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Special features on the DVD set are pretty thin. Obligatory blooper and deleted-scene segments are included, but there are no commentary tracks and only two short interview-based extras: "Desperate for Trivia," a game show-like collection of Desperate Housewives minutiae, and "Growing Up on Wisteria Lane," which checks in with most of the actors who have passed through the series as children over the years. --Ted Fry
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Few Good Moments, But Time To Put It To Bed,
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This review is from: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season - 5-Disc DVD Box Set (DVD)
"Desperate Housewives" is no longer as addictive as it once was and seems to be on its last legs and way past its prime.First, the good: The show seems to be a little racier this season, as when Bree shrieks "Get that thing away from me!" when confronted with a zucchini, following a night of marathon-sex with years-younger boytoy (Brian Austin Greene). Or when Gabby asks Lee to use the back door and he shoots back "I ALWAYS do!". Little moments like this kept me tuning in. And Teri Hatcher seems less annoying this year as well. Perhaps having her move off the Lane created more sympathy for the character. Lainie Kazan is wonderful as Susan's new landlady who runs a website called Va-Va-Va-Broom, featuring sexy women doing their housework in lingerie. With bills piling up and husband Mike on the verge of taking a job in Alaska, what's a desperate housewife to do but don the garters and heels? The annual "disaster" show has in the past brought us a tornado, plane crash and this year comes in the form of a street riot brought on by Paul Young's announcement he's opening a halfway house for ex-cons. And for this episode Wisteria Lane becomes Hysteria Lane and Susan is seriously injured and is faced with a major health crisis. Emily Bergi (Whom I was only familiar with from "The Rage: Carrie II") shows up as Paul Young's new wife, a prison groupie who sets up house with Fairview's creepiest citizen but causes tempers to flare when she won't perform her most important wifely duty. Bergi gets more likeable as the season goes on. The wonderful Harriet Samson Harris is back as the twisted Felicia Tillman though sometimes she's only onscreen for five seconds per episode. Now the bad: Vanessa Williams is a tired choice for a new foil. I wish the producers had went with an actress who has been hiding away for awhile rather than someone who just came off a four-year run on "Ugly Betty" playing an all-too similar character. Tom and Lynette are having marriage problems AGAIN, due to one of them being jealous of the other's career AGAIN. The writers are running out of ideas fast and it's never been more evident that it is watching this set. The show has already run its course and I am not sure it will be able to sustain itself for an entire season as we approach the final year. The more casual fans may want to rent this one instead of buying. ***1/2 Three and a half stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great TV Show,
This review is from: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season - 5-Disc DVD Box Set (DVD)
This is a great TV show, suitable for all kind of public, and really interesting. It is a wonderful mix of humour, suspense and drama. I strongly recommend this to all.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Still love the show, but mixed feelings about continuation,
By M "CultOfStrawberry" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season - 5-Disc DVD Box Set (DVD)
I have been a huge fan of this show since season 4 and have since then watched all of the episodes. I got all excited at the season 6 finale, and this season had a lot of great stuff in it.However, good things must come to an end, and I was hoping that this season would be the one to wrap it all up. Some of the plot twists in this season felt somewhat forced, and with the season finale that happened with Gabrielle's stepfather left me with the sinking feeling that with that episode, this show that I have loved for a long time may have jumped the shark. I will watch season 8, but I'm afraid it'll just get silly. Edit - I hear now that Season 8 will be the last one. This makes me sad, but also relieved. 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Please Pass the Knife,
By H. M Pyles - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season - 5-Disc DVD Box Set (DVD)
Watching the final episode of each season of "Desperate Housewives" is like taking that last bite of cheesecake, knowing you should have just said no when the first piece was offered. You swear you're not going to indulge yourself with such abandon next time, but by noon the next day you're wondering when the bakery will have a fresh batch ready.So what happened this season on Wisteria Lane, that upper-middle-class slice of suburban America that has seen more divorce than Las Vegas, more sex than 42nd Street in the 70's, and more violence than the Balkans? Well, pretty much the same thing that happened in all the previous seasons. Good-looking people had illicit sex. Lots of it. Marriages strained and sometimes snapped. Murders were attempted. Some succeeded. And Susan perkily - and annoyingly -- stumbled and crashed into and out of one crisis after another. Why, then, do I pre-order every season of this silly series? Why, once it arrives, do I scarf down all 20+ episodes in five days (or less) of marathon watching? Well, it's like this . . . . Buried inside each comic book episode are elegiac little pearls of sweet humaneness. One untenable little scrape after another leaves a character who marched in with self-assured abandon confronting the fact that all our actions have consequences, that the best of intentions can deliver the deepest wounds, that friends matter, and that every day can be a new starting point for trying to do better if you just have a stout heart and sincere desire to be good. Yes, it's fluff. But it's pure fluff. Now, when can I pre-order Season 8? 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Formerly Smart Show Has Descended to Soap Opera,
By carol irvin "carol irvin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seventh Season - 5-Disc DVD Box Set (DVD)
Update: ABC has cancelled this show, announcing it in August 2011. My review, posted before the announcement follows.I watched this show this season. I liked it the least of the seven seasons. This show used to have great writing but now the dialogue and plot developments are straight out of afternoon soap operas. Also, the characters who are being emphasized are ones who are now driving me crazy. And boy, does Teri Hatcher, as Susan lead that pack! I just wince every time she comes onscreen. I find her goody two shoes act really tiresome at this point. Ditto her marriage with Mike. (I used to like him but now I can't stand him either because of her.) I could have done without Vanessa Williams. If she is supposed to be the new Edie, that didn't pan out. She's playing a very similar role to the one she played on UGLY BETTY. Just like Susan, she too is super tiresome. She is a woman used to living in New York who is now living in the burbs and it just doesn't make any sense that she is. The other three are better overall. They are pretty much the characters they have always been. Bree is dating a man much too young for her. Gabby finds out she has a daughter who is being raised by a lower class Mexican family. Felicity Huffman's Tom becomes a raging success and she can't stand it. Although this wasn't groundbreaking material, it was at least more like the other six seasons. In an act of pure desperation, Paul Young is returned to the show. He wants revenge on everyone on the street for being instrumental in sending him to prison. His feud also continues with his arch enemy, who is still in prison. This is the woman whose sister he killed for being instrumental in his wife's suicide. And on and on we go. I think we are close to the end of the road here and that Wisteria Lane is due for some demolition work, like razing it to the ground, if the writers don't get some better material going with a focus on the remaining three housewives of interest. |
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