Desperate Housewives S3 Episode 1: Listen To The Rain On The Roof
Come Season 3 and we have our women of Wisteria Lane back! As I mentioned in the review for the special, S3 starts 6 months down the track post the S2 finale.
It starts with a little back-story of one Alma Hodge. Yup, Orson's ex-wife. We see how much of a particular neat freak (much like Bree!) he really is, with her cleaning up after house in the very meticulous way that he instructed her to. She finally snaps and decides to leave once he left for work. Her plans are delayed by her talking parrot escaping and refusing to return to it's cage! Meanwhile, Orson notices a stain on his sleeve and decides to make his way back home. In a cruel twist of fate, the bird flies back it's case unbidden, just as Orson walks through the front door and observes Alma's suitcases and guilty, terrified expression. Great sense of timing, Baby. Their nosy neighbour makes her way over unannounced when Alma fails to turn up for a get-together they planned and she finds Orson cleaning the floor. He tells her that Alma has left him and she probes the matter deeper but he denies any knowledge. It was then that the bird tellingly screeches repeatedly, "Orson, no!" And the wheels of suspicion start to turn in the neighbour's head...
Back on Wisteria Lane, rain is pouring heavily. Orson has asked Bree to marry him and she said yes. She excitedly lets the girls know and invites them to her engagement announcing party. There's no other place to put this delicately but it was so amusing I couldn't leave it out! Bree visits the doctor in haste after lying with Orson only to find out that she has been cheated all her life of experiencing her first orgasm! Anyway, Lynette has had enough of 6 months of Nora as a price of dealing with sweet-natured Kayla but she puts up with the crap because she's his wife and Tom comes first. Nora tests her patience some more when she inserts herself into their Christmas family picture and when she makes her enraged self bothersome by hunting one of the boy's birthday party down, thinking that Lynette lied (and lied she did;)) about just having Kayla over for a quiet afternoon. As she puts it, no her, no Kayla. Tom finally says something to Nora, albeit at Lynette's challenging "Do I still come first?", and Nora leaves in a childish huff. Seriously, Tom, I know you love little Kayla, but grow a backbone! I really feel for Lynette, stuck having to live with her husband's mistake for life.
Another housewife getting her American dream similarly dashed is Gaby. She's stuck having to wait on her hubby's mistress hand and foot, all because she made the regrettable decision to have Xiao Mei be their surrogate. They hate each other's guts and Xiao Mei abuses her position as the baby's container by being snotty with Gaby. After calling Gaby a bitch, Gaby exclaims over how fantastically glad she'll be when Xiao Mei pops the baby out and she can send her ass to the rice paddies of China! There's no love lost between those two! Xiao Mei then disappears. Gaby is forced to make contact with Carlos to check if Xiao Mei is lurking there. He follows her on her goose chase to Chinatown where she exchanges insults with Xiao Mei's restaurant friend and ends up leaving with the contents of a plate of Mushu Pork served down her designer-clad front.
Susan has been caring for Mike ever since he's been in the coma and is feeling lonely. She wants Mike to wake up so badly. In the hallways, she meets Ian, who is similarly miserable over the comatose state of his wife across the hall, and has been for the past 3 years! Poor guy. They hit it off and before you know it, he asks Susan on a date, but only if she's ready since she's only been 'mourning' Mike for 6 months versus his 3 years. She 'talks' to Mike, wills him to wake up, explains ho lonely she is...and finally, looks on his comatose body as she leaves the door, assuring him that it is going to only be dinner. Sigh. Amazing what Marc Cherry comes up with. I mean, there's a dilemma. How long do you keep waiting before you move on? Well, it should be interesting when (no question about it, no one kills Mike Delfino;D) Mike wakes up from his 6-month slumber and Susan should have another triangle-shaped dilemma;)
It starts with a little back-story of one Alma Hodge. Yup, Orson's ex-wife. We see how much of a particular neat freak (much like Bree!) he really is, with her cleaning up after house in the very meticulous way that he instructed her to. She finally snaps and decides to leave once he left for work. Her plans are delayed by her talking parrot escaping and refusing to return to it's cage! Meanwhile, Orson notices a stain on his sleeve and decides to make his way back home. In a cruel twist of fate, the bird flies back it's case unbidden, just as Orson walks through the front door and observes Alma's suitcases and guilty, terrified expression. Great sense of timing, Baby. Their nosy neighbour makes her way over unannounced when Alma fails to turn up for a get-together they planned and she finds Orson cleaning the floor. He tells her that Alma has left him and she probes the matter deeper but he denies any knowledge. It was then that the bird tellingly screeches repeatedly, "Orson, no!" And the wheels of suspicion start to turn in the neighbour's head...
Back on Wisteria Lane, rain is pouring heavily. Orson has asked Bree to marry him and she said yes. She excitedly lets the girls know and invites them to her engagement announcing party. There's no other place to put this delicately but it was so amusing I couldn't leave it out! Bree visits the doctor in haste after lying with Orson only to find out that she has been cheated all her life of experiencing her first orgasm! Anyway, Lynette has had enough of 6 months of Nora as a price of dealing with sweet-natured Kayla but she puts up with the crap because she's his wife and Tom comes first. Nora tests her patience some more when she inserts herself into their Christmas family picture and when she makes her enraged self bothersome by hunting one of the boy's birthday party down, thinking that Lynette lied (and lied she did;)) about just having Kayla over for a quiet afternoon. As she puts it, no her, no Kayla. Tom finally says something to Nora, albeit at Lynette's challenging "Do I still come first?", and Nora leaves in a childish huff. Seriously, Tom, I know you love little Kayla, but grow a backbone! I really feel for Lynette, stuck having to live with her husband's mistake for life.
Another housewife getting her American dream similarly dashed is Gaby. She's stuck having to wait on her hubby's mistress hand and foot, all because she made the regrettable decision to have Xiao Mei be their surrogate. They hate each other's guts and Xiao Mei abuses her position as the baby's container by being snotty with Gaby. After calling Gaby a bitch, Gaby exclaims over how fantastically glad she'll be when Xiao Mei pops the baby out and she can send her ass to the rice paddies of China! There's no love lost between those two! Xiao Mei then disappears. Gaby is forced to make contact with Carlos to check if Xiao Mei is lurking there. He follows her on her goose chase to Chinatown where she exchanges insults with Xiao Mei's restaurant friend and ends up leaving with the contents of a plate of Mushu Pork served down her designer-clad front.
Susan has been caring for Mike ever since he's been in the coma and is feeling lonely. She wants Mike to wake up so badly. In the hallways, she meets Ian, who is similarly miserable over the comatose state of his wife across the hall, and has been for the past 3 years! Poor guy. They hit it off and before you know it, he asks Susan on a date, but only if she's ready since she's only been 'mourning' Mike for 6 months versus his 3 years. She 'talks' to Mike, wills him to wake up, explains ho lonely she is...and finally, looks on his comatose body as she leaves the door, assuring him that it is going to only be dinner. Sigh. Amazing what Marc Cherry comes up with. I mean, there's a dilemma. How long do you keep waiting before you move on? Well, it should be interesting when (no question about it, no one kills Mike Delfino;D) Mike wakes up from his 6-month slumber and Susan should have another triangle-shaped dilemma;)
Edie has been polishing her realtor skills, trying to load off the Youngs' and the Applewhites' properties on to new buyers. It's proving a little hard when it seems that the grapevine is quite lengthy and a lot of people have heard about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the Young's house in particular. During one of her open call tours, she opens the door of a storage closet to show off the space to 2 prospective buyers, only to discover the missing Xiao Mei! With caterer food for the open call on hand! She lets Gaby know and Gaby picks her up. At Bree's party, everything is looking gorgeous and going along swimmingly until a knock on the door brings an unexpected guest. It is Orson's ex-neighbour and she reveals to the room that Orson was responsible for the suspicious circumstances surrounding Alma's mysterious disappearance. That he murdered her. Bree is thrown for a loop. Orson denies the accusations. And being the impeccable hostess she is, after pulling herself together, she opens the buffet table. It must be so hard to have to stand there and take the humiliation in front of your guests and worse, have doubt cast on the man you've decided to marry. She has really had so many bad experiences. In fact, all the housewives' plights, I wouldn't wish on myself or my worst enemy!
And the rain keeps on falling...And each housewife hopes that come morning, the rain has washed all her worries away...
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