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.
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