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Desperate Housewives Cliffhanger: Clever Or Desperate?
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‘Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry is certain to make another media splash with Sunday’s season ender. The show jumped ahead five years, making mincemeat out of the current storylines.
The result? Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) has let herself go and has two daughters. Bree (Marcia Cross) has a cookbook coming out. Lynette’s (Felicity Huffman) kids have grown into troublemakers. Katherine (Dana Delaney) has become one of the girls and her daughter Dylan is getting married. And most shockingly of all, Susan (Teri Hatcher) has a new mystery man (Gale Harold) in her life. Mike the plumber (James Denton) is history.
What exactly this means for the new season remains a mystery. Will the show continue to flash forward and back between the two time periods? Will it simply jump ahead? And why take such a drastic step anyway?
"One of the problems I had with Season 2," Cherry said, "was that I had to keep going with the previous year's stuff. I learned you have to go back to square one to build up the tension again. Finally, this year I said, 'Why don't we really mix it up?'”
Clever? For publicity, yes. But creatively, it seems like a cop out. The writers seem to have gotten themselves into another corner, like that awful boy in the basement fiasco (which Cherry mentions above). So they’ve done the closest thing to hitting the delete button. It’s much easer just to wipe it all away and start over rather than find a creative way through. The show once again falls prey to lack of vision.
Perhaps because Cherry’s background is in situation comedy, where the story begins afresh with every episode. ‘DH’ is a comedy, but it’s also a soap. Those storylines are worked out often years in advance.
It might behoove Cherry and company to enlist the help of a nighttime soap writer to formulate a plan for the next year or sp. It seems unfair to ask fans to invest in a storyline for an entire season only to wipe it all away on a whim.
