The first January episode of the new year will find our
Desperate Housewives flashforwarding to envision alternate versions of their lives following Dec. 6’s devastating plane crash at the Wisteria Lane Christmas party.
“We’re doing something we’ve never done before,” series creator Marc Cherry teases to me exclusively. “It’s our ‘What If’ episode, where we’ll show five scenarios with our Housewives contemplating their lives based on the accident. Those who lost someone imagine what their lives would have been like if their loved ones had lived. Some people imagine what if they hadn’t married the people they married.”
Visions will be experienced both as dreams and on the operating table under the effects of anesthesia, with new actors playing older versions of Susan’s son, M.J. and Gaby’s daughter, Celia. “Some of this will be very funny for some characters," assures Cherry, "and heartbreaking for others.”