![]() ![]() McCluskey warn the girls as they each go off into their own troubles (funnily enough, when Lynette knocks on Mrs. The tornado doesn't just happen, like the hostage. Again, these comedic moments had a purpose as Gabby and Carlos realise, through seeing the hostage coverage on television, that their problems don't amount to much in comparison. They start at an office where Gabby is dragged out kicking and screaming - "give me one clean shot at him, I'm willing to do the time!" - to a huge fight in the Solis household that includes smashing vases, hammering through walls and chainsaws. The other comedic element to the episode, before the hostage crisis really kicks in, is Gabby's and Carlos's division of assets saga. The show may be comedic but damn, the show writers knew how to write and the actors did a very fine job of portaying that. You can see on everybody's face in Bree's living room just how sorry they feel for Tom and the kids. The devastation is made all the more real when Tom drops Lynette's kids off at Bree's, completely unaware that his wife has been taken hostage. The interactions with Bree and her guests were funny and only led to a more devastating blow when Bree realises the shooter is Carolyn, meaning some blame weighs heavily on Bree's shoulders. Sometimes, in an episode like Bang, it's easy to forget the show is still part comedy, so the dark humour manages to balance the dire parts of the episode's subject matter. The entire hostage part of the episode was thrilling, not just for the audience but apparently for the characters who are not in the supermarket themselves as Bree hosts a little viewing part of the coverage on television complete with drinks and food. I feel a little winded writing all that down but boy, it was a pretty clever set-up. Lynette goes for hamburgers for Tom and when Nora sees Lynette's car in the car park, she enters to confront her about custody for Kayla. That's not all, we also see how several characters end up at the supermarket - Julie goes for toothpaste for Susan who is going on a trip with Ian, who is joined by Austin, and when both get in trouble for shoplifting, Susan and Edie are called down. The episode unravels the mystery - Orson informs Bree about Carolyn's cheating husband Harvey, Bree tells Carolyn and thus, Carolyn pays Harvey a little visit at the supermarket he works at. We have no idea what exactly happened beforehand to lead to this moment, but we quickly find out. We begin the episode as Carolyn walks into the supermarket, passing Susan, and taking a shot at her husband. The main genius of this episode has to be the structure. Every single time this damn episode plays (by my own fault as I own all episodes of Desperate Housewives on DVD and in High-Definition) I always, without doubt, get so emotionally invested from the beginning that by the end, I'm a weeping mess. We go to the final disaster episode ending the streak was season 7's Down the Block There's a Riot which returned disaster episodes to top form, but alas, the final season declined to feature a disaster.īang has to be among Desperate Housewives' most beautifully shot and written episodes. ![]() We lead into the fire episode of season 5, City on Fire, which definitely wasn't to the scope of the previous two disaster episodes, leading to the plane crash of season 6, Boom Crunch, which sounded more epic than it actually was. They probably didn't intend to start a trend but when season 4's tornado episode, Something's Coming, blew onto televisions in December 2007 with very high ratings, a new tradition was born. ![]() It's allowed considering they are all categorised with a recurring theme.ĭesperate Housewives began the 'disaster' tradition with season 3's hostage episode, Bang. Then I realised I could cheat and do multiple episodes for my TBT if I focus on all the disaster episodes. The hard part was picking an episode because I couldn't decide between a lot of episodes - Pilot, Guilty, One Wonderful Day, Remember, Bang, etc. Those are my three favourite shows right there. I have already done a Charmed episode and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode for my Throwback Thursdays, and I knew that I had to pick a Desperate Housewives episode for my third article. Just one (with the exception of Dahne comparing a Buffy and Supernatural episode). ![]() Usually for Throwback Thursdays, our team at SpoilerTV look back on a cancelled show for our favourite episode. Throwback Thursday, a weekly article in which we look back at our favorite TV episodes from over the years. ![]()
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