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Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season (2004)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:5
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 16 hrs 38 mins
Genre: Television
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: 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... 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. Throughout the course of the show's wildly popular debut season, each woman faces her fair share of drama and does her part in helping to uncover a mystery that goes deeper than anyone can imagine. [More]
Starring: Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria
Starring: Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Brenda Strong, Steven Culp, Doug Savant, Ricardo Chavira, Mark Moses, Jesse Metcalfe, Jamie Denton, Andrea Bowen, Shawn Pyfrom, Joy Lauren, Cody Kasch
Director: John David Coles
Director: John David Coles
Reviews for Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season
The tabloid has overtaken the snark, with intelligence and purpose quick to follow.
The show has all the elements of a soap opera, but it’s told with the edge and sardonic wit of American Beauty.
One of the most hot, funny, incindiery, innovative TV shows about American family suburbia, in, well, ever...
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