Desperate Housewives – Episode 6-19 Review

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Hello there, it’s been a while!

Desperate Housewives finally came back (after a month) with its 19th episode of its sixth season.

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Great episode! Everything felt organic and the comedy didn’t seem forced at all. You mustn’t miss this one since the mystery has reached its final episodes. Lots and lots are happening!

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The episode began with Gaby offering her eggs to the gay neighbours who wanted to adapt. Seemed quite simple at first, but even Gaby realised the troubles an action like this may cause. In the end, Gaby smashed Bob and Lee’s hopes by taking her offer back, since she realised how complicated it would be to give away something that could possibly be hers. Unfortunately, Lee was fed up after that and moved away from the lane, leaving Bob all by himself.  I like that the gay neighbours are becoming more three-dimensional now, since they have been an important element of the show for the past three years.

In Bree’s story, Sam is starting to get more and more interesting. I still can’t figure out what his motives are, but I am really enjoying watching his bizarre case unfold. In this episode, Bree had to fire Andrew, after Sam showed her evidence that he had charged extra, some of the company’s clients. However, when Bree told Sam that she would probably rehire Andrew, he didn’t seem too happy about that. Later on, in a dinner party that Bree was hosting, things went awfully wrong when it was discovered that someone had put vinegar in a cherry bottle (cherry the drink, not the fruit). Bree made the fire alarm go off, in order to prevent the guests of eating the food (I’m sure she blamed someone else later). While both Sam and Bree where suspecting Andrew for the vinegar-cherry mix-up, Orson told Bree that logically speaking it had to be someone who was with her…like Sam! Bree was looking very confused in her last scene, and so was I. I’m glad this little side mystery is playing along.

Susan’s story continued to focus on Mike’s money problems. While Susan tried to help him by giving money to all of her friends for them to call Mike for a plumbing job, Mike caught onto it and confronted Susan. At first I thought that it was incredibly sexist for a man to feel offended when his wife gives him money but there was a reason for it. Turns out that Mike didn’t have just a few money problems, but was completely broke! In the end he was forced to ask Carlos to loan him some money. I don’t think though that this money story ends here. We’ll see!

Lynette’s storyline with Irina reached its end in this episode. And it looks like Irina ended with it. When Lynette (and eventually Preston) found out that Irina had at least two previous marriages, (and one where she emptied the husband’s bank account) the wedding was off. Lynette’s relationship with Preston was shaken up after that, but I guess time heals everything…well, it won’t be healing Irina though. After she was kicked out, she was offered by Eddie (one of the teenagers) a ride to a motel. As they were driving, Irina rejected Eddie when he began to hit on her and called him “greasy” and some other stuff too (bitch!). Too bad for Irina, Eddie turned out to be the strangler (just as I had predicted many reviews back). Irina’s is history… too bad because she was really hot!

As for the mystery, Patrick began to approach Danny in the coffee shop that he works. After a chat he had with Danny, we realise that while he has found his target, he hasn’t plotted his revenge yet. Although at first he wanted to kill Angie, he then thought of it as too easy. In the end he decided that his revenge should be to take Danny away from her! I guess we have to tune in next week to see what happens with him. Patrick does seem like a villain with a lot of potential.

To conclude, the episode provided everything I needed for my Sunday night. I am so glad there is still a show out there that doesn’t rely on political satire, or making a witty statement about how bad things are in our modern world.  Sometimes it’s good for the mind to simply escape.