Product Description
-------------------
The action gets even wilder in the sizzling seventh season of
ABC's accled dramatic comedy, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. Experience
all the humor, mystery and juicy thrills in this spectacular
5-disc collection. It's high noon on Wisteria Lane as a brand-new
rival (Vanessa Williams) stirs up even more excitement, deceit
and romance in the neighborhood. Lynette gets jealous when Renee
starts spending time with Tom and Bree finds herself falling for
Keith (Brian Austin Green). Meanwhile, Gabrielle makes a shocking
personal discovery, Susan copes with a life-threatening event and
a mysterious shooting has everyone on edge. Through all of the
drama, the world's most famous housewives are bound together by
the friendship they share and the secrets they keep. Relive every
red-hot episode and dive deeper into television's most addicting
primetime series with never-before-seen bonus features. It's the
perfect gift for every DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES fan!
.com
----
An air of desperation in the somewhat implausible story lines
that have fueled Desperate Housewives since it made such a splash
with its premiere in 2004 is never very far from the perfectly
groomed homes and messy private lives of the women of Wisteria
Lane. But as frantic, lunatic, or downright preous as the
soap-operatic antics may seem, whether unfolding behind closed
doors or right out in the open of suburban Fairview, USA, creator
Marc Cherry keeps on giving devotees of Desperate Housewives
exactly what they want in season seven. The big news for fans of
the show (who are the only ones who will care or understand what
any of it means) is that Paul Young is out of prison and back in
the lives of the housewives and their husbands; newly separated
Bree Van de Kamp has a studly new boyfriend 15 years her junior;
and a replacement housewife has moved into the neighborhood,
returning the gang's fluctuating membership to its prime value of
five. Vanessa Williams plays Renee Perry, a jet-setting college
friend of Lynette (Felicity Huffman) whose dream marriage to a
pro baseball player has fallen apart, landing her in a place
where her cattiness and conniving ways fit right in. Marcia Cross
brings Bree's entrée into menopause a dash of flippant fun,
especially when she sets her s on season guest Brian Austin
Green as Keith, a handyman who helps her out with some
contracting needs then moves in to continue helping with more
personal home-based needs. Show stalwarts will remember Paul
(Mark Moses) from the beginning seasons as the husband of Mary
Alice Young (Brenda Strong, still narrating each episode from
beyond the grave) who got away with one murder but was sent away
after being framed for another he didn't commit. His reappearance
gives the heebie-jeebies to everyone, but mostly to Susan and
Mike (Teri Hatcher and James Denton), for whom hard times have
meant a move to a sleazy apartment and the inability to keep Paul
from maneuvering himself back into their house(s). The dynamic
between Susan and Paul changes considerably over the course of
the season, and it doesn't help when Paul discovers a naughty
secret Susan is keeping to help ease her family's financial
burden. Lynette's got a new baby, which puts a new strain on her
marriage to Tom (Doug Savant). That situation is not helped after
Renee gets whirled into their mix with a secret of her own. The
family secrets that Gaby and Carlos (Eva Longoria and Ricardo
Chavira) are keeping from each other become sources of even
greater dramatic conflict right up to the final episode, centered
on a progressive dinner party involving the entire cast.
Ultimately it is the women of Wisteria Lane who keep genuine
desperation at bay by keeping close tabs on each other's backs.
Theirs is a complicated world of devious doings, but allegiances
always come home to roost through a bond of friendship that
continually ties them together. As is apparent from even this
offhanded rundown of key plot points, convoluted and far-fetched
remain watchwords for the show's creative team. For the legions
of admirers who wouldn't have it any other way, Marc Cherry has
confirmed that there will be at least one more season of dramedic
machinations, probably two. Ratings have declined over the years,
but ABC and the core cast members--Cross, Hatcher, Huffman, and
Longoria--still seem happy to keep on giving fans what they want.
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
