You Must Meet My Wife

So it had come to my attention Sunday night that for the next two weeks, Desperate Housewives is repeating the first few episodes of this season and the next episode preceding my last post won’t be on air until February 13^th.  The episode they played on Sunday was the second episode of the 7^th season so for anyone who had missed the beginning of the season, I can fill you in on what you missed.

           

Bree hires a handy man, Keith, to do her yard work and she then starts to become attracted to the much younger man and she can’t help but feel guilty for her feelings.  While pulling out of her driveway, staring at Keith, accidently hits Juanita, Gaby and Carlos’ daughter while she was riding her bike.  With the accident he had slightly cost her and their age difference, she fires him out of guilt but then apologizes telling him she had slight feelings for him and he is rehired.  After her recent divorce, Bree is left confused with her feelings especially towards such a younger man and is afraid of what the other housewives on Wisteria Lane would think if she were to start a relationship with this man.

After the incident with her daughter, Gaby had been spending most of her time at the hospital with Juanita.  When a nurse checks her medical background for the hospital’s records, it is known that the blood type of Juanita does not match up with the blood type that Carlos and Gaby would produce.  Gaby thinks back to a drunken weekend she had in France and worries that Carlos in fact isn’t the father.  The next day at the hospital, the same nurse informs Carlos of the news and pulls Gaby aside to tell her some information she had not known—Juanita isn’t there biological daughter.  Their daughter and Juanita were mixed up at birth and Gaby is devastated with the news.  Gaby is left distraught and confused over the news cannot think of what to possibly do next.

Susan, with her and Mike’s financial issues, takes a job as a lingerie wearing cleaner broadcasted on a webcam show called “Va-va-va-broom.”  She does this in secrecy so her friends do not judge her and Mike doesn’t stop her.  Susan tells Mike she’s been making this money on the side selling jewelry.  Mike is so proud of her efforts to help support their family and buys her flowers out of appreciation and she starts to feel overwhelmed with guilt keeping this a secret from him and, well of course, for what she is acting doing. 

Lynette’s friend from college Renee (later becomes the newest housewife on Wisteria Lane) has been staying at the Scavo residence.  Tom comes home from the doctor and tells Lynette he has Postpartum Depression, an illness mainly women only get.  She laughs at him and does take him seriously and this upsets Tom.  He starts to confide with Renee over his depression and this angers Susan.  When she approaches him as to why he is doing this, he tells her how she never listens to him and that’s why he’s depressed.  This is hard for Susan to take seriously but she apologizes and agrees to listen to her husband more with his drama.

Renee is starting to make a name for herself now on Wisteria Lane and tells Lynette she is buying a house on the lane.  Tom is angry at her and pulls her aside to tell her that its not a good idea that she moves on the lane because of their past.  That is all we are left with concerning that issued so it leaves us guessing as to what is going to happen and what did happen between the two.

The four wives find a woman looking lost walking around the lane and ask her if she needs help.  She says she is looking for Paul Young and the women are taken back and afraid what an innocent looking woman is doing looking for such a man.  He then comes out and introduces the women to Beth, his new wife and the women are left in awe and shock.

I can’t really say what I hope to see next episode just because I already know what is going to happen.  But for those of you who don’t, I can leave you pondering about is Bree going to pursue this new man?  What are Gaby and Carlos going to do with the news that their biological daughter is living somewhere else and Juanita isn’t their true child?  Will Susan continue with her new job even though it is eating her up inside?  Will we learn about Tom and Renee’s seem to be past and what will Lynette think?  And finally, what the heck is Paul Young doing with a new wife?  Until next week, we will see what will unravel on the never-ending-drama of Wisteria Lane.  

I'm Still Here

For those of you who are unfamiliar with one of my most obsessed TV shows, ABC's hit show Desperate Housewives basically follows five women living in Wisteria Lane in a suburban neighborhood-Susan, Bree, Gabby, Lynette, and Renee.  Though it appears they would have the cookie-cutter perfect lives living in suburbia, they live quite the opposites lifestyles. 

Desperate Housewives is now in the midst of its 7^th season and much has happened within those many episodes.  This blog will pick up off of the last Sunday’s episode and will precede each week after. 

So last Sunday evening, Susan has been going to the hospital everyday for her dialysis treatment (she had an injury a few episodes back and was stampeded and now has a defected kidney).  She starts to make friends with the regular patients except for one- a grumpy older man.  She tries and tries to befriend this angered man but he just pushes her kindness away.  Susan finally realizes that he is very hostile because of the time he has been waiting for a kidney and how awful it is that these kidney patients are waiting on someone to die to benefit them for a new kidney. 

This shocks Susan because she is usually the happy, positive housewife of the group and this realization of the kidney-donor process is a reality check for her.  The heartache of waiting for a kidney donor leaves Susan questioning her happiness and finally realizes the emotions of the hostile man.

Bree gets an unexpected, younger woman visitor at her door asking for Keith, Bree’s recent, younger boyfriend.  The woman leaves and Bree goes to visit her the next day to do some research on this woman on her own.  She learns that Keith had a son with this lady and the son had finally wanted to meet his father after seven years father-less.  Knowing how much Keith wants children but can’t because of Bree’s age, she keeps this information to herself and tells the woman that Keith does not wish to ever see the child.

We continue to see Bree’s insecurities with her age in this “cougar” relationship of hers.  It breaks her heart that she is not able to give Keith children, something he’s wanted for so long.  She doesn’t tell him about his child because she is afraid he will leave her for his ex to be with his child. 

Gabby is still mourning over the loss of Grace, her biological child that was switched up at the hospital at birth who moved to Mexico with her family.  She had purchased a doll in memory of Grace but becomes obsessive over it and Carlos and Bree see first hand her obsession with the doll.  When Carlos and Gabby are held at gunpoint in their car, she is hysterical over not being able to save the doll, who she had in the backseat in a car seat. 

We see Carlos’ concern for Gabby and her fixation over this doll.  The psychologist they’ve been going to told Carlo and Gabby to forget about Grace in order to help their daughter Juanita but Gabby just can’t let her go.  This love for Grace is turning into a neurotic craze over a doll causing her loved ones to be deeply concerned for her mental health.

Lynette’s mother pays her an overdue visit to inform her she is marrying a man she met at the nursing home.  After seeing his negative personality, Lynette tells her mother at the wedding she shouldn’t marry this man but the mother tells her she how lonely she is at the nursing home and its nice to be wanted and needed by someone else for a change.

Lynette feels guilty after this confession from her mother realizing after she made a family of her own, she had shut out her mother of her new life.  As a busy mother of five children and just starting a new interior designing business with Renee, she hadn’t seen her ignorance towards her elderly mother at the nursing home and this makes Lynette feel bad and want to change how she has been the last 10 years with her relationship with her mother.

And finally Renee, she designs a room for Bob and Lee, a gay couple, for their newly adopted daughter.  They are in awe of her amazing job and she confesses to them how she has longed to be a mother.  Bob and Lee tell Renee that they want her to be their “mother” figure for her as she gets older and Renee is very appreciative towards the men.

We see a different side of Renee that we are not used to-compassionate and at a low point.  She’s been jealous of her best friend Lynette’s beautiful marriage and family and she realizes she is getting too old to be able to have her own family by the time she meets someone and gets married.  Renee is usually the confident one in the group and we see her this episode as the odd one out and is actually jealous of other women for once.

Next week we hope Bree finally tells Keith the truth so they aren’t keeping secrets to keep their relationship strong, Susan to get a kidney donor for her health, Gabby getting some help for her doll obsession, Lynette to just keep her family and marriage strong, and for Renee to keep showing these different, new emotions of hers that we have never really seen before.