Just read it on the only HMC fansite still readily available in an instant in a google search. So I guess that explains Piper owning a couple of DVD box sets and leaving the TV on all day to play episodes!
The show is amazing and I recommend it 9/10, but the woman Carmen is a maid, and she hates kids and she is proud of how much she hates kids and everyone else thinks she is a monster, another maid just bingoed her about how she is going to have her own kids someday, and Carmen told her she is never having kids and she hates kids, I don’t think I’ve ever loved a tv character more. Carmen also complained about how mothers have the “mom gene” and look down on childfree women. The other maid still kept bingoing her about how kids would give her joy and her career wouldn’t. Just felt like sharing
Edit: the show is devious maids
For example,
Beth Ann and Bree storylines in the beginning. Both trying to be the ultimate perfect housewives.
Simone's affair with teenage Tommy versus Gabby's affair with teenage gardener.
Simone waiting behind the gate of Tommy's track practise compared to Gabby coming to her lover's football practise and hiding behind a tree too.
Simone's house containing several portraits of herself including pop-art one, and Gabby's staircase having few of her own pop-art portraits.
There were a few moments where I could just place Rita (perhaps her cheating with Scooter like Gabby is with the gardener), but I'm waiting a bit more scenes to see if I could comnect her storyline to Marc's old writing.
I forgot most of DH since I didn't watch it years (I'm on s1e4 right now), I'm up-to-date with WWK (watched s1 and last S2 ep), but DH season 1 appeared to be recycle material for WWK season 1. Done much better though (i prefer the new show).
Has anyone watched both and feels similarly? I chose to start rewatching DH today and the first season has moments that feel so predictable and make me think I'll know what happened, and then trying to figure out from where. Ngl at one point I expected Rita and Simone to pop out 😂
Hi, guys. I have created a petition to make sure that the official soundtrack of the series is finally released. There are DH lovers who would pay to be able to listen to the tracks in full, in good quality and without dialogue on it. Could you please sign? It's free and takes a second. Thank you very much.
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Because I have a lot of them. I lived next door to a married woman who was having an affair with a much younger man, and I’ve had neighbors that remind me of Bree so much. One of them even makes muffins.
Also, I live in a small town and in the past year there’s been waaaaaaay too many hit-and-runs, as if the Van de Kamp family is here.
Melodrama quickly gets into the theatrical, delivering an over the top performance that is very much... something. You can see her trying, but the effort doesn't quite reflect the quality. Rita's more sensible at first, and builds and builds, having more fun and energy as she moves on, giving campy and dramatic. She pairs it with a wig reveal to a Snazzy glittering red wig that leaves everyone cheering. The lines are clear...
Rita Buk, Shantay you stay.
Everyone looks shocked.
Rita nods. "Thank you so much."
Rita Buk: "That was terrifying. I'm happy to be alive. Safe. Gosh..." Rita breathes out. "I'm alive."
Melodrama... you have the energy and the power of a superstar. You leave us today, but I KNOW it's not over. Now, Sashay... Away...
"I will STAY Melodrama..." Melodrama looks around. "AND DO THIS!" She stomps off, (fake) screaming and crying.
Sophie and everyone smiles.
Melodrama: "It's such a shame to be going, because I thought I was going to make it to the end. But... it's the way it is. You can't always get what you want, and I stay THE Melodrama Queen."
Lipstick Message: "Screw ALL OF YOU! XOXOXOXOXO Lots of Love."
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The Monarch's enter the werkroom...
"Wow." Sally exhales. "I'm... shocked Melodrama is gone."
"Agreed.." Fraggot shakes his head. "It's a loss... but I am happy you're still here, Rita."
"Thank you." Rita smiles. "I... was worried about this challenge. I prepared, and then the reality was... it just didn't work in this group context. I just... really want to prove myself now."
"Well..." Robin shrugs. "The poor thing didn't meet the mark."
"But we know who did..." Gloria smirks. "Little Miss Fame..."
"Oh, Me?!" Fame twirls her hair. "It feels good.."
"Yes..." Robin smiles. "We were a lovely pair, yes?"
"Sure were." Fame smiles. "Finally got that second win.."
"So you've matched Fraggot now, Robin.." Vebera ponders. "I'm on one win... as are... Gloria and Sally and Rita..."
"Though, our win was episode 1..." Sally gulps. "So..."
"I guess it's clear. We need to step things up." Rita nods.
"I'm ready, darlings." Gloria smirks. "I've been patient.."
"It's getting closer and closer to the end." Sally smiles. "So... may the best Monarch... win."
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The next day, the crew are sitting together.
"Hey, Fame.. can we chat?" Robin smiles.
"Sure." Fame grins.
...
"I'm just
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I love DH so much! Watching it again after many years. I’ve been bugging my cousin to watch it who I know loves Grey’s anatomy-never seen it myself but she is on season 1 episode 6 right now and thinks it’s boring? I think it’s such a good show and just gets better. What do you guys think? Lol I just don’t get it..! So much goes on in DH..!! I’m bummed to hear somebody thinks it’s boring!!
The title pretty much says it all. For the record I love the show, and I feel like the way it's written it's more highlighting how some women do get pressured into it by their husbands only to be left with all the housework and having to give up their dreams and careers while their husband follows theirs. It definitely does not make it look glamorous or majorly satisfying.
The first character was a career woman who marries a man lower down than her at work. She wants to be childfree and focus on what she loves (her career). He wants 5 kids. They end up having 5 kids and he suggests that she becomes a stay at home mother and basically pushes her into the role while taking no role in housework or childcare. She clearly absolutely hates it and misses her career. He repeatedly sabotages her each time she does restart work, not maliciously but because he doesn't see her work as important. The only time in the series that he becomes a stay at home so she can have a go at having a career he's not only terrible at it, he gets depressed and pushes his way into her workplace.
The next character simply doesn't want children. Her husband then tampers with her birth control and she gets pregnant. She eventually has a miscarriage, although suffers from hurt from the miscarriage and decides she wants a baby but finds out she's now infertile. In a much later series she accidentally gets pregnant twice and essentially gets saddled with two children and clearly struggles.
Of course both women love their children despite not having wanted them, but there's always that underlying reality of regret.
While it's just a show, watching it makes me deeply uncomfortable. While it's often seen as not acceptable for men to buy want children, having children is often a far worse deal for women. It's when entitlement starts setting in, unfair labour division, and even if the mother is capable of and wants to be working, childcare and housework just isn't valued in the same way as "breadwinning". It really isn't surprising why so many women are not "opting out". Personally I would love to have children if my role were the stereotypical male role taking more of a backseat and doing more of the "fun" stuff with my kids.
I wrote in this sub a good few months ago and I had thought things had gotten better and to an extent they had. A lot of our issues were down to my boyfriends stress at work. Then we moved countries and he changed jobs. After this move we were both much happier due to his lowered levels of stress and began having more sex. However, it still wasn't as good or as much as I would've hoped for. We were living in shared accommodation - as his company provides the housing and so we lived with his work colleague and his girlfriend which brought about many other issues, and this was another reason why we weren't having as much sex and I was okay with it.
Just last week we moved into our own apartment and have been loving it so much. It was a move we needed to make and as we were so excited we kept talking about all the fun things we could now do that we were going to be in our own place. Being able to have loud comfortable sex was one of those things were excited to do.
Of course I didn't expect to have some wild sex the first night we moved in or anything but it's been a week now and I'm still wanting. This weekend I made sure to get primped and preened for him and the long awaited idolised sex we planned to have. Well this obviously did not happen as we passed out asleep as soon as we got into bed no biggie. Then the next morning we had a quickie that was clearly just for him and not for me - he promised me I would get more later on. This obviously has not happened and is yet to happen.
So I've been watching Desperate Housewives recently and became extremely triggered by Lynette and her husbands story-line - for those of you familiar with the show its the episode where they haven't had sex for 10 days and so Lynette attempts to spice things up in a french maids costume. How sad is it that I a 22 year old, probably in my prime, relates so hard to a fictional character who has 4 kids, a house, a mortgage, and a husband of 15 years due to the little amount of sex we are both having. How will things get better with time when my boyfriend doesn't even want me in my early twenties let alone after 15 years of marriage.
Somebody tell me how I stop being such a sad case.
Today I learned that Francie from GG is also Beth Young in DH! I've watched both of these shows start to finish countless times and I can't believe I didn't notice until now!
I've never really been happy with my pay. Sure, it allows me to survive and to work, but it doesn't allow me any real entertainment or to practice my hobbies or discover new skills.
A little backstory to guide you through complexity:
Not from the US. I am an autistic 29 year old with ADHD, who has had hardly any good examples when it comes to upbringing, financial literacy or selflove. I receive help in the form of coaching, funded by the government. I applied for financial government help when I was 19 because I believed I would never be able to work a normal job. I was denied that because I held a cashier job for a little bit, while everything around me fell apart because I couldn't handle it next to school.
I've been working for this company for nearly 5 years now. When I started here, they told me I would not be able to make minimum wage, so they struck a deal with my municipality to subsidize my pay so I could still get paid the minimum. I took it, happily, because I needed a job to pay rent, and this company specializes in working with autistic people, so they could help me get on track with being an adult and get on with my life.
A little while back I joined this subreddit. Mostly because I love to see people who are even worse off than me, get better lives and I'm rooting for everybody who fights for themselves and those they love. Over time, I realised that I, too, am a person that could do with some better circumstances. I have since looked around in my industry and saw that someone with my knowledge, skills and experience is paid at least twice, sometimes three times my current salary. That shocked me greatly.
Now, in the last couple months of my 5th year here, I still get paid barely above minimum wage. All of the raises I've received over the years have gone towards lowering the municipality subsidies, meaning I never actually saw any of that money. All of the clients I've worked with have personally reached out to me to compliment me on my work. My manager keeps telling me how I'm her favorite and she loves our teamwork. The owner of the company walks into my office at least once a week to tell me that I'm a valued colleague and that I do great work. Then why do I still get paid like shit?
I have to rely on government assistance and my travel reimbursements to pay my bills. I don't mind the assistance, but I do mind having to rely on reimbursements that change amount every month and even worse, change payout date every month. As a ne
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Thank you all for the support today truly the words of encouragement meant the world to me🙏 💗 after discussing everything with family members I've decided to seek treatment from a different psychiatrist. I have a few options...the current situation was very bad and nobody should be treated that way.. I knew it was bad when she referred to my depression as "she is feeling sad. I've made arrangements to start back with my psychologist soon and my primary doctor is seeing me the 23rd. So I'll be coming off medication under supervision. Not the ideal situation but I'm lucky to have support.
If you ever feel that you aren't receiving proper treatment don't hesitate to speak up for yourself I'm 35 years old and I've been through the mill with medication so i understand how it works. Just know you matter and there is always a second opinion somewhere 🖤💗 It's not easy to navigate sometimes sadly... 😕
…when you were younger you HATED Edie and loved Susan, but when you got older you realised you actually hated Susan and loved Edie !
This is the most glorious glitter I have ever worked with and the eyelashes that I bought went on so easily like I am amazed at this shit!
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