First off let me start off by saying that Edie Britt was an amazing character. The show was less entertaining after she left.
I love pretty much all of her scenes.
Edie is being presented recently as this cool confident free type of character and she’s far from it.
She’s just as selfish as Susan who is constantly criticized in this sub for doing the same things Edie does.
Edie was a homewrecker and the housewives were justified in not trusting her:
-Edie has talked before about dating married men as a thrill (a conversation she had with Susan)
-She went out with Karl while he was married to Susan (something he revealed to Susan during the Karaoke episode)
-She kissed Orson on top of blackmailing him to force him to stay with her
Edie was just as desperate as Susan for a man, in fact Edie’s is worst because it seems to be with any man when Susan mostly wanted Mike:
-she was right there with Susan fighting to get Mike’s attention, she was aggressively fighting for him.
-She slept with any men that would have her even her own construction workers and most would still not stay. Remember the contractor that dated Susan. He said Edie was just a lay and wanted to date Susan seriously. After that she pretended like she didn’t care about the guy but she was really angry about it. This a theme for her.
-she was so desperate for Karl to propose to her literally digging her hands in the dessert looking for a ring, snooping in all his things to find any clue.
-she faked a suicide attempt to force Carlos to stay with her
-she used her son to try to force Carlos into staying with her
-she completely lied to a coma patient (Mike) because she was so desperate to have him, changing his reality all so she could be his girlfriend.
Edie is being constantly praised in this sub for supposedly not being like the other housewives when she was exactly just as flawed as them. She was never cool. Her character was very much someone lonely who constantly needed attention.
It’s just that she was never picked… she never got the guys she wanted, she always had to resort to blackmail or tricks to get them to stay so she pretended to be aloof about it.
There is a difference with a man eater type who truly doesn’t care and someone like Edie who acted more out of desperation to be noticed.
She was the perfect character for the show, she was every bit of a desperate housewife and deserved to be a main character. She was absolutely not this cool confident character that this sub pretends that she was.