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Desperate Housewives; Season 7
Topic Started: Sep 19 2010, 06:02 AM (1,693 Views)
KMInfinity
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So..is Beth working with Zach?

I find the storylines really dumb lately. I mean, extra dumb. The neighborhood riot episode was so well done I was hoping the storytelling would rise a notch or two, but between Lynette's ridiculous response to Tom's affair, and Carlos' really rotten treatment of Gaby's pain, and Gabby's super-creepy doll fetish.....well, bleah is all I have to say.
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Dax, I know. Also, I would love to get Edie back, I would be willing to overlook the fact she really died just to have her back. But the old Edie, not the horrible version of her.

KMI, I don't udnerstand Carlos, he's so cruel. After everythign they've been through when it comes to heir kids. How could he be so blind? The doll thing scares me a bit, too.
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shelle, I was sitting there watching and thinking the same thing about Carlos. I agree that they have to be more sensitive to the child they have but he just seems to not care at all that they have a "blood" daughter out there. I think the writers really screwed up this storyline. The other woman doesn't seem to care either...the only one who cares is Gabby. I hope they didn't bring the daughter into the story just to have a reason for Gabby to "play" nutso.

I'm just not liking the Renee character...Edie fit in much better. And watching the things that Lynette did ...seemed like she was doing Susan type things. Just out of character for her. Besides they were on a Ross/Rachel break lol.

Show sucks this year. Saw on twitter that the network wants to bring it back but most of the women have to re-do their contracts. They made it sound like it will be up to how the contracts turn out. It also sounds like they might not be bringing Brothers & Sisters back.

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I half-expect B&S to die, but DH will surely go another year or two. And as mediocre-to-worse this season is, I'm not thinking the show NEEDS to end yet... it can recover.

I don't like Renee at all. Really cringe at any mention of her as Lynette's 'best friend'.

Carlos/Gaby - Obviously, a 'compromise' last week (put the photos and mementos away, hide them, but to delete them is more than a bit silly) would have made more sense, but I'm MORE on Carlos' side (focusing on Juanita's happiness and security IS the priority) after how freaking EVIL Gaby was at the height of the story (putting immigration onto Grace's parents).

>> The other woman doesn't seem to care either

I never thought that, really. Just that the other three adults were reasonable and appropriate, and Gaby was... the opposite of that.

The doll thing is dumb. But I laughed big at a line in the first scene at the shop last week, when the clerk said they don't sell dolls (meaning that they offer adoptions) and Gaby said 'This place got creepy fast'...
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Not a Renee fan either, she sometimes delivers, but the idea of her doesn't go with me.

As for Gaby, I think she has the right to suffer and miss Grace. She can't erase her from her life or memory. I agree with Carlos they need to take care of Juanita and help her with it and make her feel loved, but he can't force Gabby to act liek nothing happened, not when they are alone. It's cruel.

We've had a case liek that few years ago, when the kdis were just babies and they had to exchange them and the women said how difficult it was and how they didn't want to exchange the kids and when they did how much they missed the other kids so much. I think that Gabby needs therapy.

Also, it was beyonf evil when she called the immigration on the other Mum :( Gaby is tough, but shouldn't be that mean and cruel.

As for B&S, yes, please let the show die and let's pretend that only a season or two exist. I had such high hopes for the show and it went down hill between the second and third season for me.
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But maybe both B&S and DH can be ressurected, I though GA was a goner during the fourth or the fifth season and look at them now. I lvoe the show more than ever.
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Oh I agree that both girls are and should be the priority. Maybe I was looking at it too much from my perspective. I don't think I could just let go of either girls and would need, not just want them in my life. And yeah...Gabs was way outta line calling immigration.

I have more to say on B&S..but will post on that board :)
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I hate the Renee story, and wish she were gone, even though I have nothing against VW and loved her in Ugly Betty.

One of the elephants in the room is I think how Grace is beautiful and Juanita is, well, not. Frankly if I had been that overweight my mother would have locked me in a room for 6 months without food, or tied me to a treadmill, or both. (But I've described my mom and let's not geo that route here). In any case Gaby is all about appearance. she was a model. now she has this kid who is unattractive and sort of bitchy as well. She finds out she has a biological child who is pretty and has many of her characteristics. They are wealthy and here is her poor child being raised without much. So I can see how she is tormented. Ideally, I think close contacts between the families, and she and Carlos setting up education funds for Grace and her sibs as well. Some people of means "adopt" families and help them out. This could be a solution here that works for all.
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Just watched Sunday epi. Isn't Susan's mom the same woman who plays the demented mom in In Plain Sight?
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Yes, Lesley Ann Warren (I don't watch In Plain Sight, but it's on her credits list...).
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She's just as wacky on both shows. I love In Plain Sight.
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Interesting that most people recognize LAW from In Plain Sight. She'll always be Cinderella to me.
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Gregory Itzin was really good.

Bree is evil.
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I hate it when they make Bree do things like that. Really hate it.

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I just watched that epi, I hate it too. She and Keith do not even go together. Except maybe for the sex, this relationship would not last 4 months. No matter how many face lifts she's had, she still looks like his mother, and more importantly they have nothing in common. I hope he finds out about the kid ASAP.

Did Paul's wife really try to shoot him? Somehow I missed this.
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No, Zach (in disguise as a delivery person) planted the gun in the living room while all the ladies were in the kitchen...

Paul recognized the gun as his son's. That's why he didn't take Beth off to be killed.
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Manifan, I cracked up when you mentioned that LAW will always be Cinderella to you. ME TOO!! When I see LAW on In Plain Sight or wherever else I always think of her first as Cinderella then her character. I also always think of Stuart Damon when I see LAW, if for only a second. LOL
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The last 2 have had some decent stuff. I think the romance between Bree and the kid was stupid, glad he is leaving. Lynette trying to get the twins out was very appropriate for a lot of the issues I see with these permanent children now. Don't care for Paul or Zack and wish they'd both just go away. I know they are acting creepy characters but even the actors creep me out.

Best of all though was Gaby and her confrontation with the nun. I can just see this happening.
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I was really ready to let the show go. But the finale made it look liek we're going back to basics. All wives working together. I may hang around for a bit longer.
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I didn't like the finale. Fine, glad that they found a way for Carlos to forgive Bree, but...

The four ladies and Carlos have a body to dispose of, a 'crime' to cover up together, but... it feels so unnecessary. The shooting looked totally justifiable...

The season as a whole was pretty much 'not good'.

But that doesn't mean that next year won't be better.

Better or worse, I'll be with it to the end, but if 8 is anything like 7, I'll be hoping for 8 to be the last. The four leads are signed through 8, with an option for 9 that won't require new negotiations, but will cost ABC more... - http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/desperate-housewives-stars-finalizing-new-deals-paving-way-to-season-8-pickup/

Cherry's pilot (Hallelujah - didn't sound great, but Terry O'Quinn was in it) didn't go.

REALLY wish Vanessa Williams were a one-season-only character. I hate Renee, and not in a love-to-hate. Ill-conceived, uninteresting, scene-killer.

Kevin Rahm (Lee) has a new sitcom ('I Hate My Teenaged Daughter'), so I wonder if he'll have to leave DH.


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I agree with everything you say.

That's why I'm quite surprised I'm willing to watch another season.

And yes, totally unnecessary, very justifiable. I didn't liek msot of the season and I FFed a lot, but there were some beautiful scenes that were worth sticking with the show.

Lynette's SL is heartbreaking. They were the pillar couple of the show :( They had their ups and downs but this time it feels so final (terminal?) :( I'm super sad. If there's a couple I really want to be together, it's them. In Lsot, it was Penny and Des (later Juliet and Sawyer), here it's the Scavos.
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I don't mind the Scavos splitting for awhile (yes, I do hope/expect that they'll find their way back to each other), but the WAY in which they went so far south so fast... it was pretty hard to swallow. After everything they've been through in the past, this sure doesn't feel as irreconcilable as they've made it out to be... Tom got a big money-making job (that she forced him into), and Lynette began to handle it... very poorly... she's a bit of a control freak - check, but... I don't know. The story didn't seem well-prepared to go from embarrassing innocuous stuff like Lynette and the conference and the 'plus one' brouhaha... to yelling awful, horrible nasty stuff at each other and making Penny cry. They're both enraged over such seemingly small shit. Too much of it doesn't ring very believably.

He's more 'in the right' than she is, it seems. From what we've seen, she sounds a bit crazy yelling that he's changed so much, when, more, he's just been reacting to whatever thing she's been OVER-reacting to.

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I know. It doesn't seem right that they've overcoem so much and this minor bump should be their end.

My heart broke when Lynette said she had felt relief. That's not right. They can survive this better.

As you say, Dax, not enough built-up for this huge break up.
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Not a very good season and I can't stand Renee. I recently saw Huffman in an old LO epi. It was so old Lenny looked young. In any case she has had about 100 procedures done to herself since then. Nose, face lift, teeth, extreme do over. She was looking OK though till this last season when she totally froze her face out and put waaaaaaaaaaay too much shit in her lips. I swear none of these women can show a facial an expression to save their lives.
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Good point Krystal :(
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