Desperate Housewives
Pop culture is always an odd thing what makes one thing good and another one fail. What makes something good one season and fail the next ( Joan of Arcadia)? Or what makes something have staying power of many years ( Star Trek and Star War s)? I think it depends on how the item in question touches our lives and says, like great literature, touches the human condition. To this end Desperate Housewives has a chance of doing what drama has a real problem doing, touch in a real way the true human condition.
After being encouraged to watch Desperate Housewives by a friend, I watched the whole first season with my wife. Desperate Housewives does what no other show has done in a very long time. Ask the questions out loud that no person dares to ask.
In one form or another we all at one point or another we all live our lives in quiet desperation. The problem is that we usually live it quietly and in our own minds in the conversation of our wills, desires, hopes, and dreams.
While many would gladly condemn Desperate Housewives as to risque it is not as bad a soaps and many other shows. Yes, a woman had an affair with teen, yet look at all that had transpired out of that. Choices had to be made. Ultimately friends are what mattered to the characters, friends to help in times of need, in times of sorrow, in times of choices and in times of desperation.
Side note:
One person stuck out in my mind greatly ( summary of episode 19). The pastor at the church where Bree and Rex go to church. The pastor (Methodist as I recall) was called in to have dinner and ‘counsel’ the son )Andrew) who has become gay. The scriptwriters did a great job in portraying this man of God. He is not hypocritical, not overbearing, not a hate monger and all the other things we have come to expect from television script writers. He keeps his word when the Bree’s son is plotting evil. He does exactly what one, as a former pastor, would expect a good pastor to do. Many many kudos to the scriptwriters.
Tag: Desperate Houswives, TV, Christian, ABC
After being encouraged to watch Desperate Housewives by a friend, I watched the whole first season with my wife. Desperate Housewives does what no other show has done in a very long time. Ask the questions out loud that no person dares to ask.
In one form or another we all at one point or another we all live our lives in quiet desperation. The problem is that we usually live it quietly and in our own minds in the conversation of our wills, desires, hopes, and dreams.
While many would gladly condemn Desperate Housewives as to risque it is not as bad a soaps and many other shows. Yes, a woman had an affair with teen, yet look at all that had transpired out of that. Choices had to be made. Ultimately friends are what mattered to the characters, friends to help in times of need, in times of sorrow, in times of choices and in times of desperation.
Side note:
One person stuck out in my mind greatly ( summary of episode 19). The pastor at the church where Bree and Rex go to church. The pastor (Methodist as I recall) was called in to have dinner and ‘counsel’ the son )Andrew) who has become gay. The scriptwriters did a great job in portraying this man of God. He is not hypocritical, not overbearing, not a hate monger and all the other things we have come to expect from television script writers. He keeps his word when the Bree’s son is plotting evil. He does exactly what one, as a former pastor, would expect a good pastor to do. Many many kudos to the scriptwriters.
Tag: Desperate Houswives, TV, Christian, ABC
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