Four years after its smashing rookie season, Desperate Housewives, says some critics, just might get back to the Emmys race with its startling two-hour finale last Sunday. Most praised the show for the risk it took when it opted to shift the story five years to the future. The reboot, then, is seen as to have given the show its much-needed reformat.
The suburbia-themed ABC dramedy has competed for television's top plum only once, in 2005, during its maiden run, when it lost to the last year of Everybody Loves Raymond.
For its second and third seasons, the show made it to the top ten as determined by popular voting courtesy of academy members, but not enough steam to impress the judging panel to earn a place in the final list of nominees. Last year,
Desperate Housewives didn't even make it to the top 10.
This year, the Emmy Awards was revised to eliminate the juried runoff, and the contenders will be narrowed down solely via popular ballot.
Desperate Housewives is currently pegged at the ninth spot, with 14.5 million viewers on the average, and one of the only two comedy in the top 20.
Two and a Half Men is in the 11th spot with a 9.8 million average.
On the
Desperate Housewives finale, the mystery of psycho Dave's vengeful streak was finally revealed, when he hatched a plan to orchestrate a "poetic" revenge plot involving a tied-down Susan, cute JM, Mike, and two cars going at each other at top speed. Elsewhere, Lynette found out she's pregnant - again, with twins - again, and it might put Tom's plan to head back to school in jeopardy. Gaby, meanwhile, might have finally met her match in the person of a youthful counterpart - Carlos' niece who moved in with them and has a proclivity to use her femininity to have boys do stuff for her. The most major cliffhanger, however, remains to be the identity of the person Mike married.
-Glenn Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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