Desperate Housewives
Created by Marc Cherry
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. From TMDB
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The show was the biggest success of the 2004–05 television season, being well received by both critics and viewers. The pilot episode had 21.3 million viewers making it the best new drama for the year, the highest-rated show of the week, and the best performance by a pilot for ABC, since Spin City in 1996. Along with Lost and Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives was credited to have turned around ABC's declining fortunes. Many critics agreed with Cherry's initial comparison to the popular black comedy film American Beauty, while its themes and appeal to female viewers were compared to those of the award-winning series Sex and the City, and its mysteries were said to resemble those of David…
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60 of 213 · most liked first‘Desperate Housewives’ creator reveals he wants to do a prequel series: “I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like 1966.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Shows I want pitches for: Desperate Housewives Dawson‘s Creek Grey‘s Anatomy Fresh Prince of Bel Air CSI NCIS Living Single American Idol The Big Bang Theory Downton Abbey Fleabag The Simpsons Marvelous Mrs Maisel Parks & Recreation Saturday Night Live The Muppet Show Brooklyn-99 Girls NYPD Blue ER
neutral · AI labelView post →name your 15 fav tv series, don’t overthink it The Golden Girls American Dad Will & Grace Happy Endings Pepper Ann Rocko’s Modern Life Desperate Housewives Hey Arnold! SpongeBob SquarePants The Simpsons Bob’s Burgers Why Women Kill The Little Mermaid Rescue Rangers Rupaul’s Drag Race
neutral · AI labelView post →It's all done by perspective, so says "Jo." (1 of 2). How I adore this series, by Pénélope Bagieu: https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-18832-BD-Josephine-Bagieu.html It's such a catty take-down of all our little interpersonal, social tricks, with Josephine being my absolute heroine (and center of the hurricane) upon this madness. Anyway, here's slide two:…
positive · AI labelView post →Desperate Housewives, that show with all the sassy ladies and Kyle MacLachlan got adapted into a narrative Sims-like adventure game, and it kind of... rocks?
neutral · AI labelView post →I started watching Desperate Housewives and this is the most Sims coded show I have ever seen. Basically Pleasantview level drama with the Sims 3 soundtrack lol
neutral · AI labelView post →>Neo-nazi Nick Fuentes did not make the list of 2025 ‘finalists’. The list has the likes of Jewish actor and politician Cynthia Nixon, Desperate Housewives actor Marcia Cross, The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, left-wing commentator Guy Christensen and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson — all for speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US collusion in it. When someone calls speaking out against genocide antisemitism, but is fine with people calling for the extinction…
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to you LIVE from SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET under the ocean.... the new HIT REALITY SHOW.......... Desperate Housewives of the Deep Sea!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Desperate Housewives is one of the most underrated silly shows on ABC. In my opinion, the first season is still the best season because it set the tone for the show. 🥱 #WomensHistoryMonth 19 #Filmsky #TVSky 📺
positive · AI labelView post →‘WISTERIA LANE,’ a reimagining of the hit ABC mystery dramedy series Desperate Housewives is in the works. Described as a fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery, set among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on Wisteria Lane.
neutral · AI labelView post →And with that, a 94 minute long complete story recap of the Desperate Housewives game, it is finally time for me to depart Wisteria Lane... Except for the rewatch of the show I'm doing while exercising.
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately Desperate Housewives ruined my ability to watch any other show filmed on the Wisteria Lane set without being annoying about it
negative · AI labelView post →Stumbling through the internet archive, clicking on any download link that is a computer game based on a tv show or movie that probably doesnt/shouldnt have one. They had a Desperate Housewives game! Does anyone remember Prison Break? it had a game! there were THREE blair witch project games
neutral · AI labelView post →> Marcia Cross, best known for her work on the popular TV series Desperate Housewives, posted on Instagram wondering how some people can remain indifferent or silent over what the Palestinian people are going through now. > “I’m struggling to comprehend how to live among people with eyes that don’t water, hearts that don’t flinch, and voices that remain silent,” said Cross with emojis of a broken heart and the flag of Palestine. > **“There are no words for the horror that has and is being…
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm enjoying Teri Hatcher's Desperate Housewives podcast rewatch but it seems a bit odd that the only guests they've managed to have on are all the men from the show? Not one single female guest yet. Do they all hate her that much 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got around to watching this. Haven't watched Desperate Housewives since it aired and I had lowkey forgot a lot of that wild shit happened. Can't wait for more videos on the show
positive · AI labelView post →🕰️ TUESDAY NOSTALGIA 🕰️ Eva Longoria Desperate Housewives was one of my guilty-pleasure TV series. I didn't like its premise nor the characters but watched it all the same. The reason? Gaby Solis. More precisely: Ms Longoria. A gorgeous woman with a charming smile – one of my childhood crushes.
neutral · AI labelView post →For Review Roulette, I did a TV show which I'd never done before, but we just finished a 15-month journey with Desperate Housewives and I needed to tell someone I think it's a cultural counterpart to The West Wing. They're the same nostalgia, guys, but one is more self aware. They're the same!
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 TV shows that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just pics. 1. Desperate Housewives
neutral · AI labelView post →If my Desperate Housewives the game video inspired some people to watch the show, then my next video may possibly inspire the revolution
neutral · AI labelView post →We're rewatching Desperate Housewives. We watched it on TV back when it first aired. It's been so long I only remember generalities, so it's like watching a whole new show.
neutral · AI labelView post →Out of the four wives of Desperate Housewives, the best mom on this show will always be Bree. The others were okay but Bree made this show more entertaining. #Mothersday #Filmsky #TVsky #May
positive · AI labelView post →10 shows to get to know me 1. Major Crimes 2. Greys Anatomy 3. Bones 4. The Office 5. Battlestar Galactica 6. The Nanny 7. That 70s Show 8. The West Wing 9. Desperate Housewives 10. Reign
neutral · AI labelView post →Practicing understanding facial structures and drawing by doing cartoons of the Desperate Housewives characters. I'm only slightly obsessed with the show. Will post art later
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched all of Desperate Housewives once because I heard Neal McDonough would eventually show up haha
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Ugly Betty Schitt’s Creek Desperate Housewives SD Mystery Incorporated Batman: The Animated Series Shadowhunters Bewitched Jimmy Neutron Glee Steven Universe Teen Wolf Superstore The Powerpuff Girls Legacies
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot season one of Desperate Housewives has like four seasons worth of plot. This show MOVES.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finishing watching all of Desperate Housewives tonight, so we're having a show related theme menu. Tonight's dinner is Brie Mac and cheese with a pineapple upside down cake 💁🏻
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best things about Desperate Housewives is that almost every single cop depicted in the show is either a bumbling idiot or a horrible monster. Just like in real life.
positive · AI labelView post →Real Housewives must be up there; multiple thousands of episodes across dozens of series all over the world, many of them still ongoing today, all explicitly referencing Desperate Housewives, which ended 13 years ago, and was only really buzzy for about two of the eight years it actually aired.
neutral · AI labelView post →While she did a lot of one or two episode stints (on a lot of shows), she landed 87 episodes on Desperate Housewives (2005–2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →If I were a filmmaker, my first project would be a tv show like Desperate Housewives, but with an entirely queer cast
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a short road from dreaming up the phrase The Desperate Housewives of Windsor to plotting out how many genderflexible parts the show can sustain. (All of them, if you boil and bubble enough.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I need everybody to know that in 2010 ABC aired a summer tv series that was clearly pitched as “Buffy meets Desperate Housewives” and it was rad and should’ve been a hit and in an alternate universe we got at least 7 seasons.
neutral · AI labelView post →QTP with 10 media to get to know you! 🩸(Neon Genesis) Evangelion 🍃 Animal Crossing ⚔️ Fate Series 🌾 Yaelokre's Meadowlark 🪲 Hollow Knight/Silksong 🏘️ Desperate Housewives 🧛🏻♂️ Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 🐙 Splatoon ⛪️ The Binding of Isaac 🛸 Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDe Destruction
neutral · AI labelView post →In my happy place right now! Relaxing watching the best show in existence … Desperate Housewives! I need to live on Wisteria Lane #gay #desperatehousewives #wisterialane
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 TV shows that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. 1. Desperate Housewives
neutral · AI labelView post →Here are my main fandoms in absolute random order xoxo😘 Horror movies/slashers Desperate Housewives Sitcoms (Veep, etc.) Dead by Daylight Texas Chainsaw Massacre Game Eurovision Sims 3 HOI4 Civilization 6 The Walking Dead Tomb Raider Politics DC Universe Heartstopper and other LGBTQ+a series
neutral · AI labelView post →I think in some ways, The Morning show is 2023's Desperate Housewives
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok my life is a mess so I need my creative outlet - I want to do edits from Joe’s VODs (my favorite series). Which first? A. Nancy Drew Funny Moments B. Nancy Drew Game Overs C. Desperate Housewives Moments D. Hamtaro Moments E. Laura Bow Moments F. Murder She Wrote Moments Help me decide!
neutral · AI labelView post →Desperate Housewives is a crazy show because it's constantly like "My husband might be having an affair and also he killed his first wife." *Whimsical upbeat Danny Elfman music plays*
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Pushing Daisies Scrubs Facts of Life Twin Peaks Family Ties Cosby Show Jetsons Muppet Show Kate & Allie Cheers Frasier Freaks and Geeks Sex and the City Mad Men Desperate Housewives
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your comfort show? Desperate Housewives ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →The problem with a Desperate Housewives reboot is the vaguely 2000s Republican energy of the OG show just wouldn't work now
negative · AI labelView post →5 faves/ 5 tags✨️ Food: Chicken curry Season: Autumn Drink: Tea Colour: Teal Blue Anime/Show: Attack On Titan/Desperate Housewives Tags: @melody-loka.bsky.social @ambrosiasummerleaf.bsky.social @runnerguitar.bsky.social @naelyname.bsky.social @michaelhart.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished the series finale of Desperate Housewives and I'm ready to run it back again.
positive · AI labelView post →14 years ago today (13 May, 2012) Desperate Housewives aired its final episode. The show also dealt with a difficult coming-out for Andrew due to Bree's religious beliefs. The pair eventually reconcile and develop a healthier relationship. 📷 ABC
neutral · AI labelView post →Desperate Housewives became a ratings powerhouse that helped rescue ABC, which had placed nearly all of its marketing behind the series and Lost.
neutral · AI labelView post →If any fans of Desperate Housewives need a new show check out Palm Royale on AppleTv
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched the hostage episode of Desperate Housewives. Definitely one of the best of the series so far… Laurie Metcalfe ate that role up!!
positive · AI labelView post →Kinda gaggy that they made the Conservative gun-toting Republican on Desperate Housewives the bitch who got the absolute staggering amount of dick all series long… Hoe was just ramming her kitty thru men
neutral · AI labelView post →Desperate Housewives is a great show because 100% of the men featured have crazy mental illnesses plural
positive · AI labelView post →It’s been a week since I finished Desperate Housewives and I’m not okay if we’re being honest. How is there not a spinoff series about Carlos and Juanita Solis?? How am I supposed to go on like this?
positive · AI labelView post →I rewatch this so regularly. I absolutely adore Pushing Daisies and the whimsy that came with that era of TV. Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives… All seemed to have this vibe that’s missing from TV today.
positive · AI labelView post →*Watching a Ryan Murphy show and thinking abt Desperate Housewives* feel like pure shit just want her back
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Desperate Housewives for the first time with my bf. He keeps letting spoilers slip and is annoyed that I'm getting less and less invested 🥲 Never watch a show with someone who's seen it 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Only my second time around with the last season of Desperate Housewives and this show really is remarkably ACAB down to the bone.
positive · AI labelView post →I finished Desperate Housewives. And while I enjoyed the show, this video articulates why I had so many WAIT WHAT moments while watching lmao youtu.be/-p3pfNT7Rag?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am finally watching "The 'Burbs" television series, enjoying all of it, like "Desperate Housewives" with a bit of "Pushing Daisies" thrown in, and what a delight to see @duffyj.bsky.social on screen!
neutral · AI labelView post →I cheated once, in a relationship that had a dead bedroom for years before (her choice), and the moment that happened i walked up to my ex and confessed what happened. She understandably was hurt for a moment, but after some dialogue she realized that this came from a deep sense of feeling abandoned by her, which was the reality of our situation. For her it was always more about parties, concerts and festivals and having someone for that, and when i couldn't deal with the perma-party anymore,…
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