What I’m Watching: Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives: Season 8, Episode 13 “Is This What You Call Love?” (C+)

Half of this episode includes some new stuff that we haven’t seen before, but the rest, specifically anything involving Susan and Gaby, is just a new spin on plotlines that have come up at least a dozen times before on this show. Julie was one of the best characters in the show’s first season, and I wish that she hadn’t been tossed aside and then brought back just for this. Her comments to her mom about having already had to raise a child were quite harsh, and Susan didn’t deserve that, even if she was manipulative in the way that she scared away the prospective adoptive parents. Gaby writing her daughter a valentine from her crush was ill-advised also, considering that Juanita nearly got herself expelled thanks to the kiss she tried to plant on him. Lynette’s dating efforts were surprisingly entertaining, as her new beau seems to be the real deal, wanting to look at her in the light, forgiving and even understanding her crying, and then still trying to sweep her off her feet. Bree’s downward spiral definitely hit a low point as she picked up the same man she had already seduced two nights earlier, and things could have gotten bad quickly had Orson not come to the rescue. I’ve never been so happy to see him, and I’m hopeful that he can provide Bree with some sort of fulfillment so that she’ll return to her normal self. We’re in the home stretch here, with less than a dozen episodes left, so arcs are going to have to start wrapping themselves up soon!