Thread: ''Desperate Housewives'' recap: Drug dealing

''Desperate Housewives'': The Sedating Game
Gaby dopes Carlos when he threatens to tell the police what happened to Victor; plus, Orson helps Mike score, and Susan sets Julie up with a drug dealer



Welcome home, Desperate Housewives, welcome...sorry. Extreme Makeover really messed with my head. We started this week with the combination of rippling water and Mary Alice's voice. I was excited for this episode, but I felt my eyes grow heavy. A Mary Alice voice-over combined with rippling water is a strong sedative. Especially after two hours of Ty Pennington screaming into a megaphone. ''We think of the past as water under the bridge,'' Mary Alice crooned. I nodded, hypnotized. We saw various riffraff float by. Was anyone else expecting seasons 2 and 3 of Desperate Housewives on DVD to drift past? I was sleepy and skeptical at the start of last night's episode, worried that a trip down memory lane would remind me of all the missteps Housewives had taken in the previous two seasons. I was wrong. Forgive me, Marc Cherry. I loved this episode for addressing past plot points but also for filling certain, um, cavities. More...