u/Super_Peppermint4013

The Scavo family is so weird about drugs on Desperate Housewives. I know Lynette grew up with a mother who struggled with alcoholism and from stories in the show it’s implied there were drugs involved too, so I absolutely understand where some of her fear and control issues come from. It’s terrible for a child to grow up around addiction like that, and I really do sympathize with her there because seeing a parent behave that way absolutely leaves lasting damage. And yes, the show was airing in the 2000s when there was a way bigger stigma around things like weed and mental health medication. But rewatching now, the hypocrisy is honestly wild.

Lynette is allowed to abuse substances when it’s on her terms, but acts morally superior about everyone else. She literally abuses her kids’ prescribed Adderall and even steals medication from another child’s medicine cabinet. But then the show turns around and acts like prescribed weed or antidepressants are this horrifying slippery slope.

The cancer storyline especially bothers me on rewatch. Lynette gets so sick she can barely eat, and her mom gives her cannabis brownies so she can finally have an appetite again. Obviously we understand you shouldn’t be drugging people against their will, but the actual concept of using cannabis medically for cancer symptoms is not some evil or morally corrupt thing. That is a real treatment people use to help with appetite loss, nausea, and chronic pain. But the show frames it like this morally questionable thing instead of an actual medical treatment recommended by doctors.

Then later with Tom’s depression, Lynette is honestly awful about it. She mocks the pamphlet suggestions like naps and baths, dismisses his mental health struggles, and acts like taking prescribed medication is some kind of weakness or “easy way out.” And when he’s prescribed medical marijuana by a professional, she literally swaps it out with oregano or whatever. It’s played for comedy but it’s actually incredibly disrespectful.

Like yes, obviously nobody should be high 24/7, but these were prescribed treatments meant to help people function and feel okay again. The show constantly uses Lynette as the mouthpiece for this weird anti-medication, anti-mental health attitude while simultaneously showing her abusing medication herself.

I still love the show and Lynette so much, but this is one part of it that aged poorly for me.

I’m on Season 4 of Riverdale and I genuinely forgot how absolutely unhinged this show is.

Like… I’m actually crying laughing.

So Chad Michael Murray’s character literally straps betty’s older sister with a bomb and a detonator and sends her into a station FULL of trained FBI agents. And instead of, you know, literally any of those trained professionals handling it… Betty just happens to be there.

Then they all just stand around while a teenage girl is the one cutting wires and disassembling a bomb vest like she’s in a tutorial video.

And it’s still about to explode but Betty pulls a pin out of her hair and somehow saves the day??

WHO was writing this?? 😭

I love this show so much. It makes zero sense and I will never stop watching.

Was this some kind of glitch? It’s so small that I don’t know if it’s super serious, but it’s honestly been bugging me. I’m new to this sub, so I figured I’d ask here.

Over this past weekend I was dog sitting/house sitting for my parents while they were out of town. My fiancé has been working really long hours lately, so he stayed back at our place that night to rest instead of staying there with me.

I was downstairs late at night watching TV and relaxing with the dog, who is really small. I had made myself a little burrito earlier, but it didn’t fill me up, so I went into my parents’ freezer and grabbed the first quick thing I saw, which was just two toaster waffles.

Pretty quickly after eating one of them, I realized I was pretty full. I was super tired at that point and remember thinking I should probably throw the second waffle away, but I ended up passing out on the couch and left it sitting on the plate on the counter.

I woke up in the middle of the night around 3 a.m. and the waffle was just… gone. Nothing else in the kitchen looked disturbed or moved. The plate was still sitting there with a few crumbs on it. I know for a fact I didn’t eat the second waffle because I remember feeling weirdly full after the first one.

The dog definitely couldn’t reach it because the counter is too high, and I spent like 20 minutes searching the kitchen and even checking around the couch to see if somehow I dropped it in my sleep or something. But it was nowhere. Just completely gone.

Was this some kind of weird glitch or has anyone else had something random like this happen?

I’ve always felt like the Ana and Danny storyline in season 6 of Desperate Housewives is a bit of a stretch.

For most of the season, Danny really does not seem to care about Ana. She’s the one chasing him, trying to get him to go out with her, and she was even willing to take the fall with the police for him. Even then, he still felt pretty detached.

Then suddenly it flips and apparently they’re together and Danny is so invested that he’s refusing food from his mom that he normally likes, talking about running away to another city, and by the end of the season he’s so into Ana that he has to go to New York and start a life with her.

These parts never really tracked for me. Ana having a crush and going all in makes sense. Danny felt pretty indifferent toward her for a long time when we first met her.

I get that feelings can develop quickly when you’re a teenager. But even when I was a little bit younger, I still wouldn’t have suddenly jumped in and given my all to someone I wasn’t even sure I cared that deeply about. That’s why the shift happened so abruptly to me.

It honestly felt more like Ana was just the next person Danny was dating, which is pretty normal for teenagers. What feels like a jump is how quickly it jumps from “he barely seems interested” to “I’m ready to throw everything away for this person.” That kind of dramatic change usually needs a lot more buildup. But again maybe it’s just them being dramatic as teenagers.

Maybe I’m forgetting something, so correct me if I’m wrong. Did anyone else feel like the Ana and Danny storyline was rushed?

Side note: Why the heck did Angie and Nick separate from Danny? I still don’t really understand that part. Patrick Logan was running all around town, and it didn’t even feel like anyone was seriously looking for him. People at least knew he had shown up at the old house. It never felt urgent enough that they all had to split up and basically leave Danny with no real way to contact the parents who had been raising him his whole life ?? That part was honestly kind of crazy to me.