DVD Tuesday: Season 3 of “Brothers & Sisters” and season 5 of “Desperate Housewives” out today!

If you look at the cover of the DVD set of The Complete Third Season of Brothers & Sisters, you will see why GLAAD has lauded ABC for its LGBT visibility: there are three gay characters on it: Kevin Walker played by Matthew Rhys, his husband Scotty played by Luke Macfarlane and Uncle Saul played by Ron Rifkin.

Scotty and Kevin had a better season the year before but they are still together and things got a little spicy in one episode when Kevin’s ex-boyfriend played by Jason Lewis (pictured above w/Rhys and Rachel Griffiths) returned and proposed some three-way action.

Meanwhile, Uncle Saul continued his coming out process at a late age and it’s nice to see that the show went in this direction and stayed with it.

What else does Brothers & Sisters have going for it during what I think was it’s most lackluster season? You have the hunk factor with adorable Dave Annable and the so still s0 pretty you want to slap him Rob Lowe. Then there are the strong women led by two-time Oscar winner and three-time Emmy winner Sally Field who can be matched by fellow three-time Emmy winner Patricia Wettig.

Bonus Features Include: Interview with Field and Wettig, cast visit with a real life family winery in Ojai, California, cast and crew hijinx on location, bloopers, deleted scenes.

Preceding Brothers & Sisters on Sunday nights is the always fun Desperate Housewives which actually killed off one of its main core characters at the end of season five: Nicollette Sheridan. This was the flash-forward season where the action leaped forward by five years to keep things fresh and interesting.

I’m not sure it made a huge amount of difference except that Lynette’s twins are now grown-up. Andrew Van de Kamp also grew up some, was working as his mom Bree’s assistant and got into a serious relationship. But Andrew, well-played by Shawn Pyfrom, remained underused as he had been since the start of season three. In season six, he will only make guest appearances.

So we’ll have to keep hopes high for the other two gay characters on Wisteria Lane: Bob (Tuc Watkins) and Lee (Kevin Rahm). I’m gonna try and not bitch about how underused these two characters (pictured below) are too in season five and just hope we see more of them in season six. They have all kinds of potential, especially in the hands of two such good actors.

DVD bonus features include: A closer look 5 years later, Miss Piggy takes Wisteria Lane, dialogue between Marc Cherry and Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives evolution of a modern classic, Cherry picked, audio commentaries, bloopers, deleted scenes.