User blog comment:Nosh/What is the best season of Desperate Housewives -- the worst?/@comment-4786516-20120130001935/@comment-392210-20120130013414

It's tough to rank, but...:
 * 1 - Season 1 - Of course. Nothing can top this masterpiece. Season 1 is perfect in every way. Classic television.
 * 2 - Season 3 - Probably, as it's the season that made me grow the closest I'd ever been to the show. When I started watching it, I only did so in my country. Season 3 was the one that made me look it up online and start watching it regularly, along with the original US broadcasts. The mystery was amazing, Dixie Carter was amazing, "Bang" was amazing, and it was the season in which Karen became a de facto regular.
 * 3 - Season 7 - The return of Paul and Felicia, the quirky and lovable Beth Young, the kick-ass finale, the emotional dark stories given to both Susan AND Gabrielle, my two favorite housewives (Eva Longoria was nothing short of brilliant this season), and the season that revamped the show after the game-changing time-jump.
 * 4 - Season 4 - I think. The tornado, the Mayfairs (I love Katherine's original family), the awesome finale, evil Kayla, the cancer... too bad my favorite couple, the Delfinos, had such boring storylines.
 * 5 - Season 2 - The darkest, juiciest season, that unfortunately pales in comparison to the first 4 mentioned because of the stories that were cut short, the lapses in the mystery (Betty would be absent from episodes straight), the lack of togetherness by the ladies, the misusage of the main cast, and the rather weak first 5 episodes.
 * 6 - Season 5 - The first season not to have a real, long-running mystery, Neal McDonough's acting itched me, Edie's death pissed me off, the low-key storylines got boring, the Scavo kids were terribly misused... redeeming points: Karen's nice storyline, frumpy Gaby and Juanita, Teri Hatcher nailing the "damsel in distress" part, and my favorite episode: the 100th.
 * 7 - Season 6 - It's just... poorly written. Lots of set-up to no conclusion. The mystery doesn't have a proper resolution, with flashbacks in the climax and a twist, Patrick Logan was the worst character of the show, there were several filler episodes, the disaster kinda sucked, Ana was misused, as was Julie Mayer (written off just like that), anti-climactic endings, and "If..."... that episode was God-awful. Redeeming points: Robin the stripper, Scavos vs. Solises, and the return of several former regulars, like John and Dylan. But, yeah, it's the worst written season so far.

I'm sure season 8 will wind up ranking very high, probably second place. But nothing can ever trump season 1.