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Desperate Housewives, 2004 - 2012

Starring: Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan

Directed by: John David Coles

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Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 45 min

Rating:7.4

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Profile of Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives can be described as sexy, sexual, and witty. The plot revolves around suburban life, a crumbling marriage, and social relations. The main genres are drama and comedy. In terms of style, Desperate Housewives involves twists and turns, includes a voice over, and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in the suburbs. Desperate Housewives is located in the USA. It takes place in contemporary times. The TV show has received attention for being a hit series, a Golden Globe winner, and an Emmy winner. Desperate Housewives is well suited for a girls' night. Note that it involves sexual content.

Summary of Desperate Housewives

All is not as it seems on Wisteria Lane, the pristinely manicured suburban setting of television's hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the Desperate Housewives pilot episode, when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver from a drawer and shoots herself in the head. In the process of trying to make sense of her sudden and inexplicable suicide, Mary Alice's friends end up revealing just as many secrets about themselves and their neighbors as they do about her past. Narrated by the spirit of Mary Alice, each episode follows the ups and downs in the lives of bored trophy wife Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), klutzy-yet-charming Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), frustrated stay-at-home-mom Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), and anal-retentive homemaker Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross). As love-struck Susan competes for the attention of new neighbor Mike Delfino (James Denton) with neighborhood seductress Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan), Gabrielle takes a liking to her hunky 17-year-old gardener. Meanwhile, Bree attempts to fix her life's problems through obsessive housecleaning, and Lynette struggles to control her children while at the same time keeping her sanity.