TV-Reviewed

For a while it felt like Desperate Housewives had gone off track with its less than interesting plots that lasted one episode and some very weird and disturbing situations involving some of the characters. Last episode started a change in Desperate Housewives and this episode returns Desperate Housewives back to the show we’ve enjoyed watching for so many seasons.; It finally feels like Desperate Housewives has hit it’s stride.

It was great; this episode continues from where the last one left off with Tom finding out that Porter is having sex and Lynette seeing Ann leave Tom’s garage. The writers made Tom and Lynette finding out the piece that the other didn’t have fun, with Lynette thinking Tom is cheating and Tom thinking that Lynette knows about Porter’s affair and so relaxed about it. There were some great laugh- out-loud moments here and it’s something that there hasn’t been much of this season.

Lynette took is pretty well aside from the fact that she beat up Ann, but she took it as well as we probably thought she would. We’re not sure if Ann is using Porter or if she truly is in love with him. The writers have done something like this before when Gabby was sleeping with John, but for some reason that was exciting and fun. The Ann and Porter relationship is more depressing and somewhat confusing because we’re not sure what Ann’s ulterior motives are, if there are any.

Bree might have had the most boring plot of the whole episode which involved her and Orson having sex in the kitchen and some boy that they had to fire getting the tape and threatening to post it online. Everything felt forced from the boy being fired in the very beginning right off the bat, and it seemed only to serve as a way for Lynette to find out. What made it a little weird is that Lynette was worried about this getting out, but we weren’t it didn’t seem as bad as Lynette made it out to be. However, Lynette overreacting about the smallest thing definitely fits her character. It’s too bad we didn’t get to see Andrew in action to see exactly how he got the kid to turn over the tape though, because we haven’t seen Andrew in action in quite a while. It wasn’t horrible stuff, but it definitely wasn’t all that interesting.

Gail O’Grady as Anne Schilling, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo

Gabby and Carlos have taken up with Ms. Hildebrand who is being weirdly generous to the family by letting them stay at her house and use her servants. It’s been three days and she already feels like Gabby’s family is her family. You can’t help but feel bad for her though. It’s obvious that she’s just lonely and for the amount of money she was willing to pay Carlos, you would think that Gabby and Carlos would just kind of go along with it. We do admit though that Ms Hildebrand was getting a little out there with the whole having the kids call her Grandma, but she’s an old lady. It’ll be interesting to see how Carlos and Gabby’s life is going to affected after the phone call that Hildebrande made to Carlos’ job. This will put the Solis’ at a much worse place then they were before.

Jackson and Susan embark on their second first date and it’s sort of cute watching them start over and learn new things about each other. The whole no sex rule that Susan comes up with benefits Jackson who apparently is a painter, but had been blocked, and without having sex, he’s finally able to draw again. It’s surprising that Susan didn’t get mad or anything, but kind of cool that she understood; and I’m sure the painting had something to do with it. The Jackson and Susan relationship is solid so far and it’s coming off pretty well, but we’ll have to see how Susan handles it when she finds out that Kathryn and Mike are sleeping together now.

Last but not least we had the McCluskey sisters digging up stuff on Dave, by calling his doctor. The doctor doesn’t divulge any information, but seems really uneasy about where Dave is. This didn’t get a lot of time, so it wasn’t that much of a distraction, but for now, the whole Dave thing isn’t as important as maybe it was a couple of episodes ago.

This episode had all the things that we love about Desperate Housewives. While it had it’s flaws, it’s probably one of the best episodes since the first episode. It also feels like the writers have returned the show more to the sex, lies and secrets type of show, than the watching the adults parent their kids and forcing the kids into scenes. We know the kids are there and it’s good to see that the writers don’t have to keep letting us know that.

This was another good episode and hopefully the rest of the season can go just as well as this episode was.

Rating: 7.8