Desperate Housewives - Season 1
a.k.a. Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season
Cast:
Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria
DVD - 6 Disc Set Learn more
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- DVD Release Date: 09/20/2005
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- Sales Rank: 2,882
Features
Closed Caption; Unrated, extended episodes; Deleted scenes; Behind the scenes with The View's Meredith Vieira; A Stroll Down Wisteria Lane With Creator Marc Cherry; Audio commentaries by Marc Cherry and the Housewives; "Dressing Wisteria Lane" -- A look at the costume and set design; Secrets of Wisteria Lane; Oprah Winfrey Is "The New Neighbor"; And much more dirty laundry
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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 City’s 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 with the (underage!) gardener, John (Jesse Metcalfe); neighbor Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) is the town tramp; and Bree Van De Camp (the always entertaining Marcia Cross) is the nearly obsessive-compulsive homemaker who maintains a spotless house while her family crumbles around her. Of course, no soap opera would be complete without the requisite male heartthrob: new hunky neighbor Mike Delfino (James Denton) moves in next to Susan and becomes the object of her -- and Edie's -- attraction. And then, to really add a touch of mystery to the mix, a nosy neighbor turns up missing, which causes her sister, Felicia Tillman (Frasier's delightful Harriet Sansom Harris) to make a stop at Wisteria Lane and investigate, leading her to Mary Alice's creepy husband, Paul (Mark Moses) -- who has recently taken to burying things in the backyard to prevent his slightly psychotic son, Zach (Cody Kasch), from discovering a secret about...Mary Alice! Christina Urban, Barnes & Noble
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