See Also: 'Color and Light' Episode Guide

Online reviewers have weighed in on the seventh episode of Desperate Housewives season two.

Here's what they had to say about "Color and Light":

• Michael Slezak reviewing for EW.com said the episode was the best of the season so far. "The zingy one-liners sounded, well, zingier. Characters started acting in character. And that electric current of nasty menace that ran through season one—from Mary Alice's suicide to pretty much everything that came out of Mrs. Tilman's mouth—finally switched back on, with two concentrated shocks of violence."

• Sarah Gilbert at TV Squad was sceptical about the writers' intentions in terms of Gabrielle and her baby. "Then they (they being the writers) had to throw her down the stairs. While I know that throwing a pregnant woman down the stairs always, always heralds a miscarriage (which would actually be very unlikely to happen at this stage of the pregnancy—it's not until the second and third trimester that injuries to the mother are likely to damage the fetus, but hey, I'm just the editor of Blogging Baby, what do I know?), I'm not sure— is she clutching her ultrasound photo out of grief? Or hope and love for the baby?"

• Dave Anderson at TV Guide Online praised some of the guest cast. "Excellent casting of daytime soap diva Linda Dano as George's mother and soap veteran Maree Cheatham as her best friend [...] further kudos for the casting of Meagen Fey and Larry Miller as the kinky parents—Meagen was just on Nip/Tuck last week as the mother of a boy with Down's syndrome. My favorite moment was Susan having sex with her ex and then Edie thanking her. Susan to Edie: 'I'm sorry, what?' Edie: 'Well I'm not going to say it again. It hurt my teeth the first time.' Brilliant."

• John Duran at InsidePulse.com posted a recap of the episode. He was stil unimpressed in his "final word" saying the episode was enjoyable as falling down the stairs. "Not terrible, as George is still pretty awesome, but this had a severe lack of Applewhites, but it was certainly better than last week's episode."

• There is also brief recap at Television Without Pity, where visitors have so far rated the episode B+ in a poll.

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