According to the promos, one of the regulars is going to die tonight. I know it’s not
Susan or Mike, since the actor who plays Mike says they’ve signed contracts through next season.
So who will it be? Will Carlos’s mother succumb to her injuries? Will Edie choke on her botox?
Only half an hour – I can’t wait!
And, thank you for remembering spoiler boxes for us west coast people, twickster 
James Denton is so hot!!
<ahem>
Sorry about that. 
I’ve admired him since his days as Mr. Lyle on The Pretender (why are the bad guys always hotties?), and he’s even hotter on this show. . .the scenes with him and Teri Hatcher at the end of this week’s episode are relatively tame, but there’s something about that kiss up against the wall. . .damn, I think I need to take a cold shower. . . 
Okay, that was a both aggravating and suspenseful.
Just so I don’t piss anyone off who reads the thread before seeing the show
[SPOILER] When I first heard someone was going to die I thought it would be nosey Ms. Huber, as the most likely writer of the note to Mary Alice. Then everyone starting touting that it would be one of the “Desperate Housewives”, a regular, and showing pics of the four main characters and Edie. If Ms Huber was in that montage she was in it so fast as to be subliminal.
Things started pointing toward Edie, she’s a regular but not one of the main four who are heavily involved in various storylines, and it looked like she had a hit man on her. But then in this episode they managed to make us think it could be anyone of them, which made it suspenseful.
Okay it was a bit of a thrilling ride but I found the promotional ads misleading. But nothing new there, right?
… and it was sexy when Cary Grant did it to Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, back in '59.
Wow, Dex has some familiarity with Cary Grant’s oeuvre – who’da thunk?
Good ep – lots of stuff happening.
I’m not going to spoilerbox stuff – Left Coasters, avert your eyes –
I really liked how the gals rallied around Lynette. I will be curious to see what happens with Gabrielle and Carlos. Good for Susan for going back to talk to Mike again. Bree, Bree, Bree – yes, your son is a scary little psychopath.
God, I love this show!
I generally hate women that are more than 30% plastic, but that Nicolette… I’d be Ken to her Barbie like that.
Bree’s son freaked me out. Then again, growing up in a house like that I guess you would learn to care only for yourself.
Lynette’s
Mary Alice dreams were very well done. I won’t hear that song the same way for quite awhile.
Oh. My. God. What an episode!! Am I the only one who wanted to slap the snot out of Bree’s sone?
Son, even…
Meh, what do you expect when your son comes home drunk after hitting someone with his car, and you cover for him? If anyone in my family had been that stupid, my dad would have frog-marched him out to the police officers waiting outside, instead of letting the car get stolen.
However Bree’s family has made a big mistake, in that they never declared their mustang stolen.
Actually, the indentity of the murdered housewife was obvious to me long before the episode started. Remember: TV networks hype their shows, and often their promos are pure misdirection (In this year’s West Wing promos, for instance, they showed the scene of Toby resigning as though it had something to do with the plot, whereas in the show, it was just Toby playing a joke).
Once you realize that, you eliminate the big stars and one person is left – one who is generally pretty unpleasant overall and who had already tried to blackmail someone.
Does anyone know what Ms Huber was talking about when she was saying how Mary Alice did something to a baby? Did she have an abortion or something? That’s the only thing I can guess.
What’s the deal with Mike? Is he an undercover cop? What’s he looking for?
I’ve only seen the last 3 and a half shows, but I like it and plan to watch the rest.
In a previous episode, we saw Mary Alice’s husband dig through the concrete bottom of his pool and remove a box that had a teddy bear painted on it, which he subsequently wrapped in plastic and tossed in a nearby body of water, after which it resurfaced and was found by the cops.
There’s also been mention by Mary Alice’s son of someone named “Dana” which is assumed to be a dead infant. Personally, I doubt we’re talking about an aborted fetus, because it is a legal procedure after all.
And with regards to the murder victim
The actress appeared on Good Morning America today and said she would be back for several episodes, possibly as Mrs. Hoober’s twin sister
Sigh.
I missed it due to a family dinner, and the info in the TV Times seemed to indicate it was a repeat.
I’ll have to wait for the TWoP recap.
Oh, “kiss the girl up against the wall” has definitely been done many, many times (probably even before NXNW!) . . . I didn’t mean to imply that I thought it was hot because I’d never seen it before, just that it was hot because it was James Denton doin’ it.
His reaction was chilling. But when/if they get him to counseling, maybe it will turn out to be a defense mechanism (kind of set up by the way the show was wrapped up with how everyone deals with guilt).
And in a way he is just following the lead set by Bree when she set up the plan for the car to be stolen. She can cluch her Bible all she wants, but she’s not much better than the kid.
i guess bree and fam is going for the “oh my… no, that can’t be andrew’s car. his car is right here in the garage…” “aiiiiiieeee, his car IS gone.” routine. pathetic.
how much do you want to bet mama is hearing everything in her coma and is gonna tell as soon as she finds her way back.
Possibly, but if so, it was undercut by Mary Alice’s voice over saying that “some people feel no guilt at all.” I think her son is a budding sociopath and the daughter’s not much better. Both are superficial and obsessed with the material.
I think Bree, by repressing all her feelings and only offering a shiny plastic veneer to everyone, including her husband, has inadvertantly created children who only know about veneer. She’s reaping what she’s sown all right.
What Barbarian said. That’s all we know.
What I’d like to know is how Mrs. Huber knew enough to send a blackmail note to Mary Alice. None of the other women (who were closer to Mary Alice than Mrs. Huber was) knew anything about a baby.
I’ve been assuming that whatever happened, happened before they moved to Wisteria Lane. But that doesn’t make sense either. Why move the trunk to the new neighborhood?
Did Mary Alice’s husband dig up the trunk before or after the housewives confronted him with the blackmail note? I can’t remember.
Paul Young dug up the trunk first-- he was actually putting it in his truck when the ladies came up to him in the days after the suicide.
As for what happened, we don