Desperate Housewives (Mid-Season 1)
ABC
2004
Rating:

By domesticating the women of "Sex & the City" and making them more, well, desperate, "Desperate Housewives" " with its creative team of seasoned "Melrose Place," "Knots Landing," "General Hospital," "Young and the Restless" and "Sex" veterans " ABC has delivered the sudsiest show on primetime network television since the 1980s. A parody of suburban bliss, "Housewives" thrives on its "Twin Peaks"-like ability to find the sinister in the mundane, namely in the on-going investigation into why Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) committed suicide. Susan (Teri Hatcher), Bree (Marcia Cross), Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) are all already women on the verge, but the death of the seemingly perfect Mary Alice forces them to examine their lives before they, too, breakdown.

Posted Saturday, April 16, 2005

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