Desperate Housewives

I will speak about an serie TV : Desperate Housewives
First I will introduce you this serie, I will explain the generic, and resume the event at the beginning.
I will present you the main characters.

1) Serial presentation

Desperate Housewife is one of ABC’s most popular serie. It is an american comedy.
Marc Cherry is the executive producer and the creator.
It is first diffused on ABC in the USA in october 2004. In France, it appears in september 2005.
The serial is the winner of both the 2005 and 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Serie.

2) The story

Explanation of the generic

The generic shows an other version of Adam and Eve’s Story. It explains why women are so submitted.
Since Eve has ate the forbidden fruit, Adam condemns her to lead a restricting life.
For example here, she has to stay at home and grow her children. She must do the cleaning and do the shopping. And her husband deceives her with a younger woman.
After this centuries, the woman decides to react and she finished to beat her husband.

The story

The scene takes place on Wisteria Lane in an upscale suburban neighborhood, in the city of Fairview.
But Wisteria Lane was not as quiet and respectable as it appeared because the serie began with the suicide of Mary Alice Young. She didn’t support to mask a familial secret.
She becomes the narrator and she deciphers all details in the lives of her four best friends.
The main characters try to understand the act of Mary Alice, then they understood that they were as despareted as her friend.
Their secrets come back up. Each season is based on an police plot.

3) Main characters

Mary Alice Young is the most mysterious of the housewives because we only know pieces of her story. A loving, doting wife and mother who was generous to her family and neighbours.

Bree Van De is the all-too-perfect, control-freak homemaker who eventually drove her husband to divorce court.

Lynette Scavo. Every day, she kicked herself over her decision to give up her business career in publicity to care for her highly competitive husband and her irritating children.

Susan Mayer is illustratress of books for children. She is looking for love in all the wrong places and agonizing over the behavior of her daughter.

Gabrielle Solis is an ex-model having married into money and luxury but she is faithless.

Edie Britt is a property agent, with whom Susan competed over the affections of plumber Mike Delfinow.

4) The reasons of success

The success of the serie is a real Phenomenon of Society. All over the World, women feel identified as the main characters. Because they defend their cause and the serie speaks about real problem of love and of profession. They appreciate watching how these actresses play with a tuch of humoristic and ironic.

Video game

In 2005, a board game were published. Players attempt to guess their opponents’ secrets by answering questions.

Other :

You can buy clothes or accessories who wear actresses in the serie.
For example : Bree’s dish gloves, Susan’s drawing book, Gabrielle’s hat, Linette’s color palette set, Edie’s ring, …