by Arcadio Reyes
Evelyn finally moves on from her past and sets about changing the way she is... starting with her relationship with Lisa. And when she spots Christian, a chase ensues. Matt finally reveals the nightclub to the family but finds something out about Lisa which could threaten their relationship.
Episode three, then, and this solidly-written drama continues to impress as it rolls on. Lisa's breakdown intensifies, Christian is infuriatngly just out of reach of the struggling Evelyn, and her feud with Della doesn't look like simmering down any time soon. Good stuff. Let's keep things moving, we've got another episode after this one to get through!
Morning again, and with things just as frazzled in both the Hunter and Jones households, the status quo resembles a big old wiggly line of emotions and tensions. However, even though she's amusingly cack-handed at it, seeing Evelyn bustle around and try to sort out resolve her issues with just about everybody makes for some good character moments. In fact, there's lots of good couple-y stuff here - Ally and Matt bounce off each other well, and Nateisha's feisty comments about Della look set to roll on into a big old blaze of indignation pretty soon. And a good comic moment with the onion thing, too. Della's fiery response to Theo's attempt to 'help' contrasts the way the two mothers are dealing with their issues - and that's rapidly becoming a central theme here. However, Della is starting to feel very Betty Applewhite in her 'Mama knows best' attitude here - not helped by the fact that both characters are played by the same actress! Anyway. Marie's picnic manages to show that all it takes is one knock for Evelyn's whole house of cards to come down again, as she spots Christian and runs after him with Marie in hot pursuit, and even with the cab chase he still gets away. He's a spry little monkey, isn't he? Lisa getting caught mid-coke habit by Matt leads to some more good moments between the two of them - the zig-zagging of Lisa's state of mind is absorbing at the moment, but she does need to get some progress on it fairly soon. Seeing Della cut Nateisha down to size promises at more to come, as does Evelyn finally tracking Christian down - and boy, what a moment to walk in on... And now I'm starting to get a tingle in my Spider-Sense about Brian, all of a sudden. Hmm. The conveniently-settled onion thing is one thing, but his dialogue about Connor also seems a little suspect. But maybe I'm just being paranoid. Anyway. As Theo and Della come to a head over the 'Rachelle' thing, there's another Desperate Housewives parallel as the sense of a dark, prison time-worthy secret is dagnled before us. We manage to end on a nice moment as Christian comes home, though. You can almost hear the weepy music as Evelyn grabs him - but what did she get up to with Estovan, eh?
Not a spectacular episode, and with the exception of Christian's return most of the plots are in a holding pattern this week, but there's more stuff set up for later episode with the dark secret of the Jones' and Lisa's attempt to get better - although I personally don't buy that it's that easy for a second. Have to call Reyes on the Applewhite-esque nature of whatever's going on with Theo and Della, though. At least we don't have another relative locked in the basement! So we've got a good little crossover dynamic working now as we switch between the Hunters and the Jones' - the Hunters obviously have more going on, what with the show being about them and all, but there's a growing number of connections between the two families now to keep an eye on.
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