Laurie Metcalf

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Fall TV Watch: What's Hot, What's Not

Originally posted 09/22/2006 01:35PM

Watch It: Desperate Housewives (ABC, 9 p.m. ET) You can't care about television and not want the best for this series, which in its first season achieved a perfect synthesis of diva camp and solid serial drama. Then came the second season, a real muddle. Now what about season 3? In the opener, thrust into the foreground is prim Stepford beauty Bree (Marcia Cross). Her new love, the dentist Orson Hodge (Kyle MacLachlan), has a missing wife in his past. This unpleasant fact we learn from that excellent actress Laurie Metcalf (of Roseanne fame), who turns up as a sort of scolding messenger of doom. It's all very Bronte. There's something persistent and powerful about the show's underpinning of (fatally) abused women.

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•  | Filed Under: Calista Flockhart, Jesse Metcalfe, Kyle MacLachlan, Laurie Metcalf, Marcia Cross, Sally Field, Ty Pennington