Just for fun. Desperate housewives

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I’m rewatching Desperate Housewives at the minute and thought I’d create a thread to chat about it.

Firstly i wondered if you could live in any of the houses, which would you pick?

For me i am between Lynette and Susan’s house. But u think I like Susan’s that bit more! I love the layout and yellow colour.

rewatching it I also have the following thoughts:

• Bree was really under appreciated considering how much she did for her family.
• Susan is a really crappy mum to Julie.
• I actually think Eddie Britt would make a really fun friend and I think it’s a shame nobody really likes her.
• Tom is gross and gives me the ick.

anyway jump on board if you fancy sharing any thoughts!

I rewatched it recently. I hated all of their houses. Huge on the outside, ridiculously small on the inside with no hallways or seemingly, spare bedrooms in any of them. I particularly hated the Solis house. I know it was 20 plus years ago, but it was hideous.

I found some elements quite shocking. The casual storylines about hitting children, the aggression, the fact that none of the men could resolve an issue without resorting to physical fights. The incredibly dated sexism. It seems so ludicrous now, even for a comedy drama.

@AbsoluteHoot yikes I didn’t realise it was over 20 years old now!! Where on earth has that time gone.

Agree about the Solis house, it’s horribly tacky! It does seem ludicrous. I think I just love the white picket fence fantasy world. I wonder if there are really streets like this in America. I would love to live on one.

I stick it on every so often, but it does annoy me quite a lot now I'm older. I always thought Tom was the best husband but now I'm not convinced. Rex was a massive bastard, and Bree's kids are twats too.

Not to mention Gaby’s statutory rape storyline, and the fat shaming of her daughter.

@AbsoluteHoot Omg yes I actually googled how old John the Gardner was supposed to be and it’s 16 🙈🙈🙈🙈

And yes when she makes her daughter run by chasing the car.. 🙈

I got the ick when Tom saw the nanny naked and then developed a crush on her, looking down her top etc.

I started rewatching this today! I remember the horrible storyline with that creepy neighbour that had all the toys in his basement and Lynette found out and I think there was a vigilante crowd or something outside his house, but when he moved he gave her a horrible smirk and she was right 🤢

And Bree and Rex being really homophobic to Andrew

Oh gosh I don’t remember this one! I am sure it will come back to me when I get to that point. Yes the homophobia was horrible for Andrew. They were a proper toxic family as the kids were horrible and they were horrible to Andrew too. I just watched the episode where Rex has a heart attack and instead of Bree rushing him to hospital, she gets all dressed up and makes the bed etc whilst he is sat in the stairs sweating and can barely breath whilst waiting for her.

I think Bree is great too (apart from the homophobia but she does get over it), and I would pick her house and everything in it!
Agree that Tom is awful, Lynnette really needed to be on MN!
Susan would seriously piss me off in real life and I don’t think I would be friends with her, she’s just too flaky.
I love Gabrielle in the first few series but don’t like what they did with the character later on. I think they softened Carlos out a lot too because he was borderline abusive in series 1.

I’m rewatching as well, nearly at the end of season 2. All the houses are horrid. The Scavo family drive me insane! Only really watching it for Mike, such a lovely, sexy bad boy. [sighs]

I forgot how creepy that pharmacist George is

I love Mrs McClusky.

Also my take on rewatching it now as a parent of young kids is that I scarily identify with Lynette.

That bit in S1 where the kids are driving her nuts and she sees Mary Alice hand her the gun through the window. Been there.

Also in a later season when she is telling a new mum in the DRs office ‘you’ll feel so lonely, but you’ll never be alone’. That too. I am lonely as a parent but I also want everyone to fuck off and leave me alone for a bit!

yes there are some really deep and dark moments she has as a mother that are very relatable.

Also slightly different but I have a 7 month old and really relate to her always being covered in spit up

S2 E15 has some of the worst CGI tears I have ever seen! The picture does not do it justice how bad they are when they run down Bree’s face