I watched the first episode of Desperate Housewives because I had seen a write up on the program in my TV page and I have to say it appealed to me. However, because the programme was shown on Wednesdays, I didn't get to see every episode so I was delighted to find that I had been given Series ... Read review
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Desperate Housewives is refreshingly original, addictive television at its best. Now you can spend the night with the beautiful women of Wisteria Lane and relive every minute of the weekly event that heated up televisions around the world. The complete first series reveals even more dirty laundry on the housewives and their nosy neighbours.Plus, with spectacular special features, including extended episodes and alternate endings, this sizzling six-DVD set has even more surprises in store for you.Series 2Television's hottest show gets even juicier in its delicious second series. The women of Wisteria Lane are back, and, just when you thought things couldn't get any steamier, a new neighbour and her handsome teenage son arrive to make new waves on the shady side of suburbia.Join the Emmy Award-winning cast for all 24 episodes of Series Two, and discover Bree's new life without Rex, Lynette's chaotic return to the working world, and what becomes of Susan's on-again, off-again relationship with Mike. That's just the beginning of the secrets in store in this seven-disc DVD experience. Sizzling with sensational bonus features, including revealing, never-before-seen storylines featuring Susan Mayer and Lynette Scavo, there are almost too many things to love in Desperate Housewives.Series 3It's time to air some dirty laundry. In the Emmy Award-winning show's sensational third series, the gossip is juicier, the secrets are more scandalous and the revenge is even sweeter.Experience every tantalizing episode of Series Three, and get the dish on Susan's new love, Bree's unsettling marriage to Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and a dangerous new presence living down the lane. Everything will come out in the wash in this spectacular six-disc set.Bubbling over with exclusive bonus features, including a behind-the-scenes look at the season finale and even more secrets straight fromthe show, this is the sudsiest series yet.Series 4Take a trip to the steamy side of suburbia as the acclaimed hit comedy Desperate Housewives is hotter, hipper and even more exciting in its sizzling fourth series.Temperatures are rising behind the closed doors of TV's favourite guilty pleasure. Primetime's most desired women are back, and they're joined by an old friend (Dana Delany) who brings the simmering neighbourhood to a boil.Experience all 17 episodes of Series Four in a scintillating fi ve-disc set. Blazing with exclusive bonus features, including a deeper look at the characters' private lives, Desperate Housewives burns even brighter on DVD.
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spirited, sudsy drama's first three seasons. Bubbling over with sensational bonus features, including extended, unaired episodes, this sizzling collection is packed with everything you could ever desire.Season 1:An instant hit with fans and critics alike, Desperate Housewives burst onto the scene with gripping plotlines and irresistible characters. Watch how it all began - from the death of Mary Alice to Susan's on-again, off-again relationship with Mike to the season's stunning final minute. It's addicting television at its best.Season 2:Television's hottest show gets even hotter in its delicious second season. All your favorite characters return and, just when you thought things couldn't get any steamier, a new neighbor and her handsome teenage son arrive to make new waves on the shady side of suburbia.Season 3:It's time to air some dirty laundry. In the critically acclaimed show's sensational third season, the gossip is juicier, the secrets are more scandalous and the revenge is even sweeter. Get the dish on Susan's new love, Bree's unsettling marriage to Orson and a dangerous new presence living down the lane.
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television's hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES pilot episode, when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver from a drawer and shoots herself in the head. In the process of trying to make sense of her sudden and inexplicable suicide, Mary Alice's friends end up revealing just as many secrets about themselves and their neighbours as they do about her past. Each episode follows the ups and downs in the lives of bored trophy wife Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), klutzy-yet-charming Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), frustrated stay-at-home-mom Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), anal-retentive homemaker Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) and man-eater Edie (Nicollette Sheridan). Throughout the 5 series, each woman faces her fair share of drama and does her part in helping to uncover a string of mysteries that go deeper than anyone can imagine. The fifth series sees events flash forward five years, revealing the mysteries of the intervening years through clever flashbacks.
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Now you can spend the night with the beautiful powerful and delightfully manipulative ladies of Wisteria Lane and relive every minute of the first three seasons! Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Ah But Underneath 3. Pretty Little Picture 4. Who's that Woman? 5. Come in Stranger 6. Running to Stand Still 7. Anything You Can Do 8. Guilty 9. Suspicious Minds 10. Come Back to Me 11. Move On 12. Every Day a Little Death 13. Your Fault 14. Love Is in the Air (a.k.a. What I Did for Love) 15. Impossible 16. The Ladies Who Lunch 17. There Won't Be Trumpets 18. Children Will Listen 19. Live Alone and Like It (a.k.a. An Unexpected Song) 20. Fear No More 21. Sunday in the Park with George 22. Goodbye For Now 23. One Wonderful Day 24. Next 25. You Could Drive A Person Crazy 26. You'll Never Get Away From Me 27. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 28. They Asked Me Why I Believe In You 29. I Wish I Could Forget You 30. Colour And Light (aka: I Must Be Dreaming) 31. The Sun Won't Set 32. That's Good That's Bad 33. Coming Home (aka: I've Got You Under My Skin) 34. One More Kiss 35. We're Gonna Be Alright 36. There's Something About A War 37. Silly People 38. Thank You So Much 39. There Is No Other Way 40. Could I Leave You? 41. Everybody Says Don't 42. Don't Look At Me 43. It Wasn't Meant To Happen 44. I Know Things Now 45. No One Is Alone 46. Remember (Part 1) 47. Remember (Part 2) 48. Listen To The Rain On The roof 49. It Takes Two 50. A Weekend In The Country 51. Like It Was 52. Nice She Ain't 53. Sweetheart I Have To Confess 54. Bang 55. Children And Art 56. Beautiful Girls 57. The Miracle Song 58. No Fits No Fights No Feuds 59. Not While I'm Around 60. Come Play Wiz Me 61. I Remember That 62. The Little things You Do Together 63. My Husband The Pig 64. Dress Big 65. Liaisons 66. God That's Good 67. Gossip 68. Into The Woods 69. What Would We Do Without You? 70. Getting Married Today
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Advantages: great characters, gripping storylines Disadvantages: price
...watched the first episode of Desperate Housewives because I had seen a write up on the program in my TV page and I have to say it appealed to me. However, because the programme was shown on Wednesdays, I didn't get to see every episode so I was delighted to find that I had been given Series one on DVD by my parents for Christmas.
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This DVD set comes in a white case with a picture of the desperate housewives on the front. ... ...plot of what happens in Desperate Housewives and to be honest, there is so much going on in every episode that it would be difficult to detail it all in a review anyway.
There are 5 main 'Desperate Housewives' who all live on Wisteria Lane which from the outside, looks like a very prefect place to live.
In the 1st episode we met Mary-Alice Young who narrates throughout the whole series. Mary-Alice Young appeared to lead ... more
I watched the first episode of Desperate Housewives because I had seen a write up on the program in my TV page and I have to say it appealed to me. However, because the programme was shown on Wednesdays, I didn't get to see every episode so I was delighted to find that I had been given Series one on DVD by my parents for Christmas.
Packaging This DVD set comes in a white case with a picture of the desperate housewives on the front. The characters are dressed in white and look stunning in the pictures. The title is written above their picture in red writing. Inside the case are 6 separate DVDs containing the 22 episodes from the 1st series.
Price This was bought for me as a present but I have done a bit of research and this DVD would cost you £24.99 on play.com and on amazon it would cost you £23. You can get this box set cheaper from the 'new and used' section on both of the above websites.
Storyline I don't want to give too much away about the plot of what happens in Desperate Housewives and to be honest, there is so much going on in every episode that it would be difficult to detail it all in a review anyway.
There are 5 main 'Desperate Housewives' who all live on Wisteria Lane which from the outside, looks like a very prefect place to live.
In the 1st episode we met Mary-Alice Young who narrates throughout the whole series. Mary-Alice Young appeared to lead a perfect life, that is, until one day, she is found dead in her own house and appears to have shot herself in the head. The Desperate Housewives start to question exactly what was wrong in Mary-Alice's life for her to end it. Throughout the serious, the desperate housewives discover various things which make them question the truth about the death of their friend.
As well as the above continued theme in the series, you also get to learn about the past and present lives of the desperate housewives as well as meeting a few new faces that have moved to Wisteria Lane.
I will stop here as saying much more than this will begin to give away parts of the storyline. However with each explanation of the characters, I will include parts of the storyline that are relevant to each character - hopefully without giving away too much of the storyline.
Characters
Susan Mayer (played by Teri Hatcher) Susan is a single Mum to her daughter Julie, who to be honest often acts like the mother herself. Susan is extremely scatty and has a very close relationship with her daughter, almost to the point where they seem more like best friends than mother and daughter. However, bearing in mind that Julie is only 13, the viewer is left wondering if Susan should try and sort out her own problems rather than getting her teenage daughter to help her all the time. Susan's husband left her and Julie a couple of years ago and although sad at her failed marriage, Susan is always on the look out for new love and definitely believes in 'Happy Ever After'. Throughout the 1st series, it becomes obvious that Susan has feelings for Mike, a new face that moves to Wisteria Lane and you get to see if their relationship will develop or not.
Gabrielle Solis (played by Eva Longoria) Gabrielle is beautiful and on the surface it looks like she has everything a woman could want - a rich husband, a big house - but we soon start to see that not everything is perfect for Gabrielle. Gabrielle enjoys spending her husbands hard earning money and keeping fit. We also see her enjoying a full blown affair with her and her husbands 17 year old gardener.
Lynette Scavo (played by Felicity Huffman) This woman is a god, she has 4 children, all under the age of 5 and all quite misbehaved. Her husband works away from home a lot so she is left to look after the children for most of her time. Out of all the housewives, Lynette definitely seems to have the most solid marriage, her and Tom (her husband) seem truly devoted to one another and their children. Lynette used to be a high flying woman in the advertising industry but gave it all up to raise her children while her husband became the main bread winner. You can see at times that it almost seems as it she regrets that decision as she really did enjoy her work and bringing up 4 children under the age of five certainly proves to be hard work.
Bree Van Der Kamp (played by Marcia Cross) Bree is a bit of a clean freak. She worries constantly about how other people perceive her and her family and if even the family run into problems, she believes that as long as her lawn looks nice and her windows are clean, people wont suspect a thing. Bree is married to Rex and assumes their relationship is rock solid but it soon becomes apparent that Rex wants a divorce and her 2 teenage children are starting t o rebel. Bree is extremely prim and proper and she would hate to think that people in her neighbourhood know what is going on in her personal life. While struggling to keep her family together and also dealing with her own emotions, she still feels the need to give the impression to the rest of the neighbourhood that everything is perfect in the Van Der Kamp household.
Edie Britt (played by Nicolette Sheridan) Edie Brit is the bitch of Wisteria Lane. She is blonde, with blue eyes and big boobs and often likes to walk around the neighbourhood with her legs and cleavage on show. Although she is tolerated by all the other housewives, she is not part of the close knit group that the above characters belong to. It is quite obvious that Susan and Edie have a lot of history and are sarcastically friendly to one another which is very amusing to watch. Edie and Susan both take a shine to Mike in this series as are often fighting for his attentions.
Summary Personally I love Desperate Housewives. Even my boyfriend and my male friend like it. It is full of gripping storylines and quite often there are several explosive stories happening in unison so there is never a moment to get bored. I always feel that every episode leaves you wishing you knew what was going to happen next.
You grow to love and hate the characters you meet throughout the series. Every housewife has an extremely different personality and it is interesting to watch people who are so different actually forming a really great friendship together.
Along with the gripping storylines, there are also quite a few yummy men in the show. Lynette's husband Tom is quite dishy and most people have heard of Jesse Metcalfe (who plays Gabrielle's 17 year old lover!!) who is also very nice to look at.
The best thing about having the DVD box set is that you can watch all the episodes back to back (if you have the time) and you can also watch them in sequence (when I watched the serious on TV, I quite often missed weeks due to being at work and then found it difficult to catch up on what was happening the following week)
Advantages: Brilliantly written, directed, casted, costumed and with a great story! Disadvantages: You may not get much else done until you have watched it all!
Seeing Desperate Housewives advertised on tv for the past few years, it has always appealed to me but having to get up early for work, it was always on way past my bedtime (some ridiculous hour like 10:30pm or some other obscure time that surely no other 25 year old would be awake for!) so I very rarely got to see it.
My boyfriend always raved about it (he said he thought the plot of the show was good but I'm thinking it may have more to do with ... ...In a nut shell though, Desperate Housewives tells the tale of life on Wisteria Lane in Suburban Fairview. The houses are large and exquisite, the gardens perfect and the people beautiful and rich - what could be better? Well, as you find out in the first episode, life is not as great as it seems on Wisteria Lane. Everybody has secrets and how much do you really want to know about your Neighbours?.
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Advantages: funny, gorgeous, with a STORY Disadvantages: none that come to mind
...pal Stu bought me the Desperate Housewives season 1 box set- which I have only just got round to watching, as my permanent DVDs come second to my blockbuster rentals. I've been watching about 2 or 3 episodes a night and love it. The series was on Channel 4 last year when I was in my second year at uni, and as it was on a Wednesday night, we missed rather a few due to more pressing matters like consuming far too much cider and black at the Student ... ...has no control. She is desperate to keep up with the other supermoms of Wisteria Lane, and will go to any means to do so, even getting hooked on her terrible twins' ADD medicine to get things done. She longs for peace, tranquillity, and for her former life- a bigshot advertising executive.
Bree Van Der Kamp is the model woman, and always strives to be. Her kids are seemingly perfectly brought up, her marriage great, and her lawn always perfectly ...
fabulous_girl 05.05.2006
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Advantages: A tonne of extras, amazing writing and acting, plenty of eye candy for all. Disadvantages: Im trying to think of one but I really cant.
From the day I saw the adverts for this, I knew I wanted to watch it. I mean hell! It had man candy in it! (still does actually) I was impressed from the get go to tell the truth. This dark comedy drama starts with a shocker, within the first five minutes we get to see someone shoot herself in the head. From then on the show has managed to build and maintain a level of humour, curiosity and drama that I've never witnessed all in the same room.
Narrated ... ...young), we get to see everything she can and this woman sees everything now that she is dead. She follows the lives of those she was close to when she had a pulse and keeps the comedy going with sarcasm that only dead people could muster.
Her friends are (as any good friend should be) entirely far too curious for their own good when they learn about mary-alices demise and this starts off a great suspense filled story line with more twists than an ...
ryanando 13.10.2007
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Advantages: Great dynamic between the women, good storyline Disadvantages: None
Desperate Housewives, which one are you?
The Desperate Housewives DVD Season 1, I think, makes the perfect gift for the lady in your life as just about every personality is represented by the ladies on Wisteria Lane.
If you haven't heard of Desperate Housewives before (and if not where have you been!), it a TV show which has reached cult like status. It follows the lives of a number of different women on the fictional Wisteria Lane and their long ... ...shown just what life is like for an everyday average street in somewhere in America. The street is anything but average in my opinion as the houses are big and immaculate, the clothes designer and the problems anything but normal.
The show is very cleverly done and is very addictive. The show is played out with the help of a voice over, we later find out that this is the voice of Mary Alice Young, a former resident of the street who is now deceased ...
Spottydog11 11.12.2008
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Well from a male point of view i find desperate housewives very boring, but i did buy it for my girlfriend last month and she cant get enough of it, it is worth buying as a gift to your girlfriend/mother and it gives us lads a couple of hours peace. ...
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Advantages: Some brilliant storylines and laughs Disadvantages: A womens show
About a War, Silly People, Thank You So Much, There Is No Other Way, Could I Leave You?, Everybody Says Don't, It Wasn't Meant to Happen, I Know Things Now, No One Is Alone, Remember (1) and Remember (2).
There are four lead characters for the show, and they make up the 'housewives'.
SUSAN MAYER (Teri Hatcher) - Famed for playing Lois Lane in Superman and being a Bond Girl, Teri plays the dippy single mother in Susan. You know she's always going to make a fool out of herself, although it seems to have happened so many times she doesn't embarrass anymore. She has many love interest, her prime target being the plumber, Mike Delfino.
LYNETTE SCARVO (Felicity Huffman) - Happily married, Lynette is a stay at home wife in the first series to her four children. Of course like any marriage it has it's ups and downs, but you get ...
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Release date
10/10/2005
No of Discs
6
Catalogue No
BUA 0007801
Barcode
8717418056209
Languages
Main Language
English
Subtitle Language
English, Norwegian
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Deleted Scenes With Optional Marc Cherry Commentary, A Stroll Down Wisteria Lane Featurette, Marc Cherrys Favourite Episodes, Desperate Housewives Around The World, Deleted Scenes, Marc Cherry Audio Commentaries, Dressing Wisteria Lane Featurette, The Ladies Favourite Scenes, Behind The Scenes Of Desperate Housewives, Secrets Of Wisteria Lane Featurette, Bloopers From The Set
Aspect Ratio
1.78 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
All is not as it seems on Wisteria Lane, the pristinely manicured suburban setting of television's hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES pilot episode, when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver from a drawer and shoots herself in the head. In the process of trying to make sense of her sudden and inexplicable suicide, Mary Alice's friends end up revealing just as many secrets about themselves and their neighbours as they do about her past. Narrated by the spirit of Mary Alice, each episode follows the ups and downs in the lives of bored trophy wife Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), klutzy-yet-charming Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), frustrated stay-at-home-mom Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), and anal-retentive homemaker Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross). As love-struck Susan competes for the attention of new neighbour Mike Delfino (James Denton) with neighbourhood seductress Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan), Gabrielle takes a liking to her hunky 17-year-old gardener. Meanwhile, Bree attempts to fix her life's problems through obsessive housecleaning, and Lynette struggles to control her children while at the same time keeping her sanity. Throughout the course of the show's wildly popular debut season, each woman faces her fair share of drama and does her part in helping to uncover a mystery that goes deeper than anyone can imagine.
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