Everything about Susan Mayer totally explained
Susan Mayer Delfino (
née Bremmer) is a
fictional character on the
ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by
Teri Hatcher and is one of the leading characters of the show. Susan is a children's book illustrator and is a known
klutz. Following a private ceremony, Susan is currently married to
Mike Delfino, although she still uses her former name.
Beginnings
Born in 1964, Susan Bremmer grew up believing her father died in the war. She was raised by her mother, Sophie Bremmer, whose erratic love life led to some distance between the two of them although they've always remained close. Susan was a high school
cheerleader and graduated as
valedictorian. She later married
Karl Mayer and they'd a daughter, Julie, but their marriage was a very difficult one due to Karl's
infidelity. He finally left her for his
secretary and filed for
divorce. Julie was then her only shoulder to cry on, leading to a strong bond between them and also a role reversal - with Julie playing the adult and Susan making many mistakes.
Mary Alice Young's support of Susan led the latter to question how and why she decided to commit suicide.
Season 1
Susan sees new neighbor
Mike Delfino as an opportunity to find a better life than the one she's living. Completely clumsy by nature, Susan, at one point was locked outside of her own house completely naked and wet in broad daylight after ex-husband Karl drove off with her towel caught in the car door; she'd to cover herself with a plant pot as she made a mad dash for the back door, only to fall into a bush and be discovered by Mike, who managed to unlock her door. She also accidentally burnt
Edie Britt's house down. Susan is naturally inquisitive and is perhaps the driving force behind the housewives' efforts to discover the truth about
Mary Alice Young's suicide which hit her hard. She is particularly suspicious of
Paul Young. She dislikes
Zach Young and worries about the threat he poses to her daughter
Julie Mayer, describing him as "rampage crazy" (whilst admitting that she herself is "adorable crazy"). Susan is also a neighborhood gossip and busy-body as she hires a private investigator to uncover the dark secrets of the Youngs and Mike Delfino with whom she ends up in a relationship anyway.
Season 2
She also has a long-running competitiveness with Edie which was one of the key plot point of season 2. She is dumped by Mike after he discovers she encouraged Zach, Mike's biological son, to move to another city. She also discovers that she's the result of her mother's one night stand with the owner of a feed store. When she attempts to make contact with him and tell him who she is, he's a heart attack but survives. She later meets her stepmother and discovers her father to be a heavily cheating husband. Meanwhile her ex-husband tried to win her back by sabotaging all her relationships but dates Edie all the way. After twice sleeping with her ex-husband, Edie burns her house down as a revenge. This works as a trigger and she finally gets over Karl and is about to be proposed to by Mike Delfino when he suffers a hit-and-run by
Orson Hodge and falls into a coma.
Season 3
At the beginning of season 3, Susan claims that Mike can still wake up after 6 months of being in a coma as everyone says the opposite. In the hospital, Susan meets a man named
Ian Hainsworth. She begins to go on dates with him as Mike doesn't wake up. After they've sex, Mike Delfino wakes up out of his coma. He then rejects Susan because of all the lies Edie told him to get with him and she reunites with Ian, whom she'd left after Mike woke up. She is also having trouble adjusting to her daughter being in a relationship with
Austin McCann and she and Edie Britt soon catch him cheating on her with
Danielle Van de Kamp.
Although she's obviously still in love with Mike, she's agreed not to see him anymore so that Ian would do anything to get him out of prison. She slowly falls in love with Ian and he proposes to her. Problems become to surface as Ian gets more and more uncomfortable and tries to lock Mike out of Susan's life by playing her at a poker game (and winning). All of this leads Susan to believe he doesn't trust her, even more when Ian's mother has her sign a prenup which she dodges by blackmailing Ian's father, a crossdresser, with his secret.
Nevertheless, despite Mike's loss, his feelings for Susan continue to grow. He is constantly seen as a threat by Ian, especially after Mike saves Susan and him from their car, which was overturned in a lake. After a heated argument between Ian and Susan, she walks over to Mike's for consolation, and they share an intimate kiss. This renews Mike's belief in the possibility of winning her back, and so he continually forces his way into her and Ian's lives, even confessing to what occurred at the poker game. After learning about this, Susan sends both of them away and cancels her wedding with Ian. She would continue to ignore their advances, but admitted to a counselor that she was deeply in love with both men. She eventually decided to go through with her marriage to Ian and informed Mike. While Susan listened to what was essentially a voicemail
Dear John Letter, however, Ian called off their engagement and decided to return to England. He did this citing that Susan was in love with him, but that she was more in love with Mike. After Ian's departure, Mike moved away from Wisteria Lane in the middle of the night leaving Susan alone.
Mike is on a camping trip, so Susan goes to the woods to find him. On the way Susan complains to her wilderness guide, Toni about her complicated love life, and Toni tells her that she doesn't think Susan can handle a permanent relationship because she invites in too much drama. Susan decides to sneak off while Toni is sleeping and try to find Mike on her own. Back at the campground, the one hiker is reported lost, and Mike recognizes Susan from her description. Susan leaves a message on Mike's cell phone promising him that if he takes her back that she won't make their relationship dramatic and that'll be a normal couple. In the morning, Mike finds Susan and picks her up and they kiss.
Mike and Susan go out to dinner, exactly a year after they were supposed to be engaged. Susan waits for Mike to pop the question all night, but Susan’s disappointed when he doesn't. On the way home, Susan tells Mike what she expected and when they pull up into Wisteria Lane, the trailer Susan decorated on the night they intended to get engaged is waiting on her driveway. They live the experience they were meant to have that night and get engaged. Susan calls around, telling everybody the wedding is back on, and that she plans to have the same arrangements as with her and Ian’s wedding. She tells Gabby of their plans but Gabby tells her she's now booked her own wedding for that day. Susan learns she’s taken the exact wedding she and Ian were supposed to have, which leads to an argument. They apologize to each other and Gabby cancels the flowers but eventually Susan gives Gabby the wedding date. Realizing how many sacrifices Mike makes to give her the perfect wedding, she tricks him into having a quickie wedding in the woods in the middle of the night. It is a very small wedding, as the only guest is Julie, yet Susan states it's perfect as Mike is all she needed.
Season 4
Still hanging on her drama, Susan doesn't believe Mike to be happy and thinks their marriage is doomed until her new gynecologist, Adam Mayfair, informs her that she's pregnant. She then tries to get a new ob-gyn by almost stalking Bree but since the latter is faking her pregnancy, she ends up sending her to an awful ob-gyn. When Susan finally confronts her, she lies again to justify the wall between them (which was mostly due to Bree avoiding Susan's hugs and being bothered by her daughter's situation). She and Mike hit their first rock when she desperately tries to get herself liked by the new neighbors, ultimately ruining one of their suits leading Mike to snap at her when he's to pay to replace it. They cause her more trouble by having an ugly and noisy fountain placed on their front yard. This results in her having to solely choose between Lynette and Katherine for president for the neighborhood council. Lynette is a closer friend, but Katherine promised to get rid of the fountain, so she picks Katherine. Lynette is clearly upset, although they soon make peace. Susan comforts her when she reveals she thinks she's ruining her kids' childhood. She then discovers Mike's dad to be a remorseless murderer but is relieved to learn he's remorse for ruining his son's life.
Susan soon learned that Mike was again using drugs. She confronted him about this but he denied it and even got rid of his pills to convince her of it. However, he later retrieved the very pills he'd dumped down the sink in front of her eyes.
Later on, Susan finds out that Mike is still taking the same type of pills that he disposed of. When she told Mike she was going into the bathroom, she was really watching him out the window. Later that night, when Mike is asleep, she finds more pills in his truck only to find out who prescribed them...Orson. When Susan and Mike start fighting about Mike's pills, it's revealed that Susan's very best friend is Bree.
In the episode 4.09 "
Something's Coming", Susan confronts Mike over the pills. The two get into a fight, and Mike accidentally pushes her down the stairs. At the hospital, Mike gets into a fight with one of the orderlies, and has to be handcuffed. Susan tells Mike about a rehab program, and he refuses to enter rehab, until she reveals she'll leave him if he doesn't get over his addiction. Mike then agrees to enter rehab. The doctor tells Susan her baby is fine. After the tornado, Susan lets Bree, Orson, and Baby Benjamin move into her house. Originally Susan is unhappy about it but she then likes having Bree there, because it makes her feel like her life is less of a failure. Susan's husband Mike will return from rehab for the baby.
In the episode 4.15 "
Mother Said" Mike's mother, Adele Delfino comes for a visit. Adele brings Susan a recipe book as a present, since she'd heard from Mike that Susan isn't a good cook. Adele also offers herself to teach her to cook. Adele brought up their financial issues while she and Susan prepare for dinner one night, but Susan insists that they don't have any problems financially as they both have jobs, although Adele thinks Susan's job as a children's book illustrator doesn't pay much. When Adele, Mike and Susan go to a restaurant to lunch, Susan tells Mike not to complain to Adele about her, but Mike insists that his mother is trying to help. As Adele rambles on about Susan's shortcomings, deciding that she'd stay to spruce up the house, Susan fakes her contraction by spilling her club soda on her leg. Susan then goes into labor when Mike confesses to his mother that certain things she'd said hurt Susan's feelings. Susan embraces her newborn baby boy as the episode ends. In the season finale Susan lets Mike pick out the baby's name. After a five year flash forward, we see Susan returning home to kiss a man who isn't Mike.
In the Season 4 finale, Susan and Mike name their boy Maynard after Mike's recently deceased grandfather. Susan protests the name in secret and even changes it back to their original name, Conner. Mike learns of what Susan has done and tells her what a good man his grandfather and all that he did. Susan, convinced, renames their son Maynard Delfino. Susan also lies for Katherine in the whole affair with Wayne Davis when she returns from the hospital. She says her goodbyes to Julie as she heads off to a summer internship and then college at
Princeton University.
5 year leap
The season 4 finale fast-forwards five years, where we see Susan come home from poker with the girls to a new unnamed man (portrayed by
Gale Harold), whom she kisses, and apparently, lives with. It is unknown what has happened to Mike and Maynard.
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