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Desperate Housewives
Nice is Different than Good
Original Air Date: Sept 27, 2009
Annette – Reviewer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com
Well, so we’ve been waiting all summer to find out if Mike is marrying Susan or Katherine. Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait long at all in the season premiere to find out it is Susan! But of course, things don’t go smoothly, and Katherine interrupts the wedding. But we have to wait to find out if Katherine makes a spectacle of herself.
Flashback: 8 Weeks before Wedding
Mike breaks it off with Katherine who tries to take it with some dignity, but we can clearly see that she is devastated. Mike feels he’s done what he can and that Susan needs to talk with Katherine as well. Susan of course acts completely immature and completely avoids her.
Ana is still acting out and she’s pushing Gaby’s buttons, but Gaby is pushing right back. Carlos is absolutely no help (and not very present in this episode – let’s hope that’s not a sign of things to come).
Wisteria Lane has new neighbors – and the son looks a little disturbed. Anyone else smell secrets?
6 Weeks before Wedding
The housewives are making friends with the new neighbor (Drea de Matteo!) and it’s not long before she’s caught in a lie.
While Lynette is in the doctor’s office waiting room she crushes the spirit of a soon-to-be first mom – can you say bitter much?
Karl is desperately attempting to hook up with Bree, but first she rejects doing it on the couch in his office (she wants to feel special) and then in the seedy motel room he’s rented. (In Bree’s defense that place was kind of disgusting). While sheet shopping to redo the motel room bed, Karl tells Bree she’s not into it and he leaves. (Is anyone else as creeped out by Karl as I am? I cannot watch the scenes with him – I find him completely repulsive).
Susan’s wedding dress is delivered to Katherine’s house and when she goes to get it – Katherine is wearing it and making spaghetti sauce. Katherine’s appears to be going a bit off the deep end – so much for taking the high road.
After breaking the rules yet again, Gaby tracks Ana down at a night club and drags her out. After an “I-had-a-crappier-childhood-than-you-no-I-did” argument, Gaby finally signs the papers making her and Carlos the legal guardians of Ana. Ana claims not to care, but you could see at the end that Ana was touched. So does this mark the end of the battles, or is there more drama to come from Ana?
Julie is tutoring the new kid in the neighborhood, and he seems to like her so asks her to the movies – but just as friends. Mr. new neighbor thanks Julie for letting him down easy, but when she tells him that she thinks new kid is nice, Mr. new neighbor creepily tells her that she’s out of his league. Mrs. McClusky later witnesses Julie and the new kid having an argument, but we never see what it was about.
One Day before the Wedding
Orson tries to get Bree to go to couples counseling. All he manages to do is convince her to sleep with Karl.
During a sonogram, Lynette flips out because she doesn’t love the babies. Tom, who appears to be ecstatic about the babies, tells her to pull it together and that she will love the babies when she’s holding them in her arms.
The Wedding
Ok, I asked this back in last season’s finale review, and I have to ask again: Why is Karl at Susan’s wedding? Who invites their ex-husband to their wedding – particularly when they don’t even get along? Also, why are the new neighbors at the wedding? Did Susan just want to show off to the whole world so she invited everyone?
Katherine demands Susan make a public apology in the middle of the wedding ceremony – so Susan locks her in a closet. When Katherine storms in at the end – Susan makes a truly heartfelt apology – but Katherine does not feel better.
The End
As Mary Alice is doing her voice over wrap up Julie is taking out the trash she is grabbed from behind and strangled! OH MY! OH MY! OH MY! I so didn’t see that coming! Did any of you? Little Julie Mayer, who barely has been part of the show the last couple of years almost gets murdered in the very first episode! I can’t even tell you how shocked I am! It appears to be the new kid, but the strangler was hooded and we never got to see his face. Fortunately, in the previews for next week’s episode, we see that Julie isn’t dead. I thought for sure that she was – I’m so glad she’s not.
Awesome first episode back! What did you all think?
TheTwoCents 
ok, so I wanted to cringe when Catherine was stirring the sauce. We all know what a mess that can be.But in a “oh no you didn’t” kind of way…that was just wrong of her to put it on. Actually I thought we were going to find Catherine cutting it up or something. As for Karl…why is it I just don’t like the guy, he is kinda like a man whore. As for Lynette…I feel so sorry for her and totally understand how she feels.OMG , to start all over with baby stuff would just suck as you get older.Now…Julie…holy moley, I didn’t expect that at all! The writers have a good way of doing that to us, don’t they?
I was completely shocked by Julie (as you can tell from my review). The writers of this show are unbelieveable – you never know what they’re going to throw at you. And when you think they’re going to be predictable – they’re not! Love it!
Well, Marc Cherry did say that he was going to come up with his own ‘Who shot J.R.’ story line, so woo! I feel like the show is kind of back on season 1 levels, though I am so, so hoping this doesn’t draw out allll seasons looooong like the Dave story line did.
I wasn’t really shocked that Mike picked Susan, but it irritates me a little that she begged for the apology and then was completely unsatisfied when she got a sincere one from Susan. Granted, it was after being locked in a closet.
I liked Julie’s comment to Mike: “The scary part is that of the two women you could marry, that’s the stable one.” Marc Cherry also promised that Katherine’s melt down would be the funniest break down we’ve ever seen.
Sometimes I don’t like Lynette, but 96% of the time, I feel like she has the most real story lines out of all of them. I’ve never been a parent, but I know a lot of women who have gone through that crisis of not bonding with their babies right away, but I think she will; it might not even be right after they’re born, but this is Lynette. She’ll be okay.
The last thing I’ll say before my comment turns into a novel is…Ana, sweetie, if you would just be cool, you could be rolling in couture and your Aunt and Uncle would give you ANYTHING YOU WANTED. *sigh* Youth. They think they know everything.
Great, great recap! SO glad this show is back.
You’re definitely right about Ana – here she wants to be a model and she’s living with a former model! Hello – if she were maybe a little nicer, I’m sure Gaby would give her all the help she needed.
one thing that was brought up about Lynette: Her struggling with loving the babies. I was just thinking: what if the writers want to cover the issue of postpartum depression. Could be quite interesting.
That could be an interesting story for her – something they definitely haven’t done yet.
I’ve got only one thing to say: I love Jeffrey Nordling to bits from 24, but that New York accent he’s attempting is for some reason driving me up the wall.
Something tells me the new kid being the one to strangle Julie would be a bit obvious…even if he does seem to be the only one with any sort of motive at all. And speaking of obvious, did it seem obvious to anyone else Mike was going to pick Susan?
It would be too obvious to be the new kid. I’m sure this is the mystery they’re going to want to drag out all season before we know who it is, perhaps someone from Julie’s past – a story we don’t know yet that will unfold. I’m thinking the new kid is probably a red herring.
I was pretty sure Mike was going to pick Susan – but it’s Desperate Housewives – you just never know with these writers! I think that’s why I love it so much!