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More Wisteria hysteria on 'Desperate Housewives'

Verne Gay | Off Camera

April 11, 2008

You should watch because: Honestly, do whatever you want, but I happen to think "Desperate Housewives" is the best dramedy on ABC right now. ("Lost" ranks as best drama, while"Grey's Anatomy" is still looking to recapture that ol' "Grey's" magic.)

What it's about: ABC, curse it, declined to send out a review copy, but we spoke with creator Marc Cherry about the rest of this season, and beyond (his comments to follow). But this Sunday, he says, "picks up almost immediately" where "Desperate Housewives" left off - the Jan. 6 episode, "Welcome to Kanagawa," in which we learn that Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) is blind but will still remarry Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker). On Sunday, Edie Britt - Nicollette Sheridan, natch - "who's recovering emotionally after being dumped by Carlos, is going to do something fairly shocking involving the husband of another woman," says Cherry. "This will lead to fury against Edie unlike anything we've ever seen ... leading to a shocking conclusion to her time on Wisteria Lane."

How many episodes to go: There will be seven, though the May finale will be two hours; that one will wrap the Katherine Mayfair ( Dana Delany) story line with "the unveiling of what happened in Katherine's house 12 years ago when she was [first] on the Lane [and] what happened to her daughter and ex-husband."

And briefly, the other characters: Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is nonplused to learn that Rick Coletti (Jason Gedrick) has opened a Chinese restaurant across the street from her pizza place; Mike (James Denton) is still in rehab; Bree (Marcia Cross) and Orson Hodge ( Kyle MacLachlan) have to move in with Susan ( Teri Hatcher) - the tornado, remember - and he starts to sleepwalk in the nude.

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Phew.

What happens way down the road: Cherry says he will definitely wrap the show by the end of the seventh season, three years from now. During the strike, "I could see what my life can be like" without constant pressure, "and I made decisions about how I want to end this season and possibly end the series. I told ABC in the first season we were going to end at seven and they understand, I think, that I'm not one of those show-runners where they can back up a truck with money."

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. Sunday at 9 p.m. on ABC/7.