Desperate Housewives

By Jane Genova By next Sunday Wisteria Lane will be in full hysteria about the serial killer.  Julie was almost strangled to death and the waitress in the coffee shop wasn't so lucky.  She died. By next Sunday Wisteria Lane will be in full hysteria about the serial killer. Julie was almost strangled to death a...

By Jane Genova Mike, we know, was in the slammer for a manslaughter he didn't commit.  Susan had.  Lynette just spilled the beans to Carlos that she is pregnant and he didn't seem to take the falsehood well. Both Katherine and Susan served out a sentence for community service - yeah, over temper tantrums abo...

By Jane Genova Tonight on "Desperate Housewives" everyone could be learning lessons but won't be. That's not how the world works, at least not on Wisteria Lane. Julie and her former lover could be getting it that complicated entanglements have an almost infinite...

By Jane Genova Lynette is bypassing the rule of informing her employer of her pregnancy.  She sees that as survival.  When Tom bypasses the rules to pass a course by cheating, Lynette censures him with a no-excuses manifesto. I wouldn't be surprised if a deconstruction of behavior on Wisteria Lane wound u...

By Jane Genova The folks on Wisteria Lane have moved on from the usual illusions to downright delusion.  Of all the crazies, Katherine seems the most removed from reality.  When Bree fired her and demanded back the keys to the kitchen, Katherine keyed Bree's car.

By Jane Genova Tonight on "Desperate Housewives" it was a entangled web of dirty little secrets. Tonight on "Desperate Housewives" it was a entangled web of dirty little secrets. Carlos promoted Lynette to Senior Vice President with a 50% salary boost - instead of the woman on his team who is pregnant. He d...

By Jane Genova That's conventional stuff.  What about less traditional baby themes on "Desperate Housewives."  We are already into two episodes for the new season.  In both of them Lynette Scavo, mother of Parker, Penny, Porter, and Preston, has shown and spoken of her ambivalence about being pregnant...

By Jane Genova But that was just the tip of the emotional iceberg tonight, which everyone on Wisteria Lane agrees was a horror.  Katherine made a pass at Mike, on the first day of his marriage.  He backed off.  But Katherine told Orson that it was Mike who made the pass at her.  Orson seems to believe her.  Likely...

By Jane Genova My vote: Abort. Lynette is not a happy camper about being accidentally pregnant with twins. This will be child five and six. And remember she has already been through cancer and a troubled teenager. Her childhood wasn't that hot either with the drunken...

By Jane Genova It's going to be a tough season on Wisteria Lane for just about everyone.  It's going to be a tough season on Wisteria Lane for just about everyone. Right now, on their wedding day Susan and Mike, who married for a second time, are happy. But that won't last long since Katherine, who Mike...

By Jane Genova It was a meaty stew tonight on "Desperate Housewives." Mixed together and simmered were extreme scheming and extreme sweetness. At the top of the list of schemers is Bree. She went to corrupt lawyer Carl, Susan's former husband, to protect...

By Jane Genova In mourning Edie, who died in a traffic accident, the collective wisdom of Wisteria Lane emerged. Now we know how that diverse group of women, who have envied, gossiped about, undermined, and even hated each other have managed to survive....