Posted by Dustin on 10.12.2009 at 5:05 pm

This wasn’t a particularly exciting week on “Housewives” in my opinion. I’m doing a thoughts post with some mini recaps all mixed in here.

The biggest story with the most developments (which we kinda could guess already) involved the Bolens. Bob was hired to defend Danny, which pissed off Susan. Even Lynette reminded her everyone thought her kid was guilty last year and he wasn’t. Susan was just convinced Danny was guilty.

Bob asked Danny’s family for background info, character references, but they would give nothing to him. Danny told Bob to figure out what was going on here, this family has deep dark secrets! Later Nick told Angie maybe it was time to give up being Nick and Angie Bowlen and move on, but Angie wouldn’t do that. So yeah, that’s not even their real names. Many have suggested in the shoutbox that they are probably in the witness protection program. Given the show has made them out as stereotypical mobsters, sounds like it. I’d like to say it is too predictable, but it seems every year the show’s new mystery is quickly figured out and the predictable is what it turns out to be.

In the end, Danny’s story checked out, and a liquor store security camera showed him drinking in his car all night. Yeah, it was TOO easy for Danny to be the attacker. After other neighbors trashed the Bolen’s yard, Susan went over to help Angie pick things up as a way of saying she was sorry.

Julie is apparently still in her not-a-coma-but-unconscious state at the hospital. She wasn’t even in the episode.

Karl and Bree’s weird relationship continued. He wanted to go away for a weekend, but she said that was what people in a romantic relationship did, this was a fling, an affair. Later she caught him with another woman at a social event and found herself jealous. She finally decided, after ruining their date, to go out with him.

So I don’t know, I mean Karl is slime, everyone can see it, yet Bree is falling for him? He was not only out with another woman, he was going to take her to bed! He told Bree as much. I guess given she’s having an affair she’s in no place to judge though.

Speaking of affairs . . . . John Roland returned this week. Gabby, Carlos and the kids were all at a restaurant which John now owned. He bought it with his divorce settlement. Gabby was immediately taken with John, trying to look better to impress him, which upset Carlos. She made excuses that she would have tried to look better for anyone, but she was jealous when Anna went to work for John. The end of the show had her sneaking a peak at old photos of them together. Oh no, are we really going through another John affair again? Please no no no!

Finally Lynette was about to tell Carlos she was pregnant when he made her his new senior VP, because the other woman he was going to make the offer to was pregnant. Lynette took the job, and kept her secret. At dinner with an important client Tom had to drink all the wine he kept giving to Lynette, and got inappropriately yet hilariously drunk. He’s always funny when he drinks to much on the show actually. They should get Tom drunk more often 🙂

The previews for next week I have to say were the best thing about this show. Next week Lynette has a hard time hiding her pregnancy when “the twins” arrive, ie her boobs become giant and everyone thinks she’s had implants!