![]() ![]() And Susan leaves Wisteria Lane to help her daughter, Julie, raise her baby. Gabrielle and Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) start a personal-shopping website, which lands her a talk show, and they move to Los Angeles. Bree marries her lawyer, Trip, (Scott Bakula), moves to Kentucky, and becomes a state legislator. Lynette becomes a CEO and she and Tom (Doug Savant) move to New York City, buy a penthouse, and have six grandchildren. After the women play poker for the last time together, the show flashes forward to tell viewers what happens to the main foursome: Lynette, Bree, Gabrielle, and Susan. Because this show was always about the women and their friendships, we pick the last montage as our favorite moment from the series finale. However, the show delivered a sweet if predictable goodbye, with Cherry himself making a cameo as a moving guy, and all of the lane’s deceased loved and hated neighbors-except for Edie, of course-showing up for one last moment of face time. What happened on Wisteria Lane in its eighth season just could not compete with that reality. The final season of Desperate Housewives was eclipsed by real-life drama in a Los Angeles courtroom where actress Nicollette Sheridan, who played Edie Britt for five seasons, sued ABC Studios and creator Marc Cherry for firing her after she complained that Cherry had hit her on the head during a rehearsal. Season 8, Episode 23, “Finishing the Hat”: The Ladies Say Goodbye to Wisteria Lane The Daily Beast revisits the show’s top-12 moments, beginning with the series finale the rest of the retrospective is listed chronologically. Although the show was not able to sustain the creative magic of its first season and lost two thirds of its audience along its journey, Desperate Housewives’ lasting mark on the TV landscape is undeniable. From the moment viewers saw a fully dressed Lynette (Huffman) dive into a pool to fetch her rebellious sons during a wake, to Gabrielle (Longoria) mowing the lawn in her formal-wear, the actresses became highly coveted megastars. ![]() Viewers were thrilled to welcome Teri Hatcher, Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman, and Marcia Cross back to television, and newcomer Eva Longoria became a household name overnight. An instant success and cultural phenomenon that hasn’t been duplicated since, the show paved the way for other primetime dramedies, such as Grey’s Anatomy, and the reality franchise Real Housewives. With its black comedy and soapy melodrama, the show catapulted ABC out of the bottom of the rankings and gave America new ladies to be excited about on Sunday nights after Sex and the City went off the air. Being a “desperate housewife” became a thing 40-year-old women were, for the first time, perceived as sexually vibrant and women everywhere sighed with relief that they weren’t the only ones exasperated by their children. When Desperate Housewivespremiered in 2004 with more than 21 million viewers, primetime television was never the same, and neither was pop culture. ![]()
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