Forgive me, I didn’t see a thread started on this yet.
Lynette needs to grow a pair and discipline her children. She has absolutely no control over those little terrors and I have lost my last bit of patience with her. She picks up after them and they learn nothing. I’m glad Mrs. Landingham ran over the bike.
I loved that Bree wanted to run the handcuffs through the dishwasher, but I also got the idea that she doesn’t really love Rex, she just wants her safe, white-picket-fence, two-point-three-children, dinner-party-throwing WASP life. Although I could really see her as a dominatrix.
I think Mrs. Huber’s sister worked with Mary Alice at the rehab center, saw her do something terrible, told Martha, who in turn blackmailed her.
I seriously doubt Gabrielle is making enough money working at a department store to support her lifestyle.
Told the therapist she and Rex had reconciled. Rex came clean about wanting to be dominated sexually and they watched a dom video, to which Bree’s reaction was “what did your mother do to you?” and to label BD "perversion. Later, she agreed to give it a try, choosing as their safe word “Boise” (only after she told Rex his preferred word, “Philadelphia,” would remind her of her aunt who lives there and Rex in turn rejected Bree’s suggestion of “Palestine”) but only after she ran the handcuffs through the dishwasher.
Lynette:
Got a lovely plant with pot from the children, only to learn that it was stolen from a neighbor. Said neighbor later invaded the house looking for a wall clock made by her son as a gift. Lynette hotly denied that her sons stole it. Later the neighbor ran over one of the kids’ bikes in the street and Lynette egged her car and her. Turns out the kids did take the clock, along with a lot of other stuff. Lynette made them return it all, and we learn the neighbor lady’s son who made the clock died at age 12. Among the things stolen by the kids were the jewelry that Mary Alice’s widower took off the corpse. Lynette gave it to Susan, who noted it had blood on it.
Susan:
Gave Mike a lovely hand-painted Valentine, then wigged when he mentioned he wants kids of his own. Later at a Valentine dinner, she explained she didn’t want kids. Mike got up to leave, leading Susan to think he was upset, when actually he was bleeding from the gunshot wound he’d received earlier while breaking into houses looking for information about Dierdre. We learn that he’s discovered she rented a room on “Pine Street.” His cover story for the wound was that he shot himself while cleaning his gun. The police questioned him in the hospital.
Gabrielle:
Got fired from a few modeling jobs, including one as a mattress demonstrator. Fired her maid after the maid told her off. Took a job in a department store as a makeover consultant after figuring out she was being too prideful. The maid stopped by for a makeover and some gloating, which Gabrielle turned back on her by pointing out how pathetic it was that having Gabrielle wait on her was such a big dream of the maid’s while she, Gabrielle, achieved greater dreams like working her way up from nothing to having a great career and a handsome husband.
The Widower Mary Alice:
Got from HuberSister a flower basket that was delivered to her by mistake. He had a standing order at the florist that he forgot to cancel. She offered condolences on his loss, then upon spotting a picture of Mary Alice said “why, that’s Angela Foster, I haven’t seen her since Utah!” The Widower said she was mistaken, but later HuberSister was looking through a photo album and found a picture of herself and Mary Alice as members of the staff of a rehab center.
Note that Mary Alice’s jewelry was found by Lynette’s children in Mike’s garage (where it was planted by the widower). So that, combined with the gunshot wound (which, according to the doctors was unlikely to be self-inflicted), led Susan to be suspicious of Mike (although this was not explicitly stated).
Also, it seemed like Gabrielle set up the situation with the maid so the maid would tell her off and Gabrielle could fire her. (Actually, I didn’t understand why Gabrielle continued to employ the maid when she was making so little money, so this might have been a face-saving way of getting rid of her.)
This part is puzzling. Mrs. Huber’s sister looked pleased when she recognized Mary Alice/Angela. If there had been something unsavory in the memory, she should have looked surprised or shocked. ??
The rehab center part is interesting. Why not a plain old ordinary hospital?
And did she say it was 15 years ago? Isn’t Zach 15? Could Zach be the child of someone who was at the rehab center?
I hadn’t thought of that! Interesting. Remember, he rather scornfully and sarcastically said, “Dad,” to Paul a few weeks ago when Paul told him what happened to Dana.
Yet another opportunity to trot out my pet “Zach was born with ambiguous gender” theory. (Uterine exposure to amphetamine-based drugs has been shown, in some studies, to lead to higher incidence of intersexual births.)
I had to chuckle every time Mrs. McCluskey commented about Lynnette popping out babies. I’d like to see more of her. She reminded me of the storekeeper from Northern Exposure. We need more old ladies on TV, just for perspective.
So the oldest is 6, the twins are 5, and the baby is, what? Less than 18 months I suppose, since he (or is it she?) isn’t walking yet.
Lynnette really needs to get back to work. She’s not enjoying her time at home.
My VCR cut out at 10 (damn ABC for skewing the schedule).
Last thing I saw was Lynette showing Huber’s bracelet to Teri Hatcher, but I didn’t catch what their discussion or anything that might have happened afterward. Anything significant in the closing statement from the ghost? Or any other storyline?
From what I saw-- I can’t believe Lynette hurled that egg at the President’s secretary!
i really enjoyed bree. i think she wanted to slap rex for quite some time now and went for it when she could.
after shopping for interview clothes the last few weeks, i have determined that bree must wear a lot of liz claiborne clothes. that line has a lot of peachy, pinky, sweaters with argyle patterns. now i am a bit wierded out about noticing that. i kept thinking “bree would wear that.”
perhaps bree should go shopping with susan so susan doesn’t wear underwear in public again. and perhaps if susan shopped with bree she wouldn’t have to talk to her daughter about her cervix!
Rest assured, you will. Given the style of the show and the ratings spike that seem to occur with further shock value, I would bet the farm on this one. She’ll probably find some niche within that rhealm that sets her off. Hope it’s something super out there, like public humiliation. It’s her husband who’s really the control freak; he’s due to get really humbled.
But I wouldn’t mind seeing Sharon Lawrence in domme gear once more. Maybe Bree will consult with her.
