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Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season | 
| Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 87.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 757
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 1.2
MPN: DISD39874D
UPC: 786936280326
EAN: 0786936280326
ASIN: B00079FUI6
Theatrical Release Date: October 3, 2004
Release Date: September 20, 2005
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Audiences were captivated by the women of Wisteria Lane in the first season of IDesperate Housewives/I, the breakout hit from ABC that almost single-handedly lifted the network from its ratings doldrums and brought back the classic TV soap, remixed now with satire, comedy, and mystery. An affectionate yet darkly tinged send-up of suburbia that skirted ITwin Peaks/I territory as much as that of IKnots Landing/I, IDesperate Housewives/I opened with a bang--literally--as perfect-seeming housewife Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) went through her picture-perfect day before putting a handgun to her temple and pulling the trigger. Mary Alice's sudden suicide leaves her four closest friends, all housewives of a sort, with a surfeit of grief, a re-examination of their own lives, and a mystery to solve. It also proves to be a catalyst for a seamy study of what goes on inside the finely appointed homes of Wisteria Lane--the tales of which Mary Alice narrates from beyond the grave with a sardonic tone dipped in both honey and arsenic. p There's Martha Stewart-perfect Bree (Marcia Cross), who rules her household with an iron fist in a tailor-made garden glove and seems to have it all, until she finds out her husband (Steven Culp) is cheating on her--and had a serious fetish habit to boot. Sultry Gaby (Eva Longoria), the youngest of the set, is a bored trophy wife whose predilection for shopping and clothes are the perfect decoy for her affair with the hunky teenage gardener (Jesse Metcalfe). Former career woman Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is the most stereotypical housewife, raising four (or was it five?) kids and frustrated at using her cutthroat business skills for suburban politics. And daffy Susan (Teri Hatcher), the divorcee looking for love, sees her prospects brighten with the arrival of hunky plumber Mike (James Denton), who has some desperate secrets of his own. And did we mention the neighborhood hussy (Nicollette Sheridan), the snotty busybody (Christine Estabrook), and Mary Alice's increasingly agitated son (Cody Kasch)? p It was a fast and wild mix of plot and characters that gave IDesperate Housewives/I the zing that made it a number one hit, as it never got too bogged down in any dilemma before moving on to the next. And though it was neither as hard-hitting nor salacious as it was trumpeted to be, the show nevertheless breathed fresh, funny air into comedy television, for even though it hewed to the hour-long soap format, the content was far more dark comedy than sudsy drama. There were fun bright spots to be had, but the story behind Mary Alice's death--which included drugs, murder, blackmail, secret identities, and vengeance in equal amounts--hovered over all the characters, tingeing the farce with the specter of danger. The show's other source of strength is in its peerless ensemble cast, headed by four perfect leading ladies, all Emmy-worthy. Hatcher received the (deserved) lion's share of praise (and a Golden Globe), but her co-stars--especially the underrated Longoria--matched her scene for scene. And though the mystery of Mary Alice's death was ultimately solved (no ITwin Peaks/I teasing here), it was just the beginning of the troubles on Wisteria Lane, where no life went unexamined for too long. I--Mark Englehart/I
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If you're on the fence, give it a try! June 26, 2007
mon (ON, Canada)
This show surprised me. I didn't have high expectations; I bought it and started watching it based on recommendations by my friends. And I don't regret it! It is highly entertaining!!
Great show..! April 16, 2007
D. Landry (Ottawa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this first season because of all the good feedbacks I was getting from my friends. Never saw it on TV but thought if my friends like it so bad, I have to like it too. Well, I didn't like it, I LOVED IT! It is so addictive! You can't just watch one episode and wait another day to watch the next one, oh no! I just don't know how people had to wait a whole week to watch the next episode. It's so great with series like this one when you can view them on DVD! You just click next, and away you go, you can watch the next episode right away! I recommend this DVD serie to anyone that likes a little drama, love, hate, comedy, etc. It's different and has something for everyone to like. I can see this show going a long way...!
Quirky and very, very funny June 19, 2006
Ms. H. Sinton (Ingleby Barwick. U.K.)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Desperate Housewives was a huge hit and rightly so. It is the story of several housewives living in Wisteria Lane, an expensive American suburban street. The main characters are Susan, Lynette, Gabrielle and Bree. br /Susan (Teri Hatcher) is the ditsy divorced mother with one daughter and a fancy for her hunky new neighbour. Lynette was a high flying career woman but is now tied to the home and her unruly brood of 4 children. She could cope with anything at work but has problems coping with domesticity. Gabrielle is the Latin beauty, married to Carlos who is rich enough to provide everything she could want. However it's not enough and she is having an affair with her very young gardener. Bree is perfection personified, immaculately turned out and with a house like something from ideal homes. However her husband and children cannot live up to her ideals or live with this perfection. The narrator of the whole series is Mary Alice, a friend of all the women who, in the first episode, commits suicide. The central thread of the tale is why she was driven to this and what dark secrets are hidden in the lives of the characters. br /Although there is a central theme, each episode does have a `stand alone' story for the occasional viewer, but to really enjoy it at its best the series should be watched in its entirety and from the beginning. Twists and turns, murder and mayhem, love and friendship are all to be found in a series that is by turn both wickedly funny and poignant. This is TV at its best; not to be missed. br /
Finally! somthing good to watch. October 8, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got the DVD without watching one show on the TV. I could not stop watching it. This is a very refreshing show, nothing I have ever seen before. And... it is not true that it is only for women. There is a lot going on and the characters are well developed. I don't want to say anything about the story, but it moves along nicely and you want to know more after each episode.. I think the price is worth it, get the DVD.
take it easy ... September 17, 2005
FrizzText (Wuppertal)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This amazing mixture of malicious joy, touching slapstick, mocking eroticism or pitiful criminal involvement, established someplace between "Friends" or "Golden Girls", indeed has the strength to be a replacement for the famous "Sex and the City". brThough some Americans are indignant at it (not unmarried ladies, much worse, married women are practicing an immoral life-style; this way would undermine the "respect for men") - nevertheless (I think they judge wrongly) - this series have absolutely earned their cult status.brEva Longoria (as Gabrielle Solis) absolutely surpasses that Denver clan witch Joan Collins in the art of men manipulating. She nonchalantly has a good time with her 18-year-old gardener John Rowland (played by the 26-year-old Jesse Metcalfe). However, she is cheated by her husband (mixing up anti baby pills) Carlos Solis (played by Ricardo Chavira), therefore she expects a baby, and nastily does not know of whom. brThe story is always laid out in a manner, that the mishaps of the protagonists hardly sink the spectator into great mourning. brSo Martha Huber (represented by Christine Estabrook convincingly nastily), who is disgustingly carrying out an investigation and blackmailing, but oldish but nevertheless very dangerous, is killed without further fuss by Paul Young (played by Mark Moses) - it is hardly unpardonable. brOf course Paul Young still has some more secrets: brWhy his Mrs Mary Alice Young (the voice in the "offstage": Brenda Strong, earlier film: "Everwood") has committed suicide ? brWhy does she live under a false name? brHas her son Zach (Cody Kasch) murdered the little daughter ("Dana")? brDo they have sunk the corpse in the lake or really still another person (dismembered)? brThe problems of Lynette Scavo are comparatively harmless (played by Felicity Huffman, earlier film: "Sports" Night): brShe is troubled with 4 children (2 of them are rather ineducable twins) - for example in front of everyone she (in a precious party evening dress) had to drag her noisy kids out of a swimming pool. brOf course her husband Tom Scavo (played by Doug Savant) does not reward her efforts adequately. brA substantially more complicated show is given by the red-haired conservative, the prudish one "Law-and-order" Bree Van De Kamp (unbelievably well embodied by Marcia Cross, earlier film: "Melrose Place"). brAt first she thinks to have everything under control by cleaning the house perfectly. brThis does not suffice. brShe thereupon additionally tries to get satisfied dutifully the perverted sexual habits of her husband Rex Van De Kamp (played by Steven Culp): brNastily at a visit of a dominatrix establishment days before her husband had suffered a heart attack. brThe requirements on Bree's super management talent are screwed always more highly in the course of the series: brNot only, that she must cope with addiction behaviors and homosexuality of her son, she also hushes the fact that this one (with an accompanying hit-and-run driving) has run over an older woman with his car (the mother of Carlos Solis, dying later in the hospital). brBut to escape such gloominess and to make it easy for the spectators to stand by, there is the funny, slapstick part of Susan Mayer too, a sort of princess of the "faux pas" (played by Teri Hatcher, she has got the "Golden Globe" for this). brHowever the plumber Mike Delfino, gazed adoringly by her, is not a plumber (but he became entangled in private investigations (played by James Denton). brBut it's funny to see him find Susan either locked out stark-nakedly in her front garden or hanging desperately in the ceiling in a broken hole even in his own house . br"Sex and the City" quite a lot concerned with shoes and other Life style articles. br"Desperate Housewives" (= DH) satisfies our own longing for mockery and malicious joy and the wish of having the strength to overcome awkward situations; brIt helps us to compare and to relativize marriage problems humorously. brIn short: DH makes our life easier. brMarc Cherry, who has created this enviably witty plot (he was involved in the works to "Golden Girls") has done a good service not only for the spectators but also for himself: Once he had burned down financially so much, that he had to borrow money from his mother; but later on up to 30 millions Americans switched on his TV series running at ABC. brThirdly, Marc Cherry also has given some actresses an enormous second chance: brTeri Hatcher (one hardly blames "Susan" that she burned down the house of her rival Edie Britt (played by Nicolette Sheridan) - brTeri Hatcher waited for almost ten years for a connection success after her film "Lois and Clark" . brAnd Eva Longoria before had only a 5-minute, almost speechless listening appearance in the weak little film "Senorita Justice" . brAll this lack of success is blown away - and we do not hope, that the judgement (mentioned at first) will gain acceptance, that the "respect for men" has been undermined unpardonable and scornful ...
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