Desperate Housewives
First Aired
Oct 03, 2004
Seasons
8
Episodes
179
Episode Runtime
N/A min
Overview
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.
Genres
Networks
ABC
Top Cast
9 cast members
Seasons
Specials
17 Episodes • TBA
No overview available.
Season 1
23 Episodes • 2004
Mary Alice Young, a seemingly perfect housewife commits suicide, fearing that a dark secret, involving her, her husband, and their son would be exposed.
Season 2
23 Episodes • 2005
The seemingly perfect lives in the suburban neighborhood of Fairview are shaken by the arrival of the mysterious Betty Applewhite.
Season 3
23 Episodes • 2006
The residents of Fairview deal with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge.
Season 4
17 Episodes • 2007
Katherine Mayfair and her family are introduced as the center of the season's mystery.
Season 5
24 Episodes • 2008
The season's mystery is centered around Edie Britt's third husband Dave Williams.
Season 6
23 Episodes • 2009
Angie Bolen and her family are the focus of this season's mystery.
Season 7
23 Episodes • 2010
After losing both her husband and her business, Bree slowly begins the process of rebuilding her life, first by telling her friend Gabrielle a secret that could end their friendship, and then by starting up a romance with her much younger contractor Keith Watson. In the meantime, the Solises discover that their daughter Juanita was swapped at birth, and Lynette is visited by her old college roommate Renee Perry (Vanessa Williams), who later moves to the lane permanently. Bob and Lee find their way back to one another, and Susan and Mike's financial situations lead them to move to an apartment in the city and to take on jobs they don't want to endure through, whereas Paul Young, Mary Alice's widower, moves back to Wisteria Lane to wreak havoc.
Season 8
23 Episodes • 2011
The housewives deal with covering up the murder of Gabrielle's stepfather Alejandro Perez.
