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Desperate Housewives

Summary About ten years ago on a sunny day in the loveliest of suburbs, in a town called Fairview, housewife Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) decided to end it all. Now she takes us into the lives of her friends, family and neighbors... Her circle of girlfriends on Wisteria Lane includes Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), a known klutz who recently rem...

Created By: Marc Cherry

  • 2004
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 2004
  • TV-14
  • ABC

Desperate Housewives

8 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 3, 2004
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 69 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 497 User Ratings
8.3
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Summary About ten years ago on a sunny day in the loveliest of suburbs, in a town called Fairview, housewife Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) decided to end it all. Now she takes us into the lives of her friends, family and neighbors... Her circle of girlfriends on Wisteria Lane includes Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), a known klutz who recently rem...

Created By: Marc Cherry

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 69 Critic Reviews
71
68% Positive
47 Reviews
25% Mixed
17 Reviews
7% Negative
5 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 69 Critic Reviews
71
68% Positive
47 Reviews
25% Mixed
17 Reviews
7% Negative
5 Reviews

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100
Jun 20, 2013
Refreshingly original, bracingly adult and thoroughly delightful, Desperate Housewives is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made. You just know life was much duller before it arrived. [1 Oct 2004]
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
90
Jun 20, 2013
In visual style, witty language, borderline surrealism and overall mad attitude, "Desperate Housewives" stands on a mountaintop all its own, the best new drama of the season and perhaps the best new comedy, too. [3 Oct 2004]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 20, 2013
The series tells hard, funny truths about marriage and parenting that often escape notice in other stories - truths which suggest that writer-creator-producer Marc Cherry and his collaborators have actually taken the time to understand the people they're satirizing. [2 Oct 2004]
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
80
It has the wit and bite that made the series a standout, but it has jettisoned much of the dramatic baggage that had begun to weigh the show down.
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 20, 2013
The show seems more oriented to female viewers than ever. [24 Sep 2006]
By Adam Buckman FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 20, 2013
What is this, 1961? Who portrays women as non-productive mooches, hellbent on doing nothing besides living off their hard-working husbands and sleeping with the help? [30 Sep 2004]
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
10
Jun 20, 2013
'Desperate Housewives' is the worst show on the broadcast networks. ... The show is adrift in silly contrivances (as opposed to inventive situations), painful dialogue and obvious wheel-spinning. The solution to ending or spicing up any boring story line is just to inject some over-the-top melodrama or at the very least, have various characters in floods of tears or running about screeching. Or, failing all that, have Teri Hatcher fall down.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 497 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
427 Ratings
9% Mixed
47 Ratings
5% Negative
23 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 497 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
427 Ratings
9% Mixed
47 Ratings
5% Negative
23 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Cherry Alley Productions
  • Cherry Productions
  • Touchstone Television
  • ABC Studios
Initial Release Date: Oct 3, 2004
Number of seasons: 8 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 7 Wins & 38 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 7 Wins & 36 Nominations

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