Desperate Housewives: Sunday
(S04E11) "A church isn't a place for questions. It's a place for answers." - Bree to LynetteAfter months without new episodes of Desperate Housewives, I was like Lynette this week: I had questions and wanted answers. Sadly for me, Lynette's quest for answers and faith took precedent over my own curiosity and hopes.
As you know, I'm a spoilers addict, so my expectations for the remaining season 4 episodes of the series were pretty high since I was promised loads of answers about the mysteries surrounding Katherine and Dylan. Because of my wanting of answers, Lynette's storyline, which took most of the air time this week, felt flat.
Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy Lynette's quest for answers and trying to find which religion was best for her, but it got in the way of me getting my own answers. I didn't expect to learn everything about Katherine this week but still expected more than I was offered. In retrospect, Lynette's storyline looked liked a secondary storyline that was given way too much attention because, at the last minute, writers decided to spread out the juicy stuff over more episodes. Even if I didn't care much for Lynette's scenes, I liked her interactions with Bree. The latter is my favorite character and seeing her be uncomfortable and lose control of her world is entertaining.
Every now and then, a rumor about one of the main housewives leaving the show resurfaces. I haven't read about it in weeks but, while watching Gaby and Carlos together this week, I wouldn't mind seeing Gabrielle relocate. Their love/hate relationship is getting boring, and Gaby putting objects/furniture on Carlos' path so he trips is already getting old. I personally think that both characters have offered all they could to the series and that it's time for them to leave town and have another family buy their Wisteria Lane house.
We got good tidbits about Katherine and Dylan in "Sunday" even if not any for my taste. Not only did we finally see a glimpse of the note ("Your father was murdered.") but we also were treated with some back story for Katherine. Her ex, Wayne, used to slap her and she eventually slapped back... with the candlestick in the living room. We don't know for sure that Wayne is the one buried in the woods but it's a safe bet that he is. We also know that Katherine took Tim's virginity 12 years ago and that he saw Katherine hit her ex. Why did she sleep with him? Was it a way to get back at her husband? Is she into younger men? Was she desperate and miserable and saw this as escape? Did she really kill Wayne with the chandelier? If so, is he the one buried in the woods? Did she get help to bury him? How did the aunt learn the truth? Why is Adam so willing to give Katherine "one last alibi"? Will Dylan ever find the truth? Will Susan put herself once again in danger by trying to find the truth?
One of the main questions about this mystery though is "why can't Dylan remember?" Some fans came up with a theory: Dylan is not Dylan. They believe that Katherine left Wisteria Lane because the real Dylan died. She covered it up and skipped town. She then kidnapped a child that looked a lot like Dylan and raised her as her own. Due to the resemblance between real Dylan and fake Dylan, and because children change a lot in their teen years, Susan, Julie, and Dylan herself, aren't suspicious. Now, I don't agree with this theory, but I thought I would post it here to see what you guys thought of it. I believe that Dylan doesn't remember because some traumatic incident messed her up a lot and/or her father hit her and caused some sort of head trauma.
I can't wait for more answers in the coming weeks, especially the two-hour finale that is said to "include the unveiling of Katherine's secrets and a huge twist ending" according to Entertainment Weekly.
| Jump the shark moment. | |
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| Great writing. | |
| Boring. |

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