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Watching Desperate Housewives is not something I make a habit of doing, having tired of the series a couple of seasons ago, but last night I was ready to be a veg-head and watch all two hours of the season finale. There was a twist at the end of the show and the twist was that Desperate Housewives was over. No more seasons, going out while still popular. Brilliant.

All the loose ends were tied up nicely in the season finale. Lynette and Tom Scavo got rid of Kayla, the bad seed child from Tom’s drunken one night stand, Susan and Mike started a new family, as Susan’s teenage daughter goes off to college. Finally Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delaney) comes clean about her past and the mystery of Dylan was solved. Katherine’s villain ex husband, Wayne Davis, played by Gary Cole, gets his comeuppance after doing away with Ellie (Justine Bateman).

Then fast forward five years to Lynette and Tom having to deal with the police over their children, who have become juvenile delinquents, Bree as a Martha Stewart business woman with her gay son assisting her and Susan coming home to a man who was not Mike. A little glimpse of their futures.

It was a perfect ending, or so I thought. I read this morning that Marc Cherry has signed on to keep pumping out the suds for this soap until 2011, the seventh season. It is, after all, a money generating business and it’s not about being brilliant, it’s about milking those cash cows, sponsorships and syndication and there’s already so much garbage on television.

Thankfully, it’s summertime and a good time to step away from the Boob Tube and into the air conditioned movie theater, for what is shaping up to be a great year for action films.