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Release Date:
3 October 2004 (USA) moreTagline:
Tempting, isn't it? morePlot:
Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor. full summaryAwards:
Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 38 wins & 106 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(1763 articles)
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"Desperate," Guilty and Loving Every Friggin' Minute Of It! more (136 total)US TV Schedule:
| Sun. Nov. 8 | 9:00 PM | ABC | Careful the Things You Say | #6.7 | |
| Sun. Nov. 8 | 11:00 PM | MyNetwork | My Husband, the Pig | #3.16 | more |
Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 20 of 246)| Teri Hatcher | ... | Susan Mayer / ... (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Felicity Huffman | ... | Lynette Scavo (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Marcia Cross | ... | Bree Hodge / ... (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Eva Longoria Parker | ... | Gabrielle Solis / ... (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Ricardo Chavira | ... | Carlos Solis (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Brenda Strong | ... | Mary Alice Young (124 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Doug Savant | ... | Tom Scavo (119 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| James Denton | ... | Mike Delfino (119 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Nicollette Sheridan | ... | Edie Britt (112 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Shawn Pyfrom | ... | Andrew Van De Kamp (97 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Andrea Bowen | ... | Julie Mayer (94 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Brent Kinsman | ... | Preston Scavo (86 episodes, 2004-2008) | |
| Shane Kinsman | ... | Porter Scavo (86 episodes, 2004-2008) | |
| Kyle MacLachlan | ... | Orson Hodge (80 episodes, 2006-2009) | |
| Zane Huett | ... | Parker Scavo (80 episodes, 2004-2008) | |
| Joy Lauren | ... | Danielle Van De Kamp (72 episodes, 2004-2008) | |
| Kathryn Joosten | ... | Karen McCluskey (57 episodes, 2004-2009) | |
| Dana Delany | ... | Katherine Mayfair (53 episodes, 2007-2009) | |
| Cody Kasch | ... | Zach Young (52 episodes, 2004-2007) | |
| Mark Moses | ... | Paul Young (51 episodes, 2004-2007) |
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Also Known As:
Desperate Housewives (Austria) (Germany) [de]Desperate Housewives (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Отчаянные домохозяйки (Russia) [ru]
Beautés déséspérées (Canada: French title) (dubbed version) [fr]
Desperate Housewives (France) [fr]
Desperate housewives - I segreti di Wisteria Lane (Italy) [it]
Desuparêto na tsuma tachi (Japan) [ja]
Esposas desesperadas (Mexico) [es]
Frustrerte fruer (Norway) [no]
Gotowe na wszystko (Poland) [pl]
Juewang de Zhufu (China: Mandarin title) [zh]
Kucanice (Croatia) [hr]
Liang tai wu yi tzuo (Hong Kong: Cantonese title) [zh]
Meeleheitel koduperenaised (Estonia) [et]
Mujeres desesperadas (Spain) [es]
Noikokyres se apognosi (Greece) [el]
Született feleségek (Hungary) [hu]
Täydelliset naiset (Finland) [fi]
Yu luan jiue ching chi (Taiwan) [zh]
Zoufalé manzelky (Czech Republic) [cs]
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Runtime:
45 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (video rating) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (video rating) | Malaysia:U | Singapore:M18 (season 2) | Germany:12 | Ireland:15 | UK:15 | Spain:18 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:18 | Singapore:PG (season 1) (season 3) | Hungary:16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:NC-16 (season 4) | South Korea:15 (season 5) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | USA:TV-14 | Mexico:B | Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-PG (some episodes)Filming Locations:
First Christian Church of North Hollywood - 4390 Colfax Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Eva Longoria Parker and Jesse Metcalfe are only 3 years apart, Longoria being the older one. However in the first season, she was accused of having an affair with a minor. moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: Although the creators of the show keep the location of Wisteria Lane a secret, several clues have been given that contradict each other. For example, in the first season the restaurant Saddle Ranch is featured once, suggesting that the mystery location is either in California or Arizona, where the restaurant has locations. However, two families, the Applewhites and the Mayfairs had moved from Chicago suggesting that Fairview is near there. Those two cities are very far from each other. moreFAQ
Why did Orson run over Mike at the end of Season 2?Where does this take place?
Why is Katherine a lot like Bree?
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Some thirty years ago now, a fledgling writer and self-admitted 'desperate housewife' herself, one Susan Harris was sitting watching the gawd-awful writing and acting being perpetrated on some daytime sudser and said, "Well, hell! I can do this, and I can do it better!" And so she sat down and started work on what became one of the most ground-breaking series of its time, SOAP.
Fast-forward to 2004. Miraculously, and not a moment too soon, the can-do spirit and twisted, blackly comic sensibility that Susan Harris blended into her frothy concoction has seeped into the consciousness and the pen of one Mr. Marc Cherry, and television right now is all the better for it.
It was high time, in a slate of shows that range from the ones that take themselves all too seriously (THE WEST WING, ER and about any other medical or cop drama you can name), to the ones that have no shame at all (AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, FEAR FACTOR and every 'reality show' going), that somebody took the complete, over-the-top ridiculousness of both day-and-night-time soaps and gave them a good, hard shake.
DESPERATE is not a sitcom, but nothing on television right now makes me laugh harder. It isn't a straight drama, but I find myself just as involved as if I were watching LOST or THE SHIELD. It's not some stiff, stodgy or saccharine, treacly morality play, but when it comes to having a sense of those "family values" that certain politicians are so fond of emphasizing, it carries in one episode more commentary about love, compassion and caring for one's fellow man than all the seasons of JOAN OF ARCADIA and "that show with Della Reese" combined.
Not that it's going to receive the Nobel Prize anytime soon. I would just as soon settle for seeing every member of the terrific cast win an Emmy every year this show runs, and sooner or later, I have no doubt that it will happen.
But besides bringing us a terrific show to look forward to on Sunday nights, (something that hasn't happened for me personally since the heyday of THE X-FILES), let us give thanks for something else that TV has been far too slow in acknowledging...the value of beautiful, brainy and talented actresses over 40.
For realizing that Teri Hatcher DESPERATELY needed a role that would prove she could do a helluva lot more than play yet another version of Lois Lane. That Felicity Huffman, one of our most under-appreciated talents, DESPERATELY needed the sustenance of a role like Lynette Scavo to sink her teeth into. That Marcia Cross DESPERATELY needed the kind of showcase for HER talents that the likes of Frances Conroy, CCH Pounder, Sharon Gless and other top notch actresses only get on cable, and that Bree Van De Kamp will prove once and for all what we always knew from MELROSE PLACE--this woman ROCKS!, and for giving Eva Longoria something that all actors as gorgeous as she have DESPERATELY needed forever...the chance to prove that being a treat for the eyes, does not automatically mean that your acting talent is about as deep as a kiddie wading pool.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...and thank you for making us all DESPERATE for more of the shady doings on the sunny side of the streets of Wisteria Lane.