What I’m Watching: Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives: Season 8, Episode 12 “What’s the Good of Being Good?” (B)

This episode was actually a decent hour looking at the places where each of the housewives have arrived at this point. The opening montage of Bree’s promiscuousness and her attempts to hide her gentlemen callers from Mrs. McCluskey started out in comic fashion, as she bid her guests goodbye in the middle of the night with a muffin, but it soon turned much more serious. In the past, even if no one else can reach her, Reverend Sykes has been able to get through to Bree, and here his pleas as not only her priest but also her friend fell on deaf ears. Her proud departure from the function demonstrated just how detached she’s become, and defiantly making out with a guy on her front lawn shows just how proud she is of her new lifestyle. I’m not sure exactly what’s going to get her to snap out of it. Lynette’s date went horribly, and hopefully her realization of how she sometimes acts and why she feels the need to do that will help her to find some happiness again, with or without Tom. Ben’s honesty is a real shame, since Renee would have been perfectly happy to marry him, and now she might find herself in harm’s way due to his money problems. After everything, Susan seems to have done something productive, despite a brief hiccup involving posters about her being a slutty neighbor. Gaby telling Claudia the truth resulted in her daughter being courageous enough to speak up, and they should now be able to go back home knowing that they’re safe. All of the women on Wisteria Lane may not enjoy the same sense of relief if anyone saw the wanted posters up.