The latest "Desperate Housewives" noose

The great thing about “Desperate Housewives” is that you can not watch it for a few episodes (or a season) and then tune in and you find you still really don’t care all that much.

On last night’s season’s finale, a couple of the DH’s actually became housewives again, Gabrielle discovered she had made yet another huge mistake, and Edie offed herself. (Of course, that’s what viewers were led to believe; no one actually saw the face belonging to the person whose feet were dangling in the final shot; when next season opens, we could just as likely discover it was someone none of the DH’s knew who lived across town.) It makes sense that Edie’d off herself because the writers never seemed to make much of a concerted effort to integrate her into the main storylines. On the other hand, it doesn’t make much sense that Edie’d off herself, since she was such an amoral, Type-A sort and those people, unfortunately, never kill themselves.

Does this mean Edie will take on the cloying voice-over narration chores next season?

Only 18.4 million viewers took in the season finale, a drop of nearly 25% from last year’s closer. If things get worse for the show, Edie’ll be the lucky one.