Desperate Housewives (2004)

Comedy · Drama · Mystery

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (154,047 votes)
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (2004)

7.97 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 8.8 43 min avg

Big finale
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Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	8.4	1,836
2	Ah, But Underneath	7.9	1,263
3	Pretty Little Picture	7.9	1,198
4	Who's That Woman?	7.9	1,122
5	Come in, Stranger	7.7	1,063
6	Running to Stand Still	7.8	1,038
7	Anything You Can Do	8.1	1,033
8	Guilty	8.4	1,069
9	Suspicious Minds	8.0	978
10	Come Back to Me	8.0	965
11	Move On	7.9	952
12	Every Day a Little Death	7.9	952
13	Your Fault	7.7	930
14	Love Is in the Air	8.0	929
15	Impossible	8.0	922
16	The Ladies Who Lunch	7.9	919
17	There Won't Be Trumpets	7.8	951
18	Children Will Listen	7.8	920
19	Live Alone and Like It	7.7	910
20	Fear No More	7.9	894
21	Sunday in the Park with George	7.7	891
22	Goodbye for Now	8.1	905
23	One Wonderful Day	8.8	1,087

Season 2 (2005)

7.91 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.7 46 min avg

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Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Next	8.0	910
2	You Could Drive a Person Crazy	7.7	842
3	You'll Never Get Away from Me	7.6	814
4	My Heart Belongs to Daddy	7.6	814
5	They Asked Me Why I Believe in You	7.6	808
6	I Wish I Could Forget You	7.7	813
7	Color and Light	7.8	807
8	The Sun Won't Set	7.8	809
9	That's Good, That's Bad	8.3	831
10	Coming Home	7.6	798
11	One More Kiss	8.1	809
12	We're Gonna Be All Right	7.6	784
13	There's Something About a War	8.0	790
14	Silly People	7.8	788
15	Thank You So Much	7.7	771
16	There Is No Other Way	7.8	762
17	Could I Leave You?	7.7	772
18	Everybody Says Don't	7.8	770
19	Don't Look at Me	7.9	773
20	It Wasn't Meant to Happen	8.1	838
21	I Know Things Now	8.2	802
22	No One Is Alone	8.2	797
23	Remember: Part 1	8.5	864
24	Remember: Part 2	8.7	919

Season 3 (2006)

8.04 avg 23 episodes 8.1 → 8.6 43 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Listen to the Rain on the Roof	8.1	938
2	It Takes Two	8.0	819
3	A Weekend in the Country	7.8	787
4	Like It Was	7.8	775
5	Nice She Ain't	7.8	781
6	Sweetheart, I Have to Confess	8.0	799
7	Bang	9.5	2,427
8	Children and Art	7.8	786
9	Beautiful Girls	7.7	764
10	The Miracle Song	8.1	802
11	No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds	7.9	764
12	Not While I'm Around	7.9	755
13	Come Play Wiz Me	7.7	775
14	I Remember That	8.0	777
15	The Little Things You Do Together	8.6	884
16	My Husband, the Pig	8.0	803
17	Dress Big	7.8	781
18	Liaisons	7.8	766
19	God, That's Good	8.0	762
20	Gossip	8.1	761
21	Into the Woods	8.0	771
22	What Would We Do Without You?	8.0	765
23	Getting Married Today	8.6	907

Season 4 (2007)

8.16 avg 17 episodes 8.4 → 8.8 43 min avg

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Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Now You Know	8.4	947
2	Smiles of a Summer Night	8.0	791
3	The Game	8.2	811
4	If There's Anything I Can't Stand	8.1	777
5	Art Isn't Easy	7.9	764
6	Now I Know, Don't Be Scared	8.4	849
7	You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover	7.9	763
8	Distant Past	7.9	771
9	Something's Coming	9.2	1,476
10	Welcome to Kanagawa	8.5	871
11	Sunday	7.8	754
12	In Buddy's Eyes	7.9	714
13	Hello, Little Girl	7.9	706
14	Opening Doors	7.8	701
15	Mother Said	7.8	711
16	The Gun Song	8.2	762
17	Free	8.8	1,012

Season 5 (2008)

8.02 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.4 43 min avg

Rebound
Rollercoaster
Mid-peak

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	You're Gonna Love Tomorrow	8.0	898
2	We're So Happy You're So Happy	7.7	715
3	Kids Ain't Like Everybody Else	7.8	715
4	Back in Business	7.7	683
5	Mirror, Mirror	8.3	743
6	There's Always a Woman	7.9	689
7	What More Do I Need?	7.8	666
8	City on Fire	8.6	799
9	Me and My Town	8.0	670
10	A Vision's Just a Vision	8.1	689
11	Home Is the Place	7.8	668
12	Connect! Connect!	7.8	656
13	The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened	9.3	1,913
14	Mama Spent Money When She Had None	7.7	653
15	In a World Where the Kings Are Employers	7.6	635
16	Crime Doesn't Pay	7.9	647
17	The Story of Lucy and Jessie	7.8	644
18	A Spark. To Pierce the Dark.	8.3	724
19	Look Into Their Eyes and You See What They Know	8.7	960
20	Rose's Turn	7.8	643
21	Bargaining	7.7	659
22	Marry Me a Little	7.8	643
23	Everybody Says Don't	7.9	650
24	If It's Only in Your Head	8.4	771

Season 6 (2009)

7.87 avg 23 episodes 7.8 → 8.6 43 min avg

Big finale

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Nice Is Different Than Good	7.8	754
2	Being Alive	7.8	664
3	Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover	7.8	653
4	The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues	7.7	643
5	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid	7.6	641
6	Don't Walk on the Grass	7.7	616
7	Careful the Things You Say	7.5	631
8	The Coffee Cup	7.7	628
9	Would I Think of Suicide?	7.9	641
10	Boom Crunch	8.5	807
11	If...	7.9	894
12	You Gotta Get a Gimmick	7.6	617
13	How About a Friendly Shrink?	7.7	610
14	The Glamorous Life	7.8	627
15	Lovely	8.3	708
16	The Chase	7.8	620
17	Chromolume No. 7	7.6	612
18	My Two Young Men	7.6	623
19	We All Deserve to Die	7.8	617
20	Epiphany	8.3	709
21	A Little Night Music	8.0	628
22	The Ballad of Booth	8.1	621
23	I Guess This Is Goodbye	8.6	780

Season 7 (2010)

7.91 avg 23 episodes 7.9 → 8.6 43 min avg

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Remember Paul?	7.9	702
2	You Must Meet My Wife	7.8	612
3	Truly Content	7.8	599
4	The Thing That Counts Is What's Inside	7.8	588
5	Let Me Entertain You	7.9	604
6	Excited and Scared	8.0	596
7	A Humiliating Business	7.8	599
8	Sorry Grateful	7.6	581
9	Pleasant Little Kingdom	7.9	611
10	Down the Block There's a Riot	9.0	989
11	Assassins	7.8	592
12	Where Do I Belong?	7.8	599
13	I'm Still Here	7.6	594
14	Flashback	7.6	582
15	Farewell Letter	7.7	582
16	Searching	7.9	599
17	Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed	7.9	580
18	Moments in the Woods	7.9	577
19	The Lies Ill-Concealed	7.7	568
20	I'll Swallow Poison on Sunday	7.7	563
21	Then I Really Got Scared	8.0	575
22	And Lots of Security...	8.2	610
23	Come on Over for Dinner	8.6	729

Season 8 (2011)

7.97 avg 23 episodes 8.2 → 9.1 43 min avg

Big finale
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Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Secrets That I Never Want to Know	8.2	776
2	Making the Connection	7.7	614
3	Watch While I Revise the World	7.6	600
4	School of Hard Knocks	7.5	589
5	The Art of Making Art	7.7	583
6	Witch's Lament	7.8	590
7	Always in Control	7.9	577
8	Suspicion Song	8.0	590
9	Putting It Together	8.3	635
10	What's to Discuss, Old Friend	8.1	607
11	Who Can Say What's True?	7.5	582
12	What's the Good of Being Good	7.7	585
13	Is This What You Call Love?	7.7	574
14	Get Out of My Life	8.0	581
15	She Needs Me	7.9	580
16	You Take for Granted	8.1	705
17	Women and Death	8.3	726
18	Any Moment	7.7	596
19	With So Little to Be Sure Of	7.8	592
20	Lost My Power	7.8	602
21	The People Will Hear	8.0	600
22	Give Me the Blame	8.9	870
23	Finishing the Hat	9.1	1,240