Series

Desperate Housewives 2004

Created by Marc Cherry

  • Mystery, Drama, Comedy
  • 42 min episodes
  • 8 seasons
  • 179 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-14

Secrets. Romance. Murder. All on one street

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.

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Contemporary, spare, unpretentious and effortless.

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  • sparerichly built
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • effortlessdemanding
  • classical in formformally daring

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