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Desperate Housewives
Season 1
TV-PG
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Mary Alice Young, a seemingly perfect housewife commits suicide, fearing that a dark secret, involving her, her husband, and their son would be exposed.
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Cast of Season 1
Teri Hatcher
Susan Mayer
Felicity Huffman
Lynette Scavo
Marcia Cross
Bree Van de Kamp
Eva Longoria
Gabrielle Solis
Ricardo Chavira
Carlos Solis
Nicollette Sheridan
Edie Britt
Mark Moses
Paul Young
James Denton
Mike Delfino
Brenda Strong
Mary Alice Young
Steven Culp
Rex Van De Kamp
Cody Kasch
Zach Young
Jesse Metcalfe
John Rowland
Andrea Bowen
Julie Mayer
George W. Perkins
Producer
Charles Skouras III
Co-Producer
Stephanie Hagen
Associate Producer
Charles Pratt, Jr.
Consulting Producer
Michael Edelstein
Executive Producer
Marc Cherry
Executive Producer
Desperate Housewives • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Belinda Acosta
Borrowing from Twin Peaks, with a nod to Leave It to Beaver on acid, Desperate Housewives is one of the most original dramedies to premiere this fall.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
In visual style, witty language, borderline surrealism and overall mad attitude, Desperate Housewives stands on a mountaintop all its own, the best new drama of the season and perhaps the best new comedy, too.
New York Post
Andrea Peyser
This show does not pretend to resolve any great, cultural questions. It works, quite simply, because it's fun.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Tom Jicha
The social commentary is made in such wickedly wacky ways, the hour never ceases being an engaging joy ride. A sharp ensemble, which brings well fleshed-out characters vividly to life, completes a totally satisfying package.
Salon.com
Heather Havrilesky
This dark exploration of the lives of women has not only slid quickly into clichés, but the acting feels forced and overplayed... The whole package is almost unwatchable.
TIME Magazine
James Poniewozik
If the show's milieu can be phony, the resentment it taps into is not.
Entertainment Weekly
Dalton Ross
Such audacity - plus one supremely gripping mystery - is what made the ABC series Desperate Housewives such an immediate sensation.
Chicago Tribune
Maureen Ryan
The opening of "Desperate Housewives" is indeed intriguing. It's what comes after that is dispiriting.
Slate
Dana Stevens
There's at least one problem: The placid suburban lifestyle of shows like Desperate Housewives...doesn't exist anymore, at least not in the pure form depicted on this show.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
Perhaps there is less here than meets the eye; maybe it's just a tricked-up mystery show. It comes on like satire, but it's too scattershot, too inconsistent, too over the top to make any significant points.
Variety
Brian Lowry
At times, given conventions of the genre, "Desperate Housewives" might be a little too smart for its own good. For the most part, though, producer Marc Cherry...has concocted a program that's oodles of fun.
New York Daily News
David Bianculli
These actresses seem to recognize just how good Cherry's concept and script are - and each one of them contributes to make it even better.
IndieWire
IndieWire Staff
You have to admire a pilot that's capable of setting up five different families, each dealing with a different massive family struggle - while also crafting a mystery compelling enough to hook an entire nation.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
There are almost too many things to love in "Desperate Housewives."
USA Today
Robert Bianco
To be sure, there are campy elements in Housewives, but Cherry wisely has not let the show itself become camp.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Melanie McFarland
Serving up the kind of dialogue that leads to tears and cackles, it may be the most joyfully scathing look at stifled lives network TV has ever seen.
Orlando Sentinel
Hal Boedeker
In a largely predictable lineup, it is a shrewd mystery with involving twists. In a medium that often shortchanges women, it is a grand showcase for accomplished actresses.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
Desperate Housewives is entertaining, but it turns the clock back to pre-Betty Friedan America, lampooning four bored, frustrated, white upper-middle-class ladies who lunch.
New York Magazine/Vulture
John Leonard
Executive producer Marc Cherry used to write for Golden Girls. I laughed a lot then, too.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
It was a dark but satisfying finish to a year of mysterious events on Wisteria Lane, a finish that successfully tied up the loose ends established way back in the pilot episode.
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