I agree with you about the Hayley poisoning plot going on way too long. And I’m saying this as a guy who grew up on Bill Bell soaps where, for example, the court case for custody of Cassie went on for almost a full year! How can Hayley have been poisoning Bill since last autumn and he STILL shows almost no effects from the poison? He passed out that one time but besides that, he’s been fine. A viewer could have stopped watching last year before Thanksgiving and decided to start watching again this summer and the viewer wouldn’t have missed anything except the Lynette tangent of the story, which seems to have led to nowhere anyway. So when it comes down to it, there has been ZERO development in the poisoning plot in almost a year.
I am already suspending my disbelief that there is some magical poison that is lethal and totally untraceable (if such a poison really existed, I imagine EVERYONE would be using it to murder others). Then again, the poison seems ineffective anyway, which leads me to believe the yearlong poisoning of Bill exists solely to extend Hayley’s storyline until the writers decide to bring it to a climax. And I’d bet my next paycheck that the storyline will conclude with Randy and Hayley trying to dispose of Bill in some “accident” that has nothing at all to do with the poisoning.
By
Romalotti ·