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Eastwick: “Fleas and Casseroles”

Devil’s Food Eastwick “Fleas and Casseroles” ABC, Wednesday, 10 PM Written by Rina Mimoun Directed by Elodie Keene I wonder when we are going to see an actual new episode of Eastwick. Four episodes into the season, and we have had the same story every week: Kat is having marriage troubles, Joanna suffers from delusions that she’s Lois Lane, and Roxie has prescient dreams that trouble her. Plot? What plot? So far, this show, like most soaps, has no real “story” to it—things just happen and don’t get resolved. Which could even be watchable, if the writers gave us something new or good—snappy…

Eastwick: “Madams and Madames”

Devil May Care Eastwick “Madams and Madames” ABC, Wednesday, 10 PM Written by David S. Rosenthal Directed by Michael Katleman What do you do with a dead guy who won’t go away? Every time Roxie (Rebecca Romijn) turns around, there’s the ghost of the late would-be rapist Guy (Christian Alexander, General Hospital)—pale, dead, and smirking. (Rather like the Vampire Bill Compton on True Blood, when you think about it.) He appears to her in the town square, in her bed, in the middle of the street. At first she feels fear, then curiosity, then guilt as she finally comes to realize that…