Look Into Their Eyes and You See What They Know (2)

Season 5, Episode 19, Aired

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Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) perishes on Wisteria Lane after a tragic accident, and the women of the street are brought together by this heart-wrenching event to go on a road trip with the intention of giving Edie's ashes to her son. During the trip, the women look back on Edie's life and their relationships with her: Susan recalls how their great rivalry started off with what could had been a great friendship; Lynette thinks fondly of one time Edie took her to chemotherapy, but not without making a short stop first; Bree remembers how Edie saved her marriage and her soul; Gabrielle reminisces about a very fun and sensual girls' night out; and Mrs. McCluskey tells everyone of how just a good mother Edie Britt truly was. Wisteria Lane becomes the resting place for the quintessential vixenish Housewife of the series, and Edie Britt lives on with this walk down memory lane.moreless
  • The Startling Death Of Edie Drives The Housewives Down Memory Lane. Each Of The Ladies Recalls How She Influenced Their Lives.

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    I have mixed feelings about this episode. I dislike the fact that this season has now two flashback episodes. The plot becomes slow. I think Edie could have died in the next season so there would not be two flashback episodes in one season. That aside, I liked how the ladies remembered Edie. Just seeing the flashbacks with Edie will make the viewer sad as they are done emotionally. My favorite flashback was with Susan and Edie. I found their scenes very plausible and convincing. I found the acting very intense. It was also very nice to hear Nicollette Sheridan as the narrator in this episode. Overall, I'm sad about Edie's death but this was a very good tribute for her. Goodbye, you will be missed. Excellent.moreless
  • Tearful and emotional

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    I do not understand why people are complaining about this episode. After all, its not every day one of the leading ladies dies is it? This episode is a perfect way to say goodbye to Nicollete Sheridan.
    First of all, I love how Edie narrates her last days on Earth. As wonderful as Brenda Strong is, it is always nice to break the format and allow other people to narrate the show. Edie is a good narrator.
    The stories the ladies share go through a lot of time. Susan story (before season one), Gabby story (season three), Lynette(season four) and Bree (during the time jump of season five). We also hear more about about Mrs Mcslukey's dead son again.
    Overall there are laughs and tears - but mostly tears. Best bit - a toss up between Lynette waking the others with her horn or when the ladies spread her ashes on the neighbourhood. Goodbye Edie...moreless
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    I've never been a huge Edie fan, but I thought her big send-off episode was horrible and not the least bit emotional. The show did this exact show earlier in the season when the neighborhood handyman died (who, by the way, had never even appeared in a previous episode). The writers couldn't think of an original way to say goodbye to Edie? Pile on top of that all of these nicey-nice stories about how great Edie was to everyone -- she wasn't nice. That was her charm. That is why people liked her. She was the show's "bad guy" and I don't think they did justice to her at all. Her death scene was stupid and anti-climatic, the stories about her were contrived and fake and the entire plot was just a rehash. Didn't Edie deserve better? I think so.moreless
  • Goodbye Edie you will be missed.

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    Well this week we say goodbye to edie britt and i have to say it was rather emotinal, This week the women remeber edie britt and think of how she effected there lives it was a nice episode but i have to say couldent of the writers staff come up with something abit different i mean we had already seen this a few weeks earlier for the 100th Overall though it was a preety nice farwell to edie britt i have to say i am sad to see her go but i do agree that the chracter had started to run of steammoreless
  • i do not embrace this direction or episode. bleck.

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    edie dies. :-( i hate that. I think it was a dumb decision on the show producers part. she was the funnest, funniest character. many scenes would have been deadly dull without her. why would they eliminiate her charm and humour and energy from the show? and then, to send her off with a lame flashback episode and make her narrate it? and not only that but to upstage that flashback ep by doing flashback eps before it so that by the time her flashback ep comes many viewers are very tired of the format? gee. was someone mad at the actress? why? sigh. i have really liked this season up until this. i'm having a crisis of like for this show. my like for this show has taken a big hit because of this. good bye edie. :-(moreless
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    • In this episode, there is a flat tire. Susan asks Mrs. McCluskey to fix it, because she doesn't know how to. But in "Every Day a Little Death", Susan fixes Edie's flat tire when they were going to the lake to remember Martha Huber and spread her ashes.

    • Goof: At the end of the episode when the camera pans across the Scavos' backyard there is a swing without any seat in it.

    • Goof: As Susan recalls her first meeting with Edie, the amount of her doughnut goes from less to more between shots.

    • Goof: When Bree is visiting her husband in prison the waiting room and the people in it changes. First there is another woman in with Bree and the signs on the wall are different. Later,there is an older man with a briefcase with repositioned signs. Then once again it changes back to the original scene.

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    • Susan: Oh, you met Ed? Edie: Oh, yeah. I've gotten to know him...quite well. Susan: Yeah? Edie: We're kinda...doin' it. Susan: Doing what? Edie: It. Susan: Ed is married! Edie: Yeah, I'm a naughty girl. Susan: No, you're being immoral! You're committing adultery! Edie: Actually, Ed's committing adultery. I'm just gettin' laid. You know...forget I ever mentioned it. Susan: I can't forget something like this. Helen is my very good friend. Edie: I thought you just said that she was... Susan: She is annoying and I hide when she knocks on my door, but she does not deserve for you to be wrecking her marriage. Edie: Where are you going? Susan: Home. Edie: Oh, so you're not gonna be my friend anymore? Susan: I don't think so. Edie: I thought you said you didn't like running! Susan: Well, that depends on what I'm running away from!

    • Edie: (voiceover) Two days after I kicked the proverbial bucket, my husband asked my neighbors to do me a favor. You could tell from the looks on their faces it wasn't something they...wanted to do, but...they agreed to do it, anyway. So the next day, they piled into a car with two thermoses filled with coffee, a basket filled with baked goods and an urn that was filled with...me.

    • (Katherine brings food to Lynette) Edie: Ugh! What is that? Katherine: It's a health shake of fermented brown rice, and for her entry, a salad of radish, burdock root and bok choy. Edie: Mmm. What's for dessert, waterboarding?

    • (Lynette opens the urn with Edie's ashes and looks inside) Lynette: Kinda looks like cat litter. Susan: Lynette, don't look at Edie. Lynette: Or what, I'll turn to stone? She's all rough and gritty.

    • Mrs. McCluskey: We still gotta figure out where we're gonna spread the ashes. Now, it's gonna be some place that was meaningful to Edie. Gabrielle: Well, Edie once told me she lost her virginity in a cow pasture. If we can find that exact field... Susan: ...We'd find a lot of traumatized cows.

    • Bree: (talking about Orson) So, you're not... trying to start up something? Edie: He's in jail. My boobs are impressive, but they can't bend iron bars.

    • Susan: Why don't we talk about Edie? Lynette: And say what? Susan: I don't know, but she is the reason we're on this trip. Uh, maybe we could share memories or tell stories. Lynette: Hmmm... Why don't you start with the time she tried to steal your comatose boyfriend? That was fun. Susan: Okay, I was thinking of stories that put Edie in a positive light. Gabrielle: And after that fives minutes is up, then what do we do?

    • Mrs. McCluskey: Bup, bup, bup. I believe I called shotgun. Susan: God, she is so good at that! Gabrielle: She should be. She's been doing it since she road shotgun on an actual stagecoach.

    • Edie: Well, well. What are you doing here? Bree: I wanted to see you. Edie: And you didn't bring muffins?!

    • Edie: (opening voiceover) So I'm driving my car the other night, and what do you think happens? I crashed into an utility pole. Then, to add insult to injury, I was electrocuted! What can I say? It was one of those days. All my neighbors heard it happen. So they quickly left their microwaved burritos, and their expensive jars of moisturizer, and their racy "Pay-per-view" movies, and they hurried outside, excited to see what all the ruckus was about. But then, when they saw it was me, this weird thing happened. For a moment, no one moved or said anything. They just stared. And then, without warning... Gabrielle: Oh, my God. Edie: (voiceover) All hell broke loose. Katherine: Does anybody know CPR?! Lee: (speaking on cellphone) There's been an accident. Mike: Edie! Can you hear me? Answer me! Edie: (voiceover) Yes. Everyone suddenly became very concerned, which was touching, but ultimately... pointless. Moments before the ambulance finally arrived, I heard someone whisper... Susan: Don't worry, Edie. You're gonna get through this. You're gonna be just fine. Edie: (voiceover) Susan Mayer...wrong again. Two seconds later, it happened. With all my neighbors surrounding me, I took my last breath. The good news? I died just like I lived, as the complete and utter center of attention.

    • Edie: (closing voiceover) And that is how Wisteria Lane came to be my final resting place. My ashes were spread over grass I had once walked on, beneath trees that had once given me shade, on top of roses I once admired and beside fences I once gossiped over. And after my friends had finished saying goodbye, a wind came along and took what was left of me into the air. As I looked down on the world, I began to let go of it. I let go of white picket fences, and cars in driveways, coffee cups and vacuum cleaners. I let go of all those things, which seem so ordinary, but when you put them together they make up a life. A life that really was one of a kind. I'll tell you something: it's not hard to die, when you know you have lived. And I did. Oh, how I lived!

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    • Episode Title: The title of this episode comes from the song "The Ladies Who Lunch", taken from the 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical, Company.

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