Witch's Lament

"Witch's Lament" is the 163rd episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the sixth episode of the show's eighth season and was broadcast on October 30, 2011.

Title reference

The episode title, "Witch's Lament" is the title of a song featured in the musical Into the Woods

Reception

According to Nielsen ratings, "Witch's Lament" was watched by 9.280 million viewers and held 3.1 rating between 18 and 49 years of age.^[1] The episode was competing against Sunday Night Football on NBC, which averaged 21.98 million viewers and a 13.8 rating/21 share, The Good Wife on CBS, which was watched by 10.12 million viewers but held a 2.0 rating and Family Guy on Fox which was watched by 5.96 million viewers and held 3.2/7 rating in the 18-49 demographic.^[2] The episode gained an additional 2.0 million viewers and 0.9 rating in the week following the original broadcast due to DVR recordings.^[3]

Notes

• This was the third episode about Halloween. The first was "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared," and the second was "Excited and Scared".
• Although credited, James Denton (Mike Delfino) does not appear in this episode.
• Jonathan Cake (Chuck Vance) does not appear in this episode and is not credited.
• Tony Plana, who plays Alejandro, directed this episode. Plana also has a brief cameo as Alejandro in this episode, but was not credited for the role.

International titles

German: Paranoia

References