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
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  • Tearful and emotional

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By mobbs456, Sep 08, 2011 Report Abuse
    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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    By Kyshi, Sep 08, 2011 Report Abuse
    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

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  • Goodbye Edie you will be missed.

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    By danny7277, Jun 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    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

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  • i do not embrace this direction or episode. bleck.

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    By sramv9, May 06, 2011 Report Abuse
    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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  • A good stand alone episode but it ruined the flow of this season's story.

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    By babarjunaidi, May 06, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode was a well written tribute to Eddie. There were appropriate touching moments with a usual dose of the typical Desperate Housewives wry humor that we love so much.

    However, I feel that this episode came at a very wrong time in the season. Considering that the show had returned after a month when it ended with a fast paced shocking cliffhanger I was expecting more. When a show returns after a hiatus (even a short one) the episode has to make up for the time away the audience has been away from the show and really really deliver in all respects. The last few episodes had been quite fast paced and the story was coming along nicely but everything fell flat in this episode. This is the episode in which we should have seen at the very least Dave's reaction to Eddie's death but we did not even get that. I think it would have been better if this kind of a tribute episode would have been fitted somewhere next season (like they did with Rex Van de Kemp) and for now maintained the pace of the story considering it is nearing the end of the season.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. Edit
    • Goof: At the end of the episode when the camera pans across the Scavos' backyard there is a swing without any seat in it. Edit
    • Goof: As Susan recalls her first meeting with Edie, the amount of her doughnut goes from less to more between shots. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: France: Au Revoir Les Amies (Goodbye Friends) Italy: Unica Nel Suo Genere (One of a Kind) Germany: Die letzte Ruhestätte (The Last Resting-Place) Czech Republic: Není těžké zemřít, když víte, že jste žili (It Is Not Difficult to Die When You Know That You Lived) Edit
    • This episode does not feature a "Previously on Desperate Housewives" segment. Edit
    • This episode is narrated by Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Britt. Edit

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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! Edit
    • 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. Edit
    • (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? Edit

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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. Edit

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