Yesterday, Sunday May 15 2011, was Desperate Housewives’ season 7 finale. I have been watching this TV episode since its first season and will probably watch season 8. Why? I just like this group of women, four close friends, who rhythm the life on ‘Wisteria Lane’.
After I watched episodes 19 and 20, I was expecting a miracle to occur. A miracle that would preserve the friendship tie between Bree and Gabi (Gabrielle). In fact, after Gabi’s husband (Carlos) discovered the identity of the person who killed his mother in an accident, Carlos told his wife to end her friendship with the one who claimed she was her friend, Bree. For those who never watched Desperate Housewives or missed some episodes, Bree’s son was the culprit. Because he was a teenager at the time of the accident, Bree covered her son but told Gabi what happened. To sum up, Bree covered her son and Gabi covered her friend. Since Bree did not want her friend to chose her over her husband and family, she asked Gabi to sacrifice their friendship and save her marriage.
Carlos could not and did not want to forgive Bree. Thus, only a miracle was the solution. That miracle occurred in the last episode of season 7, during a dinner party organized to celebrate Susan’s return to Wisteria Lane. This episode ends with Carlos killing Gabi’s stepfather who was thought to be dead. That man raped Gabi when she was around 15. To emphasize the significance and inevitable event, Carlos confessed to Gabi that killing that man was the kind of thing he was able to do to protect her from the stepfather.
Carlos said it, so it happened! Carlos involuntarily kills Gabi’s stepfather who broke into their house and was threatening Gabi. Gabi’s friends, including Bree, discover the murder when they walk into the house. In this sequence, Bree is presented as the first friend to enter the room wondering when Gabi would call them and the other guests.
Now comes the best part. In tears, Gabi relates to her friends what happened and complains that her husband will be sent to jail, because he was “trying to protect” her. In this sequence, Gabi goes toward her friends and stands next to Bree. Carlos is on the opposite side of the room, the corpse separating him from his wife. When Carlos claims he is willing to go to jail Bree, the ‘banned’ friend, is the only one to talk, thus making the others take action. She says “That’s not gonna happen!”
In the last sequence, while the narrator is listing the “many things that bind friends together,” Bree brings a piece of cake to a pensive Carlos and sits next to him. Carlos, who found in his heart to finally forgive Bree, takes his hand as a sign of gratitude. The narrator ends the episode saying “the thing that binds friend together the most is a secret that changes everything.”
Although the episode ends on a happy note, more suspense is to come.
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