Desperate Housewives: Season Three DVD Review by Christopher Smith

8/30/2007 Posted by Admin

Desperate Housewives: Complete Third Season

(Published Aug. 30, 2007)

Desperate? You could say that. But if it were just desperation that drove the women of Wisteria Lane, "Desperate Housewives" would have been just another soap opera and not the hit ABC television show it became.

In this third season of the show, Wisteria Lane and the "ladies" who lunch there remains a place where friendship and neighborly love don't exactly go down like spoonfuls of sugar. Saccharine, yes--but rarely sugar, and don't expect much of it to be sweet when so much of it is laced with bitters.

Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman and Nicollette Sheridan work hard to mix it up this season (they had to, if only to recapture the heat lost in the disappointing second season), and so they are more salacious than ever.

This boxed set, after all, is called "The Dirty Laundry Edition,” and it comes through with all that implies.

Grade: B+