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The setting of the show is the street of
Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of
Fairview in the Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor. They work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. The show is inspired, to an extent, by the 1999 film
American Beauty.
Since its premiere on
ABC on October 3, 2004, the show has been well received by the critics as well as the audience. The show is a multiple
Emmy,
Golden Globe and
Screen Actors Guild award winner, and in April 2007 it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 120 million.
[1]Production
The idea for the series was conceived as Marc Cherry and his mother were watching a news report on
Andrea Yates. Prior to
Desperate Housewives, Cherry was best known for producing and writing episodes of
Touchstone Television’s hit comedy series
The Golden Girls and its successor
The Golden Palace. In addition he had created or co-created three sitcoms:
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans,
The Crew and
Some of My Best Friends, none of which lasted longer than a year.
.^ I had a hard time getting rid of selfishness, jealousy and ignorance; they are the root of all evil.
^ They picked at every nerve; they looked at my heart, my shoulder, and down to the leg-pick, pick, pick, all the time!
^ We must be there all the time, otherwise the minister is not pleased with us, and he says if we do not get down on our knees, we go into the fire.
[2] Finally, two new executives at ABC,
Lloyd Braun and Susan Lyne, chose to greenlight it.
[3] Shortly thereafter, Disney had both Braun and Lyne fired, following their approval of another new drama series:
Lost.
[4]The ABC executives weren’t initially satisfied with the name of the new show, suggesting
Wisteria Lane and
The Secret Lives of Housewives instead,
[5] but on 23 October 2003,
Desperate Housewives was announced by ABC, presented as a prime time soap opera created by
Charles Pratt Jr. of
Melrose Place fame, and Marc Cherry, who declared the new show to be a mix of
Knots Landing and
American Beauty.
[6] .^ Wickland at first saw two men on the bench, but upon looking again, noticed only one.
.^ Kläderna till dagens avsnitt Desperate Housewives 21:00.
^ Desperate Housewives 21:00 Mike blir arresterad för mordet på Monique.
.^ He said he had been frightened when they entered, but gaining courage, had gone for his revolver only to find that he was not able to pick it up.
[8]
.^ Desperate Housewives 2007-09-16 Link TV & Film Kommentera här!
^ I Desperate Housewives råkar Susan höra att Austin och Julie pratar om kondomer och får spel.
.^ Desperate Housewives 2007-09-16 Link TV & Film Kommentera här!
[9] The fifth season of the series debuted on Sunday, September 28, 2008.
On April 23, 2009,
ABC picked up
Desperate Housewives for a 6th season for the
2009–2010 television season.
[10] The sixth season premiered on Sunday, September 27, 2009.
[11]Production crew
Second season conflicts arose among the executive producers. As a result, Edelstein left the show mid-season, and at the end of the season, so did Spezialy.
[12] For the third year, Cherry was joined by award winning writer and producer
Joe Keenan, of
Frasier fame, and
telefilm producer
George W. Perkins, who had been on the
Desperate Housewives crew since the show’s conception. Although receiving praise for his work on the show, Keenan chose to leave
Desperate Housewives after one season to pursue other projects.
[13] Replacing him as second-in-command to Cherry and executive producer for the fourth season of the show was
Bob Daily, who had joined the crew as a writer and co-executive producer during the third season. Daily’s previous work include writing for the
cartoon series
Rugrats as well as for
Frasier.
.^ Subsequently she joined the band of invisibles who guard Mrs. Wickland and since then has very often spoken through the latter.
[14] Both had also worked on Cherry’s previous show
The Crew in 1995, as well as on the sitcom
Cybill.
Larry Shaw and
David Grossman have, as of the first four seasons, been the most prominent directors, together directing more than half of the series’ episodes.
Filming
Desperate Housewives is filmed on
Panavision 35 mm cameras; it is broadcast in
standard and
16:9 widescreen high definition, though it is framed for the 4:3
aspect ratio.
[15] The set for
Wisteria Lane, consisting mainly of facades but also of some proper houses, is located on the
Universal Studios Hollywood back lot. It is referred to by film crews as
Colonial Street, and has been used for several motion pictures and television shows since the mid 1940s.
[16] Productions to have been filmed here includes, among others,
So Goes My Love,
Leave it to Beaver,
The 'Burbs,
Providence,
Deep Impact,
Bedtime for Bonzo,
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
Gremlins,
The Munsters,
Psycho,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
The Ladykillers and
Ghost Whisperer.
[17] Interestingly from the street view of Bree's house the property appears double fronted, with rooms on either side of the front door. However, from the second season on the inside there is only one room off to the right and a set of external doors on the left. However, as of the second half of season 6, this missing room which Bree referred to as the downstairs study, was turned into a bedroom for Orson and is clearly seen. For the second season of
Desperate Housewives the street went through some heavy changes. Among the most noticeable of these changes was the removal of a church facade and a mansion in order to make room for Edie’s house and a park.
[18][19]
Opening sequence
.^ I studied, but at the same time my life was so busy, so much taken up with others, and I was also trying to live the best I knew how.
^ These gather in a group and do not try to waken to the realization that they are still sleeping spiritually, because they have never asked: "Who am I? Where did I come from?
^ B. had lived in Cleveland and had come to Chicago the week before to close a real estate deal, but before final negotiations were completed, had returned for a week-end visit to Cleveland.
[20] According to the yU+co’s official website, the idea behind the sequence is
“to evoke the show's quirky spirit and playful flaunting of women’s traditional role in society”.
[21] The images featured are taken from eight pieces of art, portraying domesticity and male-female relations through the ages
[22]
The first image shows
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s painting
Adam and Eve. A snake passes an apple to Eve before another, larger, apple, with the words ‘Desperate Housewives’ written on it, falls on Adam. Then follows the
tomb paintings of
Queen Nefertari of
Egypt, the
Great Royal Wife of
Ramesses the Great. An animation of Queen Nefertari is seen standing within her tomb being overwhelmed by what appear to be countless children surrounding her. Next appearing is
The Arnolfini Portrait by
Jan van Eyck painted in 1434 –
Giovanni Arnolfini is seen eating a
banana and throwing the skin on the floor, leaving it for his wife to sweep it away. The painting
American Gothic by
Grant Wood from 1930 then follows, and the farmer is shown smiling as he is touched on the chin by a
pin up as his apparently disapproving wife frowns in front of a tin of canned sardines. The can appears on a kitchen work surface when the
World War II poster
Am I Proud! is shown, depicting a woman holding cans and jars including
Andy Warhol’s
Campbell's Soup Cans. The soup can then falls into the hand of a man featured in
pop art work by
Robert Dale,
Couple Arguing and
Romantic Couple. After the woman in this pictures is seen crying and giving her male companion a black eye, the image folds away, and the tree from Cranach’s painting reappears with the snake wrapped around it and the four main characters Bree, Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle appearing under the tree, each catching an apple. There is one variation for the opening theme (For DVDs), where Susan is in the Egyptian art. Lynette's in the can of sardines which close, resembling her face. Bree caught an apple, and passes it to Gabrielle. The music for the openings is composed by
Danny Elfman, and has been awarded both an
Emmy Award and the
BMI TV Music Award.
[23] In 2005 it was included on the album
Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives. When an episode is running too long, only the first sequence (the falling apple) is kept.
.^ Do you know where you are now?
^ Do you know that you are "dead" and are now a spirit?
^ Do you know that you are in California now?
Music
In addition to the theme composed by
Danny Elfman, the series
underscore music, composed by
Steve Jablonsky, defines the overall sound of the show.
.^ Imagine, if you can, a place where there is the most beautiful music, where there is a grand orchestra of masters, all playing in one grand unit of music.
The score is electronic-based, but every
scoring session incorporates a live string ensemble that adds a certain intangible warmth to the score. Jablonsky incorporates recurring themes for events and characters into the score. He has been shaping the musical palette for the show since the 2nd episode of the first season.
[24] Hollywood Records produced the first soundtrack album,
Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives distributed by
Universal Records, featuring music inspired by the series. Several of those songs have since been used in subsequent seasons.
Housewives's unique style combined with the heavy dialogue and quick-fire writing style limit the amount of
popular music used in the series. The series'
music supervisor,
David Sibley, works closely with the producers to seamlessly integrate these musical needs into the show. In addition to featured performances by central characters such as Susan Mayer singing along with
Rose Royce's "
Car Wash" to jog Mike's memory, and Lynette's memorable rendition of "
Boogie Shoes" atop a bar, several characters have been accomplished musicians, such as Betty Applewhite (a
concert pianist) and Dylan Mayfair (a
prodigy cellist), all requiring carefully planned training of the actors and preparation of the music. The often eclectic approach to music has created many
water cooler moments in the show, among them, Orson's ex-wife Alma singing along with
Cole Porter's period recording of "
Let's Misbehave" as she drugs him in order to conceive his child, and George, the town pharmacist singing "
Don't Give Up On Us" on Bree's front lawn as she takes pot shots at him with a shotgun.
The future
In August 2009,
Marc Cherry said that
Desperate Housewives will be on television for a few more years. The show's creator said that the series still "has a lot of life left in it", though he will soon take on a limited role behind the scenes. He told
The Wrap: "Steve McPherson (ABC Entertainment president) and I agree that we shouldn't keep the show going for more than a couple [of] years past my seven-year initial contract.
.^ I don't want to call her away from Heaven.
^ You don't want to give anything away, you just want to keep it all for yourself.
^ Can't the police take him away from you, if you don't want him?
We've been in negotiations.
.^ I asked the Band of Mercy to bring one of my followers in to show what I have to deal with.
^ Dad, wasn't it queer that I should wake up to the new birth 80 of life on my earthly birthday?
Someone else will run the show after season seven and I will serve as executive producer from a distance." He went on to explain that the program had been revitalized by the five-year leap forward for season five, saying: "Yes, I think it worked well. It was a way to start fresh and let everyone start from scratch in a way".
[25].^ I don't want to go there.
^ I had no money to go there.
^ We cannot go there and pray for them-no, no!
They're all only committed to the 2010–11 season, the show's seventh.
[26]
Series synopses and episodes
.^ Invånarna på Wisteria Lane har kvartersfest och Gabrielle blir intresserad av pappan till en flicka hon tränar.
^ Alma har flyttat till Wisteria Lane och Bree är inte glad för det. Tom Scavos nya pizzeria möter en osäker framtid.
.^ My daughter Alice and son Willie and my husband had all died in one month.
Bree fights to save her marriage, Lynette struggles to cope with her demanding children, Susan fights
Edie Britt for new neighbor
Mike Delfino's affection, and Gabrielle tries to prevent her husband
Carlos from discovering that she is having an affair with their gardener,
John Rowland. The end of the first season results in Rex dying while believing Bree has poisoned him, Carlos being informed of Gaby's affair by John himself before being sent to prison, a fired Tom allowing Lynette to take his place as the bread-bringer of the household, and an unpopular cliffhanger which puts Mike in danger of being shot by his own son.
The
second season began broadcasting on 25 September 2005 and its central mystery is that of new neighbor
Betty Applewhite, who moved onto Wisteria Lane in the middle of the night. Throughout the season, Bree tries to cope with being a widow, unknowingly begins dating the man who poisoned her husband, fights alcoholism, and is unable to prevent the gap between she and her son from growing to extremes.
.^ I would not care to come back to the earth plane except to tell you of the higher and real life which lies before you.
^ The person who is executed goes out of earth life filled with hatred and comes back for revenge, impressing others to kill or commit suicide.
^ After you have learned the higher things of life, you do not care to come back to matter another time.
In the closing moment of the season finale, Mike is run over by Susan's dentist friend Orson, who will become Bree's husband in the next season.
The
third season began broadcasting on 24 September 2006. In the third season, Bree marries
Orson Hodge, whose past and involvement with a recently discovered dead body becomes the main mystery for half of the season.
.^ He is here and he says I shall not stay around the house but must keep away and leave my husband and Anna alone.
.^ Lynette och Tom gör sig redo för öppningen av Pizzeria Scavos medan Gaby försöker att undvika att stöta på sin beundrare Zach, något som misslyckas.
Gabrielle goes through a rough divorce, but finally finds new love in Fairview’s new mayor.
.^ You may see some one who will make you cry.
^ Look around; you may see some one who will make you care.
^ Would you like to see your mother surrounded by a crowd of earthbound spirits, who were making her drink?
Edie’s family relations are explored throughout the season. A shooting at the local grocery store leaves two characters dead and changes everyone's lives forever.
.^ The second wife returned home again, and, during the ten years which have elapsed since this episode, no further disturbances have occurred in the family.
^ Selfishness succeeds in stealing Victory, who, for some years, is cruelly mistreated by Evil and Temptation, but is at last discovered by his parents and taken away from the Home of Misery.
^ Ten years later, after the spirit of another murderer, who was hung, had been in our circle, Hayward returned and told something of his earth life.
Her daughter remembers nothing about living on Wisteria Lane.
.^ They told her she was not married and that she had no child.
^ That means that I must crucify self, learn to serve, learn the lesson of life, learn to love others better than myself.
^ Some years ago a friend of ours, Mrs. F. W., was living in New York, very happily married and leading an active, normal life.
.^ She wrote that she had been in the best of health when she had moved into this house but had soon become afflicted with a strange ailment of the arms and legs which no doctors could relieve.
^ Alma Hodge - Ramlade ner från taket efter att hon blivit inlåst på vinden av Gloria.
^ He insisted that he was not dead, but was living in an old house with a band of outlaws (spirits) and that they would kill any one who dared to move into their house.
A tornado threatens to destroy everything, and everyone, that the housewives hold dear.
.^ It seems like I was five years old then.
^ When I was five years old I died.
^ We labored with the entity for some time until he was finally able to tell us that his name was Jack Finch, that he was about sixty-five years old and had been an inmate of an institution near Madison, Wisconsin.
.^ Can you remember anything happening to you at some time?
The season mystery revolves around
Edie Britt's new husband,
Dave Williams, played by
Neal McDonough. Dave is looking for revenge on someone on Wisteria Lane (later revealed to be Mike Delfino and then, in a shocking twist, Susan). Susan deals with being a single mother and having a new romance with Jackson (
Gale Harold).
.^ We must learn the first lesson that Christ taught, to serve others, and to love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves.
Carlos and Gabrielle have to struggle with their two daughters, Juanita and Celia, as Carlos's sight returns. Bree and Orson are having marriage problems because she is so focused on her career, and Orson begins to steal from neighbors as a coping mechanism.
.^ Have I killed all those people?
^ Why can't you tell those people that it was all my foolishness?
^ I loved my wife dearly, yet I disturbed her, for I did not know any better, and she was tormented--tormented by the one who loved and idolized her.
It is later when Susan reveals to Dave that it was she, not Mike, who was driving the car the night that a woman and child ran a Stop sign because the sign had fallen over on a dark stretch of road. Dave's revenge plans suddenly change as he says "Hi" to M.J., Mike and Susan's son. This season featured the show's 100th episode, revolving around Eli Scruggs (played by
Beau Bridges) a handyman who had an important input in all of the ladies' lives. This episode featured flashbacks and returning characters, including
Mary Alice Young,
Martha Huber and
Rex Van de Kamp. The episode was broadcast on ABC on Sunday, 18 January 2009.
The
sixth season began broadcasting on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 9pm.
[28] .^ I am sorry that I was so set in my mind on the theory of Theosophy that we must come back again and again in order to reach the higher plane.
Mysteries
Each season has a mystery which focuses on one particular character.
| Season |
Main Mystery |
Mystery synopsis |
|
1
|
Mary Alice Young |
Committed suicide after being threatened with blackmail; was attempting to cover-up the fact that she murdered her adopted son's biological mother. |
|
2
|
Betty Applewhite |
Kept her mentally disabled son locked up in the basement under the belief that he had murdered a girl; later discovered that her other son was the real murderer and had framed his brother. |
|
3
|
Orson Hodge |
Orson and his mother arrived on Wisteria Lane; reports claimed that he had murdered his first wife and then his mistress; it was later revealed that his first wife was still alive, and that it was actually his mother who had murdered his mistress. |
|
4
|
Katherine Mayfair |
When Katherine arrived on Wisteria Lane, her daughter – Dylan – questioned her paternity; when she believed that her father was murdered by her mother, she researched. Later, it was revealed that he was alive and Katherine had left him following an abusive relationship and the accidental death of the real Dylan. |
|
5
|
Dave Williams |
Edie Britt returned to Wisteria Lane after five years with new husband Dave. Unknown to Edie, Dave had an agenda: he wished to take revenge on Mike Delfino, who he believed was responsible for the fatal car accident that killed his wife and young daughter. It was later revealed that Susan caused the car accident. |
|
6
|
Angie Bolen |
Angie unzips her dress, to reveal a horrible scar on her back. She is on the run from a man named Patrick Logan, who is revealed to be Danny's real father. Marc Cherry revealed that the sixth season mystery will pay homage to a classic Dallas storyline.[25] |
Disaster episodes
.^ In one way, yes, but not in another.
^ So we had one group here and another there.
^ They go out of the physical in ignorance of the real life, full of hatred, because they were crushed in one way or another.
These disaster episodes generally occur mid-season and include the death of a major or recurring character. A recurring theme in these episodes is that a character causing grief to one of the Housewives is normally killed.
| Season |
Episode Number |
Disaster |
Episode synopsis |
|
3
|
7 (54)
|
Hostage Situation
|
.: Carolyn Bigsby, Orson's former neighbor, confronts her husband in his supermarket questioning him about his affair.^ I just asked him a few questions about life, and he said: "You big sinner, get out of here!"
When she fails to shoot her husband, Carolyn holds the supermarket hostage. The hostages include Lynette, Nora, Julie, Austin, and new neighbor Art. .^ Nora Huntington - Kaylas mamma som sköts av Carolyn i samband med gisslandramat i snabbköpet.
In a struggle with Austin, Carolyn is shot in the head by one of the hostages and dies. |
|
4
|
9 (79)
|
Tornado
|
.: A tornado tears through Wisteria Lane putting many of the housewives and their families in danger.^ Dessutom drabbas Wisteria Lane av en tornado som ödelägger hela gatan och kostar några av invånarna livet.
In all the chaos, Victor Lang is impaled by a fence post and dies while trying to kill Carlos, who is blinded. Adam Mayfair's stalker, Sylvia Greene, and Al Kaminsky are also killed by the tornado. .^ Now they form into leaves, buds and flowers-music taking form and color.
^ He insisted that he was not dead, but was living in an old house with a band of outlaws (spirits) and that they would kill any one who dared to move into their house.
^ I try, but it seems somebody else takes possession of me and gets me into some place where they knock me nearly senseless.
.^ Finally I got a house and I said I was going to stay there, and told them if they did not want me, or they could not find anything for me to do, I would go to work.
The rest of the neighborhood is left in mountains of debris. |
|
5
|
8 (95)
|
Fire
|
.: The men of Wisteria Lane (Dave Williams, Tom Scavo, Carlos Solis, Orson Hodge, and Mike Delfino) prepare to play at the annual "Battle of the Bands" concert at The White Horse Club.^ Alma har flyttat till Wisteria Lane och Bree är inte glad för det. Tom Scavos nya pizzeria möter en osäker framtid.
When Dave's psyciatrist, Dr. Heller arrives, Dave strangles him and sets a fire backstage to cover it up. The fire spreads to the whole club and seven people are killed. Dave Williams frames Porter Scavo for starting the fire. |
|
6
|
10 (121)
|
Plane Crash
|
Boom Crunch: It's the holiday season on Wisteria Lane. The episode mainly revolves around a plane crash, stemming from Karl Mayer's attempt to surprise Bree with a banner high above Wisteria Lane proposing marriage. When the pilot goes into cardiac arrest, and the wife attempts to land it, she crash lands onto the street, impacting the lives of everyone on Wisteria Lane – and, in the process, killing Mona Clark (Danny's hospital nurse, who was blackmailing the Bolens) and Karl Mayer. It also causes Lynette to miscarry one of her unborn twins, and paralyzes Orson Hodge. |
Cast and characters
During its premiere season the show featured thirteen starring actors, all credited in the
opening sequence. For the show’s second year, several actors, mainly
child and teenage ones, who had guest starred during the first season, were promoted to series regulars without having their names included in the opening sequence. Instead they were billed as “also starring” during the first minutes of each episode, together with episode guest stars. This practice continued for season three and four.
.^ The patient's sister, who was present, recognized in the latter intelligence the deceased thirteen year old son of the dead wife.
^ I loved you, but you know that my pride and my mother would not consent to our marriage.
^ Dwelling in the Home of Happiness, with Obedience as the servant, are Kindness and Friendship, father and mother of the maiden, Love.
Furthermore,
Nicollette Sheridan played
Edie Britt, Susan’s arch rival, described by her as “the neighborhood slut”, who since then slowly had grown to become somewhat of a fifth lead until
Episode 5.23.
Steven Culp played
Rex Van de Kamp, Bree’s frustrated husband with secret sexual desires, while
Ricardo Antonio Chavira portrayed Gabrielle’s spouse
Carlos Solis, a rough business man who regarded his wife mainly as a trophy, and
James Denton acted as
Mike Delfino, the mysterious new neighbor who becomes Susan’s love interest.
Brenda Strong portrayed the show’s narrator
Mary Alice Young, who generally doesn’t appear in front of the camera, and whose unexpected suicide in the first episode remained a mystery throughout season one.
.^ Mary Alice Young - Zachs mamma, tog själmord, startade hela serien Martha Huber - Paul, Zachs pappa mördade henne när han fick reda på att det var hon som hade pressat Mary Alice att avslöja mordet på Deidre.
^ Deidre Taylor - Mikes gamla fästmö och biologisk mamma till Zach, Mary Alice mördade henne.
Finally,
Andrea Bowen took the part of Susan’s caring and kind-hearted teenage daughter
Julie Mayer, and
Jesse Metcalfe played
John Rowland, Gabrielle’s teenage gardener/lover.
For the second season, Culp and Metcalfe left as show regulars, as Rex died from a heart attack and Gabrielle had ended her relationship with John.
.^ It was the man who had died several years before; they had known him in life and recognized him now.
^ The second wife returned home again, and, during the ten years which have elapsed since this episode, no further disturbances have occurred in the family.
^ A year after this Mrs. Lackmund died, and two weeks later, during the night, appeared to Mrs. Wickland, so life-like that the latter did not realize she was a spirit.
.^ Matthew Applewhite - Bettys son och Danielles pojkvän, dödades av prickskyttar då han hotade Bree med pistol.
Also joining the main cast for the second season, after guest starring in a few season one episodes, were
Richard Burgi as
Karl Mayer, Susan's ex-husband who becomes engaged to Edie, and
Roger Bart as
George Williams, Bree's pharmacist, and later obsessed fiancé, who had caused Rex's death. Bart, however, left the show mid-season, due to the suicide of George.
As the Applewhite mystery was solved in the second season finale, Woodard, Brooks and Kearse all had left the show when the third season began, as had Mark Moses, as Paul was framed for murder and incarcerated; Cody Kasch, due to Zach's becoming a millionaire after causing his ill biological grandfather to die and thereby inheriting his entire fortune; and Richard Burgi, following Karl being dumped by both Susan and Edie. Two additions were made to the main cast for season three:
Kyle MacLachlan as
Orson Hodge, who marries Bree and whose dark family history serves as the main mystery for most of the season, and
Josh Henderson, playing Edie's bad boy nephew
Austin McCann, who starts a relationship with Julie, but ends up getting Danielle pregnant and left the series mid-season.
.^ You can learn in one day here what it takes ten or twelve years to learn on earth.
^ A former patient of ours, Mrs. Anna R., who had at one time been under our care and had been entirely restored to health, many years later left her home to care for a sister-in-law, Mrs. Jessie R., who was very ill.
^ A year after this Mrs. Lackmund died, and two weeks later, during the night, appeared to Mrs. Wickland, so life-like that the latter did not realize she was a spirit.
Dana Delany's character is married to
Dr. Adam Mayfair played by
Nathan Fillion.
.^ You remember Tillie, who lived next door to me?
Actor
Gary Cole joined the cast as a recurring character in the eleventh episode and played
Wayne Davis, the ex-husband of
Katherine Mayfair,
Dana Delany's character.
[29]
.^ Kanske får vi se David Beckham och Robbie Williams i Desperate Housewives i framtiden, som ett gaypar.
[30] Max and
Charles Carver have been cast as Porter and Preston Scavo, Joshua Moore as Parker Scavo and Kendall Applegate as Penny Scavo.
Gail O'Grady,
Peter Onorati and
Gale Harold have also been confirmed to join the show as recurring characters.
[31][32][33] Storylines involving Gale Harold's character needed to be placed on hold after he sustained injuries in a motorcycle accident.
[34] Madison De La Garza and Daniella Baltodano also joined the cast as Juanita and Celia Solis, respectively, the young daughters of Carlos and Gabrielle Solis.
The show also features a large number of recurring guest stars, the most prominent being
Kathryn Joosten and
Pat Crawford Brown as elderly neighbors
Karen McCluskey and
Ida Greenberg.
.^ She is not the one who was here first, nor the one with the baby.
^ She acted in a masculine manner and a brother, Mr. Herman M., realizing that some spirit had taken possession of his sister, at first thought the entity was a man.
^ Wickland at first saw two men on the bench, but upon looking again, noticed only one.
In the show's sixth season,
Andrea Bowen re-joined the series' cast as a regular. After appearing as a guest star in
the fifth season finale,
Maiara Walsh was made regular.
Drea de Matteo,
Jeffrey Nordling, and
Beau Mirchoff joined the cast as
Angie,
Nick and
Danny Bolen, respectively, being the season's mystery.
Kathryn Joosten was promoted to a series regular, after being a recurring guest star for five years.
Madison De La Garza, who plays Gabrielle's eldest daughter, Juanita, and
Mason Vale Cotton, who plays Susan and Mike's son, M.J., were also promoted to regulars.
Max Carver left the show, as his character, Preston, left for Europe.
Shawn Pyfrom has quit his regular role as Andrew Van De Kamp and only makes guest appearances in the current season.
[37][38]
Dana Delany is considering leaving
Desperate Housewives to star in the new ABC pilot
Body of Evidence.
[39][40]
Casting
Eva Longoria Parker was the first reported to have landed a starring role, on February 9, 2004,
[42] followed by
Felicity Huffman (February 10),
[43] Teri Hatcher (February 18),
[44] James Denton and
Ricardo Antonio Chavira (February 26),
[45] Marcia Cross (March 1),
[46] Sheryl Lee,
Mark Moses, and
Cody Kasch (March 3),
[47] Andrea Bowen and
Kyle Searles (March 4),
[48] and
Michael Reilly Burke (March 8).
[49] .^ One wanted to rule the world, but along came another sect, and they called themselves by a new name, and felt they wanted to rule.
[7]
On July 2, after having shot the first pilot, ABC announced that Lee, Searles and Burke were to be replaced by
Brenda Strong,
Jesse Metcalfe and
Steven Culp, respectively.
[50] While Lee was turned down after producers rethought the character of Mary Alice,
[51] Searles was replaced because of the lack of chemistry between him and his onscreen lover, Eva Longoria.
[52] Steven Culp had been the producer's first choice for the part as Rex Van de Kamp, but as he had missed a meeting with the ABC executive to complete shooting for another television show,
Star Trek: Enterprise, the part had been offered to Burke instead. After the original pilot was filmed, Culp was off the
Enterprise cast, and when asked again Culp accepted the part, and Burke was let go.
[53]Housewives
Reception
Ratings
| Season |
Timeslot (EDT) |
Season Premiere |
Season Finale |
TV Season |
Rank |
Viewers
(in millions) |
| 1 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
October 3, 2004 |
May 22, 2005 |
2004–2005 |
#4[56] |
24.7[56] |
| 2 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
September 25, 2005 |
May 21, 2006 |
2005–2006 |
#4[57] |
22.2[57] |
| 3 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
September 24, 2006 |
May 20, 2007 |
2006–2007 |
#10[58] |
17.5[58] |
| 4 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
September 30, 2007 |
May 18, 2008 |
2007–2008 |
#6[59] |
18.6[59] |
| 5 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
September 28, 2008 |
May 17, 2009 |
2008–2009 |
#9[60] |
15.6[60] |
| 6 |
Sunday 9:00 P.M. |
September 27, 2009 |
May 16, 2010 |
2009–2010 |
#TBA |
13.7 |
The premiere year
The show was the biggest success of the 2004–2005 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.
[61]Along with
Lost,
Desperate Housewives was credited to have turned around ABC’s declining fortunes.
[62] .^ Sex and the City-filmen är färdig Inspelning av Sex and the City-filmen har börjat Samantha Jones på film tack Sex and the city-filmen .
^ Inspelning av Sex and the City-filmen har börjat 2007-09-21 Link TV & Film Kommentera här!
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[65] .^ When we step out of the mortal body we are still spiritual beings, and if we are free-minded those gone before will meet us and will show us the way to the spirit world.
[66]Following the initial success of the show, the term "desperate housewives" became a cultural phenomenon. This warranted "real life desperate housewives" features in TV shows, including
The Dr. Phil Show,
[67] and in magazines.
[68][69] Among the more prominent names to declare themselves fans of the show were
Oprah Winfrey,
[70] who also dedicated an episode of
The Oprah Winfrey Show to her visit at the film set; and the former
First Lady of the United States,
Laura Bush, who, in a comedic speech during a dinner with
White House Correspondents' Association on April 30, 2005, stated
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife", referring to the show.
[71]The show ended up being the fourth most watched in the United States during the 2004–2005 season, with 23.7 million viewers each week.
[72] The first season finale was watched by 30.62 million American viewers.
[73]Later years
For its second year, the show still maintained its ratings – with 22.2 million viewers, it reclaimed its position as the number four most watched show.
[74] However, several critics started to notice a declining quality of the show’s script,
[75][76] and
USA Today’s Robert Bianco suggested that the part of the show getting “less good” was that showrunner Cherry had left much of the series writing in the hands of others.
[77] Mid through the season executive producer Michael Edenstein left the show due to conflicts with Cherry and in May 2006, just a couple of weeks prior to the second season finale, so did Tom Spezialy.
[12] .^ They would not let me go to school.
^ They say I am weak yet, but I am to go with them and they will show me the way, but that I have much to learn.
.^ After you have learned the higher things of life, you do not care to come back to matter another time.
^ I would rather come back to help my wife and learn all I can about spirit return than to come and stay in one state for a certain time, then come back again as a baby.
^ There was a time-I recall now-I am getting some of my memory back.
[78][79][80]The critics generally agreed on the improved quality for the third year,
[81][82][83] but the overall ratings fell notably from previous seasons. Due to complications from her pregnancy Marcia Cross was put on permanent bed rest. After filming one episode from her own personal bedroom she was forced to take maternity leave with six episodes of season three still remaining.
.^ If you had had understanding you would not have been crippled all these years since your "death."
[84] However, for the last three episodes of the season, the rating turned somewhat, and the season ended up with 17.5 million viewers, falling from number four to number ten on the list of most watched shows.
[85] While Cross's departure allowed for the much-underused Edie to have more story, fans noticed a decline in the stories during Cross's departure. Stories such as Lynette's emotional affair with restaurant manager Rick, proved unpopular. Furthermore, Susan's contrived triangle with Ian and Mike seemed tiring to many viewers, particularly in an episode where Susan is lost in the woods. Notable, however, was that the show’s rating among viewers age 18–24 increased from the previous season.
[86]For its fourth season, the series proved to have staying power.
[87] The series averaged 18.2 million viewers. Ratings peaked in Episode 9 where 20.6 million viewers tuned in to see the heavily marketed tornado episode.
.^ I woke up and felt no pain at first, but when I got to that light all the pain came back.
^ I went into Spiritualism first, and found that was much better than Orthodoxy, so I followed it for some years, but I felt I could not get very far with it, and in the end I was obsessed.
^ In the spirit world your time is so taken up with duties that you have no time to think of coming back.
[88] It also became for the first time the #1 scripted show, beating
CSI.
.^ After I was married my wife taught me a little about the other side of life-a more cheerful view than the orthodox one- still I did not believe.
^ A spirit who was still following his old occupation without any knowledge of his transition controlled Mrs. Wickland at one of our circles in Chicago.
^ All were unaware of being "dead," although Mary said, weeping wretchedly: "I thought they were going to kill each other, but here they are, still fighting."
In 2006, the American cable network
Bravo launched their
reality series,
The Real Housewives of..., in the footsteps of the “real life desperate housewives” phenomenon.
[89] .^ We had a series of letters from Mrs. G. G., who resided in a village in New York; she was a psychic and clairvoyant whose house was haunted by a band of evil spirits.
^ Britton D. Evans, Superintendent of the Morris Plains, New Jersey, Insane Asylum, stated: "Brain tumor or brain fever may not affect the mind....
^ Of course, most of the time I was in New York, but at times I was in London and other places.
Awards and nominations
For its premiere season, the show was awarded six
Emmy Awards, two
Golden Globe Awards and two
Screen Actors Guild Awards. The nominations of all of the leading actresses except
Eva Longoria Parker for both Golden Globes and Emmys received some media interest. While Longoria Parker seemingly wasn't bothered, stating for the press that
“I'm new. I just arrived. I didn’t expect at all to be in the minds of the Academy”, Marc Cherry regarded them being left out as a
“horrendous error”.
[93] In the end, the Emmy went to
Felicity Huffman, while
Teri Hatcher received the Golden Globe, as well as a Screen Actors Guild award.
The show’s second Golden Globe Award for its first year was for Best Musical or Comedy TV Series, while the other Emmys went to
Kathryn Joosten for her guest role as Karen McCluskey (beating, among others, fellow cast member
Lupe Ontiveros),
Charles McDougall for his direction of the pilot episode,
Danny Elfman’s theme music, the picture editing of the pilot, and the casting of the series. The entire cast was awarded a Screen Actors Guild Award, and
Nicollette Sheridan was nominated for a Supporting Actress Golden Globe.
In 2006 the show continued to receive several nominations. It was awarded with yet another Golden Globe for Best TV Musical or Comedy Series, and all the four leading women received Golden Globe nominations, although none of them won. The cast ensemble was awarded with another SAG Award, as was Felicity Huffman. Emmys nominations included, among others, guest actress
Shirley Knight and supporting actress
Alfre Woodard, although none of the resulted in an actual award.
The show did continue to be nominated in 2007 – Felicity Huffman was granted an Emmy nomination for the second time, and guest actresses
Laurie Metcalf and
Dixie Carter also received Emmy nominations. The show, along with actresses
Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman, received Golden Globe nominations, and Huffman and the cast ensemble were also nominated for SAGs. None of the Golden Globe, Emmy or SAG nominations resulted in any actual awards.
Other notable awards include the 2005
People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Drama, the Future Classic Award at the 2005
TV Land Awards, the 2006 TP de Oro for Best Foreign Series, and the Golden Nymph at the 2007 Monte-Carlo TV Festival, among others.
[94]Screen adaptations
On February 26, 2007,
The Walt Disney Company announced that four South American versions of the show were about to begin production: one for Argentina, one for
Colombia, one for Brazil and one for
Ecuador.
[95] Later on, the Colombian and Ecuadorean productions merged, leaving three
Latin American shows:
In addition, a second US version is being developed for the
Spanish television network
Univision. Just as the two previous Spanish versions, it is to be named
Amas de Casa Desesperadas, and the production began in July 2007.
[99]International broadcasts
The show is broadcast in many countries worldwide.
In Australia, the Seven Network has aired all five seasons. All seasons have been in primetime slots.
In the Netherlands, NET5 has aired all four seasons, with the fifth season to conclude at the end of 2009. All seasons have been in primetime slots.
In New Zealand, TV2 has aired all five seasons. All episodes have have aired at the primetime of 8:30pm on Mondays.
In the United Kingdom it is broadcast on Channel 4 and E4, and on S4C in Wales. .^ After a number of spirits had been taken from a patient who was very unmanageable at first, we had the following experience, which clearly shows the suffering that spirits may endure when enmeshed in the aura of a mortal.
Both Channel 4 and E4 have timeshift services of one hour. Therefore, each episode is shown a total of six times by the company.
Times on S4C in Wales are much later and vary due to Welsh language programming being broadcast in prime-time. Episodes generally air between 11pm and 2am. .
Ireland is the first country outside the US to receive new episodes.^ When Mrs. Burton first came to us she could not follow any occupation, but after the obsessing spirits were removed she was able to take a clerical position in a large commercial house.
^ After a number of spirits had been taken from a patient who was very unmanageable at first, we had the following experience, which clearly shows the suffering that spirits may endure when enmeshed in the aura of a mortal.
Episodes are broadcast at 9:55pm on Tuesdays on RTE 2, 2 days after the ABC original US showing. .
In South Africa, Desperate Housewives is broadcast on pay-TV channel M-Net on Thursdays, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm.^ Desperate Housewives 2007-09-16 Link TV & Film Kommentera här!
SABC3 broadcasts older seasons.
Internet Ratings
In its first public release of online individual TV program rankings,
The Nielsen Company announced that the series had 723,000 unique viewers in December 2008.
Other media and merchandise
DVD releases
| DVD Name |
Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 4 |
Region 5 |
No of discs |
No of episodes |
| The Complete First Season |
September 20, 2005 |
October 10, 2005 |
November 28, 2005 |
July 18, 2006 |
6 (Reg. 1, 2 and 4)
5 (Reg. 5) |
23 |
| The Complete Second Season – The Extra Juicy Edition |
August 30, 2006 |
November 13, 2006 |
October 4, 2006 |
June 28, 2007 |
7 (Reg. 2 and 4)
6 (Reg. 1 and 5) |
23/24 |
| The Complete Seasons 1–2 |
|
November 13, 2006 |
October 24, 2006 |
|
13 |
47 |
| The Complete Third Season – The Dirty Laundry Edition |
September 4, 2007 |
November 5, 2007 |
October 31, 2007 |
December 13, 2007
(the release was cancelled) |
6 |
23 |
| The Complete Seasons 1–3 |
|
November 19, 2007 |
|
|
19 |
70 |
| The Complete Fourth Season – Sizzling Secrets Edition |
September 2, 2008 |
November 3, 2008 [104] |
October 29, 2008 |
|
5 |
17 |
| The Complete Seasons 1–4 |
|
November 3, 2008 |
|
|
24 |
87 |
| The Complete Fifth Season – The Red Hot Edition |
September 1, 2009 |
November 9, 2009[105] |
October 21, 2009 |
|
7 |
24 |
| The Complete Seasons 1–5 |
|
November 9, 2009 |
|
|
31 |
111 |
Games
In 2005, UK company Re:creation published
Desperate Housewives Dirty Laundry Game, a
board game based on season three of
Desperate Housewives.
[106] Players attempt to guess their opponents’ secrets by answering
trivia questions, while keeping clues to their own secrets concealed.
2006 saw the release of two
video games:
Buena Vista Games released the
sim computer game Desperate Housewives: The Game, featuring an original storyline spanning 12 episodes.
[107] The game is set on Wisteria Lane, but the player does not play as any of the housewives, although they frequently appear.
A couple of months later,
Gameloft released a
mobile game based on the series.
[108] “The inspirado for Gameloft’s take on Desperate Housewives comes from the most unlikely place, too – the original
Mario Party on the Nintendo 64.”
[109]Soundtrack and literature
.^ After a number of spirits had been taken from a patient who was very unmanageable at first, we had the following experience, which clearly shows the suffering that spirits may endure when enmeshed in the aura of a mortal.
The songs included have been described as promoting “
girl power”, and among the artists appearing – all being female – were
LeAnn Rimes,
Gloria Estefan and
Shania Twain.
[110] Controversially, no originally composed music from the show is included on the CD.
Two books have been officially released within the Desperate Housewives franchise.
.^ I taught them to close the door to the spirit world, and I taught them to read only my books.
[111] One year later, in October 2006, Hyperion published
The Desperate Housewives Cookbook – Juicy Dishes and Saucy Bits (ISBN 978-1401-3027-71).
[112] In addition, official
wall calendars, featuring shots taken from the series, were published by
Andrews McMeel Publishing for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
[113]Four unauthorized books written from different points of view were released in 2006.
Delicious Housewives, A Novel of Erotica, by International best-selling author Tamarias Tyree (ISBN 978-0930865795), from RSVP Press, is an erotic parody of the popular TV series featuring the housewives' sexual misadventures which eventually lead them to an appearance on the Jerry Springer Show...
Reading ‘Desperate Housewives’: Beyond the White Picket Fence (ISBN 978-1845-1122-02), from
I.B. Tauris, is an academic look at the show by
film studies lecturers Janet McCabe and Kim Akassm,
[114] Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America’s Favorite Desperate Housewives (ISBN 978-1932-1007-92), published by
BenBella Books, consists of seventeen essays written from a
feminist perspective,
[115] and in Chalice Press’
Not-so-desperate: Fantasy, Fact And Faith on Wisteria Lane (ISBN 0-8272-2513-X) author Shawnthea Monroe is giving a
Christian interpretation of the show.
[116] Also, following the “real life desperate housewives” phenomenon, several books have been released dealing with life strategies for contemporary women.
Fashion dolls
In December 2006 it was announced that the characters of Bree, Gabrielle, Edie, Susan and Lynette were to be made into 16 inches (41 cm) tall
fashion dolls, produced by
Madame Alexander.
[117] In 2007 they were released in a limited edition of 300 pieces each.
[118] A perfume was also released, named
Forbidden Fruit.
Another Desperate Housewife
In conjunction with season six Marc Cherry was commissioned to write eight "mini-episodes" entitled "Another Desperate Housewife". The episodes were written after the previous season's extensive product placement proved unpopular with the fans. The mini-episodes were written to advertise the mobile phone company "Sprint" and involved just three characters.
.^ She wrote that she had been in the best of health when she had moved into this house but had soon become afflicted with a strange ailment of the arms and legs which no doctors could relieve.
^ He insisted that he was not dead, but was living in an old house with a band of outlaws (spirits) and that they would kill any one who dared to move into their house.
^ The house had been moved to Mr. C.'s lot, remodeled there, and the C.'s had then moved into it, only to be disturbed by noises of all kinds.
The third character, Elsa, was Stephanie's friend. As the episodes go on it is revealed that Lance and Elsa have been having an affair. Stephanie finds out and tells Lance to break it off.
.^ Another evening four spirits were brought from the haunted house; first two women, then "Pete," who had been a dexterous pickpocket in life, and a woman named Kate, who had been killed by Pete and had "hounded" him ever since.
^ I stepped over to the other track and another train, which I did not see coming, killed me.
In truth, Stephanie sent the message herself. The final mini-episode has Elsa being arrested and Stephanie attracted to a handsome policeman at the scene. Each episode ended with a Mary Alice-like narration saying things such as "This is suspicion on the Now Network" or "This is betrayal on the Now Network".
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