“If you don’t change who you are, you can’t go to heaven!”
:eek: :dubious: :rolleyes:
Although I agree with Bree’s politics, I wanted to slap her. Christian counseling? Calling her son a sodomite? What the hell was that all about?
Lynette was tolerable this time. I’m glad she didn’t try to sugarcoat her relationship with Mrs. Landingham. They don’t like each other too much, but Lynette is willing to help her anyway. I loved how she took the lamp back.
So Deirdre is the “PI” who was investigating Zach’s/Dana’s disappearance, and that’s who’s in the toy chest. How much you want to bet Zach/Dana is Deirdre and Mike’s son?
I’m glad Gabrielle got her spunk back and realized she can have a life without Carlos. But I wish those two would just divorce already.
Poor Susan. Imagine having to put up with that for a mother.
I was appalled at Bree’s actions. The preacher was certainly more tolerant than her!
I can’t believe Susan’s mother! Ack, I would just die of humiliation. Flirting with the ice cream man?? And that scene where Susan tells her mom that she is devastated, I felt like crying.
Gabby is verging on prostituting herself, and flaunts it to Carlos? WTF?
This show is wild, I tells ya.
I think next week is gonna suck. Just recapping, I think.
This seemed to be an unusual episode…IIRC, no interaction between any of the main female characters, less-than-usual narration by the dead housewife and “Hi Opal”, since I forgot the third observation I was going to make.
I’ve been officially sick of Lynette and her self absorbed make my problems everyone else’s problems since a bit before she fired her primo baby sitter for having breasts. But this episode, I found her the most stand up person of the whole bunch.
We’ll see how long it lasts. How long before Lynette finds a way to make her self sacrificing behavior with the PITA neighbor a problem for everyone to share?
It sure looks like Andrew has become a major psychopath. Sooner or later he’s going to wind up on a tower with a rifle and a ton of ammo.
Interesting to see Carlos acknowleging that he crossed the line big time in assaulting Gabby. But it seems to be a moot point, as he is unable to withstand her nuclear weapon, the couch. She seems to be firmly in control at this point.
Perhaps Susan can send her mother over to return a blender to Creepy Paul? I can’t see any other way out for her at the moment.
So let me get this straight…mysterious old guy bribed the police, so they could turn over the murder investigation to a rank amateur? That improves his chances of getting to the bottom…how?
Why was Lynette calling Mrs. Landingham “Mrs. McClusky” the whole episode? The continuity really that shoddy?
Was Bree’s “Christian counselling” a tongue-in-cheek nod to the movie, SAVED?
Gabrielle and Carlos have a weird psychosexual and codependent dynamic – we’ve been giving hints all season that Carlos’ reaction to his wife’s affair won’t be pretty. Remember how quickly Gabby was packing when Mama Solis caught her and John? And yet she keeps teasing the slumbering bear. If you insist on acting reckless and stupid, I have no sympathy for you-- which is why all the people tsk-tsking Carlos for grabbing up her lying, cheating, manipulative ass last week baffle me. Being crude, jealous and possessive is obviously Carlos thing. Gabrielle knows what kind of man she’s married to. She’s an idiot giving in t lust, he’s an idiot for wanting someone faithless.
Susan and her mom – yeesh. You know who I feel really sorry for? Julie.
Because the name of the character in DH is Mrs. McClusky. “Mrs. Landinham” was a character on The West Wing, who died in a car crash, and who was played by the same actress.
Those who knew her from The West Wing still refer to her as Mrs. Landingham, but DH has always called her “Mrs. McClusky.”
I assumed that it wasn’t the investigation was turned over to Mike but just the case file (or a copy of it?), so he could investigate independently.
And was anyone else bothered that Gabrielle took the credit card from John and then used it to buy shoes and what looked like an expensive lunch? It was very nice of him to offer, but she really shouldn’t have used the card for such trivial things.
My immediate reaction was that, as well. However, it couldn’t have been, seeing as how Angela is/was Mary Alice, whose gigantic picture was displayed on an easel at her house after the funeral. If they were the same person, surely Mike would’ve recognized her.
What on earth did Bree do to Andrew that he hates her so much that he’s plotting such twisted, evil revenge on her?
But while Bree’s outburst to her friends about her husband’s sexual activities (Rex cries when he ejaculates) was funny, it was outrageously offensive when she did it in front of their priest and their child. It’s Rex who ought to hate her guts. She really treats him like shit.
Hmm, I never thought of that. That’s a possibility. (Good movie, too)
I know what you mean. Of course, he shouldn’t be an abusive prick and there’s no justification for that, but when you marry a prick, you know he’s a prick. If you don’t like it, leave. Hell, she just proved she can use her beauty to manipulate men into supporting her, if money is that important, I’m sure she can find herself a nice sugar daddy.
They keep representing the relationship between Susan and Julie as being so enlightened. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe any child wants to be that involved in their mother’s love life. It’s pathetic. And you’d think that Susan interacting with her mother would bring that into focus.
Did anyone else notice he never came out and actually said that the woman in the box was his daughter? He said it was Dierdre, but then he didn’t say he had to bury Dierdre, he said something like “she was dead all this time while he was looking for her”, and then “I have to bury my baby.” The wording of it seemed strange to me. Maybe I am reaching, but I have the feeling there is more to this.
“We can’t force him to repent” doesn’t strike me as being all that terribly tolerant. The preacher spouted the current line of, I was about to say “thinking” but when discussing the practices of “ex-gay ministries,” “thinking” isn’t really a word that applies to them, groups who espouse counseling to turn gay people straight. They claim it works but only if the person is really motivated to change. Notice that when Andrew agreed to the counseling session (so he could carpet bomb the preacher) there was no hesitation on the preacher’s part to do it.
Of course if Bree really wanted Andrew to change she wouldn’t have had the conversion talk over a meal of sausages.
Otto I’m pretty sure the sausage meal was supposed to be some sort of ironic joke- I don’t think Bree understood it, but we sure do.
I want to love Gabby, but it is hard not to hate her. I mean, although her husband is an abusive, lying, prick, it is clear that he loves her. She, on the other hand, uses him, John, and random men in restaurants. Sometimes she gives this glimmer of what looks like real love for Carlos, but who knows? This whole pregnancy thing will be interesting.
Bree’s kid is an ass, but I thought his ice cream analogy was hilarious.
I was doubled over laughing at that one.
Susan annoys me more then any of the other characters- I just hate her story line. At least with Mike there was something interesting going on.
And of course, it is good to see Lynette finally acting selfless- I don’t see this lasting, though.
I was trying to remember, too. As far as I can recall, he’s entirely motivated by anger at their separation. Which seems to be over, now, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
