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One of the main reasons for Susan burning down Edie's home was that it could be opened up inside, making filming easier for the production crew. The show was the big success of the television season, and gained much critical acclaim.
Its pilot episode which aired in October , gained a stunning In the footsteps of the show, the term "desperate housewives" became a cultural phenomenon. Phil Show. The show, along with Lost, has been credited with reviving ABC's ratings. Later on, Grey's Anatomy, and more recently, Ugly Betty have helped further this revival.
Prominent names like Oprah Winfrey and Michele Lee have stated that they are fans of the show. The series saw its strongest ratings in its first 2 seasons. It ranked 4 in both the and television seasons, with an overall average of over 22 million viwers. However, the sophomore slump of season 2 led to a decrease in ratings in season 3. The series proved to have staying power in season 4, where it saw an increase in ratings from season 3, rising to 6 in the television season with an average of 18 million viewers.
The economic recession of led to many cable cancellations, leading to a decrease in viewers for all scripted television shows.
Season 5 ranked 9 in the television season with an average of over 15 million viwers. Sadly, this would mark the last time the series would remain in the top The ratings during the first half of season 6 resembled those of season 5, but as the season progressed its ratings dwindled, landing at 20 in the television season with an average of 13 millon viewers.
A similar pattern happened with season 7, with the first half of the season bringing in strong numbers, but the ratings declined in the second half of the season, with an average of 12 million viwers. Season 8 has seen its lowest ratings yet, with no episodes reaching the 10 million viewers mark.
This will be the final season of the show, set to end in May In its first public release of online individual TV program rankings, The Nielsen Company announced that the series had , unique viewers in December Desperate Housewives was the seventh most-pirated television show of By the end of the first season, all the housewives except Eva Longoria were nominated for both a Golden Globe and Emmy.
Longoria responded with a skit in the Emmys with Ellen DeGeneres mocking her situation. In Argentina an adaptation has been made involving popular Argentinian actors and actresses, filmed in this country and aired by Canal The original screenplay has been translated to Spanish as well as many names in order to be as true to the original as possible. Most of the Argentinians who had watched Desperate Housewives before are not satisfied with this adaptation.
Episodes aired between August 30, and January 24, covered the series' first season. There has not yet been announced if there will be a second season of this adaptation. Players attempt to guess their opponents' secrets while keeping clues to their own secrets concealed by answering trivia questions. The game is set in Wisteria Lane and features an original storyline spanning 12 episodes. You do not play as one of the housewives, but meet them frequently in the game. They are not voiced by the original cast, however, only by sound-alikes.
You play as the housewives, a few others and a new character on a board with dices to reach for three clues before the computer gets them. Including trivia pop-quizzes and puzzels once in a while on certain spots. Wiksteria Lane Explore. Main Supporting Recurring Minor Season 8. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? Desperate Housewives. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Betrayal is one of the major sources of conflict on Desperate Housewives , having played an intregal part in most of the series' relationships and ongoing stories with friends and family members. Whether by relatives, friends, lovers or business partners, the main characters have all—in some way, shape or form—been betrayed in the past, and some have reacted in different ways to such treasons.
The most notable adultery storyline may have to be the one carried out between Gabrielle and her teenage gardener, John , son of local housewife Helen. She felt ignored by her husband , who would constantly be away on business. Despite the strong bonds shared between the main characters, the ties of friendship and the family obligations, the people of Wisteria Lane often find themselves at odds with one another, engaging in fights, arguments, and vengeful acts.
Examples of this would certainly be the constant discussions between the leading housewives—who, despite their strong friendships, constantly have their liaisons hit the rocks. Susan has feuded with Edie over their attraction to both Mike and Karl , with Bree over Orson 's mysterious ways, with Gabrielle over their children's school-related activities, with Katherine over her obsession with Mike, with Angie over the strangling of Julie , with Renee over her attraction for Tom , and with Lynette over the naming of their shared granddaughter.
Lynette has feuded with Bree over the spanking of the former's child , with Gabrielle over Lynette's concealment of her forth pregnancy, and with Renee over her involvement with Tom. Bree has feuded with Gabrielle over the latter's shoddy parenting skills, with Edie over her involvement with Orson, with Katherine over her secret recipes, with Renee over the landing of Keith , with Angie over her candid ways, and with Betty over her dangerous sons.
Gabrielle has feuded with Renee over the secrets they shared with each other and with Angie over a lasagna casserole she made. And In addition to this, the four main ladies' ties were all torn asunder in the final season , due to the big secret they shared the murder cover-up and Bree's incapability to hold everything together in the times that followed.
One of the most prominent causes for controversy when the series premiered its debut season in the United States was the fact that most of the main characters, if not all, had, at some point, engaged in criminal activity. In fact, most characters on the show have broken the law at some point, oftentimes in situations that are played for laughs, which reflects the dark comedy of Desperate Housewives.
One of the most common crimes is also the one generally regarded as the worst: murder. A lot of the characters who have died at some point in the series' timeline were murdered. Death is a major part of the series, as a total of over 40 characters have been killed off on the show, and more than 50 deceased characters have been featured.
Character deaths usually serve as either a catalyst in a plot, a means of driving the story further along, or as a 'full stop' in said story, meaning a character's story is ended with their death and it serves as a convenient climax.
When more important characters die, the remaining living characters often find themselves dealing with the psychological and real-world repercussions of said demises, and certain episodes have even revolved around dead characters, such as, for example, the th episode , centered on the death of local handyman Eli Scruggs special guest star Beau Bridges , or " Women and Death ", dedicated to the memory of Mike Delfino , among others.
Some characters e. Bree , Edie , Renee , are portrayed as always being wealthy, having several possessions, and never being in financial worries. Others e. Susan , Lynette are often depicted as being shaky in economical terms, having to cut down on luxuries to get by.
The Solis family is arguably the one with the most inconsistent state of wealth, as they are often regarded as one of the richest families on the block, but have perhaps dealt with the most financial problems over eight seasons, particularly in seasons 1 , 5 , and 8.
Season 5 is the one that deals the most with this recurring theme, putting several of its main characters Susan and Mike, Gabrielle and Carlos, Tom and Lynette Desperate Housewives is known for being a family show, in the sense that the main characters' family lives take the center stage in the unfolding of the series' main long-running and episodic storylines.
Whereas the show has featured a total of 10 titular housewives, the majority of the main and supporting regular cast consists of several of their family members, from spouses to children, mostly. Their families also often intertwine. The many family dramas that occur behind closed doors, that range from adulteries to demises, passing through rebellious children, precarious financial situations, illnesses and fights, among many other factors, provide the vast majority of the intrigue of this serial drama, as we're provided insight on the core of their family ties, of their relationships, and of their struggles to live as members of shared homes.
One of the most iconic aspects of Desperate Housewives is the strong bond shared between the series' four main ladies, Bree , Gabrielle , Lynette and Susan. Several friendships have been formed and disbanded in the show, but theirs is inarguably the most notable. Despite the occasional fights and feuds, this quartet manages to somehow overcome every obstacle to their ties and remain the best of friends for the majority of the whole series.
They often engage in conversations with each other in which they share details of their private lives and ongoing problems, usually over drinks or poker games. Nevertheless, they never share every secret about their lives, and these tend to come out sooner or later and eventually cause more strain on the relationships. Therefore, the process becomes somewhat of a vicious cycle. One of the strongest criticisms aimed at the second season of the series was the lack of scenes in which the women interacted with each other.
In the very ending of the series finale , the women each go their separate way, as they all leave Wisteria Lane , accompanied by their respective families, and Mary Alice Young tells us they will never again all meet at once. This provided the bittersweet factor to the ending alluded to by series creator Marc Cherry : even though they all in some way get happy endings, with promising futures, their friendship, one of the main driving forces behind the women's stories over the years, and the basis of one of the show's main recurring themes, dissipates.
Irony is a rhetorical device in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions, and it serves as a recurring theme on Desperate Housewives. Ironic statements verbal irony are statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning. On this show, those statements are usually given as one-off funny lines uttered by the characters, posing as minor laugh-inducing tactics during the scenes, some even being used as punchlines e.
Sometimes, these ironic statements can even be mixed with metaphors e. Situational irony occurs when there is an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.
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