Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives

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Previously: All the stuff from last week (Lynette threatened to snap Snora's spindly spine, Jackie gave Bree photos of battered Alma), plus Mary Alice killed herself, Susan and Ian will always have Paris, and boy does Austin sure like to take off his top and oil up his parts. (Bonus cultural learning fact: In the US, an Austin-hard stomach is referred to a "six pack," but in the lovely-chubbly UK, they call this phenomenon "chocolate bar abs." How great is that?)

Okay, as I'm sure you've probably heard by now, this is the craziest, slammingist, rock 'em, sock 'em episode ever. Are you really ready for this? I don't think you're ready. Go get some potable water, a hyperventilation bag, and a pair of elasticized pants. And a power smoothie, with a "get ready to cry like a little girl" boost. And lotion! You'll need some serious face moisturizing to ride this ride, otherwise your skin's going to crack off, what with all the jaw dropping.

Now that I've got your expectations cranked to impossible heights, let us begin.

Everything starts with a series of fantasy-flashbacks, showing what Jackie from Roseanne might have done with her day (baked a strudel, washed the dog, drowned her African violets, mail a letter), if only her plans hadn't been completely derailed by an unfortunate conversation she has with a woman holding a basket of flowers. MAVO tells us that this woman "wasn't her friend" and the thing she told Jackie was something "she wasn't supposed to hear." The way that the scene is shot, we don't see the mystery woman's face; we only see Jackie, looking like her heart is a baby seal and it's just been clubbed into a bloody pulp.

Jackie, looking a frayed around the edges, heads into a supermarket. On her way in, she absently exchanges greetings with a woman in a black dress, only we can't see the woman's face. Jackie walks up one of the aisles, past the sleeve of a woman wearing a striped men's shirt, and then up to her husband. Jackie: "I've been thinking, Harvey, that if you love this Monique woman, maybe you should be with her." Harve(Gar)y, exasperated, reminds Jackie that Monique is dead. Jackie: "I know." She whips out a gun out of her purse and aims the gun at him and fires. Harve(Gar)y makes a slapsticky run for it, and Jackie walks determinedly after him. As he's diving into an office marked "Manager," she takes one last shot and nicks the doorframe. She runs over, but the door is locked. She bangs on it a few times, and then she notices that she's surrounded by customers. She points her gun at them and tells them to get down on the floor. She's shaking and looking very much like the wheels have fallen off the wagon. MAVO says something saucy about how Jackie had planned for a regular, boring day, but "as every housewife knows, plans change."

Desperate Housewives

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