I’m tired of this show. There isn’t a single significant good thing about any of the women depicted in this show, and I’d likely say that about all the men, as well.
Susan is less mature than her teenage daughter. Selfish, not too bright, and given to emotional tantrums.
Lynette and her entire family would seem to be little more than manipulators. I’ve been trying to recall when she did anything on the show that wasn’t intended to get her something she wanted.
Brie tugs at my sympathy the most, simply because her severe personality makes her a perennial outsider, something I can identify with. But I learned to alter my behavior towards normalcy a long time ago, without cowing to conformity.
Gabrielle is the blackest and ugliest personality on the show. What she’s done to both Carlos and John is reprehensible.
Edie is little more than a nemesis for Susan.
Of the entire cast, the only ones I care even a little bit about are Mike the plumber and Susan’s daughter Julie.
Last season, the show was new, we didn’t know these women as well, and there may have been more humor. This season, 3 shows in, and I find myself mildly disgusted at everything that happens. I don’t even care about the guy in the basement. The upside is that now I have another hour in the week freed up.
It’s definitely deteriorating. Lynette hasn’t been interesting in quite some time, and Susan is becoming more and more annoying. Bree is the only one worth watching, but her story arc is turning pretty predictable.
I probably won’t watch much longer unless things improve.
I can’t believe Lynnette caused a mug of steaming hot coffee to be dumped in her boss’s lap.
Yeah, she feels guilty about it, but when is she going to learn to control her bad self?
When her “childless by choice” boss was bitching about not being able to see a matinee or get her hair done, maybe Lynnette could have offered to help her free up some time. Tit for tat? I’m sure she’s heard of it. Now we’ll get to see Lynnette try to make it up to her. I can hardly wait. :rolleyes:
Gabrielle’s sudden change of heart was unbelievable.
Bree doesn’t have feelings for George, and she’s too smart to think she might, just because of a reading on a polygraph.
I watched the first episode of this season and gave up after that. I loved it last season but for some reason it doesn’t hold my interest anymore. Last week I watched “Cold Case,” which was pretty good, and didn’t have me rolling my eyes for an hour. Once “Family Guy” is back I’ll be watching that.
Also, I think the Emmys kind of put a bad taste in my mouth about that show. Since they submitted themselves for the comedy categories, I think more deserving shows (Arrested Development & Scrubs, for example) got royally screwed. The show has comic moments, but it’s by no means a comedy. At least, not a very good one. They can call it a satire all they want, it’s just not as funny as a good comedy should be.
See, I have absolutely no trouble at all believing that Bree would think she has feelings for George because a machine told her so.
Bree was in fact the only character I believed this entire episode. OK, I believed Betty and her son too. But as for the main bunch, just Bree. Tom’s incredulity at his son’s manipulating Lynette was completely unbelievable. The kid has seen no other model for human interaction, of course he’s going to go for the manipulation!
Actually I kind of bought John too. He’s a teenager, barely into adulthood, who’s been sleeping with Gabrielle since he was 16. Of course he’s going to mistake his feelings of lust and infatuation for love. And now he’s screwing another old married lady and since the only way he knows how to have a sexual relationship is to “fall in love” with her, he thinks he’s in love again. Loved how he was willing to dump her for Gabrielle instantly.
But hey, what do we think is going on with Basement Man?
Yep. Eddy had the two best lines of the show (“Don’t forget: its’ a church so they’ll all be judging you.” and “It has about 90 flats!” The latter makes me laugh as a music person.).
Valerieblaise, its the Ally McBeal deal all over again. I see Housewives as a funny soap opera. Too light for the drama category. I’m as big an Arrested Development fan as you get, but I can’t get worked up over that. Besides, AD held its own.
I’m sticking with it. It cracks me up, and I just enjoy watching everyone dig themselves into a hole, get out of it, then get right into another one.
I wouldn't be surprised if, one of these days, repressed Bree winds up exploding in a huge emotional meltdown.
I want to know what's become of Zach, and Paul Young. And Basement-Bound Guy!
These characters are so creepy! Lynette’s pushing hot coffee in her boss’s lap was just repulsive and amoral. Susan has all the emotional maturity of a six year old. Bree is very stupid. Who goes to the police without a lawyer in tow?
I’m sticking around but I’m not very happy with this season so far.
I was rolling my eyes at Gabrielle’s heartfelt apology to Carlos. Why is she even still with him? The many things he has done far outweigh her little affair. What did she mean by Carlos’s anniversary gift to her? I must have missed something.
I should have added, I still love the show. There aren’t many likeable characters in this thing, and maybe they should address that. Or maybe not. The Gabby/Carlos relationship cracks me up the most.
I watched all of last season, and the first episode this season. It’s just too soapy, in all the bad ways.
I missed last week’s episode, and felt relieved by that, and planned on just not bothering to watch anymore. Then I noticed it was being rebroadcast on Saturday, and decided to give it one more chance.
Susan’s 12-year-old snit at her ex and Edie? Pathetic – not funny – just stupid. Sudsy melodrama that doesn’t interest me at all.
Creepy new family with extremely odd super-secret mystery situation with a prisoner in the basement? STUPID. Way way way too stupid sudsy melodrama. I can’t believe anybody would find that storyline anything other than unwatchable, much less compelling.
After the second commercial break, I gave up and stopped watching. Forever. The show just sucks, plain and simple.
Frankly, I’m starting to be content with just reading the SDMB to find out what happened - I missed Iron Chef America for this last night - I won’t make that mistake again.
If USA didn’t re-run the L&O: CI episodes 2 weeks later, I’d definately not watch Desperate Housewives anymore. Plus they run it until 10:01 so I just tape that Seattle Hospital show afterward for convenience sake. That stuff really chaps my hide.
I have actually missed the last two episodes and just happened to catch this last night. I was flipping and saw it “Oh that’s right Desperate Housewives is on.”
I liked it. It’s simple brain candy.
I do love that Lynette is absolutely bat shit crazy but exists the most in the “real world”. That woman sabotages and manipulates every aspect of her life.
How did Arrested & Scrubs get screwed? They were both nominated for Best Comedy along with DH (all 3 lost to Raymond), and the only major Emmys DH won were in categories those two had no nominees in. I haven’t seen the show so I have to go on others’ opionions on the merits of its self-classification as a comedy, but its inclusion didn’t have as big an effect on the final Emmys tally as the hype suggested.