Speaking of trying things again from the beginning, must we suffer through Mike and Susan trying to get back together… again on Desperate Housewives? It’s actually insane. They would both have to be completely and utterly crazy to try this for the twelfth time, and if the producers make us sit through another half-dozen episodes were they try and fail and try again to get back together, I may have to remove the show from my TiVo. We’ve dealt with this story for about 50 or 60 episodes already. I’m over it and I can’t imagine the rest of the audience isn’t, too. It shows an utter lack of creativity on the part of the producers.
Elsewhere on Housewives, there certainly is creativity. The producers have completely rewritten history, and act as though Susan and Edie would be, could be, and are friends. Susan and Edie, friends. Must I recount the umpteen episodes when Susan complained about, fought with, and generally maligned her nemesis? Yet, Susan apparently felt badly last night about siding with Gaby about the woman that repeatedly tried to steal Mike (and who did in fact end up leading Susan into the predicament with Mike she currently has).
Now, that’s true creativity. The producers were able to completely unburden themselves of the reality of the world that they have created and wrote up a new storyline that completely reimagines the whole thing.
At this point, and I’m just sorry to have to do this, I need to ask for a do-over on all of Sunday night television for the past few weeks. Except, of course, for The Simpsons, from whom I’ve shamelessly stolen this idea (see people, you can still be creative after nearly 400 episodes). Good for Marge, forcing a whole stadium of people to relive a little league baseball game over, and over, and over, and over...
Article comments
1 - Brent
"Charla and Mirna? I would say horribly wretched things about them if someone wouldn’t slam me for saying bad things about a vertically challenged individual and her teammate who, despite being a lawyer, can barely speak in full sentences."
The answer is simple - say horribly wretched things about the horribly wretched Mirna. There's the way she treats her vertically challenged cousin and partner. There's the way she self righteously talks about playing an "honest and ethical" game while doing everything short of stealing (and she may have done that too) to get ahead. Except for her tendency to try to get behind airline counters Charla is fine, a little lion who has done most of the daredevil tasks this season ("walk around the outside of an obsevation tower then drop like a stone to the ground - no problem"). Mirna on the other hand is a bitch.
2 - Andi
Can I just say that every time team schmirna talked to someone, them talking in a very patronising accent drives me insane.
Now that it is all over I'm happy. I was happy with either Eric and Danielle or the Blondes winning so long as it' wasn't Mirna and Charla.