In the same way that orange juice isn’t just for breakfast anymore, neither is violently bumping off series regulars on Sundays at 9 p.m. the sole territory of The Sopranos. Indeed, as the previews for next week’s Desperate Housewives seem to promise, somebody’s about to pay the ultimate price for drama’s sake. (Yay!) And while I realize Tom’s baby mama Nora (Kiersten Warren), quite possibly the most annoying character in a primetime universe that includes Horatio Caine and Ryan Seacrest, is the popular choice to go knockin’ on heaven’s door, let me suggest an alternate victim: the incredibly shrinking plumber, Mike Delfino.
Think about it — not only does James Denton (pictured, with Teri Hatcher) appear to have hired Kate Bosworth’s dietitian (negating his character’s all important hunk factor), but he’s also turned post-coma Mike into a bizarrely blank beast. Yes, the dude is supposed to be suffering from partial memory loss, but how’d his personality get misplaced in the equation? Better still, by taking Mike out back with a can of tuna, the writers can free Susan from a third full season of will-they-or-won’t-they hijinks and allow Edie to return to her patented brand of bed-hopping. Are you with me, PopWatchers, or would you rather see a different character check out during the Great Supermarket Massacre?
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Susan!
I want to see tomato juice all over her.
Fully support the killing of Mike.
This show would get exponentially better if it was Susan that kicked it. I wish I could pull the trigger myself.
Let Susan go please!!!!!!!!!!
I say Lynette, I hate her more with each episode. SHe is a really horrible wife and mother!
Oh I definitely agree. The Susan/Mike/Edie storyline is soooo boring. If they kill off Aunt Jackie I’ll be a little mad.
While it is true that Felicity Huffman is now improving on the indie movie ciruit (TransAmercia), it would not make any sense what so ever to have her whacked. Wanna bet that Cherry is going to be sadistic and whack off one of her twin sons? My bets are on Ida and Nora. Nora is annoying unless Cherry is going to do a one season big-as-ed cat fight? Ida has no story line. She is a recovering alcoholic who shows up every now and then as a script filler.
You are too smart Slezak I loudly AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about taking them all out, apologizing for every episode that aired after season one and calling it a day? I’ll watch next Sunday, then I’m done.
Kill em all, save for Felicity–then she can be the sole star of the show, the way it deserves to be!
Where do you guys get bed-hopping for Edie? Aside from her confession in the opening yesterday (mad props for getting to third with the Rabbi), by my count she’s slept with three or four men since the show started: Paul Young, Karl, and now Mike (There may have been a construction worker somewhere, but I don’t know for sure). That isn’t the slut that they hyped her to be when the show began. Gabrielle has been far worse than that.
Mike. Definitely. I like Susan with Hot British Guy much better.
Lynette is the most well-developed character on the show. She knows she’s flawed but wants desperately (!) to be a good wife & mother. She’s a lioness (to steal from an over-generous description of Hilda from Ugly Betty).
Kill Gabby–her character mostly evaporated after she lost the (first) baby anyway.
I want Lynette whacked, but I’ve heard it might be Gaby because Eva Longoria wants to do movies.
Ditto – Susan!!
I must admit, seeing Susan or Gabrielle go at this point in time would be nice… their characters are just pains in the asses right now… but no one is more deserving than Nora. I swear to God, that annoying voice, the fact that she was on Saved by the Bell: The College Years, and the fact that she’s almost too repulsive to even look at would make her prime target number one.
I think the only cool thing that Kirsten Warren (Nora) ever did was get blown up by aliens in Independence Day.
So easily fooled!!! It’s NOT going to be a major character. Give your heads a shake…
I fully support the offing Mike notion. However, too much groundwork has been laid for his story to continue long after next week’s episode. So you know it’s not going to be him. If he were to die, we’d never really understand his jail time, why Orsen Hodge turned him into roadkill, and so on. And it would seem like a copout if they wrapped it all up in a single episode and killed him off. Honestly people…
If a series regular is going to die, I’d pick Betty Applewhite…oh, wait, she’s gone. Hrm, Gabriel Solis. there…Put an end to the whole “War of the Roses” divorce story that’s tired already. Give Gaby some room to be the new Edie. Now THAT would be fun.
Mike had a personality?
Oops…I hate when my brain works faster than my typing….I totally meant
CARLOS solis….so that Gaby would be free…hope that clears up my last comment. Sorry folks…manic monday and all.
Edie or Susan, and I’d be thrilled. If they took out Mike, Edie and Susan, I might like the show again.
I think that Orson’s friend that admitted the affair with Monique will get killed. I think Orson will kill him to either make it look like a suicide or make him look like he left town. That way the police think they found their killer for Monique and never go sniffing around Orson.
I think it could also be Orson. What if he tried to hit Bree like he did Alma and either Danielle or Andrew come to Bree’s defense and kill him?
What do you think of those ideas?
mike needs to go but only after his last dying thoughts were of what he and susan had shared and how he blew it by sleeping with edie
It’s either Susan or she will bore me to death…. and she can take that fake English guy along with her…..
Either Nora or Lynette. Nora because she’s a bad actress and it’s a dumb storyline, or Lynette because she has turned into a manipulative hag.
Please let it be Nora, Susan, the British guy, Mike, Edie, and Susan’s daughter. And, could you skip a snarky American Idol comment in just one of your postings? Could you not find a clever way to work in your loathing of Clay Aiken or is Ryan just lower hanging fruit this week ( let the puns begin)? How about a post on replacement American Idol hosts? Seriously, who would do a better job? Have you watched Samantha Harris and learned nothing?
I don’t think they’ll get rid of Mike, at least not yet. It’d be nice if they offed Nora, but I could see them taking out either of the Solises. I’d hate to see Gaby go, though, because she is one of the funniest characters on the show.
Please let it be Nora. I feel like I’m watching “Gilmore Girls” twice a week – this is a tired, over-used story line. Let Lynette adopt the kid and they can all live happily ever after.
it will be Nora….thankfully
Nora HAS to go but Slezak did get me thinking Mike might not be a bad choice either.