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: 7.7 (155,617 votes)
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2004)

7.97 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 8.8 43 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	8.4	1,867
2	Ah, But Underneath	7.9	1,287
3	Pretty Little Picture	7.9	1,222
4	Who's That Woman?	7.8	1,147
5	Come in, Stranger	7.7	1,089
6	Running to Stand Still	7.8	1,058
7	Anything You Can Do	8.1	1,056
8	Guilty	8.4	1,086
9	Suspicious Minds	8.0	1,002
10	Come Back to Me	8.0	989
11	Move On	7.9	973
12	Every Day a Little Death	7.9	969
13	Your Fault	7.7	948
14	Love Is in the Air	8.0	948
15	Impossible	8.0	940
16	The Ladies Who Lunch	7.9	938
17	There Won't Be Trumpets	7.8	964
18	Children Will Listen	7.8	939
19	Live Alone and Like It	7.7	932
20	Fear No More	7.9	913
21	Sunday in the Park with George	7.8	909
22	Goodbye for Now	8.1	923
23	One Wonderful Day	8.8	1,100

Season 2 (2005)

7.90 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.7 46 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Next	8.0	929
2	You Could Drive a Person Crazy	7.7	855
3	You'll Never Get Away from Me	7.6	828
4	My Heart Belongs to Daddy	7.6	825
5	They Asked Me Why I Believe in You	7.6	820
6	I Wish I Could Forget You	7.7	826
7	Color and Light	7.8	821
8	The Sun Won't Set	7.8	820
9	That's Good, That's Bad	8.3	838
10	Coming Home	7.6	809
11	One More Kiss	8.1	819
12	We're Gonna Be All Right	7.6	793
13	There's Something About a War	8.0	791
14	Silly People	7.8	788
15	Thank You So Much	7.7	782
16	There Is No Other Way	7.8	762
17	Could I Leave You?	7.7	781
18	Everybody Says Don't	7.7	777
19	Don't Look at Me	7.9	782
20	It Wasn't Meant to Happen	8.1	848
21	I Know Things Now	8.2	807
22	No One Is Alone	8.2	802
23	Remember: Part 1	8.5	866
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	942
2	It Takes Two	8.0	826
3	A Weekend in the Country	7.8	793
4	Like It Was	7.8	782
5	Nice She Ain't	7.8	786
6	Sweetheart, I Have to Confess	8.0	807
7	Bang	9.5	2,438
8	Children and Art	7.8	794
9	Beautiful Girls	7.7	772
10	The Miracle Song	8.1	808
11	No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds	7.9	771
12	Not While I'm Around	7.9	762
13	Come Play Wiz Me	7.7	784
14	I Remember That	8.0	783
15	The Little Things You Do Together	8.6	880
16	My Husband, the Pig	8.0	807
17	Dress Big	7.8	790
18	Liaisons	7.8	775
19	God, That's Good	8.0	766
20	Gossip	8.1	760
21	Into the Woods	8.0	775
22	What Would We Do Without You?	8.0	769
23	Getting Married Today	8.6	901

Season 4 (2007)

8.16 avg 17 episodes 8.4 → 8.8 43 min avg

Rebound

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Now You Know	8.4	942
2	Smiles of a Summer Night	8.0	790
3	The Game	8.2	805
4	If There's Anything I Can't Stand	8.1	773
5	Art Isn't Easy	7.9	764
6	Now I Know, Don't Be Scared	8.4	846
7	You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover	7.9	768
8	Distant Past	7.9	774
9	Something's Coming	9.2	1,482
10	Welcome to Kanagawa	8.5	868
11	Sunday	7.8	755
12	In Buddy's Eyes	7.9	716
13	Hello, Little Girl	7.9	707
14	Opening Doors	7.8	706
15	Mother Said	7.9	715
16	The Gun Song	8.2	756
17	Free	8.8	1,005

Season 5 (2008)

8.01 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.4 43 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	You're Gonna Love Tomorrow	8.0	899
2	We're So Happy You're So Happy	7.7	717
3	Kids Ain't Like Everybody Else	7.8	717
4	Back in Business	7.7	687
5	Mirror, Mirror	8.3	743
6	There's Always a Woman	7.9	694
7	What More Do I Need?	7.8	672
8	City on Fire	8.6	791
9	Me and My Town	8.0	671
10	A Vision's Just a Vision	8.1	689
11	Home Is the Place	7.8	669
12	Connect! Connect!	7.8	659
13	The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened	9.3	1,936
14	Mama Spent Money When She Had None	7.7	657
15	In a World Where the Kings Are Employers	7.6	638
16	Crime Doesn't Pay	7.8	648
17	The Story of Lucy and Jessie	7.7	646
18	A Spark. To Pierce the Dark.	8.3	720
19	Look Into Their Eyes and You See What They Know	8.7	963
20	Rose's Turn	7.8	642
21	Bargaining	7.7	661
22	Marry Me a Little	7.8	644
23	Everybody Says Don't	7.9	651
24	If It's Only in Your Head	8.4	774

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	763
2	Being Alive	7.8	669
3	Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover	7.8	660
4	The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues	7.7	650
5	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid	7.6	649
6	Don't Walk on the Grass	7.7	621
7	Careful the Things You Say	7.5	638
8	The Coffee Cup	7.7	634
9	Would I Think of Suicide?	7.9	648
10	Boom Crunch	8.5	816
11	If...	7.9	906
12	You Gotta Get a Gimmick	7.5	622
13	How About a Friendly Shrink?	7.7	613
14	The Glamorous Life	7.8	632
15	Lovely	8.3	712
16	The Chase	7.8	623
17	Chromolume No. 7	7.6	615
18	My Two Young Men	7.6	625
19	We All Deserve to Die	7.8	618
20	Epiphany	8.3	710
21	A Little Night Music	8.0	627
22	The Ballad of Booth	8.1	621
23	I Guess This Is Goodbye	8.6	775

Season 7 (2010)

7.90 avg 23 episodes 7.9 → 8.6 43 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Remember Paul?	7.9	704
2	You Must Meet My Wife	7.8	613
3	Truly Content	7.8	600
4	The Thing That Counts Is What's Inside	7.8	590
5	Let Me Entertain You	7.8	604
6	Excited and Scared	8.0	598
7	A Humiliating Business	7.8	600
8	Sorry Grateful	7.6	583
9	Pleasant Little Kingdom	7.9	612
10	Down the Block There's a Riot	9.0	981
11	Assassins	7.8	592
12	Where Do I Belong?	7.8	600
13	I'm Still Here	7.6	595
14	Flashback	7.6	583
15	Farewell Letter	7.7	582
16	Searching	7.9	599
17	Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed	7.9	579
18	Moments in the Woods	7.9	578
19	The Lies Ill-Concealed	7.7	569
20	I'll Swallow Poison on Sunday	7.7	564
21	Then I Really Got Scared	8.0	573
22	And Lots of Security...	8.2	609
23	Come on Over for Dinner	8.6	728

Season 8 (2011)

7.97 avg 23 episodes 8.2 → 9.1 43 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Secrets That I Never Want to Know	8.2	777
2	Making the Connection	7.6	616
3	Watch While I Revise the World	7.6	601
4	School of Hard Knocks	7.5	593
5	The Art of Making Art	7.7	588
6	Witch's Lament	7.8	596
7	Always in Control	7.9	581
8	Suspicion Song	8.0	592
9	Putting It Together	8.3	633
10	What's to Discuss, Old Friend	8.1	611
11	Who Can Say What's True?	7.5	585
12	What's the Good of Being Good	7.7	587
13	Is This What You Call Love?	7.7	577
14	Get Out of My Life	8.0	583
15	She Needs Me	7.9	583
16	You Take for Granted	8.2	710
17	Women and Death	8.3	732
18	Any Moment	7.7	598
19	With So Little to Be Sure Of	7.8	595
20	Lost My Power	7.8	607
21	The People Will Hear	8.0	604
22	Give Me the Blame	8.9	876
23	Finishing the Hat	9.1	1,261