Keeping Up Appearances
Gaby was extra neighborly with Adam to make Carlos jealous. Eva Longoria and Nathan Fillion by Ron Tom/ABC
Episode Recap: "The Game"
Does no one on Wisteria Lane ever learn that playing games to hide the truth can only succeed for so long? Eventually the secrets and lies come to the fore. But to their credit, the neighbors all did a fine job of keeping up the act tonight. Charades was just one among many games that were played at Susan and Mike's home.
We still didn't get much further in the Mayfair mystery. What we do know is that Dylan's real dad
didn't do what Mom Mayfair told everyone: "the worst thing a father can do to his daughter." That was just another lie made up to keep them quiet in the future.
Edie flaunted her engagement to bug both Carlos and Gaby, courtesy of a ring she bought herself (she should have used Carlos' money from that offshore account). She also befriended Katherine, assuring her that when Katherine caught Adam and Gaby flirting, it was the latter she should worry about. Before the night was over, Katherine spilled Gaby's sordid history with Wisteria Lane's most popular gardener, news to no one except Gaby's new hubby. But Victor's nonplussed political take on Gardenergate sent her back into Carlos' arms, and we were privy to a teeny bit more of
his game with Edie. The heretofore "hit man," Al Kaminsky, is supposedly a CPA, and needs only a couple weeks to take care of "the Britt file."
Try as Lynette might to pretend that her life is largely unaltered by her illness, she ruined her longstanding reputation as "charades assassin" when her mother Stella (
Polly Bergen) baked her brownies stocked with some "kickass chronic" to curb her nausea. It was great to see Lynette not in control, rational and entirely lucid, for once. She'd normally be the last one to insensitively reenact Edie's suicide attempt in hopes of her team guessing the
Hang 'em High western. I'm sure her kids also enjoyed Mommy's new appreciation for the genius of
SpongeBob SquarePants!
Susan's real pregnancy began making Bree's fake one more difficult to hide. Tonight Susan envisioned sharing the same doctor and scheduling their appointments at the same time. When Bree blindly picked a doc out of the phone book, I just
knew Susan was in for a shady place. Once she was late to her own party - thanks to a debacle of a doctor's appointment, replete with slashed tire and stolen cell phone - Bree told more lies to cover up the truth: there had been complications, and she'd nearly lost the baby.
Well, it
was true, just not regarding Bree. Danielle, back at the convent, was the one who nearly lost the baby. (Roller blading? Really?) I think the event made Bree remember how much she loved Danielle - that it wasn't all about the baby, but that she had another child involved in the trauma, too. Or am I giving Bree too much credit?
Children certainly learn from their elders: while the grownups were playing charades, Julie deftly opened the lock to the Mayfairs' attic storage room, confirmed it was Dylan's old bedroom and reintroduced her to various childhood things packed away in boxes. Katherine caught them and demanded that Dylan stay away from Julie. (But surely they go to the same high school?) Later Katherine prepared the room for Aunt Sims - and in the episode's final scene, she pulled back the bedroom rug and wept over a jagged gash in the wood floor. What? I guess this will be a season-long mystery after all.
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