Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season

Release Date: 2005-09-20,

All is not as it seems on Wisteria Lane the pristinely manicured suburban setting of television's hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES pilot episode when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver from a drawer and shoots herself in the head. In the process of trying to make sense of her sudden and inexplicable suicide Mary Alice's friends end up revealing just as many secrets about themselves and their neighbors as they do about her past. Narrated by the spirit of Mary Alice each episode follows the ups and downs in the lives of bored trophy wife Gabrielle Solis Eva Longoria klutzy-yet-charmin g Susan Mayer Teri Hatcher frustrated stay-at-home-mom Lynette Scavo Felicity Huffman and anal-retentive homemaker Bree Van de Kamp Marcia Cross. As love-struck Susan competes for the attention of new neighbor Mike Delfino James Denton with neighborhood seductress Edie Britt Nicollette Sheridan Gabrielle takes a liking to her hunky 17

Along with its fellow 2004 freshman phenomenon, Lost, Desperate Housewives put ABC back in the prime-time ratings race after years of, well, desperation. Combining equal parts drama, comedy, and deliciously lowbrow soap opera, Housewives probes the suburban lifestyle in a way that vaguely recalls Sex and the Citys exploration of Gotham. The series begins with the apparent suicide of Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), who then becomes the series narrator, commenting on all the doings of her friends and neighbors on Wisteria Lane. Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher) is a recently divorced single mom with a slime-bag ex and a daughter, Julie (Andrea Bowen), who's intellectually precocious; Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) is a former career woman who can't seem to manage her four monster children or her upwardly mobile husband, Tom (Doug Savant); Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) is an ex-model who has a rich, albeit dominating, husband, Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira), and a beautiful house, but has been fooling around wit