Everyone has a little dirty laundry...

I've finished watching the whole of season 3 n 4 of Desperate Housewives DVDs during this whole exam season (dun u even dare asking me about my studying progress...).

So now what?

I'm desperate for some pre-exam entertainment. All DVDs had been watched... The last one being You Don't Mess with Zohan (which is totally funny and awfully obscene!)... Then, nothing more....
hrmm, maybe flipping the IKEA catalogue isnt such a bad idea after all.. ;-)

Never mind...

Talking about Desperate Housewives, I'm utterly DESPERATE and itching to watch its 5th season, which is now airing in the US, starting last 28th September..


The one being shown on Malaysian TV now is season 4... This new season will be totally spiced, with everything being fast-forwarded 5 years from the events in the finale of season 4. Yeah, the storyline is getting exceptionally intriguing with JUICY transformations and even more underground secrets and vicious lies.

I'm positive that it will take ages for the local TV to air DH's latest season... So i just took a tiny lil peek of its first episode on youtube!!! I really then literally had to take my hands and fingers off the keyboard so as not to watch everything there, or else everything will b spoilt... Considering my serious difficulty of following storylines in fragments, especially serial shows, I choose to be patient. *sigh*...


Why do i like this show so much??? There are plenty of reasons... First, it's FUNNY! I LOVE the dialogues and I like how each of the characters is portrayed and developed, all with their own distinctive peculiarities. Yet, the show depicts REAL issues that these ladies have to deal with and the dark secrets that they go to great pains to keep in their daily encounters (not easy when most of them are determined to worm the secrets out of everybody). Yeah, some are exaggerated and irrelevant in our eastern culture (especially the unnecessary sex scenes) but surely, more than half of those issues i can well relate to, although i dun have any husband/s or kids yet and have never lived in such a suburbia before (but I intend to..hahaha).


I like its originality: especially the way it is narrated by the characters' dead friend, Mary Alice, who committed suicide, and once even by one of the character's (Bree's) dead husband (who by the way, was poisoned to death by Bree's x-bf). Here's the pic of Mary Alice:

It's amazing how each episode from Season 1 never fails to make me ponder deep about life, predominantly through the way each episode starts off with a general introductory narration that is closely and cleverly interwoven with its closing narration in a very simple, yet powerful and insightful way! I wonder who writes the script for the narration... It's simply brilliant!

I like how each episode manages to make me reflect on my life and others', laugh my kidneys out, nervous with its unpredictable plot, and sob away in pure empathy in response to what some of the characters are going through. There's a right mixture of comical acts, heart-stopping and gut-wrenching thrilling actions, and real drama in this series that simply glues me to the screen. Every season is about unveiling the mystery of the people in Wisteria Lane. and along the way, both the other characters and viewers together come to discover new things about the neighbourhood and unearth the long-lived mysteries that are often sublimely astounding! There're always mysterious issues raised in the beginning of each season, with them being resolved along and by the end of it. Nonetheless, this gives rise to the emerging new and related mysteries all over again, which will have to be dealt with in the following season. It's an unending cycle!

Not to mention, i can watch all of the episodes again and again without feeling sick at all...
Each episode displays and reveals what it really takes to be a woman: the fun, the beauty, the gossipping, and the pain, the responsibilities, the challenges, the struggles, the love, the loyalty, the jealousy, the friendship, the family, the survival, the emotions, the hardship, the secrets, the offspring, and the MEN! (this justifies why MEN need to watch this series too). Anyways, Tom Scavo (below) is my favourite guy character in the show.

What i like most is that each episode is loaded with implicit and explicit moral values which are essential for human civilisation (something that is seriously lacking in today's media, don't u think?).

And, i can relate myself, though not entirely, to all of the characters. As i said before, there's a lil bit of Susan, Bree, Gabrielle, and Lynette in me (not Edie though). They are all just so REAL! (and i like most of the ensemble donned by the characters). Of all, nonetheless, I like Lynette the most. I think she holds the strongest character in the story. Lynette and Tom Scavo are simply the cutest couple (from which i learn a lot!)!

Most of the times Gabrielle is just a plain ignorant, selfish, and mean sexy scandalous dumb-brunette, but once she pours her true hearts out, i feel so touched to the point of crying 'with' her... Susan is a total klutz, which is parallel to my absent-minded character in a way, and Bree is a perfectionist, which is also a part of who i am (when it comes to housekeeping and studies--so far...). But i am not a marvellous cook like her, although i would love to know how to bake real scrumptious banana blueberry muffins and lemon meringue pies one day.

All of them have their own pasts, strengths, and weaknesses that make them naturally human.


To those who have never watched Desperate Housewives before, i would highly recommend you to... On the surface, you might think it is just another sex-based dramas, but if you watch the series from the beginning of Season 1 to Season 4, you'll realise it's more than just a drama... It's perhaps one of the most fun and effective self-reflecting tools and stress-busters!

Try to ignore the hot scenes (if you can...) and be immersed in one of the most wickedly intelligent serial shows ever! (in MY perspective).

Everyone has a little dirty laundry. So do I... ;-)



P.S. The final season of DH is said to be in 2011, that is Season 7.. well, we'll see!

P.P.S. I only own the 3rd and 4th season DVDs.. i think i want to buy the 1st and 2nd seasons' as well. i love rewinding to and replaying my favourite dialogues and scenes al ovvveeerr again...weee!