Spoiler alert! 'Lost' and 'Housewives'
Well, we tried. For the Fall TV Preview issue, Entertainment Weekly interviewed the folks behind Lost and Desperate Housewives, looking for clues to how two of last season’s most compelling cliffhangers will be resolved, but the stars and producers were pretty cagey. Still, EW’s Jennifer Armstrong managed to pry a few secrets loose about Season 2 of Lost (premiering Sept. 21). Skip the next section if you don’t want to see the spoilers.
– What happened to young Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), kidnapped by The Others? Shannon (Maggie Grace) will spot him in the woods, but she’ll have a hard time convincing her friends that she’s not hallucinating.
– On the romance front, things will heat up between Claire (Emilie de Ravin) and Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), and between Shannon and Sayid (Naveen Andrews), while the arrival of Michelle Rodriguez’s character will likely send Kate (Evangeline Lilly) out of Jack’s (Matthew Fox) orbit, maybe toward Sawyer (Josh Holloway).
– The producers assure us that there will be ”more death.”
– And as for what’s in the hatch, we’ll find out during the premiere, though Terry O’Quinn (Locke) and the other stars hinted that the revelation will only raise more questions.
”My initial reaction was ‘That’s not huge enough,”’ O’Quinn says. ”But my second reaction was ‘How could it be, with all the buildup?”’ Fox is a bit more reassuring. ”It’s gonna blow your mind,” he promises. Then there’s Monaghan’s explanation: ”The thing about this show is it could be a bright yellow banana walking around with strawberries, and you’d be like, ‘Okay.’ It could’ve been Henry Kissinger playing tennis with Marilyn Monroe, and you’d be like, ‘Sure.’ Anything makes sense on this show.”
Over on Desperate Housewives, which returns Sept. 25, Marcia Cross (Bree) and creator Marc Cherry get EW’s Lynette Rice up to speed on what’s going to happen to the folks on Wisteria Lane, including newcomer Betty Applewhite (Alfre Woodard). A few mild spoilers after the jump.
Here are some details from Rice’s story:
When fans last left the drama, Susan (Teri Hatcher) was taken hostage by Zach Young (Cody Kasch), who believes her boyfriend, Mike (James Denton), is responsible for the sudden disappearance of his dad, Paul (Mark Moses). Answers will come quickly for Zach in this season’s first episode, but not for other characters, like Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) — who will go to prison not knowing whether he’s the father of Gabrielle’s (Eva Longoria) baby. Fortunately, Gaby’s lover, John (Jesse Metcalfe), won’t be a problem for long; she sends him away after a short time, because in real life Metcalfe is shooting the movie John Tucker Must Die opposite American Dreams‘ Brittany Snow. (”My hope is that he’ll come back,” says Cherry.)
Meanwhile, Lynette (Felicity Huffman) starts looking for full-time work after Tom (Doug Savant) quit his job in a huff at the end of last season when he discovered just how much his wife was meddling in his career. Now that he’s playing Mr. Mom, he finds ”it’s not so easy,” says Cherry. Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) starts to date Susan’s ex-husband, Karl (Richard Burgi), while Bree prepares to bury her dead husband, Rex — a task made even more difficult by the arrival of her angry mother-in-law (Shirley Knight). Bree’s daughter, Danielle (Joy Lauren), asks Betty to play the organ at the service, where Woodard ends up making quite an impression — and not just for her ivory-tickling. ”If you’re going to do a far-fetched mystery, you want to have someone who is really intriguing. Alfre carries that with her,” says Cross. ”As a person, you’re like, ‘Who is she?’ She seems like the oldest soul you’ve ever met. If you had a lightweight in there, you wouldn’t be that curious.”
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