Desperate Housewives: Dark Days Ahead
By: Kendra Wallace | Category: Show Review | 11/29/05 | 04:54 PM
 |  | Grade: A | Genre: Drama Summary: Desperate Housewives does it again. This latest installment reveals just enough information and introduces the right new situations to keep its hooks in you. There is no way you can stop watching now.
While reflecting on the state of mankind, Dr. Jekyll said, "All human beings... are commingled out of good and evil." This statement, made by Dr. Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, has never been truer than in Sunday's episode of Desperate Housewives. With all of George's skeletons out of the closet, Lynette's impulsive retaliations, Susan's father's ornery disposition, and Carlos's not-so-holy nun, you can see that evil is alive and can be found in some very unexpected places. |
Introducing George, stalker and murderer extraordinaire. While Bree (Marcia Cross) is throwing a dinner party, George interrupts with his one-man mobile karaoke routine in her front lawn. To remedy the situation, Bree pulls out a shotgun and shoots at him. Although she misses, something tells me, being the perfectionist that she is, if she wanted to plug him she would have. Instead of giving Bree her space, George rides his bicycle up and down the street in front of her house for three hours. This guy is really "off his rocker." While visiting her psychiatrist, Bree puts two-and-two together when Dr. Goldfine mentions that the person who threw him over the bridge was on a blue bicycle.
The next day, George is on his way home and sees that the cops have his house surrounded. Although George is crazy, he's no fool; he gets out of there. Where did he run you ask? He goes to the only logical place he could think of...the hotel where Bree is hosting a party. George sends a suicide note to her via a bellman (because Emily Post says a messenger is the proper way to leave a suicide note.... Can you say deranged?). After she reads the note, she calls the police to inform them of George's emanate demise. Ironically, the detective informs her that not only did George push Dr. Goldfine off a bridge, but he also killed Rex, Bree's late husband. The look on Bree's face is total shock as she proceeds up the elevator.
 |  | | Desperate Housewives | | Starring: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria & Ricardo Chavira |
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| George, in an absurd gesture, made an arrangement with the bellman to call him if Bree gets into the elevator so he can actually take the pills. He's not really trying to kill himself, only attempting to make Bree fell sorry for him. When Bree is in the elevator, she pushes the emergency stop button and just breaks down crying. This leaves George in the room dying. He starts to lose consciousness and realizes that maybe Bree isn't coming so he dials zero on the phone and tells the operator to call 911. While he's on the phone, Bree finally arrives at the door, prompting George to cancel his 911-order. Bree comes in and ever so calmly pulls a chair up to the bed, asking George to confess his crimes. George, drifting in and out of consciousness, tells Bree that anything he did was for her because she wanted him to. Now in awe, Bree tells George that the ambulance is on the way (although its not). She gets up and places the chair back in its proper place and walks out the room, leaving George to die. Now, that girl has chutzpah. I didn't think she had it in her.
Lynette (Felicity Huffman), Queen of Deception, is at it again, but this time her scheme backfires. She catches her boss Nina (Joley Fisher) and a member of the support staff in a very compromising position. She tries to blackmail Nina into being nicer to her and the rest of the staff, but her boss, being the "conniving witch" that she is, fires her lover instead. In return Lynette, goes to the booted lover and convinces him to press sexual harassment charges against Nina and the company. The head of the company fires, not only Nina, but several other people as well. He settled out of court with the accuser and had to fire people to keep the budget balanced. So Lynette got a promotion, but many of her co-workers were fired. She has got to learn to stop scheming. I mean seriously, she's not that good at it.
Susan (Terri Hatcher) decides to visit her birth father. Her plan was to work in his feed store part-time to get to know him. Unfortunately, her plans are foiled when he thinks his wife sent Susan to seduce him and test his loyalty. Susan blurts out that she is his daughter, and he has a heart attack. When he wakes up in the hospital, he tells Susan to leave because his wife is coming, and he doesn't want to tell her. He called Susan a mistake and said that he didn't want a relationship with her. When his wife comes in, Susan tells her that she is his guardian angel. After the way he treated her, I'm surprised she didn't spill the beans. She shocked us all, taking the high road, by whispering to him that she was not giving up on them having a relationship.
Lastly, everybody's favorite white-collar criminal, Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) was paroled. He surprised his wife, Gabrielle (Eva Longoria), in more ways than one. Carlos arrived home a changed man. He has recommitted himself back to God and the Catholic Church with the help of a scandalous nun, Sister Mary. When Gabrielle sees Sister Mary, she is immediately suspicious, and with good reason. At the end of the show, they face off. Sister Mary says that she is from the south side of Chicago, and it will take more than Gabrielle to scare her off. Gabrielle tells her "you don't want a war with me." Now I know that the south side of the Chicago is rough, but my money is on Gabrielle.
Despite the second season's slow start, Desperate Housewives has fully redeemed itself. The writers have developed several unique and hilarious plot lines. They even found something for Susan to do. (Thank goodness, I was really getting sick of her.) This show has just the right blend of humor and realism to keep us all addicted for seasons to come.
Original Airdate: November 27, Sunday 9 pm
Episode: "That's Good, That's Bad"
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