If this road movie proves anything, it's that the true talent in Channel 4's Desperate Housewives is Felicity Huffman (aka the dowdy one nobody fancies).

How she should be gloating over her bimbo TV co-stars now she's bagged a Golden Globe and an Oscar for a 'worthy' piece of acting. Even in Grayson Perry-worthy slap, she's fantastic as Bree, a pre-op male-to-female transsexual who takes an unforeseen journey after discovering she fathered a juvenile delinquent son, Toby.

Travelling across the US with the conniving, lowlife shit (Smallville's Kevin Zegers), the freaked-out woman struggles to get to know the teen without revealing either her relationship to him, or the fact she's still got a penis.