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Desperate Housewives: Do we even care if Dave seeks revenge on Mike?

We’re well into the Desperate Housewives saga this season, and the show really hasn’t grabbed me like it did at the beginning of the series. There have been some interesting moments, but they’ve mostly been little ones, like Bree and Alex making a connection in last week’s episode, and the little adventures that Mrs. McCluskey […]

by Jane Boursaw

Desperate Housewives – Edie slaps Susan, Bree and Alex make good

(Season 5, Episode 12 – “Connect! Connect!” ) “Oh man, I wanna say something helpful, but all I’ve got is ‘that sucks’.” – Mike to Dave, upon hearing how Edie threw him out of the house. Revenge is a bitter thing to carry around, isn’t it? So we finally get to learn a little more […]

by Jane Boursaw

Desperate Housewives – Lynette gets desperate; Bree meets her match

(Season 5, Episode 11 – “Home is the Place”) Great acting in this episode! They really brought the “desperate” back to Desperate Housewives, as each of the Wisteria Lane women had their own issues to deal with. Let’s break it down…. Bree is desperate because … an annoying new woman has entered her life: Alex’s mom, […]

by Jane Boursaw

Ratings Clack – CSI scores big. Biggest Loser NBC’s best hope?

(12/7 – 12/13) I work with a guy that has the barest of the bare bones cable packages. Thirteen channels. It amounts to the networks, Discovery, PBS, and shopping. It was a tough week of television for him. There were a lot of repeats. The CW only managed 3½ hours of original programming for the […]

by Brett Love

Quotation Marks – Dwight Schrute, Edie Britt, and Dr. House

(Week of Dec. 13, 2008) “I may be a ho, but I’m not a crack ho.” – Cops “Falalalala-lala-ka-ching.” – Dwight, on his his plan to buy all the unicorn dolls from local stores and sell them to desperate parents at a huge profit, The Office Desperate Housewives: “You are my rock Lynette.” – Tom […]

by Jane Boursaw

Ratings Clack – Everybody loves a Christmas special, and Van Pelt

(Ratings Clack 11/30 – 12/6) It was an interesting week for TV numbers. With Tom & Samantha packing up the ballroom, there were viewers to be had on Monday and Tuesday. That meant there were winners (Chuck, The Mentalist), and losers (Samantha Who?, Heroes). The other big story was just how well all of the […]

by Brett Love

Desperate Housewives – Carlos gets his sight back; Gaby grows up

(Season 5, Episode 10 – “A Vision’s Just a Vision”) This episode returned Desperate Housewives to a bit of its glory days, and the five-year-jump reboot is finally starting to come together for me. So much happened, and some major plotpoints were revealed, including a bit more about Dave’s mystery and why he’s out to […]

by Jane Boursaw
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