DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES: SOME FINAL POINTS

ABC broadcast last Sunday the two hour special Desperate Housewives finale. With about 9 million people watching it, ABC stayed on top. Unfortunately, Cherry and his team did not manage to end the show just the perfect way it had started. Although, in between tears and laughing, some sequences help the finale not to be that bad. 

  

Everything began when Mary Alice Young moved to Wisteria Lane taking a secret with her. One of her neighbors, Martha Hubber, notices while they chat for the first time that she is hiding something. She then decides to investigate Mary Alice, leading to her suicide, the hit to the whole series. It was in the prologue of the second hour of the show that Cherry explained how it all started, in a sequence so beautifully written that it turned out to be the best moment from the whole finale. Regarding the rest, Cherry and his team failed in several aspects, from the text until the last scene. These two last episodes were slow, with just feel exciting scenes and without that acid and carefully constructed text which we all know.   It is awkward because these last episodes before the final day were really good, leading to a great expectation. It is also strange the fact that all clichés avoided during the whole series – remember that Desperate Housewives came up like anything but cliché -  ended up being altogether in the finale: A  baby, a death, a wedding, a reconciliation, and happy endings with money for the four ladies. Watch to believe. And what could maybe become good moments got lost in hands that didn’t know how to use the right tone. Katherine Mayfair, for example, has her part reduced to two little scenes that worked only to develop Lynette’s storyline. The text wasn’t that good either. Desperate Housewives most of the times opted for suggesting instead of saying out loud, but in these two final hours they simply decide to do the opposite. Scenes that good end up pretty nicely become obvious and boring. Still, the series ended with a lot of missing characters – Andrew, Danielle, and Danielle, for example. Strangely, most of the dead characters appear in the end. Besides the prologue mentioned above,   Renné’s scenes were the highlights of the episodes, along with Mckuscly last moments and the ending chosen for Bree – she became a politician. Well, it is a pity that a series that always fought for quality in the most diverse aspects fail so much at the end. And Cherry wanted one more season…

On her Blog, Felicity Huffman published a series of “Love Letters” to say goodbye to the show. In one of them, she chooses some of the best sentences said throughout the series. Click here to check. 

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