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8/24/08

CB's Fall TV Preview: 'Desperate Housewives'

What to Expect on the Season Premiere?
  • As revealed in the 4th season finale, next season picks up five years after the events of last season. Expect some flashbacks to show us how the women's lives changed.
  • Bree's a guest on a Fairview cooking show. She introduces her staff, which includes Katherine. After Katherine informs the host that she's never known a better cook than Bree, Katherine purposely pretends to have injured her hand so Bree's forced to finish preparing a difficult French dessert on camera. Disaster ensues. Also, Bree clashes with a photographer.
  • Gabrielle's daughter Juanita (who's 4 and a half) unsuccessfully tries to wear a dress that's too small for her. She's in denial about her daughter's weight issues. Gabrielle overhears two mothers blaming her for Juanita's weight; she confronts the women.
  • Thanks to teenage Porter and Preston (now played by Charles and Max Carver), the Scavo's restaurant is turned into an illegal casino for their teen friends. When Lynette learns about this, she grounds the boys, who want their punishment postponed til after Homecoming. As the good son who's not been grounded, Parker (now played by Joshua Moore) has to take sister Penny (now played by Kendall Applegate) to soccer practice. He wants to be home in time to get back to his computer game, as he's grown up to become a technogeek.
  • Susan and Mike are divorced, but he's not out of her life altogether, thanks to the existence of their son, M.J., who's played by Mason Gale Cotton. We'll learn why they got a divorce. Susan's new man Jackson (Gale Harold) has a scene where he's not wearing all of his clothes. Susan's closed off to love and doesn't want to be in a relationship. When Susan and Jackson first met, she initially wasn't into him; he was just the guy she'd hired to paint her house. Susan's first scene of the season after the teaser was based on something Teri Hatcher suggested.
  • A woman we've never met before takes a call from her husband. He claims to be snowed in at the airport, unable to leave til morning. His wife is frustrated as he's gone half the time now. They have a young daughter.
  • Dave, a newly married man (played by new series regular Neal McDonough) wants to get a house for Edie, his wife. Specifically, he wants to get her old house on Wisteria Lane. Dave tells the elderly man living there that he's going to buy him out his lease -- right now! He's not going to take no for an answer, and he's going to count to five to give the man a chance to agree. Dave happens to be a motivational speaker, so expect him to be quite effective with his tactics.
  • Dave takes a call from a doctor who reminds him he's supposed to check in once a week. He tells his doctor he's living close to Boston. The doctor tells another doctor he's worried about Dave, who once had an intense fixation on one person. He has revenge on his mind but who is the object of his obsession?

What to Expect this season?

  • Bob and Lee will be back; they now have a 4 year old daughter.
  • Gabrielle will get her looks back after seven or eight episodes, for a hilarious reason.
  • Neal McDonough joins the show as a series regular. He's playing Dave, a motivational speaker who's married to Edie. Like Mike, Betty, Orson, and Katherine before him, Dave's at the center of the season's mystery. He's out for revenge. Mrs. McCluskey can see there's something off about Dave. Toby the cat goes missing.
  • Season 5 will have 24 episodes.
  • In the first episodes back, expect to learn why Bree took Orson back.
'Desperate Housewives' premieres September 28 at 8/7pm Central on ABC.

1 comment:

  1. I only watched part of the first season of DH, just to see what all the fuss was about. It was abysmal, so I gave up on it.

    Having said that - I admire Gale Harold's work (The Unseen, Wake and 36K are amazing!), so I will force myself to watch this season.

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