!  Except, not.

Lynette and her step-father show up at the park to meet her mom.  He tells her it was more complicated, the circumstances around his departure when she was a kid.  Susan explains the whole Barrett thing to Julie.  She’s a little less sure than Susan is that Mike is off the pills.  She saw him pick up a prescription at the drugstore just that morning.  Stella and Glenn meet up and he hands her the money he asked for.  That’s when she spots Lynette in the car and takes off.  Lynette tell sher she wants her to come home with her.  Lynette brings up the cheating thing again and Stella asks her to drop it.  Glenn implores Stella to tell Lynette the whole story.   He tells her he left because he’s gay, not because she cheated.  Which may change things.  Bree drops by to visit Andrew and to ask him to come home or at least let her help him out.  He tells her he’s mad because he changed, turned things around, and she never noticed.  Or said anything.  She doesn’t want them to part on bad terms again.  Then he thanks her for leaving him on the side of the road, because it made him become a better person.  Aww!  Glenn continues telling the story to Lynette and she seems shook by it.  She asks Stella why she never told her.  She says she wasn’t proud to admit it.  She was ashamed.  Lynette wishes she’d told her.  It would have changed things.  She wants Stella to come home with her, the last few months had been great.  Stella doesn’t want to, if she did, she’d screw it up.  She wants to keep things good between them.  That’s when Glenn offers up his guest room to Stella and there’s a good solution for everyone.

Mike continues to hide his pill-popping from Susan, who watches him through a window.  Gaby visits Victor in the hospital with a police escort.  She’s nervous about what he’ll say in front of the cops.  Who, for their part, want to ask some questions.  Apparently, Victor doesn’t remember the boat.  Yay for memory loss!  Which, you know, won’t last.  Once the cops clear out, Victor tells her he remembers everything about the accident.  He threatens that he’ll need all his strength here pretty soon.  She leaves the hospital looking a lot more concerned.  As she should.  Susan learns, regretfully, that Orson prescribed the pills.  Oops!

Again, sorry for the lack of story in the last week.  It doesn’t look to be any better this week, what with the illness that has befallen this house and the fact that there is no new episode to talk about!  Yep, the American Music Awards preempted last night’s episode so we’ll get to see it next week instead.  Good news is:  It’s the tornado episode so it’ll be well worth waiting for.

In the meantime, what’s been happening in the world of “Desperate Housewives” that I’ve neglected to share with you?  Plenty!

Rumors are rampant that Nicolette Sheridan is pregnant.  This is because apparently she asked Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman some questions about how they were affected by their pregnancies.  Oh, and she’s “glowing”.  Shoot, I’m pregnant and I can tell that isn’t a glow.  It’s acne.  But whatever.

Speaking of babies, Eva wants to have children and plans to leave Hollywood when the time comes to put children into the picture.  She dreams of being home in Texas and taking care of her family.  Some of the rumors would love you to believe that she hopes to quit within the year, but I doubt that’s the case.  I think she’ll stick it out a while longer.

Contrary to this news, there are reports that Eva wants to open a restaurant in Hollywood serving Mexican-American food.  That would give her yet another tie to the West Coast which seems to go against all reports  of her wanting to settle down in Texas but I take it at face value.

Eva has rounded up the rest of her co-stars to attend the Spice Girl’s reunion concert in Los Angeles on December 5.   She and Teri Hatcher, Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross will all be in attendance.  This is no surprise for Eva, as she has become close friends with Victoria Beckham, and it’s nice that she was able to get her castmates to join her for a night out.  Should be a good show, if Mel B’s dancing is any judge!

If you want to know what I thought of last week’s action-packed episode, read this post.

Victor is still pondering the news that Edie revealed to him. He’s waiting for her, in the dark, when she gets home from a shopping trip. And, she answers a call from Carlos on her cellphone. He’s trying to talk her out of going back to Victor when she spots Victor standing in the hall so she breaks off the call quickly. He’s taking a month off, wants to take her on a honeymoon at last. She leaves the room for a moment, and he checks her cell phone and finds out that she was talking to Carlos. He wants to have a weekend on the boat, just the two of them. And apparently, he wants revenge. Dun, dun, DUN!

Bree introduces the baby to the neighbors, saying she’d had him in the middle of the night. And apparently, he’s a cryer. Lynette also divulges her excellent news regarding being clear of cancer! And then, we find out Lynette’s mom is shaking up with a boyfriend, right there in Lynette’s home! His name is Stan and everyone is kind of startled. Mike isn’t feeling very well, says he’s tired and doesn’t want to go visit Bree and the new baby. He takes another pill. And seems surlier than usual. Danielle, apparently has already left for school. Bree freaks out Mike about the costs and implications of preschool. This somehow devolves into an argument about circumcision between Orson and Bree. He’s against it and she’s for it. He apparently remembers his. His mom had it done when Orson was 5 years old. Yow. Mike takes another pill at Bree’s house and she spots him at it. He says it was asprin. From pain. You remember that accident two years ago? That one. She spots a leftover pill and it looks like anything but asprin. Victor and Gaby show up at the boat and she’s upset that there’s no crew to wait on them. He promises it will not be a boring trip. Gulp.

Lynette wants to talk her mom about Stan (she doesn’t even remember his name). She tries to convince her mother to leave and after she doesn’t get the hints, lays it out on the line. She thinks its about Stan but it’s everything (including teaching the kids how to make whiskey sours). She at least needs her own place, but she has no money. She gave the last of her money to Lynette after her sister kicked her out. Julie comes to Susan for help, wanting to know more about Dylan’s dad. So Susan stupidly tells Julie about what Katherine said about Dylan’s dad being abusive. And, as luck would have it, Dylan was in the next room and overheard. Bree figures out what kind of pill it was that Mike was taking and calls Susan. She wants to “talk”. Later, Mike comes home and Susan looks tense. She tells Mike about Bree’s suspicions (now hers!). It’s apparently a narcotic that is highly addictive. He denies being addicted to them and Susan buys it. She’s totally relieved. Bree is at the hospital and wants to know about getting her “son” circumsized. The doctor, however, has a note from Orson saying he doesn’t want the baby to get snipped. She’s pissed, of course. She confronts him about it and tries to reason with him. She thinks untrimmed penises are unsightly. Of course she does! Katherine comes home to see Dylan doing her “genealogy project”. Katherine doesn’t want her doing that project. They get into a little bit of a scuffle. Dylan tells Katherine what she learned and Katherine lays down the law. Dylan isn’t scared this time though. She says her mom can’t stop her this time. Looks like all that bullying has finally backfired against her.

Susan explains Mike’s explanation to Bree. Bree, of course isn’t buying it. Because she’s a recovering alcoholic and she’s knows all about addiction. She advises Susan to trust but verify. So Susan goes home and starts searching through all of Mike’s stuff, looking for pills. She has no luck until she looks inside a flashlight to find a baggie of pills. She’s devastated, of course. Lynette and her mom meet with Lynette’s sister. Of course, Lynette wants to pawn mom off on her sister. And she’s wise to the plot and won’t have it. She refuses to take mom back, and has notes prepared for her speech. Apparently, her mom put her into therapy. So Lynette realizes this isn’t working and opens up her sister’s trunk using her keyfob She runs out and puts her mom’s luggage into her sister’s car all quick-like. Then she takes off, while Lynette’s mom and sister bicker inside the diner. Hee! Carlos stops by Edie’s place where she gives him back a painting of his, that she cut a hole out of. She assures him that Victor is angrier than she is. She tells Carlos all about the pictures and how mad Victor was. So now he’s worried. He calls Gaby on her cell. He warns Gaby about Victor knowing, or tries to because she’s not buying it. Until she puts two and two together and realizes that maybe this lonely boat trip has another purpose. Victor comes in and confiscates the cell phone, at least until they get home. She’s worried, big time. So Victor spills that he knows about everything. She tries to explain herself (while keeping her distance). He’s pretty mad. He’s about to show her something when she knocks him overboard with an oar and powers the boat back to shore. Doh!

Dylan has another conversation with her mom. This time, Katherine has information about Dylan’s dad all written down for her. Before she hands it over though, she has to promise her that she will not bring him there or tell him where Katherine is. Apparently, he slapped Katherine around quite a bit. There was that bad night, that she doesn’t remember entirely. Sounds as if he tried to kill her so she took off with Dylan. Dylan feels bad, and has second thoughts on learning more about her dad. Katherine breathes a sigh of relief and we see the paper is blank. Was she lying again? Here comes Lynette’s sister with the luggage and the mother. They’re dumping her off with Lynette again. Her other sister is there, helping the younger sister out. The three disappear inside to discuss their mother’s fate. Bree sneaks out of the house with the baby while Orson is napping, on her way to a friend’s Bris. She comes up to the guy (forget what they’re called), wanting him to “do” her son while he’s at it. Of course, he’s suspicious but Bree talks her magic with him. She promises the baby will be as devout a Jew as she is.

Bree returns home with the baby and tells Orson she got the baby circumsized. He’s pissed (she’s surprised?). She thinks because her blood is in teh baby’s veins and not his, it was her decision. He’s insulted, as he should be. He sees himself as Benjamin’s father. She needs to remind herself that love makes them a family, not blood. She makes it up to him by referring to Ben as Orson’s son. Then she tells him Ben’s Hebrew name. Hee! Carlos meets Gaby at the harbor and she tells him that Victor is in the ocean. She was sure Victor had a gun, so Carlos wants to make sure they still have it before calling the police. And.. it’s not a gun. It’s a sweater. Exactly what Gaby asked for when she said she was cold. Carlos is going to call the Coast Guard anyhow. Meanwhile, mom listens in on Lynette and her sisters argue about who has to have her. Awkward. They all have their reasons for not wanting to have her in their homes. And none of them, save Lynette, feels bad for abandoning her. Lynette is saddened to learn this because she does. They offer to send Lynette money each month to care for their mother. She refuses the money and accepts her duty. She’s pretty mad at her sisters. Of course, by this point, mom takes off in a cab. Carlos and Gaby take the yacht back out and find Victor. Carlos drags him aboard and Victor is stunned that Gaby tried to kill him. He’s mad that Carlos is on the boat too. A fight breaks out and Victor goes for a knife. So what does Gaby do? She oars him again. Carlos wants to pull him back in again, except this time he’s not surfacing.

It’s nighttime now. Gaby and Carlos are sitting on the dock looking thunderstruck. They looked for six hours, he’s gone. It was self defense, right? They can’t prove that. Gaby immediately starts thinking they can cover this up. Because no one knew she was going out on the boat. So maybe he went by himself. They’ll need to cut the boat adrift. Susan confronts Mike with the pills. He wants to explain. She’s hurt and insulted. He didn’t want Susan to feel guilty. His doctor told him he should take a break from work after he wrenched his shoulder on the job. But he hasn’t because the baby = money so he’s kept working. He wants his child to have more than he had. She wants their child to have a healthy father. She wants to trust him. He dumps the pills down the garbage disposal. They hug and all seems well again. Until we see that Mike has some pills stashed in a pipe. Or we think he does. The show ends right there. Next week? TORNADO! Sweet!

I know I haven’t posted since earlier in the week and I’m sorry.  As most of you may already know, Hollywood is currently being KO’d by a writer’s strike and “Desperate Housewives” is certainly not immune from the effects.  I’m definitely upset to hear this, as I am to hear about the fate of my other favorite shows, but I do understand what the writers’ beef is and hope they prevail.  I just hope they prevail sooner rather than later.

Production on new episodes supposedly halted on Wednesday because of the strike and is one of the first shows to fall victim to the strike.  Writers picketed the show as it was being filmed on location in Toluca Lake, CA on Tuesday.  Eva reportedly emerged with pizza for the strikers and offering her own support.  “Desperate Housewives” halting production is little surprise since executive producer and creator Marc Cherry has been on of the Writers Guild of America’s lead negotiators during the dispute.

All predictions state that this strike could last for months, well into 2008.  If this is the case, we’ll definitely see a drawback in our television programing (and perhaps more reality television shows).  I hope that things can be settled quickly and easily but it’s just not looking that way.  It’s such a shame when there is a dispute like this and the big companies get greedy.

I’m not sure when we’ll start going back into reruns and when we’ll stop seeing the new episodes.  I hope at least we have enough new episodes finished that we are set through the winter hiatus, but I honestly have no idea.  So I’ll keep you all up to date on this as I come across new information.  In the meantime, enjoy the new episode airing on Sunday night (I’ll be recapping as usual!) and appreciate it while we’ve got it!

To see what happened on last week’s show, check my recap.   In the meantime, I’m sorry I wasn’t around much this week, it was a very stressful time in the house here and I had a lot going on, not to mention a sick baby.  Oy!  But tonight, I’m here and ready to recap!

We see Edie as a little girl, and how the little boys in her neighborhood used to make her scream on purpose.  As an adult, Edie isn’t as scared anymore.  Just about one thing, her lover leaving her.  And we see Edie catching Carlos trying to leave on the fly.  Because he knows she’ll throw a fit.  She won’t spill his secrets, as long he tells her the truth of why he’s leaving.  Is there someone else?  He says, “nope” and so now she feels free to turn him in.   That’s the way to win him back!

It’s Halloween time on Wisteria Lane (wasn’t that last week?).   Bob and Lee are going around the neighborhood to invite everyone to their Halloween party and they start with Bree since they figure she’ll be most understanding, having a gay son and all.  They spot Danielle peeking out an upstairs window and mention bringing her.  Wanting to keep the charade that Danielle is at boarding school, Bree says that’s her son, playing a bit of dress up.  Bree gets on Danielle for looking out the window and Danielle says she’s bored.  She wants to go but Bree won’t have it.  We see Gaby, bags packed and ready, leaving a voicemail for Victor telling him she’s leaving him.  I think it’s funny how she expects that to be the end of that.  Susan is concerned that her doctor wants her to get genetic counseling.  You know, cuz she’s older now.  And in the midst of this, Susan finds out that Mike’s dad isn’t as dead as she previously thought.  He forgot he told her that he was dead when they first met.  Of course, this is a big deal to Susan.   Lynette is home from her pet-scan and she notices a hole in her garden.  And her mom mentions offhandedly that she might have seen a possum around.  Lynette freaks out about it, more than she should.  We see Mike pop a couple pills and stuff the bottle in his glove compartment.  He sneaks in, thinking Susan is asleep.  But she’s not.  She wants to hear more about his dad of his.  He tells her his dad is in prison for murder.  And makes Susan feel like an idiot for pestering about it too (not hard to do).  He’s doing life without parole and he visits a couple times a year but doesn’t have much of a relationship.  Susan, of course, wants to meet him.  He doesn’t think it’s a good idea, but she insists.

More obsessive behavior from Lynette about the possum and her ruined garden.  She has plans of killing the possum and her son (the older one, what’s his name again?) balks at that.  Bree wants to send her daughter back to the convent again.  And she almost doesn’t care.  She’s just tired of being pregnant.   Bree tells her it might be harder than she imagines to give up the baby.  Danielle doubts it.  Gaby is confronted at home by Milton, Victor’s father.  He heard her message (first) and urges her not to leave him.  Victor hasn’t heard the message yet.   A divorce would be damaging to Victor’s campaign for governor and he attempts to bribe her with a huge check.  If she wants the money, she needs to stay married for 13 months, until after the election.  He wants his son to go straight to the top.  Edie is disappointed to see that the IRS can’t find anything amiss with Carlos’ offshore account.  He moved the money, of course.  Which causes Edit to shower him with insults.  She promises him that it isn’t over.  She’s not done with him.  He says it is over, and that he won.

Bree is trimming her hedges and is confronted by Lynette who needs gardening advice.   She wants to borrow a gun so she can shoot the possum.  But Bree tells her it’s against the law but suggests an air rifle.  It’ll stun him but good.  I think Lynette is trying to avoid thinking about the pet-scan.  Gaby wants to extend the separation between her and Carlos to thirteen months so they can have the money.  Carlos mentions this makes Gaby a prostitute and he’s not at all for it.  She insists that they need the money.  He doesn’t think they do need the money, because he has some stashed away.  A whole $10 million dollars.  Gaby is thrilled to hear this.  But then, she realizes he had this money when they were married and she should have gotten half of this money when they divorced.  How can she trust him?  And if she can’t trust him, she can’t be with him.  She kicks him out.  She’s just bipolar now, isn’t she? Susan and Mike are visiting Mike’s dad and things are a touch awkward.  She asks him some questions from the genetic counselor.  She also wants to know who he killed.  He killed his boss.  Apparently this guy weaseled him out of a job and after a while Mike’s dad got annoyed with him.  So he killed him.  So maybe there’s some mental illness on Mike’s side.

The party is a big one, everyone is all decked out and so is the house.  Adam and Katherine show up Frankenstein and Marie Antoinette.  Bree is Little Bo Peep and her son is Cher, Julie is a faerie and Orson is a goofy Prince Valient looking sort.  Then Danielle shows up and she’s dressed up JUST like Bree.  Ingenious.   Bree isn’t impressed by the impersonation.  Mrs. McCluskey is a witch, predictably.  Susan is upset because Mike’s dad shows no remorse.  Mike seems weary of the topic.  She won’t let it go, because that’s what Susan does.  She thinks he’s evil.  Mike says he’s a good guy who did an evil thing.  She thinks if he was a good guy, he would feel bad about what he did.  Lynette isn’t dressed up, but is laying in wait for the possum.  She’s got her air rifle and she’s single-minded.  Tom urges her to go inside and lie down (he’s dressed up as an old west sheriff).  She’s irrationally upset about the possum.  She will not let it defeat her.  It’s pretty sad and pathetic, actually.  He’s worried for her, as he should be.  Bree wants Danielle to go home and right then, her water breaks.  Bree tries to cover it up but Danielle is in instant labor.  They rush home (where Bree will not allow Danielle on the reupholstered couch).  Oh, and Orson is plastered.  So she rushes off to fetch Adam and swears him to secrecy.  Funny enough, he knew she was faking her pregnancy.  So right there in the kitchen, Adam delivers Danielle’s baby.  It’s a boy!

Danielle is recovering from her delivery and looking tired and quiet.  Bree is holding the baby.  Danielle asks if the baby is okay, he is perfect.   She doesn’t want to hold him, though.  She looks sad though and reconsiders.  How can you not love a baby?  She marvels over him.  Bree looks nervous but motherly.  She asks Danielle what she wants her to do.  She asks her mother to take him.  She asks if she’s sure.  She doesn’t want her to make a mistake.  No, it’s the right thing to do.  It’s as if she’s giving him up because she loves him, not because she doesn’t.  Very mature of her.  Bree obviously feels bad for her daughter.  Danielle fights back the tears.  Very sad stuff.  Gaby leaves a message for Susan, letting her know to tell the other women that she’s going away for a while.  To think and do some things.  She leaves for the airport right away and in her limo is Victor.  She tells him she’s leaving him and he wants to know what he needs to do to fix it.  He offers not to run for governor in order to make her happy. It’s his father’s dream, but she’s his dream.  Gaby looks torn.  Susan returns to visit Mike’s dad, alone.  She doesn’t believe that he doesn’t feel bad about killing that man.  She cares because her baby carries this man’s genes and she doesn’t want her baby born without a conscience.  He explains to her that if he concentrated on what he did to that man, he’d go crazy.  He does regret what he did to his son.  It ruined his life and he’s worried that it will affect him the rest of his life.  He warns Susan to keep an eye on Mike.  She doesn’t look very comforted.

Victor is visited by Edie who shares the photos of Gaby and Carlos that her private investigator took.   Edie, interestingly enough, pushes most of the blame for the affair on Carlos for seducing Gaby.  Lynette is napping on the couch when her doctor shows up at the house.  Lynette is up off the couch in a flash.  He’s happy to tell her that she’s clear of cancer.  Lynette looks stunned.  And then she walks out to the backyard where she stares up at the sky with a new appreciation.  She is victorious.  She’s got her life back.  And that’s when she spots the dead possum and she apologizes to it.  Then she cries.  Bob and Lee pack up their decorations and the neighborhood has their own fears.  And that’s it!  For this week, at least.