DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES Revisited: Watch While I Revise the World

Previously on Desperate Housewives...
Tom and Lynette separated, but probably only until the finale. Gaby is evil now. Bree thinks Chuck is bad, you know, like when everyone thought for sure Orson was. Susan and Carlos might maybe have an affair.

...Oh and of course that thing where everyone is covering up a murder.

Susan has been losing her mind ever since that time after that little murder cover up. Carlos too has been suffering but in a more macho way. We find out that they have been meeting late at night not sleeping together but rather explaining their craziness to each other, oh and the fact that each of their respective spouses would never understand their predicaments. I sure hope no one finds out about this. Cue Mike...who has been standing in the window watching them THE WHOLE TIME!

The newly cold and ill-intentioned Gaby pays a visit to Bree to make sure she broke up with Chuck, the detective who might have been connected to Paul Young's case. Naturally the logical explanation is to clumsily snoop in true Desperate fashion. Don't worry guys, that never ever ever goes wrong.

Cut to Vanessa Williams being pampered as only she can when suddenly the very gay Lee bursts into the room. Terrified of boobs, you know, because he is gay, he asks the well-received Kiss of the Spiderwoman replacement to take his daughter, Jenny, bra shopping. Also a gay Sound of Music and Ricky Martin joke, in case the audience forgot that he was in fact...gay.

Lynette sets up her pathetic sister who is coming to visit to which Williams's Rene quips: "I hate to see people crying. It reminds me how little I care about others." Best line of the episode. Anyway, the very much not pathetic sister enters looking gorgeous and married, unlike Lynette who is alone and miserable.

Mike confronts Susan about her arrest and midnight rendezvous with Carlos. He is having a hard time with all of the "sneaking around and lying." If he is having such a hard time with these, why is he still on this show?

Anyway, cut to Lynette being bitchy towards her sister and supposedly perfect husband. After provoking her, a catfight ensues between the two and her husband heard the entire thing. Now it is up to Lynette to save the marriage!

However in between this fight is Susan further bonding with Carlos during her servicing of the community. Carlos does something adorable and now HE too is in community service. Looks like this friendship is bound to grow!

Meanwhile, Bree begins the snooping and finds a picture of her hand and an envelope with her name on it. Gaby explains that this is most likely for hand prints found at the crime scene and that she will take care of the evidence against them.

Lee is being a total drag in regards to his daughter's relationship with Wilhelmina Slater and totally grounds her! Then a sad scene happens in which the limitations of same sex adoption are expressed but then Vanessa puts it all into perspective and everything turns out fine.

Lynette does an Ethel Merman impression, and then saves her sister's marriage. Never underestimate the power of a Housewife's meddling.

Two plots solved, two unsolvable ones to go.

After running from Mike who might have just discovered them, Carlos and Susan find themselves alone in the back of a van. Flirtation and touching ensues but ultimately nothing happens, except for Mike fake punching Carlos in the face- they all need to talk.

Chuck needs to talk to Bree and takes her to a fancy restaurant, with Gaby in tow. In a scene of ultimate snooping, Bree does all she can to distract the detective who may or may not but most likely may not be bad while Gaby rummages through his things to find the evidence. Turns out it was a wedding ring (shocker) much to Bree's horror. The fears that he is not "the one" combined with the whole "I thought you were trying to blackmail me" causes Bree to break up with the detective, which transforms him into scary mode. He proclaims that she made a powerful enemy; he will never protect her; etc. etc. Blame Gaby.

Susan and Carlos come clean about the murder to Mike who seems very much bothered by it; despite all of the baggage Susan has forgiven him for over the years

Predictable to a T, gorgeously designed (most notably Rene's cooly colored house and her matching blouse of blues, greens, and violets), deliciously scandalous, and filled with snappy one liners, "Watch While I Revise The World" had everything you could want from an episode of "The Des." The season might have found a newly formed villain in Chuck which might hopefully take some of the heat off of Gaby who is becoming less and less likable as the season progresses. Overall, this season is proving to be greater than the previous and once a solid mystery forms will be a lovely closer to the long running guilty pleasure.

 

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