Network TV’s response to HBO’s wildly successful soap operas, such as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood. Four intelligent and previously successful-in-the-outside-world women are trapped in married lives in an affluent McSuburb. Red-headed Bree is the epitome of Suburban Perfection and Control. Lynette cannot keep up with four small kids. Gabrielle is a former model who married for money and is having an affair with a high school boy. The fourth character, Susan, is a divorcee whose husband dumped her.
Each of the gals has her own struggles and secrets that bump her off the road of McHappy Life. Wysteria Lane abounds with Dark Secrets. It is so fascinating, that after Women’s Lib, women’s lives could still and yet be so bound by such sexist conventions.