

They work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes, and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their-on the surface-beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. The storyline covers fifteen years of the women's lives over eight seasons, set between the years 2004–2008, and later 2013–2019 (the storyline includes a five-year jump in time, as well as flashbacks and flashforwards ranging from the 1980s to the 2020s). Set on Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State, Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their friend and neighbor who took her life by suicide in the pilot episode. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Executive producer Marc Cherry served as showrunner. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a total of 180 episodes. In the future, she runs a successful shopping website, and she and Carlos move to a California mansion.Desperate Housewives is an American comedy-drama and mystery television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Gabrielle is relieved that neither Bree nor her husband Carlos (the real killer) went to prison for murdering the stepfather who abused her as a child.


The ladies are no longer desperate, having found personal and professional success.Īfter being exonerated on murder charges, cookbook mogul Bree finds love with her unreasonably kind lawyer, moves to the south and becomes a politician. Boring is not one of them,” Teri Hatcher’s Susan Delfino told the new owner of her home as she packed up and said goodbye to her infamous street as the ghosts of Wisteria Lane looked on.įans didn’t see what lies ahead for Susan, but they did catch glimpses into the future of her three best friends, Marcia Cross’s Bree Van de Kamp, Eva Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis and Felicity Hoffman’s Lynette Scavo. Desperate Housewives actresses (L-R) Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria along with the rest of the cast accept the "Favorite Television Series" award during the National Council of La Raza ALMA Awards in Santa Monica, California September 10, 2011.
