The Final Act: Kiss Them Goodbye
(Spoiler Alert)
On October 3, 2004, one of America's favorite TV series, "Desperate Housewives", was well received from viewers and critics alike, attracting over thirty million viewers in the first season's finale.
And now, eight years later, the soapy, sexy, fan-favorite show in the fictional town of Fairview is saying its final goodbyes. To mark the end of an era, a lump-in-the-throat final episode, "Finishing the Hat", was broadcast on May 13, 2012 to a bittersweet farewell. Whether or not you watched every episode from start to finish, a feeling of sadness will be felt, especially from the diehard fans who watched religiously every Sunday night to see what would happen to those zany housewives on Wisteria Lane: Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Camp), and Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis).
But the final season is not without a few loose ends--and sloppy storylines. Although entertaining, some...
Farewell Wisteria Lane
Series Finale: May 13, 2012
Ah "Desperate Housewives". The time has finally come to an end. Now what I am going to do on Sunday nights? This show has managed to keep me entertained now for eight seasons with enough twist, turns, and drama to make me dizzy.
I enjoyed this season. I feel that the series "went out" while it still had a good, solid fan base. Even though this was the last season it was NOT short on Mystery, humor, and the ever present drama that we all love. The finale showed exactly what I wanted to see, which was how the writers were going to conclude the story-lines of the four main characters: Susan, Lynette, Bree and Gaby and I was not disappointed.
As much as I enjoyed this show, all good things must come to an end sadly, this was "Desperate Housewives" time. Wisteria Lane will live on now through DVD'S.
Wonderful, Wonderful
When ABC and creator/executive producer Marc Cherry announced during the summer of 2011 that the upcoming eighth season of "Desperate Housewives" would be its last, it probably came as little surprise for a series that was showing its age quite a bit. When it premiered in the fall of 2004, "Housewives," along with its fellow freshman series "Lost" were the breakout hits of the 2004-2005 television season and gave new ratings vitality to the ABC network. Since then, "Desperate Housewives" had lost favor with critics following its well-publicized and messy sophomore slump. Viewers also gradually declined each season after the first year as the Sunday night landscape became crowded by the likes of "Sunday Night Football," "Family Guy," "The Walking Dead," and "Dexter," and TV viewership as a whole dropped with the rise of DVRs and online viewing. Still, "Desperate Housewives" continued to be an important player on Sundays and the fact that "Housewives" had kept its 9 p.m. timeslot for...
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