Who's your favourite Desperate Housewife?
Mine's Lynette.
I'm asking, because 'everybody' hates Lynette, especially after the lastest episode. Bree seems 'everybody's favourite. She comes second with me. (Susan, Gabrielle, Edie are next.)
People hate Lynette mainly because she can't cope with / doesn't like her kids and regrets having had to give up her career in favour of motherhood. Same reason why I think she's fabulous. She's the only person on the show who is 'real'. If I were a housewife, and desperate, I'd be Lynette and I'd be putting those horrible boys up for adoption. So there.
I completely agree. Especially when I saw her asking why nobody told her that it’s not that easy, and why everyone made it look so easy.
I don’t like Bree so much, but I think Gabrielle is very very funny.
Rogue - 19 February 2005 - 22:02
How bizarre! I didn’t think anyone would actually like Bree – she is, I think, the most unsympathetic character on the show. Lynette is my favourite, too, if only because you can see that she’s this brilliant, intelligent, feisty person who’s being trampled on / ignored by the kids (and the husband, in a different way). Susan is next, but she’s a bit mimsy for my liking.
Meg (link) - 20 February 2005 - 16:52
Bree is horrendous, yet compellingly well portrayed. Maybe it’s more a case of favourite depiction than favourite person.
Hg (link) - 20 February 2005 - 17:55
Glad to find I’m not alone :-) The ‘everybody’ I am talking about are the folks on the DH forum at TWOP. They genuinely like Bree (perhaps they’re all card carrying NRA supporters?) and the hatred towards Lynette shows up in the recaps too.
How far into the series are you all? Because people at TWOP started out liking Lynette, but have come to hate her over the last couple of episodes. (I’m at episode 13.)
Caroline (link) - 20 February 2005 - 18:05
I… have no idea what episode we’re on here in Ireland. The one where she cracks about the ADHD meds was the last one I saw.
Rogue - 20 February 2005 - 21:53
UK wise we are at episode 4/5?
Lynette is great – as you say she is the only ‘real’ one in the show (so far at least).
Have to agree that Bree is the most watchable though, so twisted and dark as all the best characters are.
(I’ll forego any comment about Gabrielle… )
Gordon (link) - 21 February 2005 - 14:26
People at TWOP hate everybody, so when I read their latest reviews totally hating on her I felt even more justified loving her. I’m also at episode 13, Caroline!
lia (link) - 21 February 2005 - 19:09
I think most of the viewers at TWOP are parents. We’re not. Makes all the difference, I’m sure. (the hating started after a montage during which the voice over implies Lynette’s embarrassed about the drawings and other ‘gifts’ her kids give her – ‘how could she say a kids’ drawing is crap?’) Lynette does pull some stunts the episodes most of you haven’t seen. It doesn’t matter to me, though, I still like her. As Meg said, she’s smart :-)
Caroline (link) - 22 February 2005 - 11:15
Lynette’s alright. It’s Gabrielle I can’t stand. And Susan’s slapstick antics are getting kinda tiring.
Milo (link) - 22 February 2005 - 12:08