IMHO: "Desperate Housewives" (5.12) "Connect! Connect!"

I was disappointed with last week's big gay episode of Desperate Housewives (yes, I know I'm in the minority). I thought the "mother-in-law" match-up fizzled, and Susan and Lee were a poor man's Wayland Flowers & Madam.

But I enjoyed this week's gay story, which saw Bree being taken down a peg by future son-in-law Dr. Alex. See the details after the break!

The trouble starts with Bree's husband Orson (Kyle MacLachlan)'s new mega-grill. Bree mercilessly mocks him about probably paying too much, and how he's a horrible negotiator, and it's like watching Nomi & Zack: The Suburb Years.

This doesn't sit well with Alex, who asks Bree to stop criticizing her husband so much. Apparently Alex's mother did the same thing to his father, and it drove him away forever. He tells her that if she absolutely feels the need to emasculate her husband, please don't do it when Alex is there.

Bree is flabbergasted that someone has the nerve to stand up to her, and shoots Alex daggers of indignation.

Bree won't let it drop, and at the grill christening refuses to give her opinion about Orson's steaks, lest she "offend someone, and be accused of de-balling her husband." Alex can take this subtle hint, and when Bree tells him he should be a little nicer to her considering that she bought a house for them, tells her that living next door to each other is not going to work if she insists on bringing that up every time they have a tiff.

Bree tries to convince Andrew to talk to Alex, but he refuses to get in the middle, and tells her "he's not your husband, he's not your son, he's not your employee ... he doesn't have to listen to you."

Bree decides to hash it out with Alex, and he tells her "this kind of thing is going to happen again, so let's not make it worse by living on top of each other." She opens up and tells him that she knows she's a bee-yotch on wheels, and is too critical, and collects gonads, but she needs someone like him to let her know when it gets to be too much.

Alex agrees to be her "shrew" meter, and the two come to an understanding.

I loved that this story was about Bree and Alex, and that Andrew had very little to do with it. Bree wants her son and son-in-law in her life, and she's willing to do anything to make it possible ... even admit to being an emasculating harridan. Now that's love!

What did you think of this week's gay content? (I'm not even going to go into the other stories, like Susan and Edie locked in the cellar together and coming to an "understanding", because my eyes might do a complete three-sixty in my head again).