Let's recap last night's (April 17) episode that included a dead body in a toy box, picking up men in bars, police brutality, and more creepiness in the continuing saga of sex, lies and murder on "Desperate Housewives."
Neighbor Mrs. McCluskey (same actress who plays God in "Joan of Arcadia") gives an expensive Tiffany lamp to an unappreciative Lanette as thanks for not letting her die on the lawn. Mike gets his ass kicked by a homicide detective. At camp Henessey, Bree learns her son Andrew may (or may not) have gay feelings. But he's not sure even if he did mack on a guy in a pool. Either way, she freaks at the thought of leaving him at a camp with 200 other boys so she takes him home. And, being a loving and caring mom, she comforts him in true Bree style: "I'd love you -- even if you were a murderer."
, She continues with her killer zings over dinner in the discussion of her diabolically maybe-gay son Andrew who lied to her and said he was NOT gay in order to get out of being at camp. Then, in front of the dinner guest, a pastor, her husband Rex defends Andrew by saying "Can't you at least wait until dessert before calling our son a sodomite?" Bree then turns to Andrew and reveals: "Your father is into S & M. He lets me beat him with a riding crop." She also tells her son he shouldn't be gay, otherwise, he is like, so NOT going to heaven.
Later Andrew hints in a private conver with the pastor that he is gonna do something bad to get back at his mom. Nothing Columbine, but then again we don't know what the little twit is capable of. (Just an evil grin so far.)
After Carlos takes away her credit cards, Gabrielle runs up charges on her teenage lover's student credit card. Then she calls her boy toy in a panic when the card is declined and he tells her his mom just cancelled it. In a bind at the restaurant, Gabrielle shmoozes on a stranger to pay for her meal, then glares triumphly at the waiter who was probably hoping to call the cops on her non-paying ass.
Susan's mom has moved in and made Susan's life hell. First she flirts with the ice cream man and then invites a couple of losers over to the house to double date. Actually, I'm finding Leslie Ann Warren's over-the-top acting to be jagged and tiresome, and not in flow with the rest of the show. I'd preferred Susan (Teri Hatcher, above) to just have crying jags over Mike as she tries to deal.
Oh, yes, Mike. After getting called "scum" and getting roughed up by the cop who hands him a secret file, he discovers that the body of his missing wife, Deirdre, was found dismembered inside a toy chest. Her father (who he spoke with at the cemetery) has been looking for her for 15 yrs only to find out that she had been dead all that time. Then comes another plot twist at the end of the show when Mike reads in the file that the name of Mary Alice's husband (Paul Young) is on the list of people who had purchased that type of toy chest years ago. So, natch,
Mike now suspects Paul of killing her...
She continues with her killer zings over dinner in the discussion of her diabolically maybe-gay son Andrew who lied to her and said he was NOT gay in order to get out of being at camp. Then, in front of the dinner guest, a pastor, her husband Rex defends Andrew by saying "Can't you at least wait until dessert before calling our son a sodomite?" Bree then turns to Andrew and reveals: "Your father is into S & M. He lets me beat him with a riding crop." She also tells her son he shouldn't be gay, otherwise, he is like, so NOT going to heaven.
Later Andrew hints in a private conver with the pastor that he is gonna do something bad to get back at his mom. Nothing Columbine, but then again we don't know what the little twit is capable of. (Just an evil grin so far.)
After Carlos takes away her credit cards, Gabrielle runs up charges on her teenage lover's student credit card. Then she calls her boy toy in a panic when the card is declined and he tells her his mom just cancelled it. In a bind at the restaurant, Gabrielle shmoozes on a stranger to pay for her meal, then glares triumphly at the waiter who was probably hoping to call the cops on her non-paying ass.
Susan's mom has moved in and made Susan's life hell. First she flirts with the ice cream man and then invites a couple of losers over to the house to double date. Actually, I'm finding Leslie Ann Warren's over-the-top acting to be jagged and tiresome, and not in flow with the rest of the show. I'd preferred Susan (Teri Hatcher, above) to just have crying jags over Mike as she tries to deal.
Oh, yes, Mike. After getting called "scum" and getting roughed up by the cop who hands him a secret file, he discovers that the body of his missing wife, Deirdre, was found dismembered inside a toy chest. Her father (who he spoke with at the cemetery) has been looking for her for 15 yrs only to find out that she had been dead all that time. Then comes another plot twist at the end of the show when Mike reads in the file that the name of Mary Alice's husband (Paul Young) is on the list of people who had purchased that type of toy chest years ago. So, natch,
Mike now suspects Paul of killing her...
