Sigh.) I liked how they incorporated the warning signs of a serial killer – harming animals, abandonment, a trigger and my personal favorite - a creepy, decrepit house. (I swear we’ve seen that exact same scene from another zit-faced, stringy-haired young lad on Wisteria Lane telling a very taken and very older Housewife that he has money saved to take care of her. At least if he relied on all the women as mother figures he should have made more of an effort to harm them. I would have been able to “go there” and hop on-board with his character had he been a little less Disney and a little more Manson. I wanted to feel some sympathy for Eddie, especially seeing how poorly his mother treated him and how much some of the women helped. Women turning you down is the reason you kill them? Though it certainly didn’t help, Eddie is just a twisted boy. Now make no mistake, his mother was a wretched piece of work, but her behavior – sad as this will seem – isn’t the stuff serial killers are born from. Mary Alice ends with “Monsters are created by monsters,” as we see Eddie pack his mother’s corpse in a shower curtain and throw her in the truck. Sorry - though I love my drama and the occasional revenge kill on the Lane, there is absolutely no excuse for his sick behavior. If the show was hoping you’d feel sympathy for Eddie, it didn’t succeed. She wouldn’t stand for the verbal abuse that Eddie’s mom displayed in front of the Scavos - unlike Bree, who just mutters “I’m sorry” and leaves the poor boy with his drunken “mommie dearest.” Though I automatically knew her answer to the solution would be moving him in, which made me wince – I mean, is there even room? Sadly, he had already added another tally to his list: his mother. What I love about her storyline with Eddie is that her take-charge attitude and lack of a filter actually works. I understand he lives off the Lane and thus is farther away – but come on, serial killers work a little faster than that, don’t they? Kinda hard to believe he’d wait that long. If memory serves me correctly, a nice amount of time had passed since her remarriage and him choking Julie. This notion that he thought he was strangling Susan explains things, but also confuses me more. He strangled Julie near the time of her Bolen drama, which of course I assumed maybe he was seeking revenge for his friend since we know he hates women who reject men. This is what led to him strangling Julie, whom he thought was Susan. This backfires when he finds out she is remarrying Mike. Susan helps him by nurturing his artistic talents (wished she would have told him to never turn to stand-up). Susan and Lynette somehow cross paths with Eddie later in life. And that’s probably the first handiwork of the “Fairview Strangler’ - snot-nosed and all. When the prostitute laughs at him for bringing flowers (for what I’m only assuming was his deflowering), he strangles her. By now, we know Eddie’s tick – getting laughed at by women. It doesn’t help that his own mother laughed at him and implied that a girl like Danielle was “out of his league.” No surprise we see Eddie pay for sex from a prostitute. And so a serial killer is born.īree later helps a teenage Eddie by giving him dated, but cute, advice on how to woo women, which backfires the woman of his affection was Danielle, who was more into herself and older men at the time. Then he kills innocent birds in his backyard. He is devastated when he discovers her nude in the tub with Carlos, who forces him to go home, where he walks in on his mother with her latest skeezy guy. He is her ‘best friend’ – and of course at that small age develops a bit of protectiveness toward her, and possibly a crush. He unpacks for her, he paints her nails, he cleans and he even watches TV with her. Gaby, being Gaby, turns the little intruder into hired help, sans the money. Gaby gets a middle-school version of Eddie on her first day in Fairview (haven’t we already seen her first day on the Lane as a flashback already?).
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