Desperate Housewives

Titre original : Desperate Housewives

Genre : comédie

2 Saisons - 33 épisodes - En production - Crée en 2004

Origine : Usa - Format : 42 mn

Crée par : Marc Cherry, Charles Pratt

Avec : Marcia cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Gabrielle Solis

Synopsis : Le calme de Wisteria Lane n'est qu'une apparence... Si on s'immisce dans la vie privée de ses habitants, on s'aperçoit que tout est loin d'être rose. Tout commence lorsque Mary Alice se suicide... Dès lors, elle va faire un fidèle compte rendu de ce qui se passe dans ce quartier où tout semble si parfait...  

Notre avis : Fans de séries, attention, Desperate Housewives est incontournable !! Alliant subtilement comédie et drame, policier et action, humour noir et cynisme, cette série dispose de tous les ingrédients pour nous faire passer d'excellents moments : des personnages attachants, admirablement bien interprétés, de l'originalité, une ambiance à la American beauty et à la Agatha Christie,  des dialogues intelligents, des intrigues passionantes...

Bref, une série à ne pas louper !!

Répliques cultes :

Rex: I can't believe you tried to kill me.
Bree: Yes, well, I feel badly about that.

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Lynette: Now listen to me, you are going to behave. I will not be humiliated in front of the entire neighborhood. And just so you know that I'm serious, I am...
[sort un bout de papier de sa poche]
Porter Scavo: What's that?
Lynette: Santa's cell phone number!
Preston Scavo: How'd you get that?
Lynette: I know someone, who knows someone, who knows an elf. And if any of you acts up, so help me I will call Santa and tell him you want socks for Christmas! All right, are you willing to risk that?

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 Julie: When was the last time you had sex?
[Susan arrête de faire ce qu'elle faisait]
Julie: Are you mad that I asked?
Susan: No, I'm just trying to remember.

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Gabrielle: Before we got married we made a deal, remember? No kids.
Carlos: Deals are meant to be renegotiated.
Gabrielle: We're not negotiating my uterus.

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John Rowland: You know what I don't get?
Gabrielle: What?
John Rowland: Why you married Mr. Solis.
Gabrielle: Well, he promised to give me everything I've ever wanted.
John Rowland: Well, did he?
Gabrielle: Yes.
John Rowland: Then... why aren't you happy?
Gabrielle: Turns out I wanted all the wrong things.
John Rowland: So. Do you love him?
Gabrielle: I do.
John Rowland: Well, then, why are we here? Why are we doing this?
Gabrielle: Because I don't wanna wake up some morning with a sudden urge to blow my brains out.

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Mary Alice: An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our sight expands and we can suddenly see the world we left behind so clearly. Of course most of what's visible to the dead could also be seen by the living, if they would only take the time to look.

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