Quick Desperate Housewives Overanalysis, Goodbye Edition: I am retiring my weekly scan of the most famous SAHD on TV -- D.H.'s Tom Scavo -- out of a lack of material. The show's creators have utterly ignored him, and as long as that remains the case, I won't waste any bandwidth on him. I have been inclined to see the lack of the bumbling dad stereotype as cause for celebration, but Boston-based blogger Meredith O'Brien has a different, and worthwhile, perspective:

Never mind that little Parker has a stay-at-home parent in the form of a father to be with him every day. To play ball with him. To share stories. To read. To wrestle. Instead, viewers only see Lynette crying because of what she's "done" to her child by going back to work. Yeah, I get that the show is called "Desperate Housewives," NOT "Househusbands," but, still, why is it that all Lynette gets is guilt while her husband just gets invisible?

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