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Desperate Housewives

American comedy-drama TV series

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"Desperate Housewives" is an American comedy-drama television series that follows the lives of suburban women navigating relationships, secrets, and personal challenges in their neighborhood. The show became a significant cultural phenomenon that helped establish ABC as a major network for dramatic storytelling and influenced how television portrays suburban life and female characters.

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★ 7.9

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.

Aired: 2004–2012
Seasons: 8 · 179 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: Marc Cherry
Network: ABC
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Comedy

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Desperate Housewives is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a total of 180 episodes. Executive producer Marc Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw.

Set on Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State, Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their friend and neighbor who takes her own life in the pilot episode. The series covers fifteen years of the women's lives, which includes a five-year timeline jump in the series' narrative. The women work through domestic struggles and family life, while being faced with the secrets, crimes, and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their on-the-surface—beautiful, and seemingly perfect, suburban neighborhood.