![]() ![]() When the show returned the next year, however, set after a five-year jump into the future, it turns out time was, in fact, a great healer, and the entire blindness storyline had done a huge U-turn. The final episodes of series four revolved around Carlos lying to Gaby that his sight would come back, all the while hiding the fact that it wouldn’t and he’d be blind for ever. Only for Carlos to go blind after being hit on the head by a flying fencepost during the tornado that destroyed the lane. After four series of rowing, sex and affairs with their gardener, their surrogate, the town’s mayor, Nicollette Sheridan and then each other, Gabrielle and Carlos Solis finally got back together. But the show’s real Jump the Shark moment happened in series five. While early seasons of the show dealt with the domestic dramas of Bree, Susan, Gabrielle and Lynette – their failing marriages, out-of-control kids, love-life rivalries – the series became increasingly outlandish. ![]() Fans wanted to be Eva Longoria’s character Gabrielle Solis, Bree Van Der Kamp was a gay icon, and it might have happened on TV more than 14 years ago, but ask any devotee about the first time sexy gardener John (Jesse Metcalfe) took his shirt off to mow Gabrielle’s lawn and they’ll probably be able to describe the scene with creepy intensity. Part comedy, part drama, all high-camp insanity, Housewives’ pilot episode was watched by 21 million people. Friends and Sex and the City ended that year and clearly audiences were, er, desperate for something to fill the hole they left. When it started, back in 2004, Desperate Housewives was a huge, huge hit. ![]()
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