Do Women Really Look Like That?

Deperate Housewives is made up of four beautiful women.  All of these women were beautiful at the beginning of the show.  But from Season 1 to now their appearance has changed dramatically.  In season 1 they all dressed well and in fairly revealing clothes, especially Gaby.  But from then until now all 4 women have lost too much weight.  Susan is the worst, she looks sick like a person with an eating disorder.  Part of the draw with DH was the fact that they were close to normal women.  Now they are all wearing too much makeup.  They are made up when they go to bed and when they wake up in the morning.  This is not real life and women do not look that perfect at either one of those times.  It does not help women to relate to the characters.  

They also wear very scandalous clothing.  It is all very revealing and inappropriate in the settings that they wear them too.  The clothing is completely out of place in the middle of the street in the afternoon.

We expect more from these women.  We liked who they were.  I think we all look for a little bit of ourselves in characters and they are making it harder and harder for us to relate on any level to them. 

Where are they????

Bree VandeCamp??  Where is she?  Why did they just leave us hanging?  I know that in real life Marcia Cross was pregnant, was it with twins?  But Desperate Housewives had not even mentioned where she had been.  She has just been missing from episodes.  This past week there was a slight mention to the fact that she was on vacation.  When did this happen, where did she go?  People do notice when a main character is just not in the last couple of episodes.  We deserve some kind of story plot about where she is.  Couldn’t they have made that psycho she married kidnap her or something else even more exciting?  I know those fabulous writers for DH could have come up with something that would have kept viewers on the edge of their seats.  Instead they have almost made us forget that Bree is even on the show.

At the same time, they seem to have forgotten about her children.  Did they go on vacation with her also?  Was Susan’s daughter taken also?  And maybe even Edie’s nephew?  I guess maybe they all ran off together. 

Then all of the sudden Edie has a son.  Now that was a shock.  I guess maybe they brought this son in so that Carlos could have the child he had been wanting so badly.  But like Edie needed a child.  She can barely take care of herself.

I think that if we are going to get and lose characters it should be more exciting.  Give us something more memorable.