12.22.2007

Are you sure it's not Hysteria Lane?

The final episode of 2007 on Wisteria Lane sent the residents into a tailspin and left the fate of a fan favorite unknown. According to Mary Alice, one of the women on Wisteria Lane has lost a husband and all of them have lost a friend. Whether you take this to mean the husband and friend are the same person (Tom Scavo) or two different people (Victor Lang and Mrs. McCluskey and/or Ida Greenberg), there will be some major changes on our favorite Illinois cul-de-sac.

Not that I would, in any way, wish death on Tom... but it certainly seems that the death of Victor Lang is the second major cop-out of this season by Mark Cherry and Co. First Edie miraculously survives her own hanging. Now there is the potential for Gaby and Carlos to escape all blame in their attempt on Victor's life, solidifying Fairview as a close contender with the ridiculousness of another Illinois television town (three hints: the Rise of the Phoenix, the Salem Stalker, and a fan favorite being held captive in a cage and brainwashed for months on end). As much as I miss the Kiriakis/Horton/DiMera/Brady Bunch, I hope that MC and his fellow writers tone it down a bit... otherwise I have a feeling we'll find out that Susan Mayer is actually pregnant with twins, one by Mike and the other by Orson.

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