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...maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan--one area of TV targeted to women--are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids by her business-traveling husband. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is abandoned emotionally by her rich spouse. They get mad and get even, through affairs, subterfuge, even poisoning. When her husband asks for a divorce, Bree (Marcia Cross) serves him a salad with onions...
...maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan - one area of TV targeted to women - are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids by her business-traveling husband. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is abandoned emotionally by her rich spouse. They get mad and get even, through affairs, subterfuge, even poisoning. When her husband asks for a divorce, Bree (Marcia Cross) serves him a salad with onions...
...success of Housewives coming. And men aren't the only villains. There are also women who righteously judge other women: the local gossip, the neighbor who chides Lynette over how she disciplines her kids. None too subtly, these bad women are piggy looking and dowdy, unlike the lissome, likable Huffman and Hatcher. It's not the most feminist way of drawing distinctions, but sisterhood goes only so far (on both sides of the camera: the creator and 6 of the 10 writers...
...Desperate Housewives (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a suburban mom (Brenda Strong) wakes up one morning, does her chores, then shoots herself in the head. Her suicide leads her friends to question their own unhappy lives, from the career woman mired at home with her unruly kids (Felicity Huffman) to the maniacally perfect Martha Stewart wannabe (Marcia Cross...
Nowinski was not selected as the winner, defeated by Maven Huffman at the final stage in the competition...