ABC has decided that one season was enough for GCB, the show expected to pick up the baton from Desperate Housewives and move the soapy craziness from Wisteria Lane to suburban Dallas.  The show, which starred Leslie Bibb as the prodigal daughter returned home and Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Aspen, Marisol Nicholds, and Miriam Shor as the women who still remember the pain she caused in high school, had a short 10 episode run this spring, but apparently failed to grab the attention of the Housewives audience.

The two main draws for me were Bibb, who had previously starred in the tragically underrated Popular, and Chenoweth, fresh off the dearly departed Pushing Daisies.  Bibb did not disappoint, giving life to a character trying to move on from a failed marriage that ended in the death of her Bernie Madoff Jr. husband while making amends for the bitch she was in high school.  Chenoweth’s Carlene, on the other hand, spent most of the season scheming against Bibb’s Amanda for slights, real and imagined, from high school.  That motivation grew old quickly, and, thankfully, had been toned down in the later part of the season.  Unfortunately, we will not get to see if the show would have continued in the right direction.

7 years ago, I stopped watching Desperate Housewives a few episodes into its second season.  Something about the show just stopped working for me.  It is entirely possible the same thing would have happened to GCB, given the chance.  If anything, I guess I should be glad the show aired at all, since it was most likely responsible for this, which I very much enjoyed.