well we arent he only ones
lol at this and hte vests
"Desperate plot twists end in tears
CAITLIN MORAN
INSIDE THE BOX
THE problem with Desperate Housewives is also the problem with a great many high-profile American television series. With a densely plotted debut run — involving multifarious denouements, red herrings, mysteries, revelations and deaths — by the time the first series comes to an end, both the viewers and the programme are exhausted.
In this respect Desperate Housewives is in the company of Lost, 24 and The X Files — all high-concept shows that notably dropped off in quality after the first series and met with audience complaint, not least because human beings have a limited appetite for being faced with puzzles that never get resolved satisfyingly.
Of course, suffering from plot exhaustion and mystery excess need not spell the end of a show. Lost, 24 and The X Files, despite being less thrilling, all continued to do well in the ratings — mainly because, although the plots may have become ever-more ludicrous, people still enjoyed watching the shows’ sympathetic, well-defined characters just mucking around, “doing stuff”.
This, I suspect, is where things have been going wrong for Desperate Housewives. Let’s face it, with the exception of the harassed working mother Lynette Scavo, the rest of the housewives are fundamentally quite unlikeable. Although a thrilling glacial gay icon in the first series, Bree Van De Kamp, the perfectionist, now comes across as a shrew in need of intense pastoral care for her OCD problem. Edie is a California slag with a wind-tunnel facelift and wearying, second-rate sarcasm. Gabrielle Solis is a Latina slag who does little more than either walk determinedly off-camera in expensive shoes or sigh exasperatedly.
Susan Mayer (Terri Hatcher), who is supposed to be the show’s “heart”, still searches for happiness and fulfilment, little realising that both could be addressed easily by expanding her wardrobe and not wearing TWO VESTS AT THE SAME TIME, DAY IN, DAY OUT. DEAR GOD, WOMAN, BUY A JUMPER OR TRY A BLOUSE OR SOMETHING!
Really, what the falling ratings are reflecting is something that real housewives have known for a long time: unless there is a series of unfeasible suicides, murders and fires, unfolding at a rollicking pace during a show’s first bravura season, staying at home all day is actually quite dull."
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you knwo we said desperate whosewives was getting crap?
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cod · 06/03/2006 13:42
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