Wisteria Lane Rebound - 
by Umnata

I think it's safe. Wait, well, maybe. You just have to be careful about who you are talking to and where you are. But I'm pretty sure it's okay to say that you like Desperate Housewives again. Recently, enjoying an episode of Desperate Housewives, has kind of become like hooking up with the homeliest girl at the bar. You don't want anyone to know, but yet you privately relish the thrill of the conquest. So it is then my job, to tell you that if liking an episode of Desperate Housewives is wrong, this week, I'll bang all the Rachel Dratches in the world, cause this was a fine hour of television. But I said be careful, last week, we were delivered a real stinker of an ep, so who knows, but with this episode hitting season highs and next week involving a hostage crisis, I'm relatively confident that the upward incline this show is on will continue. Until sweeps, at least. Find out why, after the jump...
The opener this week is all about Edie. And in a newsflash: She's a whore! Okay, not a whore, just a woman who enjoys carnal pursuits... For money! No, seriously, I liked slutty Edie so much better than neutered Edie of the past two seasons. In what I assume is supposed to be funny, we see her head to her weekly confession, where she tells her priest all about her sexual exploits. "I had sex with a circus midget!", "I let a man shave my testicles!" etc. However, something funny happened on the way to Slutville, as Edie went to visit Mike Delfino, who finally asked her what the deal was between them pre-coma and she decided to come clean. Alright, maybe clean with a side of guilt trip, telling him that they were neighbors only and he never really paid attention to her. But in her defense, right here she has the opportunity to really play the manipulation card to the tilt, and yet she shockingly tells the truth. It's a tender moment, because upon closer examination the rivalry between Edie and Susan for Mike's affection was only ever really between Edie and Susan; Mike had picked SkeleHatcher from nearly the beginning. Edie then somewhat inexplicably tells Mike that from the first moment she saw him she "sorta fell in love with [him]". A little too much? I mean, honestly, she was engaged to Karl all last year, so now this "Mike's the one" nonsense is kind of hard to swallow. But it is nice to see Nicolette Sheridan shave her 5 o'clock shadow and play Edie a little more vulnerable for a change. Then something miraculously awful happens. Edie asks
Mike if next time he sees her outside on the street, if he could just look at her, because he never did before. And Mike says... are you ready for this? "I'm looking at you now!" followed by some tongue kissing. I can't quite type it in the gravelly "serious" voice that Mike does, and I certainly can't sell it like his current Somalia orphan-chic look can, but let me tell you it's woefully, unintentionally HILARIOUS. Slightly more intentionally funny is when Edie next goes to confession: "Mike Delfino and I made out today... and it was great!" And she's giddy like a little school boy. I mean girl. School girl.
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