Susan declines an offer from her art teacher; the cop continues to harass Bree with his suspicions.
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Well… Lynette looked really good tonight. That’s all I got.
Well, this show has just confirmed something I believe to be true about modern art (in which I include music, film, and literature) criticism in general. Critics and self-identified afficianados will find anything great art that smacks of angst, and reject anything that doesn’t.
Seriously, Susan’s paintings looked like all the other art she’s done in the past - illustrations executed with a moderate degree of skill. But this time they’re dark and gloomy, and what do you know? suddenly they’re great art!
Lynnette looked very nice, but obviously doesn’t get that changing your hair isn’t going to make you husband think you’ve changed.
Tom clearly has no interest in fixing their marriage if he didn’t even realize it was their anniversary. Hopefully she lets go and we don’t have to see him any more.
At the art show, when the cop was harassing the girls, I kept expecting one of them to say it represents the death of their suburban dream or whatever drivel the other couple said. Instead they just stood there looking shocked. Surely Bree would have come up with something to say.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I get the feeling he’ll tell Bree the looks on their faces told him all he needs to know…now he knows they’re all involved (or at least Susan) instead of just Bree. He’ll know Gabby is involved when he figures out who the missing person is.
I assume in the next two or three weeks the cop is going wind up dead. In fact, I’ll guess that Carlos will kill him and Mike will bury him…they make such a cute team.
Now, if that does happen, and we know this is that last season, I have to assume that it’s going to drive Carlos over the edge. Will he confess to it? To the other murder? Will he kill himself (by accident? on purpose?)? Will Mike take care of his [Carlos] body if he does do that?
this is such an outright dumb storyline to end a fairly entertaining series on. If they’d just reported the death of Gaby’s molestor, Carlos would have gotten off on manslaughter or something with a good lawyer. hiding the whole thing? - dumb, dumb plotline.
oh - and Lynette? give it up already. the marriage was done ages ago.
I don’t think he’d need a good lawyer to prove manslaughter. I’d guess a mediocre lawyer could have shown it was self-defense* pretty easily. This whole season hasn’t really been that great, but I’ll stick with it to the bitter end.
*I don’t know the name of it, but if someone else is being harmed, you’re allowed to attack the attacker using the same laws that apply to self defense…Carlos would have been covered under that law.
well he’s back:
The problem with Carlos settling for a manslaughter charge is that he’s on parole from stuff he did in the past (season 1), so that could be worse for him than it would for a random dude.
Still, it’s self (or wife) defense. I guess if no one else knows that the stepfather molested her, it becomes he-said-she-said and much less clear cut. But they could subpoena testimony from that nun in her old home town, who would be forced to testify that Gabby had reported the molestation, even though she hadn’t believed her.
In the end, it’s really Bree’s fault. She was desperate for redemption in Carlos’s eyes (and be able to see Gabby again) after he hated her for covering up Andrew’s killing of his mother, so she covered up HIS killing - instant forgiveness, while no one is thinking clearly. And now that there’s been a cover-up, confession becomes problematic.
I want to give Tom a good, swift kick. His obliviousness maddens me. There he is having a swell time with his new woman, in his new apartment, not a thought as to working on saving his marriage. I bet he wakes up every morning feeling great, whistles while he’s getting ready for work, then bounds out the door thinking of his new girlfriend he’ll see that evening. Shallow as a parking lot puddle, distracted by the shiny and new, taking life as it comes, the fool. And there’s Lynnette, angst-ing, worrying, all depressed and hurt and anxious. She should really end it now and file for divorce. Her duh-boy-husband has moved on without a care in the world. … I wonder if some big kid-crisis is going to bring them back together, I would HATE to see that. Get a divorce! Like in real life! Move on!
As I recall, Gaby’s dad had his hands on Gaby’s neck in a very agitated state when Carlos came in and hit him over the head. A very legitimate case could be made that they were in fear for Gaby’s life. This would be a justifiable use of force almost anywhere. Perhaps the investigators would be suspicious of their story given that Carlos is a felon on parole with a history of past violence, but if the police or a jury could be convinced that Carlos was acting to defend Gaby’s life, he would have gotten off free.
Now, unfortunately, everyone on Wisteria Lane has committed a few felonies in covering up the incident. And their credibility has been shot.
My prediction: The developer is there for a reason. I think the final episode will end with Mary Alice recapping the series while we see scenes of the regular cast being fingerprinted and locked in cells and then we will see bulldozers flattening Wisteria Lane as the developer studies blueprints for a new housing development. I think Marc Cherry would like to destroy the set, as after the tornado.
So you think they’re going to tear down those picture-perfect pricy houses on Wisteria Lane, flatten the ground, and slap up some shoddy new McMansions? UGH! :mad: I would move into any of their houses, tomorrow, and live on that street, if I could.
I can’t imagine them all being in jail and the kids carted off to relatives, but I can’t imagine seeing the street flattened, either.
I think everyone ends up going to jail except Lee and Bob, and Renee. They end up running a group home for all the kids from the block whose parents are now in jail. Then that gets made into a spin off. A gay couple and a woman who doesn’t like kids…sort of a modern day Diff’rent Strokes.