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.