User blog comment:Nosh/What is the best season of Desperate Housewives -- the worst?/@comment-6022514-20130119161356

Well, i'm really surprised by this series. After i've watched some of the best north american tv shows, as for instance The Wire, In Treatment and a few others, i wasn't clearly up to watch that sort of large-audience and consensual show... But i've been more than surprised by the first season's overall quality that is really well-made. I kept going and i've so far watched the first 6 seasons.

The best so far is the first one and by far.

The worst was the second season. How boring was the Applewhite "mystery" ? It was actually even not a mystery : the girl-we-don't-give-a-shit-about-as-we-don't-even-know-her-at-all's murderer wasn't Caleb but his brother ('what a twist'... *wink*). How boring and no-connected to the rest of the storyline was this Applewhite story that doesn't even leave a trace : that's an isolated, cut off poor story.

After that, it got better and better.

Hence, so far the ranking is :

S1, S6, S5, S4, S3, S2

As i watched all of those first 6 season in a row, within a period of 2 and a half weeks maybe, i could not separate every season (except the first 2) very well, as it appears for me a continuing flow with no break between two seasons. I however noticed that the emotions and plots became more interesting and deep as the show went. Applewhite can't stand comparison with the darkest moments of Eddie's life (Eddie the boy, not the girl). The episode telling the story of this poor boy who grew up without love was so dark and sad. The episode (filler) of the handy-man who helped everyone around him the best he can was emotionnaly the best and the the most catch scenes were to found there : you don't have in seasons 2 and 3 such rich moments as you have in the following : for instance, the deaf exchange between Lynette and Tom, the first one thinking her husband his cheating on her and the second one talking about Porter having a sexual relation with a married woman they know... - "He's your son too !" - "... WHAT R U talking aobut ?" with such a good performance from both comedians. There are plenty of very intense moments (the last scene of Scavo couple at the therapist) that are way more dramatic, i just gave here one or two examples. Overall it gets better and better, for sure.

Even if i didn't like how it finished (the last episode was not well-inspired), the Dave plot in season 5 was psychologically so dark -- no comparison with Applewithe or Orson's mother effete plots for instance.

The show cleary got better and better between season 2 and 6.

It's not an elite show, but it's still enjoyable.

Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant are (by large) the two best comedians of it and i'm glad to have discovered them.

Following the idiocy of WASP communities and average american is so delightful. All the misbeliefs, the fact that those persons prefer to belief than to think, the ignorance of the institution of the doubt that forms every philosophy, the neighborood meetings about night walks (*laugh*) to find "who's the terrorist, the murderer, the evil" instead of cultural and philosophical circles (how to be a responsible adult, why would i give any opinion whereas i've read 3 books in my life, etc.). Desperate Housewives is full of those commonplaces, actions, beliefs that recude the life of human to commuters only preoccupied by insignificant matters. DH, as many north american show, gives so much material to think about. And it's also entertaining and it does the trick as, sometimes, you snap and can't the crap of those stupid persons anymore. How many times wouldn't have i wish to slap or torture with reading and educational assignments Katherine, Susan, Gabi... We hope the worst for those desperate housewives but also desperate humans for the last 2 seasons ! :-)