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This Sunday, February 12th, 2012, at 9/8 central, ABC will premiere, in the US, the 13th episode of the 8th and final season of Desperate Housewives, titled "Is This What You Call Love?". The episode was written by David Schladweiler and Valerie A. Brotski, and directed by David Grossman. Discuss it here after watching.

Summary:

Susan is in for a shock when daughter Julie pays a visit and shows up six months pregnant. Meanwhile, Bree's alcohol consumption and lust for men continues to dominate and ruin her life, and Lynette's first sexual encounter since separating from Tom doesn't quite end in fireworks. Gabrielle's attempt to soothe Juanita when she doesn't receive a Valentine's Day card from a boy she has a crush on backfires.

Guest stars include John Rubinstein as Principal Hobson, Patrick Fabian as Frank, Christopher Goodman as Bill, Stephanie Erb as Debbie, Mark Totty as Dylan and former series regulars Kyle MacLachlan as Orson Hodge and Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, each making their 84th appearances.

Supporting regulars Mason Vale Cotton as MJ Delfino and Kevin Rahm as Lee McDermott (?) also appear.

Glad DH is finally back tonight! Although being a Lynette and Tom fan, I'm not really looking forward to Lynette's storyline in thisepisode

gabby and lynette will probably be just fillers [but i'll also probably enjoy gabby's], while bree and susan will have a bit of a story. so i'll probably like all of them except lynette's, who has kind of been boring this year [like last year ]

THIS EPISODE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

At first I was mad that for 30 minutes Bree had just one scene...

And then there came the scene when she was talking to the other housewives and it was heartbreaking.

And then You-know-who comes back. And I knew he would come back, but still, seeing it was so powerful...

And then he says the best quotes of all times.

GOD!!! I really hope the writers won't destroy my favorite couple... I need a happy ending, I really, really do.

Haven't watched it yet, but hear nothing about Renee. Was Vanessa even in the episode? lol

I didn't see the episode yet (stupid unspecified website growing slower each week), but holy crap at that promo: when's the last time we had something go 'boom' on DH?

OMG! An amazing episode! Best one of the year for me. The show just keeps upping the anty which is great to see in the final season. The ending with Orson was amazing and it made me so happy. I doubt he will go bad as we have been speculating. I think because of the money limitations Kyle can only appear in a certain number of episodes so Bree will decide to move to Maine with him but have to come back for the funeral and he will stay behind. I think we will see a happy ending for them in the final episode and it will turn out someone else will send the note to the police.

It may be Orson wasn't even the one in the car following her but we will see. Either way Im so excited. I just really hope Bree and Orson get a happy ending.

Meanwhile loved Susan's storyline with Julie- it was a lot better then I thought it would be and the scenes between mother and daughter were beautiful.

I also feel Lynette's storyline was not filler at all. I think its going somewhere and perhaps she and Tom may actually divorce and end up with new people but you know what Im ok with that as long as they finish off the series happy.

On the other end of the spectrum Gabby's storyline was completely filler but was actually really enjoyable and moving so I didnt mind.

The most powerful scene was when the girls confronted Bree and when Bree was saved by Orson. So amazing andbrilliantlyexecuted. I doubt the girls will reconcile before the big funeral in Episode 17 but we'll see. (Got im seeing we'll see a lot in this post- lol).

All in all a fantastic episode and one of my favourite housewives outings ever! WRITERS GIVE ME MORE BREE AND ORSON/ SUSAN AND JULIE! YEAH!

I just noticed something weird - Gaby and Susan are wearing the same clothes for 2 days in this episode. Day 1 - Susan in her white sweater talking to Julie; Gabs visting Principal Hobson and then admitting that she was lying to Juanita Day 2 - morning group scene and then Intervention at Bree´s house I have noticed it before in episode 7.07 "A Humiliating Business" - during group scene where Bree is talking about her menopause, they were all wearing the same clothes they wore the day before (probably just bad editing in this case)

It was an enjoyable episode, but I was expected much more.

Susan: I was more satisfied with this storyline than I thought I was going to be actually. Susan's plan to sabotage Julie's adoption thing was really predictable and cliche but the rest was fantastic. I loved Julie's angle on her relationship with Susan and I loved Mike's role in all of it; it reminded me of early season 4. I look forward to see what happens next with them and I'm just glad that Julie is back.

Gabrielle: I didn't like it much, it was really filler and didn't make me laugh or anything. It had some cute moments surely, and it was nice seeing Juanita in the spotlight again but Gabby not telling Juanita about Carlos and how she came around at the end was really predictable, I felt like I had seen that storyline over and over again.

Lynette: I LOVE Frank! I think they have great chemistry together and I really liked this storyline, the writing was excellent in the scene with the lights when they were about to have sex and also in the last scene when he came over with pizza. I'm really excited to see where the writers take Lynette & Frank and I hope that it won't end suddenly with Lynette getting back with Tom, I'd love for Lynette to develop emotions for Frank first and have a strong inner conflict before finally making a decision.

Bree: Love her! It was weird not having any scenes of her during the first half of the episode but her scene with Jerry was just fantastic! The fact that she didn't remember him was rather unexpected and then her confrontation with the ladies was fierce. I am on Bree's side of course so I'm glad she really gave them a piece of her mind. The near-rape scene was amazing and I was so happy to see Orson back! I completely forgot how much I hated him in season 5 haha. I also especially loved Orson's quote about how the both of them were always best in cleaning messes up.