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In the aftermath of the big fire on Desperate Housewives, Susan was forced to cope with rekindled heartache when she finds out her friend is dating her ex while new drama sparked by the tragedy forces Lynette to make difficult decisions. But for a few of Wisteria Lane’s residents, the blaze had fringe benefits like the possibility that Carlos may regain his vision. – Carrie Bell

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Orson’s broken nose, sustained in the fire, turned him into a loud snorer. Bree asked him to have surgery to correct it but he couldn’t get an appointment for at least a month. Bree slept on the uncomfortable couch but begged him to get an outpatient procedure because she needed rest ahead of her book release and publicity tour. Orson refused, claiming he had an uncle who died on the table during a simple operation. “If we can’t share a bed, it is going to hurt the intimacy of our marriage,” Bree pleaded. He argued back: “My death will have the same effect.”

To get back in the bedroom, Orson dosed Bree’s cup of chamomile so she’d sleep through the noise, only to find out that she’d already taken a sleeping pill. He convinced her not to drink it, but left it on her bedside table. The pill did the trick but she overslept and was late for her morning cooking demo. In the mad dash to get her ready, Orson failed to stop her from drinking the tea and the meds made her loopy and ruined her cooking demonstration (watch a clip). To make up for it, Orson agreed to have the surgery. (more…)

 
Things heated up — literally and figuratively – on Desperate Housewives. Dave’s therapist showed up to confront him with deadly results. Porter’s baby’s mama’s spouse found out about the affair and let his fists and feet do the talking after. Julie brought an unsuitable suitor home from college to meet Susan. Grandma Nutjob made a very generous offer to the Solis family and everyone attended Blue Odyssey’s big debut at the Battle of the Bands.
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Desire drove the citizens of Fairview to a variety of acts from the saucy and sexy to the needy and inappropriate to the downright risky and creepy on this week’s episode of Desperate Housewives.

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Orson and Bree fired an employee who stole money from the petty cash stash to buy pot. They celebrated Orson finding a replacement whose dad is the head of the FBI and Mormon and Bree getting a four-halo review in a Christian magazine for having sex on the work kitchen counter. Andrew came in the next day to break the bad news that their spontaneous sexcapades (which apparently involved olive oil) had been caught on the surveillance tape, which was stolen by the aforementioned ex-employee. He demanded $2,000 or he’d post the video on YouTube (apparently still going strong five years in the future), which would ruin Bree. Bree authorized Andrew to get the tape back. When he did, Bree realized the camera hadn’t caught her and Orson, it immortalized Katherine and Mike Delfino in the throes of passion.
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After last week’s revealing and dramatic episode, a steamy, sex-filled installment of Desperate Housewives (with some awesome guest stars and a few details dropped in to further the Dave Williams plotline) was just what fans needed. Katherine got some, Carlos accidentally gave some, Susan interrupted some and somebody got his first some which inadvertently endangered his parents’ future prospects of making some, at least together anyway. – Carrie Bell

Bree
Orson started his new job with Bree’s catering company and instantly started encroaching on Katherine’s territory, booking big dinner parties, marinating scallops and putting mini cobblers in their individual ramekins. Bree found her scrubbing the fridge after she gave her the afternoon off and confronted her about it. Katherine dropped an f bomb — she was thinking about moving to Maryland to live near her daughter (who is now married and with child) because all she had in Fairview was a job. “No kids, no husband, no boyfriend. [I] haven’t had sex in two years. I might as well throw in the towel and be a grandma.”
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We thought birthday bashes on The Hills got messy, but LC and friends can’t hold a candle to the whopper of a party held on Wisteria Lane this week for Mrs. McCluskey’s 70th. While the couples were fighting about major life issues (unwanted pregnancy, midlife crisis, divorce, commitment phobia, etc), fans finally became privy to the events that occurred during the missing five years.

Bree
While putting on her face before the surprise soiree, she requested that Orson not talk about becoming partner in her catering business as she had not yet broke the news to Katherine. “But this is the first party in months when I can answer the question, “What’s new?” without mumbling into my drink,” he whined as she justified her inaction with Katherine’s sure to be furious response. “Yes,” he reasoned. “But the great thing about Katherine is that she will express it so passive-aggressively that we’ll hardly notice. Why is this so difficult?”
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It has not been a joyous season on Wisteria Lane and this week, despite several silly scenes, was no different. The green-eyed monster visited our favorite fictional housewives (and even palled around with a few husbands) as Bree questioned the cost of success, Lynette boozed it up, Gabby unintentionally taught Juanita a lesson and Susan dealt with the realities of divorce. – Carrie Bell

Catch up with the women of Wisteria Lane:

Bree Battles Success
After giving identically signed copies of her cookbook (an unbecoming move by an ardent follower of Emily Post) to the other housewives, they cracked jokes about how she was getting to be too famous to speak to them. So, when she got the news that she was to be awarded Business Woman of the Year, Bree decided not to share the news with her friends. (more…)

Another season and another natural disaster is heading toward Wisteria Lane. For fans still on the fence about this season’s five-year leap into the future, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry plans on heating things up on the series–literally.

A fire will breakout at a nightclub, endangering and possibly killing one of the characters. Who is at risk in the blaze?

Cherry wouldn’t spill, but he did tell TV Guide in an interview that the men of Wisteria Lane — Tom (Doug Savant), Mike (James Denton), Carlos (Ricardo Chavira), Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and Dave (Neal McDonough) — will be at the club for their garage band Blue Odyssey’s battle of the bands.
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From the neighborhood playground to a crooked used car sale to a reunion dinner showdown between mother and daughter, this week’s episode showed the many different forms of bullying going down on Wisteria Lane.

Bree
Her daughter finally agreed to bring Ben for a visit, and Orson warned Bree to be on her best behavior: “It has taken so many olive branches to get them to come back. If you feel an impulse to criticize something, you’ll keep the thought to yourself.” While Bree was planning a welcome-home dinner, Danielle dropped the bomb that her family had gone vegetarian and she planned to homeschool her kid. Bree’s reaction: “Instead of sending him to a proper school, you’re going to give him the benefit of your straight C average. Am I supposed to sit by while she degrades his body and his mind?” Danielle stormed off, but not before announcing Ben would also be bar mitzvahed in seven years.
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Pot roast-demanding husbands, kidnapped cats, misguided moms, arrogant exes and plummeting social status— it turns out the future isn’t so bright on Wisteria Lane. At least not on this week’s episode.

Bree
Bree’s business is doing gangbusters and Orson isn’t happy about it. First, he noticed that she was releasing her cookbook under her original married name (Van De Kamp). Bree brushed it off, explaining she started the company when separated and “Hodge sounds like the noise a plunger makes.” She promised to whip up his favorite pot roast to make up for it, but had forgotten a meeting. The next night she had to do a radio interview in which she discussed how important it was that family gather around the table (Flashed to Orson eating Chinese takeout solo.). When asked if there was a Mr. Van De Kamp, she joked that he was deceased–but that it had nothing to do with her cooking. She was busy changing the menu for the first event of the Fairview social season in order to impress the cookbook author into giving a quote for her book jacket when Orson confronted her about not telling the radio host about him. “It’s because I went to jail. You’re ashamed of me.” Bree dodged, “The show was about my book, not about my tortured marital history. “ Orson reminded her that jail was the only way to get her back. She again bartered with meat, promising to come home ASAP from the party. But apparently she returned too late for his liking because she found him sitting at the table with a place setting. He said, “I’m hungry. You promised me a roast. I want it now.” Bree reasoned that it was after midnight and she’d been cooking all day and could barely stand. But he held firm to the point of crazy, forced her to deliver the dish. Wondering if her tears made it taste any different?
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Flash forward five years into the future, Julie Meyer (Andrea Bowen) is all grown up — and has a very distinguished boyfriend to prove it.

According to EW’s Michael Ausiello, Desperate Housewives has cast Steven Weber (of Wings hotness) as Julie’s thrice-divorced college prof-turned-lover. The couple come home to Wisteria Lane for a visit, which turns once-neurotic Susan (Teri Hatcher) into an even more neurotic, pill-popping mess. For now Weber and Bowen are slated to appear on one episode.

Tell us: What do you think of this latest Wisteria Lane plot twist? Would you like to see Steven Weber stick around a little longer?

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