Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to Desperately Devoted, the Ultimate Desperate Housewives rewatch
Speaker 1: hosted by me, Terry Hatcher, my on screen daughter Andrea Bowen,
Speaker 1: and my real life daughter Emerson Tenney.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Desperately Devoted.
Speaker 3: Our conversation about season one, episode seven, Anything you Can Do.
Speaker 3: We are jumping back in at an incredible place in
Speaker 3: the story seeing of redeeming themselves while Lynette in the
Speaker 3: park trying, is strung out in the park like and
Speaker 3: she looks awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 3: Felicity is committed to and playing this character would be
Speaker 3: so well. And it is hilarious to see the kids
Speaker 3: running around on the jungle gym and she is giving
Speaker 3: I kept thinking of Timothy Shalome and a beautiful boy
Speaker 3: where he is like heroin addict. But of course it's
Speaker 3: about kids, Ady d.
Speaker 4: But she is she's needing her fixed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she is jones ing, yes, and she shot down.
Speaker 5: The threat at the end. Yeah. Well, when girl scouts come,
Speaker 5: when girl Scout Clickie comes, just don't come to my door,
Speaker 5: you know, I know, it's.
Speaker 2: Like such a week week she could possibly leverage any
Speaker 2: amount of power.
Speaker 6: But it leads her into scheduling a play eight with
Speaker 6: another neighborhood boy basically to essentially try and get some
Speaker 6: of that child's add medication.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty big low.
Speaker 2: Which I have to say in this scene.
Speaker 3: The second the scene popped up, I screamed out loud
Speaker 3: because the boy's mom in this guest star character is
Speaker 3: Terry Walters, who is my dad's sister in law. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I know what I obviously. I mean, I've
Speaker 3: known her for many many years in my life and
Speaker 3: love her. And this was in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3: I was like, what a small world overlap. I never
Speaker 3: knew that she was an actress, or I knew she
Speaker 3: was an actress, but I just never knew that she
Speaker 3: was in Desperate Housewives. And I has never come up.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know she remembers it. It's such
Speaker 3: a small moment. I imagine she would remember it. But I
Speaker 3: was I was laughing out loud that this is who
Speaker 3: is playing the character of the mom that Lenna steals
Speaker 3: the pills gry wool.
Speaker 2: That wild, wild, small world.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I had a moment that I thought was
Speaker 5: really like stop. You talk about being like stopped by
Speaker 5: a surprise. I was stopped because I thought this might
Speaker 5: I don't know if this is going to be relevant
Speaker 5: to you guys, But okay, So when Rex and Bury
Speaker 5: are in this dinner scene and they're telling the kids
Speaker 5: that they're getting divorced, and you know, sort of talking
Speaker 5: about what that might be like, and the Sun says,
Speaker 5: can I live with dad?
Speaker 2: So quickly?
Speaker 5: And I mean you just see the world fall out
Speaker 5: from underneath Breeth like it. It just wasn't ever a
Speaker 5: consideration that she somehow wasn't a good enough mother or
Speaker 5: to be able to hold her son's affection, and so
Speaker 5: that not only is her marriage falling away, but her
Speaker 5: children are falling away too. It's really I mean really
Speaker 5: I had to stop the TV there too because it
Speaker 5: was and I'm really grateful. I don't I don't have
Speaker 5: that experience with you. I think, you know, we're really close,
Speaker 5: and but I think a lot of people do. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think I think a lot of people have. I mean,
Speaker 5: I have a pretty distant relationship, even though I spend
Speaker 5: a lot of my life taking care of my parents.
Speaker 5: Do I think emotionally there is a lot of distance there.
Speaker 5: You know. It's not that there's not a it's not
Speaker 5: a loving support system. It's a it's a well, not
Speaker 5: reciprocally reciprocally any I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean, And I think that's the interesting thing also
Speaker 3: about the idea of divorce when kids are teenagers or
Speaker 3: starting you know, older in middle school and high school,
Speaker 3: that you don't really consider when parents get divorced, Like
Speaker 3: the age that I was when you got divorced.
Speaker 2: You know, I was five and a half.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know you both you and my dad
Speaker 3: were great parents, and there was never a question about
Speaker 3: I was going to spend time with both of you,
Speaker 3: equal time with both of you. But when your kids
Speaker 3: are autonomous ish teenagers, they have their own perceptions about
Speaker 3: who they think is to blame or who, and you know,
Speaker 3: they're obviously I think.
Speaker 5: And there's a child in their schools or maybe certain programs,
Speaker 5: or certainly for a young boy who's getting into his
Speaker 5: going to strip clubs, he's getting into his sexual kind
Speaker 5: of awakening. Maybe he wants to be around more masculinity
Speaker 5: and wants to be around his dad, all super legit things.
Speaker 5: But I just know I do have some friends that
Speaker 5: are still having their kids go off to college for
Speaker 5: the first time. Oh and even though it's not in
Speaker 5: a sad way the way this this particular family a
Speaker 5: Breon Rex dynamic is. But it's still it's a it's
Speaker 5: a loss, it's a it's a it's a grief. It's
Speaker 5: an empty nesting thing. Yeah, and I don't know. So
Speaker 5: this scene really got me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it is hard.
Speaker 6: It's hard to see how how as Emerson mentioned that
Speaker 6: line is at the kind of at the beginning of
Speaker 6: the scene. And you can imagine knowing Breeze character by
Speaker 6: now that she's given this conversation a lot of thought
Speaker 6: and consideration of how she's going to handle it, how
Speaker 6: it's going to go, what's the best way of presenting
Speaker 6: this news to them, and then she is sidelined so
Speaker 6: quickly with that level of hurt of heart pain, direct
Speaker 6: heart pain. And then it kind of builds because she
Speaker 6: asks Danielle shout out to Joy, who I'm very close
Speaker 6: with still and absolutely adore.
Speaker 4: But but she yeah, she's.
Speaker 6: So great and and you know, then she says to Danielle,
Speaker 6: do you feel that way? And Danielle says, I don't
Speaker 6: really care as long as I have my own bathroom.
Speaker 4: And it's it's like a doubling up of we.
Speaker 6: Not only don't you know, are not choosing you, but
Speaker 6: we don't even you know, in this case, Danielle doesn't
Speaker 6: even care. And oh gosh, yeah, my heart really hurt
Speaker 6: for Brion that scene as well.
Speaker 3: I just yeah, and it made me wonder about I mean,
Speaker 3: especially about her daughter, because we've seen all of Bree's
Speaker 3: conflict with her son and obvious maybe reasons why he
Speaker 3: would not want to be living with her, but the
Speaker 3: level of kind of apathy that her daughter seems to
Speaker 3: have about where she's going to be living made me
Speaker 3: just think a lot about how what are the ways
Speaker 3: that we guard ourselves against painful scenarios? You know, it
Speaker 3: seems like her daughter has put up such a huge
Speaker 3: dissociative wall around even addressing the fact that there's a
Speaker 3: lot of hurt and pain and confusion in her relationship
Speaker 3: with her mom, to the point where instead of being
Speaker 3: able to respond with any level of emotion, she goes, well,
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure I'm own the bathroom, which.
Speaker 5: Feels really honest, but you're right about the psychology that
Speaker 5: comes behind it. I mean, I don't know, what do
Speaker 5: you do? I think I'm i error in deep hurt
Speaker 5: in putting up walls. Yeah, and I and I say
Speaker 5: that it's I say that it's I wish I had
Speaker 5: a different tool like I wish I was when I'm
Speaker 5: very hurt, which I think it takes actually kind of
Speaker 5: a lot to get me really hurt. But I think
Speaker 5: once you do, I think it's I think that's my
Speaker 5: protective thing is like a wall, and it's I don't
Speaker 5: it's not great because it because it means that I
Speaker 5: just can't communicate anymore. But it's just too much pain,
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 6: I think, Yeah, it's interesting how separation seems to be
Speaker 6: a common coping mechanism and whether that's defensiveness, whether that's
Speaker 6: just going inside oneself or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: I had an illuminating moment in.
Speaker 6: My life when my sister Gillian pointed out to me
Speaker 6: that when I'm confronted with big feelings, whether that be
Speaker 6: anger or sadness or overwhelm.
Speaker 4: That I go to sleep. Oh wow, And she.
Speaker 5: That seems like a positive tool.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's positive for my under eyeback opposite.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it's a combination of things.
Speaker 6: I think it allows my brain, which gets really crowded
Speaker 6: to just shut off for a few hours, and it
Speaker 6: also is a time passer inherently, you know. And then
Speaker 6: it gives some space because when I wake up, I've
Speaker 6: had built in space.
Speaker 4: And I also think maybe the surge of.
Speaker 6: Emotions I feel does make me exhausted, and then I
Speaker 6: just decide to turn turn off and tune out by
Speaker 6: going to sleep.
Speaker 5: That's so interesting. Do you have what's your Do you
Speaker 5: think you have a pattern?
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I think I go to like I like
Speaker 3: a like a If I'm really really frustrated about something,
Speaker 3: I will I will scream along to Meg the Stallion's
Speaker 3: hiss no, and then maybe like go for a run.
Speaker 3: I like to have some sort of physical release. I'm
Speaker 3: also really big on I think I maybe if I
Speaker 3: shut down, I just sit on top of the feelings
Speaker 3: that I'm feeling. But I also don't believe in being reactive.
Speaker 3: Like I recognize I can be hurt and that's not
Speaker 3: always the best time to respond immediately to the person
Speaker 3: that's hurt you. So I am a big proponent of
Speaker 3: when I'm really upset about something, write a letter, which
Speaker 3: actually Meg the Stallion says at the end of Hiss
Speaker 3: but that's not where I got the idea from.
Speaker 2: I writing a letter. I write, don't you the person?
Speaker 3: I write a letter to the person, and sometimes it
Speaker 3: can go on for pages, and I use every every
Speaker 3: explicit word, like every way. Would never actually talk to someone,
Speaker 3: but all of the feelings that I'm feeling, get them
Speaker 3: out onto paper, set it aside, do nothing about.
Speaker 2: It for the day, and then the next day, after
Speaker 2: you've slept, you know, maybe reapproach it.
Speaker 3: What part of these emotions do I actually need to
Speaker 3: communicate to get something out of this exchange? Which of
Speaker 3: these emotions are just reactive? And it's good that they're
Speaker 3: in the letter and I got them out, but I'm
Speaker 3: certainly not going to share them. Or is there actually
Speaker 3: nothing that I'm gonna get from confronting this person? That's
Speaker 3: great because sometimes there isn't. Sometimes as much as you
Speaker 3: maybe want to make someone know that they were wrong
Speaker 3: or they hurt you, there's not actually an objective to
Speaker 3: be gained.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty wise. Emerson.
Speaker 2: We've been building to the iconic scene that is now
Speaker 2: a gift? Is it gift for Jiff?
Speaker 4: I think it is Giff.
Speaker 2: It's it's Giff. We're getting we're getting feedback from the room.
Speaker 4: Is the peanut butter gift? Is the imaging?
Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, well, okay, so things culminate at Saddle Ranch,
Speaker 3: and I think it's hilarious that it's at Saddle Ranch
Speaker 3: and it's called Saddle Ranch, which is because Westeria Lane
Speaker 3: exists in a place that is nowhere, you know, it
Speaker 3: is like in America until they're calling out an iconic
Speaker 3: place in West Hollywood in Los Angeles by its own
Speaker 3: actual name.
Speaker 5: Okay, so let's set this up.
Speaker 2: Let's set this up.
Speaker 6: So we have we know that we've got Kendra, the
Speaker 6: mysterious new hot chick who's checking up with Mike. We
Speaker 6: have the first date that didn't happen with Susan.
Speaker 5: And he makes mince meat out of susan humiliation.
Speaker 3: Then Edie tips Susan off that Mike is headed to
Speaker 3: Saddle Ranch with this mysterious Kendra.
Speaker 2: And she kind of and invites Susan.
Speaker 3: They go together, which is leading me to a comment
Speaker 3: we've gotten from a listener. Okay, it was on Spotify.
Speaker 3: They didn't even write directly in Camilla I believe is
Speaker 3: her name. Hi, Camilla, I loved your Spotify comment, and
Speaker 3: now I will talk about it. I'm gonna paraphrase it.
Speaker 3: But she said that she is rewatching the show for
Speaker 3: the upteenth time, and she always thought that Susan and
Speaker 3: Edie had romantic tension and would make a really good
Speaker 3: romantic storyline. And then another woman responded to the comment
Speaker 3: totally agree.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I just thought.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, this is obviously not where the
Speaker 3: show goes, and maybe Hunting Wives picked up all the
Speaker 3: missed lesbian opportunities from But I kind of love the
Speaker 3: alternate universe we could live in where Susan and Edie
Speaker 3: could go from rivals to lovers.
Speaker 2: I love a rivals to lovers narrative.
Speaker 5: And everybody's been begging for a reboot. I haven't heard
Speaker 5: a better suggestion than mad in twenty years. So yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, are you out there? Oh my god, Lives
Speaker 5: is leading the way Susan, And you know, I do know,
Speaker 5: I mean, this is sidebar. I don't know anything about science,
Speaker 5: but I do know quite a few women who after
Speaker 5: fifty and after being married and after having children, have
Speaker 5: fallen in love with women.
Speaker 2: Because it's great. As the resident, you know.
Speaker 5: You do seem awfully happy, which I'm very happy for you,
Speaker 5: but don't you. But it is interesting, right that, like
Speaker 5: at this point where maybe your postmenopausal. I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's a hormonal thing. I don't know if these
Speaker 5: friends of mine who've made these kinds of transitions, like
Speaker 5: if they always felt that win they didn't know it,
Speaker 5: or or then it just a light bulb went off.
Speaker 5: But I'm just saying it is kind of a thing.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's enough that, like it's not just one person.
Speaker 5: I mean there, I guarantee you that some of our
Speaker 5: audience you're laughing at me.
Speaker 2: Not some person. There are many there.
Speaker 4: I think could be.
Speaker 6: You know, you trust yourself more and more and more
Speaker 6: as you get older, you you are more fearless, you're
Speaker 6: more self accepting, your braver, You're I mean hopefully right,
Speaker 6: that's hopefully the trajectory we all follow as as humans
Speaker 6: and as women, and so so maybe it's that and
Speaker 6: and maybe there's a world in which somewhere out there,
Speaker 6: Susan and d are together now in the multiverse in
Speaker 6: an alternate Timeline's.
Speaker 5: First of all, I love that listeners are writing in
Speaker 5: on Spotify or anyway. I just I just over that,
Speaker 5: and I love that I love you, and it kind
Speaker 5: of goes off of what I was saying earlier without
Speaker 5: the gay bent on it. But I I really think
Speaker 5: I mean, and I don't know that it's like underestimated,
Speaker 5: because I do feel like Edie and Susan get into
Speaker 5: some pretty fantastic uh adventures and antics over the next
Speaker 5: number of episodes. But we probably could have leaned into
Speaker 5: it more like I do think. I do think that
Speaker 5: they could carry their own show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the dynamic is so entertaining.
Speaker 2: It's such an entertaining it's a little bit like ab fab.
Speaker 5: I could see it being like British. Yeah, I could
Speaker 5: see it being like that total I mean, with different
Speaker 5: but like that I've made my pitch mark and anybody
Speaker 5: else listening to this we have on the show. We
Speaker 5: love it. We have to go therapy first. We have
Speaker 5: it'll be worth it anything for a job we have.
Speaker 3: We have Susan and Edie our favorite frenemies in Saddle Ranch,
Speaker 3: where Mike is in fact there with Kendra and Susan
Speaker 3: is immediately ten minutes into being there, she's like, I
Speaker 3: should leave.
Speaker 2: I'm embarrassed. I can't believe it. You talked me into this.
Speaker 3: We also over here, which obviously Susan does not yet
Speaker 3: that Mike is with Kendra. They know each other because
Speaker 3: he is looking for Kendra's sister, who was the last
Speaker 3: seen at Saddle Ram.
Speaker 6: And Kendra is the daughter of the man that we've
Speaker 6: met in prior episodes that clearly is a part Floyd.
Speaker 4: Mike too, yes to dig up why neighborhood?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why is he really on Mysteria Lane? And then Mike
Speaker 3: spots Susan and I Love. They have a moment where,
Speaker 3: you know, he calls her out on being there, and
Speaker 3: she tries to say she's just casually there, but he's
Speaker 3: already found Edie and he's onto them. But while this
Speaker 3: conversation is happening, and I need to know because a
Speaker 3: part of me feels like this was.
Speaker 2: Nicolette and this was not a stunt.
Speaker 3: Double Edi is in the background of the scene riding
Speaker 3: this bull in the craziest, most sexual no hands. She
Speaker 3: is riding the bull and I rode horses in the
Speaker 3: same barn as Nicolette in Hidden Hills, and so I
Speaker 3: know she's a great equestrian and great rider, and I thought,
Speaker 3: I bet she's doing her own stuff.
Speaker 5: She absolutely did that I mean again, I'm not sure
Speaker 5: I remember it, but from looking at it, it looks
Speaker 5: it's her. She is a great horseman, ship horsemen rider. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: and so I'm and I'm and she loves that. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's like in her bones. So I'm sure that that
Speaker 5: was her.
Speaker 4: She was great at it.
Speaker 5: But I count I'm just going to go back to,
Speaker 5: like even I'm going I go back to the real
Speaker 5: Estate scene that Edie with Paul. She is portraying Edie
Speaker 5: with such power and it stands out because it is
Speaker 5: it is a a cog in the wheel of these
Speaker 5: women that no one else has. You know, It's it's
Speaker 5: not the way bri is playing it. It's not the
Speaker 5: way Lynette is playing it. It's not the way Gabby
Speaker 5: or Susan. It's a called for finishing kind of quintuplet quin.
Speaker 2: Of of like like like she's needed, she's needed.
Speaker 4: She has such agency to.
Speaker 5: Tell the story of the archetypes of women. And it
Speaker 5: is why I will say I, you know, I don't
Speaker 5: really get credited, but in the early days I was
Speaker 5: super championing her as the fifth housewife, and it really
Speaker 5: did go back and forth, like on the posters, initially
Speaker 5: it was the four of us, and like Mark Cherry
Speaker 5: would sometimes be very much like, nope, it's four housewives.
Speaker 5: It's definitely four housewives, only four housewives. And I think
Speaker 5: that probably was hurtful, you know, like because but so
Speaker 5: it is. It was like this flexing thing, and I
Speaker 5: just felt like, this is an example of a scene
Speaker 5: where she comes she just screams off the screen.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, she's so just standing in her power
Speaker 6: in every and not just because her thighs are so powerful.
Speaker 4: Clearly they go the musody.
Speaker 2: They are okay.
Speaker 4: So, but have either of you ridden a bull one
Speaker 4: of those types of bulls?
Speaker 3: I haven't, And I have this weird sometimes I get
Speaker 3: this incredibly strange overconfidence where I believe I will be
Speaker 3: really good at something I've never done before and I'm not.
Speaker 3: And I feel like bull riding falls into the category
Speaker 3: of one of those things that I just in my body.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, it'd be great at that, And I am.
Speaker 3: Sure if I ever even for one moment sat on
Speaker 3: a mechanical ball, I would go lying across the room
Speaker 3: and there's no way I would be good at it.
Speaker 3: But I'm personally over confident about.
Speaker 6: Thinking why you haven't done it, I think because you're like,
Speaker 6: you know what, let me live with that fantas head
Speaker 6: that that is.
Speaker 4: I have also never done.
Speaker 6: I have never been a bowl, but I have now
Speaker 6: been a time for ranch a lot over over the area,
Speaker 6: and now I can't. Yes, I have, and I think
Speaker 6: I've canout this food that yes, okay, So this week, yeah,
Speaker 6: so this week I took up the task of bringing
Speaker 6: in that white element.
Speaker 4: Okay, great, thanks thanks TV mom.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I I took up the torch of of bringing
Speaker 6: in an item inspired by this week's episode, and I
Speaker 6: decided to make buffalo cauliflower in the style of buffalo wings,
Speaker 6: which I feel like would have been served at a
Speaker 6: place like Saddle Ranch, or is served in a place
Speaker 6: like certainly is now, yes, certainly something I would have ordered.
Speaker 6: And and so this is just, uh, you know, a
Speaker 6: vegan or vegetarian or gluten free kind of spin on
Speaker 6: chicken wings buffalo wings. This particular recipe is neither none
Speaker 6: of those things.
Speaker 4: Because it does have.
Speaker 6: It's cauliflower, but it does have breadcrumbs, so there goes
Speaker 6: the gluten free thing, and there's some butter in there,
Speaker 6: so it does you know whatever but that's really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is it good? Okay, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: I also made a Greek yogurt style ranch dipping sauce
Speaker 6: to go with it, as ranch would be.
Speaker 5: It's it's really spicy. But I love this.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I cannot morning. I'm just I'm still living
Speaker 2: in saddle Ranch. Where Eadie gets.
Speaker 3: Off of the bowl and then Susan says she commits
Speaker 3: to the bit with Mike. She goes, no, I am here,
Speaker 3: I'm here to ride the ball and she hops in
Speaker 3: and she is so cute. She's oh, she's a tieing
Speaker 3: up her little shirt and she gets over and she's
Speaker 3: the wings are hot over her head. And I love
Speaker 3: this kind of physical comedy. This is oh my humor
Speaker 3: and slapstick. I would write into a script. She the
Speaker 3: roser hat across the room and it blinds the guy
Speaker 3: who's operating the mechanical bull who leans back, who presses
Speaker 3: the lever before she's on it, and the bull bucks
Speaker 3: are right in the face. Right, mom, talk about filming
Speaker 3: this scene that has now been turned into a gift.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I love that you love that
Speaker 5: kind of comedy. Do you think that you got some
Speaker 5: of that sense of humor from me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I completely.
Speaker 3: I think between your actual physicalized comedy and choreography. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, we talk about the scene in the yard
Speaker 3: with the running across, between that and my dad's dark,
Speaker 3: dark slapstick humor. In terms of like dark jokes between
Speaker 3: the two of you, I mean, I was just bound
Speaker 3: to write only jokes where people though out of trees
Speaker 3: and get hit by cars and get run aver and
Speaker 3: I think it's hilarious. I am totally the person that
Speaker 3: will watch the video of someone falling down the stairs
Speaker 3: and I can't help the.
Speaker 5: Last Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm glad that we both pepper jew with that
Speaker 5: personality and equal equal dimension. I don't remember if I
Speaker 5: actually wrote the bill or not. I mean, that's the
Speaker 5: big question I have. Obviously I know, but I'm just
Speaker 5: wondering in between scenes. You're there, You're you know, you're
Speaker 5: you know. It feels to me like Terry Hatcher would
Speaker 5: have said, Hey, can I get on it and write
Speaker 5: it and see if it's hard my assumption that you did.
Speaker 5: Doesn't it feel you definitely wrote that I did, And
Speaker 5: so we would have to ask somebody involved if I
Speaker 5: did not because I can't. I can't commit to that
Speaker 5: I have that memory. I just feel like I wouldn't
Speaker 5: have been there and not done it anyway.
Speaker 4: Well, that was in another amazing moment. As I'm chowing
Speaker 4: down on.
Speaker 2: It's really good, spy, but it is. It is great.
Speaker 3: We have Lynette at the same time that all this
Speaker 3: happening is throwing her dinner party that she's finally agreed
Speaker 3: to throw. She's made the cannapas she's serving dessert. It
Speaker 3: seems like it's.
Speaker 2: Gone really well.
Speaker 3: Tom finally makes his big pitch, which is to put
Speaker 3: the advertising for his advertising brand on the side of
Speaker 3: the shopping shopping carts, and then Lynette can't help but
Speaker 3: pipe up from across the room. Or you could put
Speaker 3: it on dry cleaning bags, and of course this is
Speaker 3: the idea they all love. But I noted down this
Speaker 3: feels so meta because Desperate Housewives used this tactic to
Speaker 3: market the first season of the show, putting the images
Speaker 3: on the dry cleaning bags.
Speaker 6: Which I think we talked about in maybe in the
Speaker 6: first pilot or sh We all agreed that that was
Speaker 6: so brilliant yet marketing, and so do Tom's colleagues agree
Speaker 6: that Lynnette's idea is so brilliant.
Speaker 3: Yes, so we have so anyway, we have Lynette having
Speaker 3: her canna pay moment that then unfortunately Tom feels like
Speaker 3: she's stepped on his toes even though she's just trying
Speaker 3: to do what she does well in a really honest way, and.
Speaker 5: He almost calls her out, like he almost that something's
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 6: And then she has this line which I did take
Speaker 6: a note of because I thought it was interesting, which
Speaker 6: is when she's saying that she's she used to be
Speaker 6: someone who could win at work, and she says, I
Speaker 6: can't win where I'm at. I'm stuck in the middle.
Speaker 6: And I think, you know, obviously, we can measure success
Speaker 6: outside of the home in a different way, using a
Speaker 6: different metric system than the way we measure success in
Speaker 6: the home, and so it's tougher for her to find
Speaker 6: something tangible to latch onto about how she's winning in
Speaker 6: her personal life. And we obviously know now that she's
Speaker 6: using this medication as a coping mechanism or a way
Speaker 6: to give herself a boost, so she probably feels like
Speaker 6: a loser, not a winner.
Speaker 5: And yeah, well no, I think I think this is
Speaker 5: you see this you see like people moms living their
Speaker 5: ego and their identity through their children. You know, like
Speaker 5: what what like what what accomplishments is are their kids having?
Speaker 5: Or what kind of car are they driving?
Speaker 3: Or what like?
Speaker 5: These are the wins, but they're not really but you.
Speaker 3: Have nothing else to hang out and they're not really
Speaker 3: Lynette's winds because she was used to having other type
Speaker 3: of business wins.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a it's a it's a little like tangential.
Speaker 5: But it is why I think we should consider paying
Speaker 5: stay at home moms totally. You know that that should
Speaker 5: be a salary position because part of getting a salary
Speaker 5: is saying to you you have value, right, you have
Speaker 5: something that you have to accomplish. You've accomplished it, and
Speaker 5: we are recognizing that with your salary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in our super capitalist society, you know, for
Speaker 3: that is our super capitalist good.
Speaker 5: But that is what it is. And to not do
Speaker 5: that to the woman in the home that is pretty
Speaker 5: much making everything happen and in this case, even making
Speaker 5: the job happen. Yeah, you know, it's you, no wonder
Speaker 5: she feels like she has to take pills.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, And so.
Speaker 3: Then yes, all this is going on we have Edie.
Speaker 3: I just is having a drink now with the private
Speaker 3: investigator has showed up at Saddle Ranch. You know, Susan's
Speaker 3: icing her face. She kind of gets tipped off, maybe
Speaker 3: by Kendra, that there's more to Mic than there seams.
Speaker 3: And I just had to circling back quickly to the
Speaker 3: private investigator shows up. Clearly he's closing in on Edie.
Speaker 3: But we've gotten a line that he says to Paul
Speaker 3: before he says five K to hurt her, ten k
Speaker 3: to make her disappear.
Speaker 2: And I wrote again, whoa hold hold up ten k
Speaker 2: to kill someone? Seems really low?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but also.
Speaker 6: Doesn't that seem I mean, look, I'm I'm missing something
Speaker 6: because I don't remember where this is all leading, which
Speaker 6: I'm happy about because I get to be so entertained
Speaker 6: watching it. But it seems extreme that Paul is considering
Speaker 6: having Edie oft.
Speaker 5: For having the same No no, but I see, but
Speaker 5: but he's really I think this is where you see
Speaker 5: his deep pain and emotion. He is in this moment
Speaker 5: holding eighty responsible for the death of his wife, right,
Speaker 5: and so it's revenge, it's an eye to I, it's
Speaker 5: all thatt revenge, very biblical. You you killed my wife
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna and I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But then it has the most dramatic ending and this
Speaker 5: Yeah again, I'm going to go back to I cannot
Speaker 5: believe how much happened in this episode. And so now
Speaker 5: we're all finally done. Yes, that that the Gabby's mother
Speaker 5: in law has gathered the evidence. She's gotten a picture.
Speaker 5: She stormed in on Gabby and John, that picture of
Speaker 5: them in bed.
Speaker 3: Which I just have to say so pre iPhone. She
Speaker 3: comes in with the actual physical camera to take a
Speaker 3: picture of them having their closure sex.
Speaker 5: Right and and get you can see Gabby is just like,
Speaker 5: this is it. She's not even fighting it. She's taking
Speaker 5: her fancy Louis Vuitton bag or whatever, and she's filling
Speaker 5: it up with the most expensive things because this is it.
Speaker 5: There's no fighting this. I'm going to just take what
Speaker 5: I can and I'm gonna walk away.
Speaker 2: But John is fighting it.
Speaker 4: John chases after Onannita, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Trying to get the camera back, and Juanita runs into
Speaker 3: the street where and she.
Speaker 5: Is run over by none other than drunk Andrew Yeah, who.
Speaker 6: Of course has been teed up for this by everything
Speaker 6: going on with his parents and their marriage, and so he.
Speaker 2: And he's just been turned away by his own dad
Speaker 2: who says, you actually can't.
Speaker 6: Live with me, right, And so he goes out, he
Speaker 6: gets loaded, he drives the new car, the new bribed
Speaker 6: car that he got, and boom, he he hits Wanita
Speaker 6: in the middle of the street, and we are left
Speaker 6: with paramedics there attending to Janita. And then this chilling
Speaker 6: image of the first time we really see Brie and
Speaker 6: Rex as a united front, and it's to cover up
Speaker 6: this terrible accident that their son has caused. And they
Speaker 6: stand together and close the door of that garage and
Speaker 6: I really got.
Speaker 5: Themselves into the house and that's where we wrap it up.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was a huge episode.
Speaker 5: It was such a huge episode. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 5: how could we have a lot of discipline to not
Speaker 5: have just press play for.
Speaker 3: Episode everything play. I cannot wait. I actually cannot wait
Speaker 3: until next week. I'm chomping at the bend. I want
Speaker 3: to hear everyone's question.
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