Desperate Housewives
It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Network
- ABC
- Genre
- Comedy-drama / mystery
- Premiered
- 2004
- Setting
- Wisteria Lane
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About
As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
Desperate Housewives took a sunny, perfect-looking suburban street and revealed it was riddled with affairs, murders, blackmail, and at least one body in a toy chest — all narrated, cheerfully, by a dead woman. It blended soap, comedy, and mystery into a guilty-pleasure phenomenon that everyone watched and pretended they didn't.
Behind every immaculate lawn on Wisteria Lane lurked a scandal, and the show mined that gap between picture-perfect and deeply unwell for years of delicious drama.
Glossy, twisty, and gleefully dark, Desperate Housewives is the show that proved the prettier the cul-de-sac, the worse the secrets buried under it.
Desperate Housewives season by season
Desperate Housewives ran for 8 seasons (2004–2011) across 179 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
