Dixie Carter playing Gloria Hodge has to be one of the best performances in recent years. I guess it helps that she gave Marc Cherry, the show's creator, his first Hollywood job as her assistant in 1988. Of course, Dixie is having a ball playing the mother from hell. When she says "I should have smothered you as a baby" is a classic television moment, then Andrew says "Can you start calling her grandma?". Of course, Danielle is silent and barely present. I guess Cherry doesn't have much use for her. The dinner scene is classic because of the demented relationship between mother and son. The mother who knows all her son's secrets and threatens to out them to his second wife. Dixie's Gloria is quite entertaining if not overly acting. After all, she is a terrific actress and will probably be with us this whole season. Gaby starts a new career helping young girls become models. Of course, the subplot is Lynette discovering that her new neighbor, Art Washburn, might be a pedophile when she sees his pictures of half-naked boys. That story ends up as vague as it should have been. Cherry seems to only dabble in it while he does not seem to mind exploiting other plots in this show.
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