Did you watch the second season of Desperate Housewives? Chances are that you started to, but – like everyone else – you gave up part of the way through after realising that it was a hairy old bag of balls.
And, by Christ, are the cast of Desperate Housewives ever annoyed about that. Even though season two of Desperate Housewives was about as enjoyable to watch as looped repeats of The Wide Awake Bowel Surgery Club, there's a Desperate Housewives Season Two DVD coming out soon. And, despite the fact that most people would rather buy a DVD of The World's Funniest Hacksaw Castrations, the cast of Desperate Housewives have gone on the offensive. In short, their point was that Desperate Housewives Season Two was really good and you're wrong for not liking it.
When Desperate Housewives first came out, it was touted as the new Sex And The City. In actuality, there was no city and people only had sex if they could keep their bras firmly done up, and the only thing that the two shows had in common was that they both featured a bunch of annoying women talking crap at each other all the time. And that they were rubbish.
Season two of Desperate Housewives, though, was savaged by the critics to such an extent that the stars of the show have had to go out and publicly defend it. Speaking at the launch party for the Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season; Extra Juicy Edition DVD, Eva Longoria said:
"I'm so proud of this DVD because I think once you see it, you'll really realise how good Season Two was, instead of listening to, just, critics saying 'Oh, they're in a slump. Oh, it wasn't like last year.' When you really look at the DVD, and specifically Gabrielle's storyline and Gabrielle's arc, there was so much there. This was definitely the best work I've ever done in my life."
Now, we think Eva Longoria is doing herself a disservice here, since the best work she's ever done in her life is easily the way she constantly talks about her vagina like it's just fallen from space and attached itself to her body. Either that or the horrific way she showed it off in that bespoke cameltoe outfit at the MTV awards last year. In fact, that's probably the reason why nobody really likes Desperate Housewives any more – offscreen events are around 10,000 times weirder than anything that actually happens on the show itself.
Look at the facts: offscreen, a man flapped his willy about, a lightbulb nearly blinded Teri Hatcher – who legally doesn't shag men in a van outside her house, one of them got engaged to Michael Bolton, another one was told that she has nice hair and Eva Longoria said that her boyfriend was crap in bed until someone took a picture of her so big that you can see it from space. While onscreen, a bunch of annoying women talked a load of crap to each other all the time. Which would you rather watch?
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[story by Stuart Heritage]
Mike says
I actually enjoyed the second season more than the first. It didnt have as firm a direction, but it had a lot more character definition.