"Desperate Housewives" Children and Art (2006)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Wendey Stanzler

Writers:

Jenna Bans (written by)
Marc Cherry (creator)

TV Series:

"Desperate Housewives" (2004)

Original Air Date:

12 November 2006 (Season 3, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

When Gabrielle travels to New York with the desire to return to modeling, she finds it hard to go back on her terms...

Plot Keywords:

Boy | Shirtless | Blackmail | Love Scene | Father Figure

Cast

Teri Hatcher	...	Susan Mayer
Felicity Huffman	...	Lynette Scavo
Marcia Cross	...	Bree Hodge
Eva Longoria Parker	...	Gabrielle Solis (as Eva Longoria)
Nicollette Sheridan	...	Edie Britt
Ricardo Chavira	...	Carlos Solis (credit only) (as Ricardo Antonio Chavira)
Andrea Bowen	...	Julie Mayer
Doug Savant	...	Tom Scavo
Kyle MacLachlan	...	Orson Hodge
Brenda Strong	...	Mary Alice Young (voice)
James Denton	...	Mike Delfino
Shawn Pyfrom	...	Andrew Van De Kamp
Joy Lauren	...	Danielle Van De Kamp
Josh Henderson	...	Austin McCann
Brent Kinsman	...	Preston Scavo

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13

Quotes:

Adventure Scout Girl: [Approaches Gabrielle on the front porch] Hi. What if I told you that there was a way to help children, while reading your favorite magazines at a reduced price? Would you be interested?
Gabrielle: [as she continues to file her nails] Sure. Knock yourself out.
Adventure Scout Girl: Wise choice.
[Reading from her clipboard]
Adventure Scout Girl: For the lady of the house, there's Redbook, Glamour, Vogue...
[Pronounces it "vo-gew"]
Gabrielle: [Pronouncing it correctly] I believe that's Vogue, Sweetheart.
Adventure Scout Girl: Really? Are you sure?
Gabrielle: I should know. I was on the front cover.
Adventure Scout Girl: [Stunned] No. Way.
[...]

Dixie steals this episode hands down!

Dixie Carter playing Gloria Hodge has to be one of the best performances in recent years. I guess it helps that she gave Marc Cherry, the show's creator, his first Hollywood job as her assistant in 1988. Of course, Dixie is having a ball playing the mother from hell. When she says "I should have smothered you as a baby" is a classic television moment, then Andrew says "Can you start calling her grandma?". Of course, Danielle is silent and barely present. I guess Cherry doesn't have much use for her. The dinner scene is classic because of the demented relationship between mother and son. The mother who knows all her son's secrets and threatens to out them to his second wife. Dixie's Gloria is quite entertaining if not overly acting. After all, she is a terrific actress and will probably be with us this whole season. Gaby starts a new career helping young girls become models. Of course, the subplot is Lynette discovering that her new neighbor, Art Washburn, might be a pedophile when she sees his pictures of half-naked boys. That story ends up as vague as it should have been. Cherry seems to only dabble in it while he does not seem to mind exploiting other plots in this show.