If ever there was an opportunity for a very special ABC crossover of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Desperate Housewives, this has to be it. But as much as I’m sure Edie Britt and Ty Pennington would probably hit it off, that is thankfully not the case. The above photograph is just the aftermath of last month’s DH tornado that left the set looking less like Northern California and more like Oklahoma and an undisclosed number of characters dead. Everything I had read about the show’s finished scripts and production schedules led me to believe that the episode was the last of the season, and I complained accordingly. Turns out that was a bluff (read: I’m retarded), so the fate of Tom, the kids and wig lady should actually be revealed this weekend.
The episode in question, “Welcome to Kanagawa,” may be an art reference or an inappropriate comparison of the minor trials of a cute, almost exclusively white, fictional suburb to war-torn Japan, but it does indeed mark the end of this commendably awesome season of Desperate Housewives. I could easily pick up my whining where I left it back in December, but I’ll take this for the gift it is: one more episode than I expected and a hopefully less cliffhangery finale. If you can’t wait to find out at least a few of those on Wysteria Lane who lived to see another desperate day, here’s a sneak preview…