This is the 100th episode of the series and features Beau Bridges as a handyman about whom all the housewives reminisce.
It was a bit mushy at the end, but I still liked it. BB turned in a nice performance as the warm and helpful repair guy.
I really really liked this episode, and even though it didn’t advance any plotlines, we did get some backstory. I think I liked Bree’s story the best.
To me it just seemed like a filler episode. Kinda like when everybody on a given show (Saved By The Bell I’m looking at you) decides to start a band and, hey, they all already know how to play an instrument. It kinda bugged me that here’s this guy that made this huge difference in each and everyone of their lives and yet his name has never even been mentioned.
I liked it.
Though Beau Bridges really needs to trim his eyebrows.
I’ve only started watching this show two years ago, not coincidentally when I got together with my girlfriend. She told me that the first episode started with the suicide of the woman who is now the narrator so this was one of those full circle things for the 100th episode. That was pretty clever.
Did they ever establish who sent Mary the note and what the note was about? Was the note even in the first episode?
ETA: Did they use the same actress to play her?
Yes, and I’m not sure the note came up in the first episode, but it definitely did in the first season.
It was an okay episode, but I felt like Joey P did - how can we care at all about a character we didn’t know existed? Why not show the guy at least a time or two (even this season) before centering an episode around him? Or hell, they didn’t even need to show him, just mention that “the handy man” had just been by in earlier episodes.
The promo that ABC ran for the episode said that this would explain how the housewives got desperate, and I thought it accomplished that.
I actually forget to mention something else. Long running shows with complex or multiple story lines really should, IMHO, have a few throw away characters. People that only make an appearance once or twice per season. That way they CAN do a show like this. As far as I’m concerned (and the current story lines in progress) this might as well have been a clip show.
That I can buy, but having not seen the commercials, Mary Alice probably should have used it as her recurring theme during the narration.
But what I said above still stands.
What was it all about? What did she do and who was going to tell on her?
Ha! I just came here after reading that myself. Damn, after a little reading I can see why people liked the first couple of seasons so much more.
That narrative was ungodly confusing.
Was I the only one who was waiting for Mary Alice to ask Eli to help patch the bottom of her pool???
For some reason I was thinking while I watched it that she had hung herself. I thought she was going to ask Eli to put a big hook in the ceiling or reinforce a beam.