Episode 5.02 - Casting Side Summary
Bree does a radio interview to promote her cookbook, "Mrs. Van De Kamp's Old-Fashioned Cooking." She agrees with the host that it's her tribute to Rex, then jokes that her cooking didn't kill him.
Carlos is a masseur working from home, but not if Gaby has her way. She wants him to work at the country club, and while they argue, Carlos' elderly male client walks in, naked. Gaby mentions that they just spent the last of Ellie's money--they went through $118,000 in five years with two kids? Did Gaby wear the same clothes for three years or something?
Gaby talks with an unnamed socialite at the country club. There's no clear plot that I could see, but it sounds like Gaby's trying to manipulate her? Get back "on the scene" again? Try to get Carlos the job behind his back, so to speak? The socialite invites Gablos to a Labor Day charity auction, and Gaby says they'll have to decline another couple's invitation to their regatta. I'm sure it'll make more sense in context.
Source: Modi@TWoP
Episode 5.01 - Plot Summary
A newly married man comes to Wisteria Lane to buy a house. He offers money to an old man if he and his wife can move in asap. One of the new couple is composed of Charles, a busy business man, and his wife Lila. They have a young daughter named Julia. Charles is away on a business trip and his way back home is delayed by snow. Two moms gossip about how Gabrielle can't say no to her kids and the fact that Juanita is eating a lot. The latter overhears the conversation and confronts the two moms. Bree is at a photoshoot for the cover of her first cookbook. She and the photographer don't agree on her facial expression when taking a pie out of the oven. The crew of "What's Cookin' Fairview?" drops by her house for an interview. During the interview, she introduces her staff, which includes Katherine. Mike drops MJ at Susan's house.
Source: SpoilerFix
Latest from Kristin
Are Susan and Mike really over? Who's bringing the big mystery? And what the beejezus are they gonna do now?
These are just a few of the burning questions on the minds of Desperate Housewives fans after the fourth season finale leapt forward five years and left our jaws dangling just above the floor. But wait, what's that I hear? Oh right, it’s the sound of angels singing, because the show is back in production over on the Universal lot, and inside sources are spilling on what's going down.
Even better, those "sources" are Desperate Housewives executive producers Bob Daily and Sabrina Wind, who kindly took the time to share some exclusive details with me on the new direction of the show, what the time leap means for the fierce fivesome (yes, I said five-some) and their hot male counterparts this season.
Here is the juicy scoop you need to know:
The Show Is Truly Starting Over: "I would say from the writing standpoint that the five-year jump has been hugely energizing because it sort of wiped the slate clean," said Daily. "We keep talking about this first episode likes it’s another pilot. We’re starting over and each woman has a new drive now. Gabbi’s the mom. Susan’s the...how can I say this...Susan has interesting issues. Bree is the Martha Stewart. And Lynette is in a different place."
Neal McDonough Brings the New Mystery: Despite being banished in the latest season finale by the other four women, Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) will be moving back to Wisteria Lane at the start of season five and bringing with her a fine, steel-eyed specimen of a man: Neal McDonough (Boomtown, Tin Man). But he's hardly just a pretty face. Exec producer Sabrina Wind revealed, "Edie and Neal's character carry the new mystery with them." I'm hearing that his storyline is just plain crazy, wacky and unbalanced. In short: Just the stuff good DH stories are made of. Holler!
Susan Definitely Has a New Man, (Sorry Mike!) Regarding Gale Harold (Vanished, Queer as Folk), who plays Susan's (Teri Hatcher) new man, executive producer Bob Daily says, "He just shot his first scene today and Marc [Cherry] said it went great." Said Wind, "And it wasn't an easy scene to start with...it involved a little skin." Note: If you are offended by the notion of Harold in his Skivvies in a hot love scene, please, check your meds.
Mike Is Back: James Denton will remain a series regular, but his future was a bit dodgy for a while. Wind explained: "Because of the writers' strike, we didn’t finish last season until May 10, so we tried to give the writers as much flexibility as possible to decide what next year is going to be, and not trap them by picking up the actors contracts too early. So a lot of them really didn’t know and Jamie Denton was among them." Wind and Daily said that Andrea Bowen (Susan's daughter Julie) will be back occasionally but not as a series regular. "That's a hard thing she’s fantastic," says Daily.
Gaby Is the New Lynette: Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) is now the full-time mom who is overwhelmed with the responsibilities of parenting. "I would say Gaby's life has changed the most," said Daily. Still, Wind said, "Gaby's never gonna have a crying on the soccer field moment [like Lynette] 'cause that's not who Gaby is. She could go through the same problems, but she's going to bring Gaby to it which will be the fun part."
It's a Good Thing for Bree: Bree (Marcia Cross) is "Martha Stewart right at the beginning before she became a national phenomenon," revealed Wind. And Daily added: "When you tune into the first episode, you will see she is on the verge of publishing her first cookbook. She is going from being a local celebrity to potentially being a celebrity on a bigger scale. And her son is sort of her right-hand man slash consigliore. He’s like Tom Hayden in The Godfather for her."
As for her love life: "One of the things we'll be answering in the first couple of episodes is how did Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and Bree end up back together again," teased Daily. Well, that's easy. True love and obsessive-compulsive disorder conquers all, right?
Lynette and Tom Have a Hot Mess of Double Trouble: "Lynette’s primary drive is going from being the mother of troublemakers to potentially juvenile delinquents to potentially incarcerated." The new storyline is likely to develop a tween-girl following, thanks to the casting of the Scavos' evil twins, Max and Charlie Carver. "They really do look like young Matt Damons," Wind said.
There Will Be More Questions: "What's kind of fun," said Wind, "is that there’s not enough time in one episode to fill in the backstory of everyone’s lives in five years, so we only answer as many questions as we have time, and there will be more questions." You know what that means: You'll have to watch.
Excited about the addition of the insanely hot Neal McDonough? Delighted by Gale Harold's hotness even though it might mean bad things for Susan and Mike? Post your hopes, fears and speculation about Desperate Housewives season five in the comments.
Source: E!Online
Kids Casting
With ABC's "Desperate Housewives" jumping ahead five years for its upcoming fifth season, four newcomers have come aboard to play the now-aged Scavo kids.
Joshua Moore is set to play Parker, the oldest son of Tom and Lynette Scavo (Doug Savant and Felicity Huffman). Charles and Max Carver will play trouble-making twins Porter and Preston, respectively, and Kendall Applegate has signed on as Penny, the youngest child and only daughter.
The three sons will now be teenagers, while the daughter is around 8 or 9 years old.
Moore is repped by Innovative and manager Adam Griffin. Applegate is repped by Acme Talent and Literary and managers Jamie Malone and Judy Cosgrove.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
USA Today Article on Season 5
Just your everyday 'Housewives' show
Bree, back with Orson, is a self-made Martha Stewart type. Lynette's kids are in trouble with the law. Gaby, now frumpy, has kids. And Susan has a new beau.
It wasn't all a dream: The two-minute scene that flashed forward five years, ending Desperate Housewives' fourth season, sets up this fall's new one. It marks an effort to jump-start the ABC soap, which is TV's top drama but has lost some of its early fizz.
"The thing that made the first year so easy is the women's lives were very simple and their problems were very small," says creator Marc Cherry. "But as the years go on with a serialized show, the soap begins to build up. And I kind of wanted to get back to that relatable jumping-off point, you know, just women with everyday problems."
The choice left most of the actors who play the kids unemployed, though some will return in flashbacks. So will Jamie Denton's Mike Delfino, as the series fills in the blanks of what happened in the intervening years.
How did the rest of the cast react to Cherry's plan? "Most of my actors kind of got over the five-years-older thing really quickly when I said, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to make you look jowly,' " he says. "Only Eva was really OK with us trashing her appearance." But "we have a very funny reason why she gets her appearance back together, about seven or eight episodes in."
Nicollette Sheridan (Edie) remains in the cast, to be joined by two newcomers: Neal McDonough as Dave, a new neighbor who introduces the season's mystery arc; and Gale Harold as Jackson, Susan's new beau, who kissed her in last season's finale.
"We're going into their lives and we're going to see why each of these women, much like in the pilot, are desperate and unhappy," Cherry says, "for all sorts of different reasons."
Source: USA Today
3 More Seasons
Wisteria Lane will be no more—after three more seasons.
That’s the word out of the Desperate Housewives panel at ABC’s press tour for TV critics, which included creator Marc Cherry, executive producer Bob Daily and all the women (Eva, Teri, Nicollette, Felicity, Marcia and, yes, even Dana Delany—who will be back for season five, boo-yah!).
“I’ve made the decision that after seven years I will probably keel over in a hump,” Cherry explained. “I love my baby, I love working with these gals, but the idea of letting anyone else take the show from me kind of makes me sad and sick to my stomach. I’d rather just—it’s my thing, I’m going to take it for seven years and we’re going to get out while people still like us.”
Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman both said they respect Marc’s decision. (I caught up with them at the ABC party, so stand by for video.)
Not Pregnant: Eva Longoria Parker reiterated she isn’t pregnant, and that her new "frumpy" look for the show is all part of Gaby's new direction. As you know, D.H. will flash-forward five years into the future for the new season, when Eva is the exasperated mother of two cute little girls (whom Eva says she's "already in love with").
Says Eva: “Marc told me last year before the season finale that we wanted her to have the mom haircut, and that she has let herself go because Carlos is blind, she’s had two kids, and she’s just really kind of let go of that vanity. We brainstormed with hair and makeup and wardrobe, and I cut my hair because I didn’t want to wear a wig once he told me how long it was going to last.”
Gaby also needs to be fuller. “So yeah, [it’s] butt pads, stomach pads, boob pads,” says Eva. “I love it, because I come to hair and makeup now and it's 10 minutes instead of two hours. I wake up and go straight to set.”
Teri Hatcher
More on Season Five: As for any dish on what else lies ahead for season five, frankly, you can get more scoop in my previous D.H. preview, with info from Daily and executive producer Sabrina Wind. But we did learn that Susan (Teri) “no longer believes in love”—so you better believe something bad went down with Mike (James Denton), which led her to her new love interest Gale Harold.
As for Dana Delany and her character, Katherine Mayfair, Cherry and Daily said that it was “impossible not to bring her back” after the response from fans who “loved that character.” Hey, that’s you! You already accomplished something awesome today without even knowing it.
Source: E!Online
Episode 5.02 - Were So Happy Youre So Happy - Script Snippet
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Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman Interviews
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New Season Promo
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Susan gets a new car
<p><span class="indent"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RrObyQ3XzcY/SIXrtSo6ObI/AAAAAAAAacw/pbrJ5anqx_M/s1600-h/Desperate_Housewives_(544x408).jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RrObyQ3XzcY/SIXrtSo6ObI/AAAAAAAAacw/pbrJ5anqx_M/s320/Desperate_Housewives_(544x408).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225842105963395506" /></a>Pop quiz…what’s wrong with this photo? Normal suburban household right? Then you notice the 2009 Volvo XC60 sitting in the driveway…a car that won’t be out in the U.S. till early 2009. That’s odd. Then you notice the license plate…Eagle State? What the hell is that? And then it hits you. You are staring at the driveway of 4353 Wisteria Lane, the home belonging to Susan Mayer of Desperate Housewives. This shot, taken from the set of the upcoming season reveals she will be rocking Volvo’s newest crossover, which is appropriate because Susan has always been a fan of Volvos (or should I say the show’s producers have always been a fan of the sponsorship). In the first episode Susan drives a 1983 Volvo 240 station wagon, and in subsequent seasons she is seen driving a Volvo XC70 (which I believe she drove into a lake). I dig the old-school Toyota FJ in the driveway too, and I'm speculating it belongs to her new man.<br /><br /> Source: MyRide