Desperate Housewives

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning, spoilers ahead from the latest episode of Desperate Housewives.* I’ll say this for the latest episode of Desperate Housewives, at least there was no Karl in it. That’s a plus. I found this episode much more entertaining than other recent ones, with the exception of the whole who-st...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning, spoilers ahead from the latest episode of Desperate Housewives.* Gabby Solis – who didn’t realize the Soviet Union had broken up – as a homeschooling “bad mom?” That unbelievable situation was matched only by Tom Scavo answering to the moniker of “T-Scav,” Bree Van de Kamp Hodge...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning, spoilers ahead from the latest episode of Desperate Housewives.* “It is in our nature to judge those around us.” In the opening scene of Desperate Housewives, we were handed the theme of the episode about our propensity to judge others yet not wanting to be judged ourselves. Gabby d...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning, spoilers ahead from the latest episode of Desperate Housewives.* Okay, what have they done with the Carlos Solis character which the show carefully cultivated over the past few seasons, the one who was caring andloving, a full-fledged human, not a stock character from Mad Men’...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning: Spoilers ahead from the recent episode of Desperate Housewives.* This episode began with a voice-over saying, “There’s a certain kind of woman you see in the suburbs.” Then a series of unflattering portrait of suburban women was unleashed: The mom who waits with her kid for the sc...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Warning: Spoilers ahead from the recent episode of Desperate Housewives.* Choking Julie Okay, so the mystery surrounding Julie Mayer is somewhat interesting. We’re all made to think that the creepy new kid Danny strangled her because we saw the two of them arguing a few scenes before Juli...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) What DID I like about the recent episode? Surprisingly, I found Susan Mayer to be exceptionally gracious as her ex-husband moved in with Katherine Mayfair across the street from her, even if Susan did go rooting around Katherine's garage to prove that Katherine was a liar. I feel badly for...

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) President's Day. February school vacation + 3 kids at home making me crazy = The dog ate my homework. My bad on not getting this Desperate Housewives post up more promptly. But it's never too late to wax on at length about the Wisteria Lane gals . . . Image credit: ABC.

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) Desperate Housewives' writers deftly told stories about the Wisteria Lane ladies through the lens of economics this week on a very micro scale. 'Twas a very timely, money-centric episode which examined money, or lack thereof, from different perspectives.

By Meredith O'Brien(meredithobrien@hotmail.com) The latest episode of Desperate Housewives featured two obviously ill-fated relationships, one count of brutal spousal battery, one murder, one case of arson that killed a half-dozen more people, and one thinly veiled threat to an unconscious Mike Delfino (how much time has this guy s...

By Meredith O'Brien(noreply@blogger.com) In other storylines: Bree and Orson Hodge had an amusing story about sex in the test kitchen, which led to the revelation that Katherine Mayfair was also having sex in the test kitchen . . . with Mike Delfino. Oh, and Dave Williams is criminally insane, or so we've been led to believe.

By Meredith O'Brien(noreply@blogger.com) As for the other stories this week -- Susan Mayer's on/off affair with the goofy painter and Katherine Mayfair's fling with the ex-con organ thief -- eh, I'm not too interested. I want more Gabby, more Dave and more authentic Lynette (say, from season one and early season two).

By Meredith O'Brien(noreply@blogger.com) I'm already in Mad Men withdrawal and am trying to figure out how I'm going to fill the void left by the exquisite equivalent of the dark, independent film I've been watching each Sunday evening since July. But fear not. I've come up with an idea. While it's going to seem like forever until we get...