Desperate Housewives pimps out Andrew

After all the sturm and drang of the tornado that hit on the December 2^nd episode, Wisteria Lane has been awfully quiet. The writer’s strike will probably cut short the current season to ten episodes, which is too bad because Marc Cherry said in a pre-strike interview that this season viewers would be seeing much more of gay teen Andrew Van De Kamp (Shawn Pyfrom). Just our luck, right?

The show has only one more episode in the can, which will air January 6^th. Fortunately, it will give our Andrew some screen time.

*** Spoilers ahead…. ***

After the tornado demolished their home, Bree and family are staying with Susan. Bree finds out about a much-in-demand gay contractor named Walter Bierbitch and, desperate to get her house quickly rebuilt, she tries to play matchmaker between her son and Bierbitch.

I don’t know about this storyline – from the press stills released by ABC, the contractor (played by character actor J.C. Mackenzie) looks to be in his mid-forties. That seems way too old for Andrew.

If Bree really needs to pimp out family members to get her house rebuilt, she should be fronting someone more age-appropriate – like her husband Orson (Kyle MacLachlan).