TVSquad

A commenter from last week's Desperate Housewives review noted that the "hot nun" (as I've named her) deserved her own show. I agree, and started thinking about other bit part players who are so delicious, they should be fully developed into one of a series of Desperate spinoffs:

• Lonnie, Susan's book agent. He was soullessly evil in The Princess Bride, but he's more nuanced in Desperate Housewives; greedy and flawed, irrational and forlorn. In both roles, he fools no one so well as himself. His new show should involve him meeting and marrying a string of writer-wives (all at the same time, without their knowledge), preferably romance authors.
  

• Hector, Carlos' prison buddy. He was my new best friend when he played Gabrielle's safekeeper and grief counsellor. His new show should involve having him travel from small town to small town, freaking out the vulnerable women before finding their true pain and healing them in progressively more bizarre and childlike ways.
  
• Stu, the receptionist at Lynette's job who got fired by Nina - then sued the ad agency - in the last episode. He's ambiguously heterosexual, he keeps a blog, he looks like poor cousin of Jim Carrey's. And now that he's fired and independently wealthy thanks to the settlement, he has the narrative space required for a good spinoff. Maybe he could start a blogging empire - or a rival ad agency.
  
• Dr. Goldfine, Bree's therapist. He's by far the drollest TV therapist since Dr. Katz. Having a show centered around a therapist is just so easy. With occasional guest star spots by the Housewives, he's have a wealth of ready-made problems. Even better, he could be a medium/therapist (talents developed by his near-death experience, of course) and counsel the dead on how to avenge their demons. Where to find dead people? In the countless victims of the Desperate Housewives and their henchmen, natch!
  
• The aforementioned-and-pictured hot nun. Her hair is feathered. Her shirt is buttoned all the way up to the top. She plays guitar. She's quirky, she's (sort of) hot, she has the chutzpah (no wait, you can't say that about a nun, can you?) to stand up to Gabrielle Solis. But in her new show, should she fight crime, while leaving a trail of drooling would-be lovers in her wake, or renounce her vows to lead a ring of prostitutes? There are just so many options here.