Desperate Housewives – Recap & Review – The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues

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Desperate Housewives
The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues

Original Air Date: October 18, 2009

Annette – Reviewer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com

Secrets continue to fly this week on Wisteria Lane. Gaby has another run-in with ex-gardener/lover John Rowland. Lynette struggles to keep her pregnancy a secret from Carlos. Katherine slips further off the deep end. Susan finds out her daughter isn’t as perfect as she thought. The Bolen’s still try to keep their secret, but just a few more things slip. Read on to find out whose secrets are being revealed.

John gives Ana a ride home and Gaby doesn’t like it. Celia and Juanita find condoms under Ana’s bed and Ana tells Gaby that she loves John, which Gaby freaks out a little bit more. John claims he was just flirting with Ana to see if Gaby would be jealous. John comes on to Gaby pretty strongly and Ana walks in just as he kisses her. Gaby tells Ana about her past with John and that she has no feelings for him, so Ana doesn’t tell Carlos about the kiss. Gaby leaves the pictures of her and John that she was looking at last week at John’s restaurant for him to find. The pictures are torn in half. At the same time Gaby is telling Carlos how happy she is with her life, even though it’s not the one she imagined she would have. Ah, happy ending. Or is it? Have we seen the last of John?

Andrew spills the beans to Susan that Julie quit med school six months ago, has been waiting tables, and dating a married man. Susan tears apart Julie’s room and reads her journal trying to figure out who the married man is. Julie wakes up and Susan, who isn’t supposed to be asking her questions, starts grilling her about her private life. They argue about how stupid Julie could be to have an affair with a married man. When Susan leaves, Julie gets another visitor. It’s Mr. Bolen himself – apparently the man Julie is having an affair with! That was the man who was “nice” to her? He is totally creepy!

Katherine is still in love with Mike, and tells Bree that Mike’s just waiting for Julie to wake up and then he’s going to dump Susan and come back to her. Bree catches Katherine snooping outside Mike and Susan’s house and puts her on sick leave for three weeks. While Bree is consulting with a bride and groom about a wedding cake, they see a design they like. At the reception, Katherine returns saying she’s better, but then she sees the cake. It was the cake she designed for her wedding to Mike. She then destroys the cake and Bree fires her. In retaliation, Katherine keys the heck out of Bree’s car – then walks off smiling. Katherine is well on her way to a serious nervous breakdown.

Angie bribes Porter to throw a party for Danny. While Danny and Angie are talking we find out that Angie got her scars from some kind of explosion. The party appears to be a big success; Danny even looks like he’s getting along with people. But, he’s not happy when he sees his dad chatting up some girls. He tells his dad to leave, saying that “he knows.” Knows? Knows what? All these little tidbits are going to drive me crazy! And does anyone else find Nick to be as slimy as I do?

Lynette’s boobs are getting huge and Carlos thinks she got breast implants. Lynette of course doesn’t correct Carlos, still not wanting him to know she’s pregnant. So she lets him get away with using her big boobs to get some guys to sign a deal. I was not thrilled with this part of the episode, and don’t really have much to say about it except, when did Carlos turn into such a pig?

There was a lot going on in this episode, but at the same time, it felt kind of slow. I have a feeling the writers really are going to drag out the Julie attacker storyline all season. We’ve also now seen Angie’s scars twice and the only thing we know is there was some kind of explosion and that Danny does not appear to like his dad very much, although he gets along very well with his mom. Almost too well – anyone else uncomfortable with their relationship? How did you all feel about his episode? Let me have your two cents!