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Desperate Housewives
The Coffee Cup
Original Air Date: Nov 15, 2009
Annette – TwoCents Reviewer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com
Yet another good week on Wisteria Lane. Of course there’s more lying, manipulating and cheating. It wouldn’t be Wisteria Lane otherwise right? Oh, and another murder. Read on to find out more…
Susan is in court for shooting Katherine and gets sentenced to pick up trash (since she’s been talking “trash” about Katherine all over the neighborhood). Katherine stops by to gloat and throws a cup on the ground and Susan gets her busted for littering. They end up on the trash gang together. Katherine has a mini breakdown and admits that Susan won and cries about how she’s never going to find a guy like Mike who will make love to her five times in one day. Susan is shocked and Katherine is smug when she finds out that Susan and Mike have never done that. So now Susan keeps trying to get Mike in bed. He finally begs for a break telling her that sex was all he had with Katherine and he and Susan have much more together.
Gaby is trying to bribe the priest in charge of admissions at the Catholic school she’s trying to get Juanita into. He encourages her to come to church more often and make a donation and then Juanita can get moved to the top of the waiting list. Terrance, who works for Carlos, happens to have a daughter at the same school in the same grade. Carlos decides to send him to run the new Florida office thereby leaving an opening at the school for Juanita. Unfortunately, Lynette has been grooming Terrance to take over for her when she has to go on maternity leave. She and Tom have Terrance and his wife over for dinner to celebrate, but really start talking him out of moving. When Terrance turns down the promotion, Gaby goes to Lynette to get her to help get Terrance to Florida. It’s then that she finds out Lynette is pregnant. Lynette begs her not to tell Carlos. At work Carlos offers the Florida job to Lynette and tells her she can either take it or quit. He says that Gaby didn’t tell him about the pregnancy, but he looks really ticked!
Orson is going away for the weekend and asks Angie to spy on Bree because he thinks she’s having an affair. She finds that idea completely ridiculous and tries to laugh about it with Bree later. But she sees that Bree is a little shocked, and when Bree goes out to call Karl and tell him that they need to cool it off for awhile, Angie spies on her from the window.
Julie runs into Angie at a coffee shop and tries to make small talk to her. Angie tells her she knows about the affair and completely shames her for trying to talk to her. Later, Angie goes to meet Nic at the same shop and the young woman working is brushing crumbs off his shirt. This scene is completely disturbing! If the writers are going to go with this story line of young women finding Nic attractive, couldn’t they have actually found an actor who is attractive? And doesn’t run around in the same outfit every day – sloppy button down shirt open over a nasty white tank top? Gross, gross, gross – but I digress. Angie tells Nic she wants him to be the man he used to be – the one who saved her life. Another tidbit!
Karl comes to Bree’s house and Angie sees him go in. Karl tells Bree he has a plan for getting Bree divorced from Orson so they decide to celebrate, with sex. So much for the one month break. While they’re upstairs in the bedroom, Orson comes home. Angie calls Bree and warns her and Karl ends up outside naked – a nice payback for when he left Susan outside naked in the first season. Angie saves her butt when Orson grills Bree about the glass of wine he saw. Angie scolds Bree about the affair and tells her to choose. Bree says she can’t because Karl is crass and Orson likes opera. Please, someone tell me she sees the light of day and dumps Karl.
Nic is back at the coffee shop and he uses a pre-paid cell phone to call some detective and tells him that he’s thinking about turning himself in but “she needs a pass.” When he hangs up, the coffee shop girl (who was brushing the crumbs off earlier), is standing behind him. He accuses her of eavesdropping, which she denies. He leaves the shop, and just as she’s locking up and leaving the door opens again. She says “Oh, did you forget something?” Whoever has come back in (which we don’t see), turns off the light and strangles her!
Well, it looks like the poor coffee shop girl is dead and it certainly seemed like it was Nic, but then she was arguing with a guy on the phone – so who knows? We got to see a lot of Angie this week, but I’m still torn over whether or not I like her. What do you all think? And what about Lynette? I don’t think we’ll lose one of our housewives, but I’m definitely curious to see how this play out. Lynette certainly can’t afford to quit. Anyone feel sorry for Orson? His story lines the last two seasons have just been lousy. Let me know your two cents!
TheTwoCents 
The Carlos reaction bugged me from the get-go. If Terrance turned down the job because he didn’t want to move and wasn’t fired, then he can’t enforce it on Lynette, right? Wouldn’t she then have a clear cut case for discrimination?
While I’m not sure Karl is the right man for Bree, Orson is way too milquetoast for her. She needs someone like Karl, if not exactly Karl, that evens her out.
But Carlos isn’t threatening to fire Lynette – he’s just offering her a promotion. At least that’s the way he’s stating it. I’m figuring epic blow out that will lead to everyone just being friends again. Or maybe she’ll sue him for discrimination. I imagine that will pretty much ruin her friendship with Gaby.
Until they made Orson a klepto-psycho, I thought he was perfect for Bree. I just hate what they did with his character. I keep hoping their relationship will go back to the way it was, but I’m guessing that just isn’t going to happen.
But didn’t Carlos say she had to take the promotion or there was no job for her? By those same rules, he would’ve had to let Terrance go if he didn’t take it since it was offered to him and he turned it down.
You’re right – I was just restating what he said. He’s also denying that he knew she was pregnant, so that he can deny any discrimination. No one can prove that Gaby told him about Lynette. And as her boss, he can tell her to go to Florida or lose her job. People get transferred all the time. Just with pregnancy part, it makes him look really bad.
I didn’t like Carlos and what he did but he had every right to be upset with Lynette screwing him over. But two wrongs don’t make a right.
I liked the Angie/Bree stuff. A few good chuckles.
Not a fan of Dominic going around and strangling people. I mean, I just assume it’s him.
all I know is that i am not like Carlos right now.
I’m about 90 % or more on Lynette’s side on this case. None of this would have happened if Carlos didn’t admit to Lynette the illegal act of not promoting the other woman because of her pregnancy. If he hadn’t done that Lynette was set to tell him weeks ago.
Kris – you’re so right! I totally forgot that was how this had all started. I’m with everyone else – I really don’t like Carlos right now – he’s acting like a total ass.