Despite some mostly predictably plot developments “Suspicion Song” was a solid hour of drama on Desperate Housewives. Again I must apologize for skipping a week with these reviews. I had my own desperate drama to deal with in the form of way too much crap going on at work.
The action kicked off immediately this week with Bree (Marcia Cross) waking up to the sounds of an intruder in her house. Bree is a smart girl though and immediately calls the cops, gives the wrong address (4355 instead of 4354) and rushes downstairs with a firearm where she finds Chuck (Jonathan Cake) lurking around her foyer. The creepy cop claimed he responded to her 911 call but I’m not convinced it wasn’t him snooping for clues now that he is hot on the trail of Gabby’s missing stepfather.
Lynette gets a surprise when flowers arrive from Tom (Doug Savant) for their anniversary and everyone but her realizes they were sent because of a standing order at the florist and not because Tom wants to reconcile. After a conversation when a potential design client she decides to perm her hair, put on a slinky dress, steal a key to his apartment and head over there. Of course she ends up catching Tom and Dana pre-coitus and of course ends up embarrassing herself and her reaction was heartbreaking. You could see the slow transition in her face as she accepted her marriage was over. Well played Felicity Huffman!
I have to say Susan (Teri Hatcher) surprised me this week. After weeks of trying to get Andre Zeller’s approval in art class she has finally had enough, so when he brings in a prestigious and short gallery owner Felix Bergman (Leslie Jordan) she is less than impressed. That is until he heaps praise on her work and insists it be shown in his gallery.
Felix – “You’re like a sexy suburban Georgia O’Keeffe without all those pesky vaginas.”
Felix’s other memorable quote “I smell fear and mediocrity” was an obvious nod to his character on Will & Grace and that’s okay. I love Leslie Jordan to pieces. If you haven’t seen his one man show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet or the movie Sordid Lives rent them both immediately.
Given that Susan’s artistic expressions involve detailed images of the crime she and her friends committed they obviously cannot be displayed so naturally they end up on the wall in the gallery thanks to an intervention from Zeller who thinks it high time Susan had “greatest thrust upon her”. I think this may be the first time that the hurricane of fail that surrounds Susan wasn’t directly Susan’s fault. Granted, she did paint the darn things which are as Bree puts it “an artistic confession” but she did forbid Zeller to display then. And it was Zeller who gave them to Bergman without Susan’s approval, which is something Susan would have done if the roles were reversed actually, so maybe this was Susan’s fault after all.
The snobbish art community of Fairview goes nuts for the paintings of course but no one is as impressed as Chuck who is about 14 seconds away from putting all the pieces of this puzzle together. I loved when Bree got all up in his face and told him to charge her with a crime or “get the hell off her street!” Bree is so badass. And am I the only one who would love to have that painting of the four girls burying the body hanging in their living room?
Down at Casa Du Solis (4349 Wisteria Lane) Carlos is still drunk and rocking a bad fro and it is starting to affect his job. Gabby (Eva Longoria) convinces him to take a week off and heads to the office to take care of payroll where she unwittingly gives a very cute but backstabbing contractor named Geoffrey the means to sabotage Carlos by stealing his biggest client. When the news of the real reason Carlos is missing work gets out the client demands to speak with him. Turns out he was an alcoholic too and he convinces Carlos to go to rehab. It wasn’t shown but I’m guessing Geoffrey ends up getting fired. He’ll be okay though. The pretty boys always are.
With no body to prove the crime it is unlikely that Chuck will ever come up with enough evidence to charge any of the girls with anything at all unless someone confesses or someone on Ben’s construction staff fesses up to finding the body. Bree is at her breaking point though as we saw when she took that drink of wine at the end of the hour, so she may end up shooting Chuck and burying him in the woods too! Okay maybe not. He is a cop after all, but I don’t see this ending well for him. As for the girls I think it’s going to take something big to bring them together again. What else could this final season have in store for us?
Desperate Housewives is taking a break for the holidays and won’t be back until December 4.
