Carlos desperate housewives10/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Lynette is also someone I can’t be snarky toward. Anyone else want to see Lang fall off a cliff and Gaby take his place as mayoress of Fairview? Next season, I hope she returns to fighting form. And falling into Carlos’ arms now that she’s souring on Lang? Way to face your problems, Gabbers. Gaby’s general lack of backbone recently is inexplicably out of character - she almost has a glassy-eyed ”Lang has convinced me that if I leave him, even though I’m having doubts and am in like with my ex-husband, the aliens will invade Fairview, so I must stay” look. And never mind that a sharp people reader like Gaby could stand up to her fiancé and his father at the dinner table in one scene, then be brainwashed by the elder man’s poppycock shortly thereafter. Never mind that Daddy Lang had paid his new daughter-in-law a visit before the wedding, urging her to marry his son, despite her aversion to the campaign trail and the fact that the son had just called her stupid. (That was me, channeling Yoda.) Gaby - whose ceremony was almost a celebration interruptus, thanks to Edie and the ex-hubby’s loud squabbling - stalked and paced the grounds, all aflutter over a conversation she’d heard between Victor and his dad which implied that he’d married her for the Latino vote. …Because as we’d seen earlier, a hugely expensive wedding does not a happy bride make. Next season, I say bring back who-cares-about-her-soul-because-she-doesn’t-have-one Edie (after a last-minute rescue, of course) and leave all this morbidity at the door. My beef this season was that the writers decided that Edie needed to be an Actual Person With Feelings and Needs, which translated into a few awkwardly loving (well, more like liking) scenes with her son and the aforementioned breakdown as Carlos stormed off at Gaby’s wedding. From day one, she’s always been a genuine over-the-top caricature. I’ve felt sad for Edie (as when her newly loving son Travers headed out the door with his dad), but I’ve never truly identified with her as a human being or seen what makes her tick. Try it, Nic!) But there was nothing funny - and nothing untrue - about Mary Alice’s hanging scene voice-over, during which we actually felt the loneliness and alienation of those without family. (The kid from Hope Floats once said she thinks about people drowning on the Titanic. And yes, Nicollette Sheridan needs to hit Strasberg or RADA and figure out how to perform a crying scene. Yes, I found it creepy as hell that she was talking to her mom’s apparition while she had raunchy sex with Carlos. We’ll start with Edie, since she appears to be, well, dead.
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