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With the show coming under some fire from critics in its second season, Doug Savant (Tom Scavo) defended the show but admitted the first season is a hard act to follow.

"I think we're ripe for sniping, and we've engendered some of that," he told TV Guide. "Frankly, I've lost all objectivity—I feel so close to the show now—but I still think that we have laugh-out-loud moments, and I'm enjoying the performances of my cast mates and the writing. So by my yardstick, we're still doing very well. But when something is so fresh and revolutionary as the show was to the rest of television in its first year, it is a tough act to follow. From what I've heard, the last new episode really galvanized people again."

Tom had a secret brewing in season one, and one rumor doing the rounds suggested that Tom was going to be revealed as a bigamist. But the story seemed to fizzle out, and Savant believes this is because the show is constantly evolving its storylines. "When I first came on the show, I do think that's where they were headed. One of the great things—and it's a potential liability—is that our writers are not that far ahead, so there is a fluidity, but specifically in the first year, they were watching and learning a lot about the characters, about the audience response, about who they could write for and what they could write."

Savant said the situation was particularly uncertain for him because was not signed on as a regular castmember in the first season. "When an actor gets a job, you feel, 'Oh, they love me, of course they want me around.' Well, they really didn't have plans to have me around much. I liked to say, 'Although I'm married to Felicity on the show, ABC and I were just dating.' So Tom's evolution has been rewarding in that they felt they didn't need that [duplicitous side] for this character and they really like [his and Lynette's] relationship. I also think they discovered that we have the most sound marriage and probably emblematic of what goes on with most of America."

The full interview with Savant can be found over at TV Guide.

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