Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Desperate Housewives

Anyone watching this?
This week's episode was every bit as funny and dark as Six Feet Under. Here are my Best Bits:
- hilarious slapstick as Susan (Teri Hatcher), snooping around a neighbour's house, fell through the ceiling, got stuck, and with torso in the attic and legs in the kitchen yelled to the neighbour's dog for help "Bongo! I'm upstairs!...sort of." (Bongo comes upstairs. She holds onto one side of a towel and tries to coax the dog into pulling the other side of it, but to no avail...Bongo instead wanders over to the toilet and starts drinking from it.) "Some help you are- Lassy would've got a fire-truck by now."
- All the eerie secrets: who's the new neighbour that Susan's dating? And why does he have stacks of cash, a gun and photos of people in the neighbourhood up on his wall?? And what was the secret that Mary-Alice (nothing but a ghostly voice-over from episode 1) killed herself to protect? We know it involves a secret baby, but how did Martha Huber, her now murdered greedy blackmailing neighbour know about it? Westeeria Lane now has three, possibly four suspicious, un-investigated deaths, and it’s only half way through the series.…
-On top of all that there was a genuinely touching moment between the 3 moms after Lynette, having become dependent on taking her 4 kids' ADHD pills, had a sleep-deprivation-induced breakdown. Finding her sat alone on a football field, this prompted the other mothers to confess their own parental failures for the first time to each other, at which Lynette broke down crying: "Why didn't you tell me this before?" /"Does it help?"/ "It helps."

- But here’s my favourite DH quote so far this series. Lynette, speaking to her hellish babble of kids: “I know someone, who knows someone, who knows an elf. And if any of you acts up, so help me, I will call Santa and tell him you want socks for Christmas! Alright, are you willing to risk that?”

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