Ok folks

[thinkerlady[$]]

Let's not forget to watch Desperate Housewives tonight. It is getting good. I saw ET last night--I never watch it, but the guy who plays "Mike" the plumber was on. He says he gets naked with someone--but wouldn't commit. I think it is "Edie".

He also wouldn't say when, but hinted soon.

[pippadaisy[$]]

Waht time again???

[phoenixx]

during THE WORLD SERIES.

[theworm[$]]

I'm planning on watching.
Hope I can follow it - it will be my first episode.
I think I should be able to fold laundry and watch.

[pippadaisy[$]]

Oh yeah. That's why I don't get to watch it. *sigh* Next week? Can someone remind me next week? Or maybe at this point I should give up and catch it in re-runs.

[thinkerlady[$]]

Oh boy. I can't believe she passed up that date!! But I guess she couldn't blow her cover.

I think the old lady wrote the letter. She is such a snoop. I think there is some connection between that letter, the old lady, and this Mike the plumber!!

Pippa it is on at 9 here in the east. Don't know where you are----on ABC. The rerun is on Saturdays, but I don't remember the time.

[pippadaisy[$]]

New York, so east coast. But I don't get control of the television until the World Series is over. Or football. So, um, never.

[lynnzop[$]]

LOL, I have hubby hooked on Housewives, (and he doesn't care much for baseball ) so we watched last night.

I think Bree is getting a little more human. I loved the way she went into the strip club to take out her son!!!

[murasaki]

Last night's episode was good. I like Susan's relationship with her daughter (smart kid).

[theworm[$]]

Missed it again.
The phone rang so I saw a lot of eye candy, but couldn't follow the story. Looks funny. When does re-run season start?

[amykhar]

Wormy, it re-runs every Saturday night. So, you have another shot to catch it.

My one thought about the series is that I hope they don't drag the mystery out too long. Profiler used to be a great show, but they dragged out that Jack of All Trades bit out so long that it just got old.

Desperate Housewives would be a good show even after we know what happened to Mary Alice, I think.

Amy

[theworm[$]]

amykhar said

My one thought about the series is that I hope they don't drag the mystery out too long. Profiler used to be a great show, but they dragged out that Jack of All Trades bit out so long that it just got old.

Desperate Housewives would be a good show even after we know what happened to Mary Alice, I think.

Amy

Profiler was great until they did the Jack ID thing and he went from a brilliant psycho to a church-going nerd who could never have done what Jack did. They ruined the show.

Ok - I'll have to tape Housewives next week, but have I missed too much already?

[murasaki]

Nah. You can still catch up on the mystery.

[eplovejoy]

theworm said

but have I missed too much already?

The show is funny and intriguing enough that it's worth making an effort to get caught up. This outline might help:

It features several very good looking men.

Not enough for you? Okay, there's more:

The show is about four friends who live on an upscale suburban street. One (played by Felicity Huffman of Sports Night) is an attorney who has given up her high-powered career to raise a family. Her husband is on the road a lot and she is frequently overwhelmed by their rambunctious trio of sons.

Another (played by a red head who was on Melrose Place or some similar show) is a perfectionist whose anal-retentive attention to detail has alienated her daugher, son and husband, with whom she was in marriage counseling but who has now moved out of their house.

The third is married to a guy who buys her great jewelry but that's not enough and so she is having an affair with their gardener, who is in high school.

The fourth (Terri Hatcher of Lois & Clark and Radio Shack commercials with Howie Long) is divorced and attracted to a widower (or at least he says he is) who has moved onto their street. He says he is a plumber but there is more to him than that because he has a gun and lot of cash in his house, along with a map marked with notes about all the neighbors. He was shown once talking briefly by telephone to someone who has apparently hired him to do something shady.

There are two other female supporting characters: a sexy neighbor who is Hatcher's rival for the plumber; and a snoopy woman who discovered that Hatcher's character accidentally burned down her rival's house. She tried blackmail but that failed when Hatcher's daughter stole back the evidence.

The mystery about the plumber is taking a back seat to one about Mary Alice, the woman who was the fifth member of the group of friends. She shot herself. Her spirit narrates the show. Apparently she killed herself on the same day she received an anonymous note from someone saying they know what she did, it makes them sick and they're going to tell. The four friends find the note and eventually tell the dead woman's husband. He tells them she was disturbed and sent herself threatening notes, but they think he's lying. He does not seem to be very supportive of their son, who appears to suspect something about his parents. The father has put their house up for sale.

After his wife's suicide, Mary Alice's husband dug up a chest that was buried beneath their swimming pool. He dumped it into a lake or ocean but it surfaced after he left. A TV news report says that it was discovered by authorities who found in it what appear to be human remains.

The red head took from her marriage counselor's office an audiotape of a session Mary Alice had had with him. On it, the dead woman describes a recurring dream she had about a little girl who shared her real name, which is not Mary Alice.

That should be enough to get you started, Wormie. Oh, and there are lots of good looking men.

[theworm[$]]

eplovejoy said

The show is funny and intriguing enough that it's worth making an effort to get caught up. This outline might help:

It features several very good looking men.

Not enough for you? Okay, there's more:

The show is about four friends who live on an upscale suburban street. One (played by Felicity Huffman of Sports Night) is an attorney who has given up her high-powered career to raise a family. Her husband is on the road a lot and she is frequently overwhelmed by their rambunctious trio of sons.

Another (played by a red head who was on Melrose Place or some similar show) is a perfectionist whose anal-retentive attention to detail has alienated her daugher, son and husband, with whom she was in marriage counseling but who has now moved out of their house.

The third is married to a guy who buys her great jewelry but that's not enough and so she is having an affair with their gardener, who is in high school.

The fourth (Terri Hatcher of Lois & Clark and Radio Shack commercials with Howie Long) is divorced and attracted to a widower (or at least he says he is) who has moved onto their street. He says he is a plumber but there is more to him than that because he has a gun and lot of cash in his house, along with a map marked with notes about all the neighbors. He was shown once talking briefly by telephone to someone who has apparently hired him to do something shady.

There are two other female supporting characters: a sexy neighbor who is Hatcher's rival for the plumber; and a snoopy woman who discovered that Hatcher's character accidentally burned down her rival's house. She tried blackmail but that failed when Hatcher's daughter stole back the evidence.

The mystery about the plumber is taking a back seat to one about Mary Alice, the woman who was the fifth member of the group of friends. She shot herself. Her spirit narrates the show. Apparently she killed herself on the same day she received an anonymous note from someone saying they know what she did, it makes them sick and they're going to tell. The four friends find the note and eventually tell the dead woman's husband. He tells them she was disturbed and sent herself threatening notes, but they think he's lying. He does not seem to be very supportive of their son, who appears to suspect something about his parents. The father has put their house up for sale.

After his wife's suicide, Mary Alice's husband dug up a chest that was buried beneath their swimming pool. He dumped it into a lake or ocean but it surfaced after he left. A TV news report says that it was discovered by authorities who found in it what appear to be human remains.

The red head took from her marriage counselor's office an audiotape of a session Mary Alice had had with him. On it, the dead woman describes a recurring dream she had about a little girl who shared her real name, which is not Mary Alice.

That should be enough to get you started, Wormie. Oh, and there are lots of good looking men.

Wowsa! So - a lot of good looking men? Sounds great!

[pippadaisy[$]]

eplovejoy said

Oh, and there are lots of good looking men.

Are they shirtless?

[amykhar]

often enough to be interesting

[thinkerlady[$]]

take my breath away.

[poseidon]

This is one of our favorite shows. It has been a long time since a good, new show has hit the airwaves. This is a winner.

[anderclayton]

*laugh*

All that and you go for the good-looking men thing?



I missed it this week. I'll see about catching it next week but that is probably out (Halloween party). Maybe I'll do the crazy tape thing. I'm still not sure how to time tape something well but I can just run the recorder...

I kinda wish they would have more *nice* people on the show though...

Ander

[lynnzop[$]]

eplovejoy said

Oh, and there are lots of good looking men.

Hubba hubba.

Great synopsis Peter. You should write for a living or something.

[poseidon]

anderclayton said

I kinda wish they would have more *nice* people on the show though...

I've kinda gotten the idea that the only nice people on the show are Teri Hatcher's character and the guy she's after. Everyone else is, well, certifiable. But, I think that's what makes the show so entertaning. Well, that and Teri Hatcher laying naked on her shrub while her love interest arrives at the front door...