Desperate Housewives: Season 8

2011 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 8 of Desperate Housewives

The eighth season opens with a shared secret. After helping Carlos cover up a crime, Susan, Gaby, Bree and Lynette carry the guilt and do their best to make sure no one uncovers the truth. Bree lives under the pressure of Detective Vance, who won't stop harassing her, while Lynette remains trapped in a marriage to Tom that falls apart a little more each day. Gaby tries to keep her life afloat while fearing what Carlos might do, and Susan feels her relationship with Mike start to wobble because he believes there's something going on between her and their neighbor. It all unfolds in a neighborhood where every door hides something.

22episodes

Sep 25, 2011premiered

May 13, 2012latest episode

16.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 8 Episodes

8x01 Secrets That I Never Want to Know
Sep 25, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
While Bree gives Chuck a ride, a smell becomes noticeable; Gabrielle seeks out a priest in order to help Carlos with his problem; Ben Faulkner, a new neighbor, meets Renee; Susan withdraws from her friends because of what happened to Alejandro.
Directed by: David Grossman · Written by: Bob Daily · Starring: Joshua Logan Moore, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure, Madison De La Garza
8x02 Making the Connection
Oct 2, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.1
Gabrielle teaches Carlos how to dance on a strip pole; Susan seeks out a punishment for feeling guilty; Renee bonds with one of the customers at a senior center; Tom and Lynette wonder why Parker was at a late night party; Bree discovers Chuck's past.
Directing: Tara Nicole Weyr · Writing: Matt Berry, Matthew Berry · Starring: Mark Moses, Kathryn Joosten, Joshua Logan Moore, Darcy Rose Byrnes
8x03 Watch While I Revise the World
Oct 9, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 7.3
Lee has a problem with Jenny; Susan and Carlos attempt to find the people responsible for tagging the wall with graffiti; Lynette grows suspicious of Lydia and her fiancé.
Directed by: David Warren · Written by: John Paul Bullock III · Starring: Kevin Rahm, Jonathan Cake, Sarah Paulson, Daniella Baltodano
8x04 School of Hard Knocks
Oct 16, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
While at a yoga class, Lynette and Renee spy on Jane, Tom's new girlfriend; Gabrielle tries to affect change at a PTA meeting; Bree discovers what Danielle is up to; Susan battles with art class teacher Andre Zeller.
Directed by: David Grossman · Written by: Marco Pennette · Starring: Darcy Rose Byrnes, Madison De La Garza, Jonathan Cake, Michael Dempsey
8x05 The Art of Making Art
Oct 23, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
Tom and Lynette visit a couples counselor about their separation; Bree tries to help a city council about the homeless; Carlos is in a guilty situation; Susan is embarrassed about Andre's students being naked in class.
Directed by: Lonny Price · Written by: David Flebotte · Starring: Kevin Rahm, Charles Mesure, Dakin Matthews, Melissa Greenspan
8x06 Witch's Lament
Oct 30, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
Susan grows suspicious about Amy's affair with Andre; a delivery man tries to deliver a package for Lynette; a man speaks to a sponsor from A.A. about a blackout; the housewives are in the woods with the shovels, but they're being watched.
Directed by: Tony Plana · Written by: Annie Weisman · Starring: Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure, Madison De La Garza, Mason Cotton
8x07 Always in Control
Nov 6, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
Bree is stunned when she learns who dug up the body of Gaby's stepfather; jealousy rears its ugly head when Lynette begins to spread untruths to daughter Penny about Tom's new girlfriend; Gaby and Carlos must convince Lee and Bob that Juanita and Celia aren't the bad seeds that they used to be when they want to name them in their will as guardians; and Susan desperately searches her inner self to find what inspires her in order to better her art and impress her hard-to-please art teacher, Andre.
Directed by: Jeff Greenstein · Written by: Jeff Greenstein · Starring: Tuc Watkins, Kevin Rahm, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure
8x08 Suspicion Song
Nov 13, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
Detective Chuck Vance begins harassing Bree as his suspicions about her involvement in the disappearance of Alejandro grow; after using the murder of Gaby's stepfather as inspiration for her art school projects, Susan must find a way to graciously decline art school teacher Andre's (Miguel Ferrer) invitation to display and sell her paintings at a gallery showing; when Carlos's drinking gets in the way of his ability to work, Gaby goes to The Office in an effort to save his business from losing a multi-million dollar account; and on the occasion of their 22-year anniversary, Lynette comes up with a plan to try to salvage her marriage to Tom.
Directing: Jennifer Getzinger · Writing: David Schladweiler · Starring: Darcy Rose Byrnes, Jonathan Cake, Melissa Greenspan, Andrea Parker
8x09 Putting It Together Mid-Season Finale
Dec 4, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Gabrielle, thinking the worst, goes on a frenzied search for Carlos after he unexpectedly checks out of rehab. Meanwhile, a desolate Bree goes on a drinking binge and finds herself in a desperate situation.
Directing: David Warren · Writing: Sheila R. Lawrence · Starring: Kathryn Joosten, Charles Mesure, Madison De La Garza, Jonathan Cake
8x10 What's to Discuss, Old Friend?
Jan 8, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
Bree prepares to end it all as she draws a gun to her head, and Gaby suspects the Carlos may have had something to do with detective Vance's murder.
Directed by: David Grossman · Written by: Wendy Mericle · Starring: Tuc Watkins, Kathryn Joosten, Joshua Logan Moore, Darcy Rose Byrnes
8x11 Who Can Say What's True?
Jan 15, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.0
While in Oklahoma, Susan learns that the late Alejandro has been sexually abusing his 15 year old step-daughter, Marisa, just like he abused Gabby years earlier. Meanwhile, Bree gets an unpleasant surprise from a man she meets in a bar, Gabrielle tries to bluff her way through a business dinner in order to woo a potential client for Carlos, and Mike catches Ben doing something he shouldn't do to try to salvage his faltering real estate project.
Directing: Larry Shaw · Writing: Brian Tanen · Starring: Joshua Logan Moore, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure, Daniella Baltodano
8x12 What's the Good of Being Good?
Jan 22, 2012 · 42 min · ★ 7.2
Karen McCluskey finds out about Bree's sex life and interferes, Bree bumps into one of her many conquests unexpectedly, Gabby shares her past with the widow of Alejandro, and after introducing them, Renee ends up paying the price when the date between her hairdresser and Lynette doesn't go well.
Directed by: Ron Underwood · Written by: Jason Ganzel · Starring: Kathryn Joosten, Charles Mesure, Madison De La Garza, Mason Cotton
8x13 Is This What You Call Love?
Feb 12, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 6.7
Bree's sexual escapades are getting out of hand and help comes from an unexpected source, Susan learns that Julie is pregnant, and Gabby has to deal with a situation at Juanita's school.
Directing: David Grossman · Writing: David Schladweiler, Valerie Brotski · Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Andrea Bowen, Madison De La Garza, John Rubinstein
8x14 Get Out of My Life
Feb 19, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Susan discovers the identity of the father of Julie's baby, and Orson makes it his duty to nurse Bree back to health. When Mrs. McCluskey throws Roy out of the house, Gabrielle takes him in and is reluctant to help get them back together when he proves to be an invaluable disciplinarian to her kids. Meanwhile, after getting used to her alone time, Lynette is furious when Porter and Preston are evicted from their apartment and try to move back home, and Mike informs Renee of Ben's dire circumstances with a loan shark.
Directing: James Hayman · Writing: Cindy Appel · Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Andrea Bowen, Charlie Carver, Max Carver
8x15 She Needs Me
Mar 4, 2012 · 42 min · ★ 6.8
Susan offers to help the father of Julie's baby raise the child; Bree agrees to go to Maine with Orson - perhaps for good; Karen pleads with Gaby not to tell Roy about her condition; and the loan shark who threatened Ben sets out to ruin Renee.
Directing: Randall Zisk · Writing: Jason Ganzel · Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Charlie Carver, Kathryn Joosten, Joshua Logan Moore
8x16 You Take for Granted
Mar 11, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Susan talks Mike into going to the police when she discovers that Ben's loan shark is out to get him; Mrs. McCluskey, who's dying of cancer, asks Bree to help her commit suicide; Tom's girlfriend, Jane, stuns Lynette at Penny's birthday party; Carlos behaves oddly on his first day back at work, and Gaby is worried.
Directing: Jeff Greenstein · Writing: Matt Berry, Matthew Berry · Starring: Kathryn Joosten, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Madison De La Garza, Michael Dempsey
8x17 Women and Death
Mar 18, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
On the day of a beloved Wisteria Lane resident's funeral, each of the housewives recalls the effect this person had on her life. Meanwhile, Bree is stunned when she's called in for questioning about the murder of Gaby's stepfather, Alejandro.
Directing: David Grossman · Writing: Annie Weisman · Starring: Steven Culp, Tuc Watkins, Andrea Bowen, Kathryn Joosten
8x18 Any Moment
Mar 25, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
Bree is not so sure about Andrew's upcoming marriage; Gabrielle tries to find work in an employment agency in order to teach Carlos and the kids a lesson; Lynette plans to win back Tom at any cost; Susan's parenting skills concern Julie; Ben asks Renee to marry him.
Directing: Randall Zisk · Starring: Shawn Pyfrom, Andrea Bowen, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure
8x19 With So Little to Be Sure of
Apr 1, 2012 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
Carlos gets concerned about Gabrielle's new job; an affair makes Susan suspicious; the police ask a hotel owner about Alejandro's whereabouts; Bree needs a lawyer's help in order to get her charges of Alejandro Perez's murder cleared. Jane served to Lynette their divorce papers.
Directed by: Tara Nicole Weyr · Written by: Marco Pennette · Starring: Tuc Watkins, Kevin Rahm, Andrea Bowen, Michael Dempsey
8x20 Lost My Power
Apr 29, 2012 · 42 min · ★ 7.0
With Mike gone, Susan attempts to build a car for MJ's father-and-son school soapbox derby; Bree's attorney, Trip, learns of her previous drunken sexual spree and needs her to come clean about it in order to help strengthen her case; Lynette tries to cause some negative friction between Tom and his girlfriend, Jane, by flirting with his boss and getting him to pile more work on her estranged husband; Gaby is furious with Carlos when he tries to poach one of her rich, personal shopper clients (Doris Roberts) and talk her into helping with his newly formed charity organization; and Renee discovers that Ben is keeping a secret from her about his involvement with Bree -- and the body found at his work site.
Directed by: David Grossman · Written by: Wendy Mericle · Starring: Tuc Watkins, Kevin Rahm, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Charles Mesure
8x21 The People Will Hear
May 6, 2012 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
As her trial nears, Bree begins to fall for her attorney, Trip; Susan becomes concerned when Julie doubts Porter's commitment to be a hands-on father to their unborn baby; as Tom gets closer to being transferred to India for his job - thanks to Lynette - she begins to have second thoughts and tries to convince his boss to rescind the move; and the ladies are shocked about Gaby's nonchalant attitude as Bree continues to stand trial and take the fall for Carlos in the murder of Alejandro.
Directing: David Warren · Writing: Brian Tanen · Starring: Kevin Rahm, Andrea Bowen, Charlie Carver, Max Carver
8x22 Give Me the Blame; Finishing the Hat
May 13, 2012 · 86 min · ★ 7.9
Bree's trial finally comes to an end with a surprise confession. Tom takes steps to finalize his divorce.Everything that begins must eventually end. This episode of beginnings and endings walks us both backwards and forwards as we take our final stroll down Wisteria Lane.
Directing: David Grossman, Larry Shaw · Writing: Bob Daily, Marc Cherry · Starring: Tuc Watkins, Kevin Rahm, Andrea Bowen, Kathryn Joosten