What's a little infidelity between
friends? Tonight, more than one injured party could answer that question on Desperate Housewives. It all
started off with an (innocent? you be the judge) kiss between Tom and Gabrielle. At first Lynette wasn't jealous, much.
Until... Bree managed to raise her jealous hackles with the news (what, Lynette didn't know? it seems as if EVERYONE
should know, hmmm?) that Gabrielle had an affair with her teenaged gardener.
True-to-slapstick-form, Gabrielle's next appearance at chez Tom & Lynette occurs as Tom is carrying in several bags of groceries and the baby. Gabrielle helps, baby spits up (and WOW that's a lot of spitup. Maybe baby has some GI issues. My crystal ball reveals a future show where baby's pediatrician puts her on a gluten-free/casein-free diet.), Gabrielle gets all cleaned up and half-naked. One uncomfortable moment, consider yourself set up.
I enjoy the uncomfortable moment just a little bit, but it's so patently obvious that Gabrielle and Tom, well, there just isn't an affair in the cards for them. When Lynette grills Tom in bed later that night I just want to slap her. A little bit.
Tom, naturally, disarms his wifey with humor ("Well, I am an attractive man... I'm like catnip," says Tom, as Lynette giggles uproariously). So she decides to apologize.
And what an apology. After Lynette makes up with Gabrielle, it turns out that Gabi, well, she's just a bit too self-righteous in her acception of said apology. Lynette feels a point needs to be made. What would any self-respecting injured party do? Why, make out with Carlos, of course. Even I was getting a little jealous by the time Lynette laid off the lip-locking.
So it's no wonder that Carlos, well, he's a little interested. ("You can't fake chemistry like that," he says, lasciviously.) He wants to know if Lynette "has any thoughts on the subject" of the affair-as-retribution idea. I have a thought: Ewww. If the writers go there? I, for one, will be as grossed out as I am watching Andrew licking some boytoy's neck (it's not just that they're gay...). Lynette is a paragon of faithfulness and it would be wrong, wrong, wrong to have her hook up with Carlos.
Speaking of Andrew. When I said last month that his hate for his mom was illogical? Well, maybe I, umm, spoke too soon. When he plays the blackmail card, it doesn't take Bree long to threaten to sue him. "My son is trying to blackmail me and I want to stop the little SOB - can you help me?" (Cue my internal monologue: "that's not a very nice thing to call yourself, Bree!" heh heh heh. See, she called him the son of... and she's his mom so... oh never mind.)
I'd probably hate my mom too if, when I blackmailed her because she let her lover die... oh wait. This would never happen to me or any other real people. That doesn't stop it from being fun.
Not so much fun, however: the continuing Applewhite saga. I stand by my position that this actor who's now appearing as Caleb is just terrible in the role. They might as well have just picked a white guy. What an awful move by the casting director. When he pretends to be slow I just have to laugh. It's so unconvincing. It is a little bit funny when they find him in the kitchen eating ice cream and he says, "it's not my fault!" that the mystery assassin is dead.
And remind me never to drop my keys in the trunk under a dead guy when I'm trying to get rid of a body! That's a really bad place to leave your keys.
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1-09-2006 @ 7:56AM
Ben said...
George? Don't you mean Andrew? Do you even watch the show? You called 'him' George twice. Anywho, I like the Homosexual aspect of the show. And since this isn't a famnily show, no need for sugar coating. It's OUT there people. Live with it (or simply fast forward or turn away.)
Yeah the Applewhite story is sooo boring. They need to pack up and leave. I dunno what in the 'H-E-Double Hockey sticks' the writers were thinking when including them. "I didn't do it."
Tom and Lynette bored me. i wanted to slap Lynette for being such an insecure freak. We got you didn't like it. It was a joke, get over it. :o)
All-in-all, a pretty good show. They need more Edie Brit.
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1-09-2006 @ 9:01AM
Chris said...
George? That's pretty bad that you are writing an article about the show and can't even get the names right! You mean Andrew, right? As a gay guy - and there are quite a few of us gay guys watching this
show - I think the storyline between Andrew and Justin is HOT! Since Marc Cherry is gay, I really hope that this storyline will only continue and become an even bigger part of the show. If people have a problem with it - too bad. I watch the heteros kiss on the show all the time, and it does not gross me out in the least. So, the people who are possibly so homophobic that they cannot even watch a simple kiss without being uncomfortable - I say get a grip and
welcome to the 21st century!
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1-09-2006 @ 9:33AM
Jimmy said...
Yes, I agree the Applewhite story is boring and needs to end. Even with the new actor in the role of Caleb, this whole plot twist just seemed too stupid -- even for DH. I know Mark Cherry got smacked around by Oprah for not having any African-Americans on Wisteria Lane, but is this the best he could do? Alfre Woodward is deserving of so much more, especially after her brief appearance, and death, on the totally horrible, and quickly cancelled, Inconveivable.
I actually disliked Lynette in this episode. This psychopathic insecurity of hers is just getting on my nerves this season. Was she like this last year? Gabi's a slut, a loveable slut, but come on it was just a kiss. As for Bree, I think she just needs a good role in the hay.
I have to say I'm also disliking the gay story line. Not because it's a "gay story line," but because of the history behind it. Didn't Andrew tell the family minister last year he was doing this just to piss off his Mom and drive her nuts? If the writers wanted to have a gay story line, couldn't they have chosen a better way to present it? It may be in keeping with the show, but it's just getting old because you can tell Andrew's not really into it (as shown by the final make-out session at the end of the show). I will give them credit for pushing the envelope for a broadcast network show.
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1-09-2006 @ 11:38AM
Jon said...
Jimmy, I think Andrew told the minister he wasn't sure what he wanted. The main goal is probably to tick off his mother, but he does seem to enjoy Justin. Some people think he looked bored in the last makeout with Justin, or he wanted to get away. Do you think that was the case? I'm not sure.
I do wish they didn't have to make a story which so easily conflates homosexuality with being a bad person, but I guess that is not going to happen on TV anytime soon.
I'm surprised I haven't heard any negative comments yet from any of the "family" groups about those makeout scenes last night.
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1-09-2006 @ 2:26PM
sarah gilbert said...
sorry about the momentary name screw-up, Ben, I DO watch the show. I'm just terrible with names. (and funny that you agree with me on my analysis even though you don't think I watch the show ;)
and I'm glad the gay audience enjoys the storyline - Andrew's series of boytoys certainly seem luscious from a hetero woman's perspective. with his attitude, though, I've got to agree with Jimmy - something seems way wrong about him.
and yes, Lynette is becoming insufferable. I think she was better last season 'cause she was by far and away my favorite. that scene where she melted down in the soccer field was a landmark one for mamas everywhere. this season, she's overbearing and one-dimensional. I also agree that Alfre Woodward - and African-Americans everywhere - deserve better! couldn't we have had a more interesting black family on Wisteria Lane?
the one subplot that has potential is the Applewhite son + Bree's daughter. they've not really developed that one though... hmm...
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1-09-2006 @ 5:20PM
Andrew Anderson said...
I agree Lynette was a bit psycho last night..BUT Gabrielle I feel crossed the line. You do NOT kiss another woman's husband right in front of her. I think Carlos and Gabrielle's marriage is in serious trouble.Because it doesn't seem like Gabrielle realizes the hurt and pain she caused Carlos by cheating on him. As for the gay storyline..I agree that it does seem like Andrew is using Justin. However, remember when Andrew talked to Justin in the last episode while playing video games? Andrew was very hurt and angry his mother said he was going to hell. Andrew I believe is definitely gay but I also know he is using his homosexuality to piss off Bree and its working. As to the making out with Justin...I disagree it definitely looked like Andrew was enjoying it. He definitely likes Justin a lot..but I think Justin loves Andrew but Andrew is indifferent to him..
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1-09-2006 @ 6:49PM
Jaymez said...
This was the best show all season, minus the gay makeout scenes. I'm sorry, that's just frickin' disgusting. I'm wondering how far the writers are going to go with that story line. If there are sounds or images of the two boys having sex, I'm gonna stop watching. That's why I stopped watching Six Feet Under.
The whole storyline between Lynette, Tom, Carlos, and Gaby was a riot. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Gaby's a slut (so she had an affair, so what), but, she's a huge flirt.
Lynette is just becoming more of a bitch. She goes too far to prove her points. Remember when she went wild in the club to get back at her boss? She lacks a sense of grace when she gets frusterated with adults. It works fine when her kids get out of control, just not with adults.
Carlos may have an affair on Wisteria Lane. If he does, it won't be with Lynette. My money is on Edie.
I'm guessing that last nights events with the Applewhites is setting the wheels in motion to really get their story going. When the death of the mystery guy is investigated, surely, they'll find the son's fingerprints on the trunk lid. As of right now, we know nothing about them and their story line hasn't advanced since they moved in.
Is anyone else thinking that most of the kids are going to be written off the show or just fade away like the youngest daughter on Family Matters? Andrew, Juli, and Zach are the only child characters that get any actual story time.
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1-12-2006 @ 6:49PM
Kelli said...
I heard a rumor that DH wants to kill off Bree.
I would hate that!
Kill off Susan, she's so stupid.
Kelli
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