– Martha Mukaiwa on Twitter and Instagram marthamukaiwa. Photo Illustration by Kristen Hazzard/The Daily Beast/GettyMarcia Cross was not exactly enamored with Netflix’s You when she first discovered her husband watching it. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria. ‘You’ (2021) is now streaming on Netflix. 64th Golden Globes Awards (2007) - Movies from 2006 - Desperate Housewives. ‘You’ has been renewed for a fourth season and bid you all ‘Au revoir’. Love’s mum is bitter and boozy and Sherry is initially a superficial, validation-obsessed queen bee while Joe is our mesmeric, toxic but relatable serial killer antihero. Love is rendered as particularly emotionally unstable and not beyond sleeping with a teenager. Women in this series are also still being given a relatively raw deal. ‘You’ is still about a stalker, now in therapy with his murdery wife. But in the middle of it all are Joe and Love, trying not to murder each other or anyone else.įor their part as the resident psychos, Badgley and Pedretti are gold. Marcia Cross even recurs amid a great cast including Scott Speedman, Saffron Burrows, Travis van Winkle and Dylan Arnold. She’s also the latest apple of Joe’s eye, God help her. One of the goodish guys is Tati Gabrielle’s Marienne Bellamy, a local librarian struggling with issues of addiction and with obtaining custody of her young daughter. Momfluencer Sherry is a perfectly curated, humble-bragging phony who can make or break Love’s new bakery business on a whim, her husband is a pathologically motivational, iron-pumping supplements company owner, their sexy neighbour is a cheating real estate agent married to an emotionally unavailable tech guy and the resident Ned Flanders is an anti-vaxxer whose kid gives measles to baby Henry. Victims Unit and Quantico and, more recently, in You and Monarch. ‘You’ is up to its old trick of effectively burying the murderous misdeeds of its main characters in a slew of characters who are kind of awful. Marcia Cross took a two-year career hiatus after Desperate Housewives ended in. Wearing the façade dangerously thin is Madre Linda, a Stepfordian suburb where momfluencer Sherry Conrad, a stellar Shalita Grant, is queen. The former because Love is on a killing spree of her own and the latter as Joe wants to be a good father. In this outing, Joe has committed to being the picture of domesticity and there are two things keeping his more violent tendencies in check: his murderous wife and baby Henry. ![]() Still offering insight into Joe’s interior life through his casually bonkers narration, viewers come to learn that suburban boredom will probably kill Joe before he kills the neighbour he was lusting over at the end of season two. ![]() Picking up where the second season left off, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is back to his Peeping Tom ways as he and his wife Love (Victoria Pedretti) play an axe-murdering, bakery-bludgeoning game of house. "I will leave it to the writers, to figure out something fabulous.”Īll episodes of Desperate Housewives are available to stream on Disney Plus.The stalking moves to the suburbs in the third season of Netflix’s smash hit ‘You’ (2021). "As a woman you then play the grandmother but women at this age are deep, complex people," she added after explaining that she is hoping to play a complicated character next. So I'd love to see 60-year-old women," she said. "We were 40-year-old women doing Desperate Housewives and that was a big deal. The 60-year-old actor explained that in general, Hollywood doesn’t love to showcase older women on television. "That’s the double-edged sword of being an 'icon.' Everybody thinks you are that character and by the time they forget about it, you are not on anybody’s list anymore." "I always assumed that after Desperate Housewives ended there would be a third act. Since Desperate Housewives, Cross has appeared in other shows like Quantico and You, but while she has not yet had another iconic role, she said she is ready for it. ![]() "I felt so lucky every single time I went to work."
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