So Desperate Housewives was all-new tonight and as a fan I was reminded of how much I love this show.

First they’re housewives, second they’re desperate and third they’re hilarious. Now for the slow, let me repeat that. They’re housewives, they’re desperate and there are so hilarious!!

Tonight’s episode was a little shocking to me. And not for the reasons you might think. The episode was entitled, “Sunday.” And as you can guess it revolved around church, God and the number one Jesus.

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of Christian themed elements in prime time network television. You know what I mean if you saw last weeks American Idol results show that opened with the final eight singing “Shout To The Lord.” Yes, a worship song - one that if you’ve been to worship service you’ve probably heard this song a few times. This shocked me. I couldn’t believe it. They even kept in the Jesus parts. I saw again, I was shocked. Then I remembered the week before when they had Dolly Parton on a couple contestants sang songs with Jesus mentioned several times.

Well anyway, back to Desperate Housewives. When the episode started and I learned it was going to center around church and God, I figured it was going to be another mocking, put down episode you see so often on television. As I said before I was shocked to find that they did an excellent job.

Lunette, one of the housewives gets an urge to go to church because of many troubling events that have just happened. They go to another housewife’s church and once the minister was done giving his sermon, Lynette raised her hand. Now in most churches you don’t raise your hand to ask a question. I don’t know maybe it’s different at your church.

Anyway, the minister calls on her and she stands up and says he lost her at some point and she didn’t understand something. He addresses it as well that’s just how it is. Well Lynette doesn’t accept that.

Her statement went something like this, “I just don’t understand how God’s love can be seen in the sunlight. I mean every other month some dumbass goes into a school and shoots it up. Where is God’s love there?”

Haven’t you ever just wanted to ask that to someone? I thought the whole ordeal was just hilarious. And for me, a believer, I already knew the answer to these statements, but I loved how they went about it so a non-believer could understand and maybe be curious to ask more questions.

And I’m sorry, but you have to admit, standing up in a church you’re not supposed to stand up in and address the preacher and say the word “dumbest” is just hilarious. Of course if you’re familiar with DH this is pretty normal stuff for the wives to do.

All in all, I was reminded of how much I love DH and that there is still hope for Hollywood and network television. Who knew?

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