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Desperate Housewives

Created by Marc Cherry

2004–2012

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

First aired
3 Oct 2004
Episode length
43 min
Also known as
绝望的主妇, Amas de Casa Desesperadas, Razočarane gospodinje
Country
United States
Language
English
Writers
Adam Barr, Alan Cross, Alexandra Cunningham and 47 others
Cinematography
David Franco, David J. Miller, Eric Van Haren Noman and 5 others
Editors
Andrew Doerfer, Brent White, Jonathan Posell and 6 others
Executive producers
Alexandra Cunningham, Bob Daily, David Grossman and 12 others
Producers
Alexandra Cunningham, Annie Weisman, Charles Skouras III and 7 others
Elsewhere
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  • Mystery
  • Drama
  • Comedy

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Seasons · 177 episodes

  • Season 1

    2004

    Mary Alice Young, a seemingly perfect housewife commits suicide, fearing that a dark secret, involving her, her husband, and their son would be exposed.

  • Season 2

    2005

    The seemingly perfect lives in the suburban neighborhood of Fairview are shaken by the arrival of the mysterious Betty Applewhite.

  • Season 3

    2006

    The residents of Fairview deal with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge.

  • Season 4

    2007

    Katherine Mayfair and her family are introduced as the center of the season's mystery.

  • Season 5

    2008

    The season's mystery is centered around Edie Britt's third husband Dave Williams.

  • Season 6

    2009

    Angie Bolen and her family are the focus of this season's mystery.

  • Season 7

    2010

    After losing both her husband and her business, Bree slowly begins the process of rebuilding her life, first by telling her friend Gabrielle a secret that could end their friendship, and then by starting up a romance with her much younger contractor Keith Watson. In the meantime, the Solises discover that their daughter Juanita was swapped at birth, and Lynette is visited by her old college roommate Renee Perry (Vanessa Williams), who later moves to the lane permanently. Bob and Lee find their way back to one another, and Susan and Mike's financial situations lead them to move to an apartment in the city and to take on jobs they don't want to endure through, whereas Paul Young, Mary Alice's widower, moves back to Wisteria Lane to wreak havoc.

  • Season 8

    2011

    The housewives deal with covering up the murder of Gabrielle's stepfather Alejandro Perez.

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