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cleolindaWell, it looks like TWOP is adding Desperate Housewives to their lineup, which is good because they've already had to drop The Mountain for sucking like a two-dollar whore, and it looks like Jack and Bobby is being dropped as well. Which made me sad. I mean, I watch relatively little TV. If I'm watching it, you're reading about it. But I read tons and tons of recaps for shows I don't watch, which actually takes less time and is less traumatic than watching some of these shitheaps (see: Bachelor, The). And I really, really enjoyed watching Jessica flagellate the Christine Lahti character on the Jack and Bobby recaps each week. But it looks like she's moving over to Desperate Housewives now, so there you go.
I don't know if I can do DH myself--I mean, really, I just recap TV for fun, and as quickly as possible to preserve that jump-on-the-phone-and-call-your-friend loopiness of "And then! And then! AND THEN!" Actual, lengthy, accurate recaps are TWOP's thing, not mine.
But in case you're wondering, I'll talk about the show a little. I think ABC made a mistake with the sex-focused commercials--I know, you're thinking, "How is that ever a mistake?" But really, they made them look like Letters to Penthouse: The Series (Desperate housewife jumps plumber! And teenage gardener! And cable guy! Can't you see how DESPERATE TO DO THE SEX THEY ARE?), and that's a huge turn-off to precisely the audience they should go after: women. Because it's women who will identify with the characters.
It's a weird little show, too--sort of like a light American Beauty meets Stepford Wives, with a little Twin Peaks thrown in. (Of course, everything "quirky" these days owes something to Twin Peaks.) Basically, it's narrated by one of the housewives--a dead one, who kills herself in the first five minutes, but her family has some Verreh, Verreh Dark Secret involving an "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID" letter and something buried under the pool. Oh, and the plumber that Teri Hatcher and Scary, Scary NicolletteScaridan Sheridan are fighting over is some kind of covert undercover agent, but (of course) nobody knows it. Oh, and Marcia Cross may or may not have accidentally poisoned her husband with onions, Teri Hatcher manages to burn down Scaridan's house, and Felicity Huffman is awesome. Whee!
In conclusion: It's a pretty good show, pretty funny, and worth watching--it's not the show they're trying to sell to you at all.
I don't know if I can do DH myself--I mean, really, I just recap TV for fun, and as quickly as possible to preserve that jump-on-the-phone-and-call-your-friend loopiness of "And then! And then! AND THEN!" Actual, lengthy, accurate recaps are TWOP's thing, not mine.
But in case you're wondering, I'll talk about the show a little. I think ABC made a mistake with the sex-focused commercials--I know, you're thinking, "How is that ever a mistake?" But really, they made them look like Letters to Penthouse: The Series (Desperate housewife jumps plumber! And teenage gardener! And cable guy! Can't you see how DESPERATE TO DO THE SEX THEY ARE?), and that's a huge turn-off to precisely the audience they should go after: women. Because it's women who will identify with the characters.
It's a weird little show, too--sort of like a light American Beauty meets Stepford Wives, with a little Twin Peaks thrown in. (Of course, everything "quirky" these days owes something to Twin Peaks.) Basically, it's narrated by one of the housewives--a dead one, who kills herself in the first five minutes, but her family has some Verreh, Verreh Dark Secret involving an "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID" letter and something buried under the pool. Oh, and the plumber that Teri Hatcher and Scary, Scary Nicollette
In conclusion: It's a pretty good show, pretty funny, and worth watching--it's not the show they're trying to sell to you at all.
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Date: 2004-10-09 09:02 pm (UTC)ScaridanSheridanHee! I've been calling her Nicollette Harridan, but Scaridan works just as well. ;)
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Date: 2004-10-09 09:46 pm (UTC)I love TWOP.
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Date: 2004-10-09 11:34 pm (UTC)I'm more interested myself in Boston Legal, or "The James Spader and William Shatner Hilarity Hour"
Too funny.
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Date: 2004-10-10 06:18 am (UTC)Though, I am contemplating taping it so I can just fast-forward through the non-SpaderShatner bits.
Also, it's given me the need to mutter "Denny Crane" to myself at odd moments.
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Date: 2004-10-10 08:53 am (UTC)I'm not a big fan of lawyer shows, either. I didn't even watch the Practice until they brought Teh Spader on (loving the name).
"Denny Crane" (Who would've thought Shatner could be so funny???)
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Date: 2004-10-10 02:20 pm (UTC)Totally with you on the advertising. I think the title is kind of wrong for it, too. Really, some of them aren't even housewives *cough* TeriHatcherNicoletteScaridan *cough*, and they don't seem all that desperate to me. I mean, maybe it's just me watching to much C.S.I. and Law and Order, but cheating on your husband with the gardener boy ain't all that original. And Teri Hatcher didn't even burn Scaridan's house down on purpose, yo. *shrug* I guess I should be happy with the title, since it's better than, oh, say...Wife Swap.
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Date: 2004-10-11 06:12 am (UTC)Yarha, Or Possibly Whocka-Whock, It's Hard to Tell
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Date: 2004-10-11 07:55 am (UTC)Television?
Date: 2004-10-11 08:57 am (UTC)The whole thing about TWoP, is you have to read each and every recap, it seems to be a site standard that they give all the characters cutesy nicknames, so if you don't know who the "Magnificent Bastard" is, (Smallville's Lionel Luthor) you have no idea have "Omar G". is writing about. The forums, I usually can't watch stuff until a day later, and it seems that everyone who posts there is ultra-witty and intelligent, and have at least two paragraphs worth of quality writing to squeak out a mere three minutes after said episode is over. I can't run with the big dogs so I stay on the porch. My line of thinking is.... "Uhhh...that was fun. Gawh, that actress sure is purty. Dem special effects were fun."
Guess I'm not cut out for that crowd.
I'd like to see "The secret life of Fanboys", and it could be about people who can run with that crowd. I'd like to see a full-blown nerd romance played out on t.v.
Who's with me???
-----Pete
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Date: 2004-10-11 12:10 pm (UTC)Re: Television?
Date: 2004-10-13 11:41 pm (UTC)Each show has its own FAQ where such questions can be answered with one click without reading through every recap.
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Date: 2004-10-14 06:38 am (UTC)Re: Television?
Date: 2004-10-14 10:53 am (UTC)What's awful is that my initial reaction to the comment that started this is "Wheel's spinning! Hamster's dead!"
I am a terrible person.
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Date: 2004-10-11 01:00 pm (UTC)And I want to pre-order your m15m book. How? IS it even possible? I think Ivaguely rememebr you mentioning it a while back, but.. alas, my memory has never been what it should be. How would I order it?
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Date: 2004-10-11 05:53 pm (UTC)*writes faster*