DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - Creepy people

Wisteria Lane was crawling with creepy people this week.

Lynette and Tom have decided to keep the boys' arson on the down-low, but they learn that Tom's daughter Kayla instigated the whole thing with her spooky mind control powers.  OK, she doesn't literally have mind control powers, but Kayla is a manipulative, calculating little devil-child.  She coaxes one of the boys into jumping off the roof with an umbrella - just because she can.  And she's got that eerie smile.  There's nothing worse than a creepy devil-child, unless it's twin devil-children.  Or a whole village of them.  Anyway, I think Kayla is terrifying.

Look at her!

Man, she freaks me right out.

Gabby and Carlos rent a room in their house to Ellie, the creepy boarder (played by Family Ties' Justine Bateman).  Strange men visit Ellie at odd hours, which causes Gabby to suspect that Ellie is a whore.  She ropes Bob and Lee into testing her theory, with hilarious results.  It was nice to see Bob and Lee again, if only briefly.  Ellie tells Gabby that she's a tattoo artist who is plying her trade under-the-table, and Gabby believes her, despite the lack of tattoo paraphernalia and sterilizing equipment.  Looks like creepy Ellie is actually dealing coke out of Gabby and Carlos' house - or so we'll find out next week.

The final creepy visitor to Wisteria Lane is Katherine's sinister ex-husband, Wayne, who has weaseled his way into daughter Dylan's life.  He shows up at their house and has a tense chat with Katherine in the kitchen, where he explains to her that he's changed.  Katherine has changed to - she's not afraid of him anymore.  Her courage was no doubt bolstered by the .38 pistol she was hiding in a nearby drawer.  Man, he must be a bad guy if she feels she needs a gun...

I'm a big fan of Gary Cole, the actor who plays Wayne.  He always does a great job and he manages to exude a kind of simmering menace on Desperate Housewives without really doing anything overtly threatening.  He's creepy.  But Gary Cole played the boss Bill Lumbergh in the movie Office Space and I keep expecting him to say, "Ahh, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in to work on Sunday, mmkay?"  But if he said that he wouldn't be very creepy, and that's the effect they're going for with Gary.

He's totally going to end up taking a bullet in the chest, isn't he?  I see a bullet in Wayne's future.  That'll be one less creepy person to visit Wisteria Lane.

--Dave Campbell

Comments

[dh fan]

Please do not write out Edie's character. I really like her.

[Steve]

Was that Judi Dench as her aunt in that flash back? When the daugher was killed and they buried her? I couldn't see her name anywhere in the credits. Please let me know, I have a little bet going. steve69ok@excite.com

[Angela]

What have you done with Edie??? Please bring her back she is a truly amazing actress. She is the most "desperate" of the Desperate Housewives and the show will never be the same with out her delicious brand of evilness!