 |
 |
|
|
| Desperate Housewives | | (And What Commitment Is All About) | | 01 February 2005 | | Desperate Housewives is 3 weeks into its run* and she's invited us back to her place and offered us hob-knobs. We should be delighted, but to tell the truth, we're every-so-slightly concerned.
There is, of course, a reason for this, and at its heart lies one simple fact: FairgroundTown doesn't "do" casual relationships – not in life, not in love, and certainly not in TV, and Desperate Housewives feels like it might be just that – a brief fling that goes nowhere and leaves us with nothing but hazy memories and the feeling of what might have been.
To be sure, we've laughed - more than a little, if we're honest. The climax (if those who have seen it will forgive the term) of the dinner party scene in episode 3 had us rolling on the floor.
We've empathized too - with Lynette's struggles with her children, in particular.
And, more than anything, the real reason we're still watching is that we've been caught up like a kitten in a ball of wool, in the mystery of Mary Alice's suicide and the coffin under the pool.
But at the end of day, as we rush to stop the tape before the spoilers for the next episode appear, we just don't *care* about any of these people yet, and we're starting to worry that we never will. Maybe it is the slightly surreal feeling that the glossy camera-work gives it; maybe it is the sheer unfamiliarity of the whole 'suburban America' scenario; maybe it is simply that it is written to make you wonder, and to make you laugh, but not to make you think. Maybe... just maybe... this will change as the series progresses. We hope it does, because we've committed to the drama, now it owes us more than a few giddy nights on the town in return.
* We're time-shifting to video, because 10pm is well past our bedtime. We're sure Channel 4 has done its homework, but you sometimes have to wonder – do they actually *want* an audience? |
|
|
The point is we are all connected... through love... through loneliness... through one lamentable lapse in judgment!
|
|
FairgroundTown.co.uk /
Reflectable Ltd
2010