Desperate Housewives – Episode 5-2 Review

“We’re So Happy You’re So Happy”

Has there ever been a more ironic title for a Desperate Housewives episode??

Neighbours are important on Wisteria Lane, and Dave wants to be the best one yet! Better than friendly neighbourhood murderer Paul Young? What about creepy blackmailer Martha?? Or creepy paedophile Art??? He’s got a job beating those three!

OK… I know the show has gone 5 years into the future, but when Mike handed Susan a PSP game I though ‘Right, I don’t know what’s going to happen in 5 years…but I’ll take a wild guess and say that PSPs won’t be the IT toy!’

Carlos is a BLIND MASSEUSE…. (I’ll let you add your own sexual disability joke here!)

I’ve heard a lot of good lines to get out of difficult situations, but ‘I just heard the milk go bad’ has to be the best one yet! As Andrew leaves the sticky situation that is arising between Bree and Orson, we see that tensions are growing in their marriage, mainly due to the fact that Orson is displeased at Bree calling herself Van de Kamp again and saying that Mr Van de Kamp is dead, but without mentioning he new husband Mr (my last name sounds like a plunger) Hodge. But is she cracking underneath all that pressure of becoming a celebrity?

I love Bree and the fact that the ‘Van de Kamp shit has set sail…’

Now we all know that Karen and Edie have always been BFs (not best friends, bitchy friends!) But the lines about Edie being easier to get into than community college and that Karen’s face looks like a knee were 2 of the funniest lines I’ve heard in ages on TV! Shame Edie took offence to one of Karen’s remarks and freaky Dave tried to get her to apologise!

One of the reasons I love Desperate Housewives is the way that serious issues are tackled. We’ve seen suicide, rape, murder, paedophilia and childhood obesity. But the latest issue has really had me hooked. That’s right… it’s that well known problem: Virtual Incest! Lynette, annoyed at her sons not talking to her more, pretends to be a young girl to talk to Porter online. If she had listened to Tom and stopped when he said, maybe Porter wouldn’t have fallen in love with his online girlfriend AKA his mum! But Tom takes it too far when he suggests that Lynette ‘flashes a boob.’ That’s just too far Tom… too far!

*sigh* I know I’ve said this before… but will Susan ever be happy?? So she wants to keep Jackson a secret, then they’re public, then he’s flashing himself to Mike and MJ and then he and Mike are going on dates together! Much to Susan’s annoyance!! But at least they’re still friends! I like S&M (by the way, I mean Susan and Mike… nothing else…) but I’m glad that they’re not together. We had been forced to watch them be together on and off for 4 years!! They finally get married for us then to realise that now they’re not. Now I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had enough of their on/off/on again/off again relationship and it’s about time that they just get on with their lives!!

Gabby is upset at the fact that they ‘used to have help and now they are the help.’ It’s even affecting her social status to the point where they are being uninvited to important social events! But that doesn’t stop our feisty Latino… oh no… she sneaks her and Carlos in, just so they can talk to the rich people. But Carlos reminds her that they’re not happy and they have lost nothing important. Gabby agrees but has she really changed? Remember when she used to say things like: ‘I’ve tried poor but happy. Guess what, not that happy!’

But seriously, what the hell is up with Dave??

Is he trying to convince Karen that she’s going mad or is she genuinely going doolally??

Oh and if anyone has a spare invite to Wednesday potato skin Susan sex tip night…. I’d really like one! :)

And remember… keep being desperate!

 

Scott Chapman is a student from the UK studying Media Studies. He takes criticism very well….as long as it’s constructive!

 

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