Desperate Housewives
Suburban underbellyDark currents beneath tidy suburban surfaces.This show: 10/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 9/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10Soap & telenovelaHeightened, continuing melodrama.This show: 7/10Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 7/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Teri HatcherFelicity HuffmanMarcia CrossEva LongoriaRicardo ChaviraBrenda Strong
Written by
Marc Cherry
Starring
Teri HatcherFelicity HuffmanMarcia CrossEva LongoriaRicardo ChaviraBrenda Strong
Written by
Marc Cherry
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Desperate Housewives Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | ||
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| S1 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.8 | ||
| S2 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.7 | |
| S3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 9.5 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.6 | ||
| S4 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.8 | ||||||||
| S5 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.4 | |
| S6 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.6 | ||
| S7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 9.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.6 | ||
| S8 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 9.2 |
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About
"Suburbia's prettiest lawns hide the darkest secrets"
On a sunny suburban street, a woman's suicide leaves her friends narrating gossip from beyond the grave, unearthing the secrets, affairs, and small crimes hiding behind every manicured lawn on Wisteria Lane. Four very different housewives navigate marriage, motherhood, and murder with equal parts wit and melodrama. It's soapy, fast-paced, and unapologetically addictive, blending dark comedy with genuine mystery arcs each season. The tone flips from broad sitcom jokes to genuinely twisted plotting within a single episode, carried almost entirely by its charismatic, sharp-tongued female leads.
Watch it for
the sharp, catty banter between four wildly different women hiding equally wild secrets.
Maybe skip if
you need realism, since plots lean heavily on soap-opera coincidence and melodrama.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12004
8.024K2316h 27m
Mary Alice Young, a seemingly perfect housewife commits suicide, fearing that a dark secret, involving her, her husband, and their son would be exposed.
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Season 22005
7.920K2418h 33m
The seemingly perfect lives in the suburban neighborhood of Fairview are shaken by the arrival of the mysterious Betty Applewhite.
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Season 32006
8.220K2316h 29m
The residents of Fairview deal with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge.
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Season 42007
8.214K1712h 9m
Katherine Mayfair and her family are introduced as the center of the season's mystery.
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Season 52008
8.118K2417h 10m
The season's mystery is centered around Edie Britt's third husband Dave Williams.
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Season 62009
7.916K2316h 27m
Angie Bolen and her family are the focus of this season's mystery.
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Season 72010
7.914K2316h 28m
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.
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Season 82011
8.115K2316h 27m
The housewives deal with covering up the murder of Gabrielle's stepfather Alejandro Perez.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Teri Hatcher Susan Mayer, Susan Delfino
Felicity Huffman Lynette Scavo
Marcia Cross Bree Van De Kamp, Bree Hodge
Eva Longoria Gabrielle Solis, Gabrielle Lang
Ricardo Chavira Carlos Solis
Brenda Strong Mary Alice Young
James Denton Mike Delfino
Doug Savant Tom Scavo
Shawn Pyfrom Andrew Van De Kamp
Nicollette Sheridan Edie Britt
Crew
Marc Cherry
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