The ABC prime-time soap Desperate Housewives went out with a trial, a wedding, a birth, a death and plenty of cameos. It ended with Susan (Teri Hatcher) moving away from Wisteria Lane, driving past ghosts of all the people who had been at the scene of the crime in the past.
They were all dressed in ghostly white, including Mike Delfino (James Denton), Susan’s true love gunned down earlier this season, and Brenda Strong, who played narrator Mary Alice Young.
When you think about it, it was a fitting way to end a series that was always seen through the eyes of a dead neighbour.
At the very end, Susan has sold her house to a young woman named Jennifer who moves in and hides a box in a cupboard. Everybody brings their own secrets into the ’hood, suggests Cherry.
An epilogue reveals that all four main women leave Wisteria Lane.
Teetering on divorce, Lynette and Tom (Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant) decide to remain together. They move to a New York City penthouse, where Lynette becomes a filthy rich CEO with six grandchildren.
Gabby and Carlos (Eva Longoria and Ricardo Antonio Chavira) leave the following year for a mansion in California after Gabby becomes a sensation on the Home Shopping Network.
Bree and her lawyer Trip (Marcia Cross and guest star Scott Bakula) move to Louisville where Bree gets elected to the Kentucky State legislature. Spotting any chemistry between these two took a quantum leap.
Plenty happened leading up to the flash forwards. The prosecution withdraws its case against Bree after dying neighbour Karen McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten) takes the rap for a murder Carlos committed (in self defence). “I picked up that candle stick and I killed that son-of-a-bitch!” McCluskey told the jury. Case dismissed.
Renée (Vanessa Williams) marries her Aussie fiancé but not before testifying at Bree’s trial and stealing a wedding dress.
Susan’s daughter Julie (Andrea Bowen) has her baby but not before breaking her water in the back of a limo which her mother commandeers and drives to the hospital.
Missing completely, as expected, was any reference to Edie (Nicolette Sheridan). Cherry killed off his biggest headache a few seasons ago and later was sued by the actress. He resisted any temptation to tweak her at the end.
One former housewife who did return was Dana Delany. Cherry had wanted to Body of Proof star on his show all along and the two remained on good terms after she left. Her character suddenly shows up and offers Lynette the big job in NYC.
Cherry could not resist appearing in his show, and finally got his “Hitchcock” moment. He was seen toward the very end as a moving man helping to yank Susan’s belongings out of her house.
The girls are also seen having one last poker game. Gabby says she’s sad the gang is breaking up. “I always thought we’d grow old together,” says the youngest housewife, “with me staying gorgeous while the three of you age horribly!”
The other three actresses barely broke a smile at that line — they were that loaded to the gills with Botox.
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