The television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ is based on a group of friends (Susan, Bree, Lynette, and Gabby) who have just found out their neighbour/friend Mary-Alice (the narrator voice-over) had killed herself in a small suburban town called Fairview. Susan, Bree, Lynette, and Gabby were all her friends and so they are determined to find out the reason behind her suicide. This is how the show begins and soon after this very traumatic event on Wisteria Lane, it soon leads to other more severe secrets and lies. As one secret unfolds itself, many more come out and all hell breaks loose. It is up to the girls to find out what exactly happened to their friend, but instead they find out what their neighborhood is truly like.
The television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ is important to me because it is a show that can relate to almost anyone, but more importantly to women. . It is important that other people should see ‘Desperate Housewives’ because everyone can relate to it in some way, even men. Everyone assumes that ‘Desperate Housewives’ is only a women-orientated programme. This may be true, but the main characters of the show (Susan, Bree, Lynette and gabby) need their men-conflicts and relationships to keep the show going.
It is also important that other people should see ‘Desperate Housewives’ because the defiant, control/will power of understanding over the men of ‘Wisteria Lane’ is strong. But with this it somehow reflects the women to weaken to the opposite sex (the men).
‘Desperate Housewives’ I think was created to prove a point, that women may be labeled as ‘housewives’ in today’s society and in the past, to the men they also see or like to see women as ‘desperate’ ‘housewives’. I have come to this conclusion through the reason that this fantastically made show was made from a man named Marc Cherry. He said from an interview on the ‘Desperate Housewives’ season one DVD collection that his ideas for the show came from his own childhood. He also said that he used to watch his mother and would analyse her every step.
The television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ content is important to the show as a whole, because without the reasons and explanations of what is going on through each episode, it would be very hard to understand the full concept of its existence. For example, each idea carried through the storylines has to be clearly outlined in detail before coming together to create an episode. It is important to society that this is done correctly because if it were not, then there would be no point of screening it. It is also important that if the message of the episode is not portrayed or is confusing then the audience/viewers would loose focus and will not know what is happening, this making it unrealistic.
When watching this television programme it makes you feel like you’re discovering what the characters are doing and how they feel. This is why the television programmes ‘Desperate Housewives’ shows great significance and relevance to society of today.
Having this strange, comforting understanding of the mysteries with ‘Wisteria Lane’ of the show ‘Desperate Housewives’, it gives us the sense of relevance. For example: whenever there is a mystery to be solved down Wisteria Lane in ‘Desperate Housewives’ they need to be realistic because if they are too unrealistic the audience will detach from watching because it is the ‘realism’ that the show brings, makes viewers want to watch more. This is why the television programme, ‘Desperate housewives’ is special in it’s own right because it is by having the ‘un-known’ and ‘realism’ that makes it special.
The main themes behind the television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ is based on the lives of Susan, Bree, Lynette, and Gabby of Wisteria Lane, Fairview. This is where they have to conquer; secrets, lies, lust, death, and try to solve mysteries to make their lives worth living for. The television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ also; explores the role of women, generates ideas or women’s insecurities, shows love, family, defeat towards each other, cause people to use lies, tactics, revenge to opposite se. However, no matter how much hatred goes on between characters, they are always there for each other in some way.
With the television programme, ‘Desperate Housewives’ they seem to have relationships with the guys only on their street. For one of the girls is married so she has only been with one guy, but for the rest of them, they have had several relationships with guys that seem to only live done Wisteria Lane. For example: Bree: has been married twice, Lynette: once, Gabby: once, had an affair with her gardener, and is now engaged, and for Susan: has had an on-off relationship with the street’s plumber and is now in a love-triangle. The storyline with Susan is the one that keeps the audience on their toes, because without her uncertainty and bad choices, the show would not be the same.
The drama carried through the cliffhangers at the end of each episode keeps viewers and the audience at the end of their seat. So in America, when they had their two-week break in the middle of season three, it was torture for the audience to wait until it was next on. Having a cliff-hanger at the end of each episode is important to the show as a whole because if at each episode it ended with a satisfying ending then not many people would want to keep watching because it feels like the show has ended for good. So by having a cliffhanger with a crucifying twist at the end where you have to wait until the next week to see what happens next, it keeps people from switching off.
The television programme, “Desperate Housewives’ is important to watch because it bring character and a different side of humour to society has seen before. This is where we get to see a street work against and for each other through: secrets, lies, lust, love-triangles, blackmail, death and mysteries beyond our means. With the old tension between neighbours and love-triangles between two lovers, ‘Desperate Housewives is a must-see television programme. It is only one of the few television programmes in today’s society that is enjoyable to watch. Also, due to conflicts between rivals on ‘wisteria lane’ like with Susan and Edie, it makes the television programme of ‘Desperate Housewives’ mind-boggling. ‘Desperate Housewives’ brings its own character to the light and to the people who have not watched it, you are missing out on one of the hottest television programmes ever.
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