"Gossip Girl" and "Desperate Housewives" End Their Seasons With a Bang

Warning: Spoiler Alert! If you have yet to watch these shows get to your TiVo immediately, watch, then come back!

Last night was the first season finale of "Gossip Girl," and the show did not disappoint. I had more fun watching this episode more than any others of late.

I will admit that part of that was because I got to watch it with my 22-year-old daughter and seven other soon-to-be-graduates from her college who had come to the Cape to relax after weeks of academic pressure leading up to their graduation. By myself I may gasp and talk to the TV, but it's nothing like being with a bunch of women yelling, "Yeah, you go Chuck Bass!"

From the opening scene of Lily Van der Woodsen waking up (on her wedding day) in bed with Rufus Humphrey it was clear this was going to be a great episode. By the end, the evil Georgina had been brought down by Blair, (yes!) and the only people who could render such an diabolical girl powerless - her parents. She's now off to a boot camp for troubled girls. but don't relax yet folks - she's coming back next season as a series regular. She'll certainly wreaking more havoc on the folks of the upper East Side.

Lily did marry Bart Bass, but something tells me things aren't done with Rufus just yet. Two of the biggest shockers were the break up of Serena and Dan, but we had to know this was coming eventually - the course of true love never runs smoothly. The final scene with Chuck was a jaw dropper. He finally declared his love for Blair, but after a mind-warping lecture from his father about how being in a relationship changes a young man, he left her hanging at the heli-port while he was busy trying to seduce his father's new decorator. A classic Chuck Bass move, just when you thought he might have a heart after all. But don't feel too sorry for Blair, she hopped that helicopter with a very cute guy, and as she said to Georgina, there's only room for one crazy bitch in their world. I have a feeling Chuck will pay.

As for "Desperate Housewives,' I was shocked by two things - Susan and Mike naming their baby Maynard (yikes!) and by the final scene, a flash forward five years in the future. I chuckled at the site of Gabrielle a bit heavier than we're used to, and as the mother of two unruly little girls. Bree seems to have become the next Martha Stewart, and she's still married to Orson. There wasn't a lot of shock that Lynette's boys seemed to be having some troubles with the law, but it was Susan five years in the future that made me audibly gasp - she was no longer with Mike Delfino, she was with some other handsome man.

It's going to be a long summer waiting to find out what happens on these two shows. Thank goodness I'll have "Living Lohan" and "It's Complicated" to sufficiently numb my brain until then.