8.043 minSeason 8 • Episode 23
LatestEverything that begins must eventually end. This episode of beginnings and endings walks us both backwards and forwards as we take our final stroll down Wisteria Lane.
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
Acting
Marcia Cross's tightly wound Bree—perfectionism as armor.
Writing
Narrative voice from beyond the grave, sly and omniscient.
Production
Technicolor suburbia hiding rot—Wisteria Lane as character.
Creator
Marc Cherry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered right after 'Sex and the City' ended, deliberately scooping up its audience with domesticated desperation instead of cosmopolitan freedom.
Marc Cherry wrote the pilot after his mother took her own life—Mary Alice's suicide was his attempt to understand what she didn't explain.
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