Desperate Housewives: The Complete Sixth Season (Bilingue) -- 5-Disc DVD Box Set

 

 

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I love Desperate Housewives. It has been a favorite show of mine since the very first season that it aired. Great show, great entertainment.

I like this show so much and this season is one of the best! You won't regret!

**NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**

When viewers last left Wisteria Lane at the end of Season Five of "Desperate Housewives", a new family was moving into the neighborhood.

Drea de Matteo ("The Sopranos") plays the new housewife on the Lane. Angie Bolen is a brash Italian New Yorker who brings with her to the suburbs her twitchy husband Nick and son Danny. What would new residents be without some dark secret? Well, it seems Angie and her two men are hiding out from the Feds because of some terrorist activity in their past.

The Bolen clan's arrival coincides with a rash of stranglings in Fairview, and the most recent young female victim is Susan's daughter Julie Mayer!

At first I didn't care for the Angie character, but when things start really cooking in the second half of the season, I was really rooting for her and was sorry she won't be back next season.

It was great to see Angie bail Bree out of a jam, TWICE this season. Another fun moment occurs when Angie gets some news about the person blackmailing her. That slight grin of satisfaction in the hospital was priceless!

It was a welcome change to have de Matteo replace Nicollette Sheridan, because I felt Edie's slutty ways were getting old.

Speaking of old, as the season began I was praying it was NOT Susan under that bridal veil. For some reason the writers seem to think all viewers want to see is she and Mike. I wish the pair of them had been written out of the show along with Edie. I was sick of their on-and-off again romance by the end of Season Three.

Although I wasn't thrilled with the reunion of Susan and Mike, the good thing that comes of that is that Dana Delany finally gets some decent material to work with after a dull Season Five. It was interesting to see Catherine slowly unravel and I kept wishing she'd have more screen time. The developments with Julie Benz' character Robin were a welcome surprise.

The season definitely got better as it went along and the many plot threads began to connect.

As always, Bree and Lynette get the most interesting storylines. Gabby didn't annoy me this season as much as she has in the past. She was crucial in the outcome of the Bolen storyline, which took a very interesting turn at the last moment. I loved it!

The Xmas episode is this season's attempt at the annual "disaster/crisis" episode. This year we get a plane crash. Of course, the best part about these almost-annual "disaster" episodes is how it changes the course of the plot and the after-effects on certain characters, and this season is no exception. I particularly liked how it got Angie off the hook with her blackmailer and put Lynette back in Gabby and Carlos' good graces.

One of my favorite aspects of this show is the fantastic casting of the female guest stars. Past seasons have included turns by great ladies of Hollywood's past (Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Polly Bergin), amazing talent from other TV classics (Dixie Carter, Laurie Metcalf, Frances Conroy) and underused or forgotten gems (Celia Weston, Lesley Boone, Valerie Mahaffey). Though there was less of it this year, in the finale we get an unrecognizable Patty McCormack ("The Bad Seed") looking uncannily like Louise Latham.

We get to see what the child actors who originally played the Scavo boys during Seasons 1-4 look like now during a brief clip and another former resident of Wisteria Lane makes a surprise return in the finale.

I didn't care for the unneccesary overuse use of the "P" word every time a character expressed how angry they were. Writers, please keep it clean--this isn't a cable show. While that kind of language is becoming more prevalent in society, the show would be much classier without it.

Though it took a while to get things cooking, this season was much better than Season 5. The last four episodes are amazing, once the strangler is revealed (he reminds me of a young Alice Cooper).

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