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Thursday, May 26, 2005
'Desperate Housewives' makes Philippine TV debut
NEVER has a Philippine network been so happy to be desperate as Studio 23 this Thursday as the "ka-barkada" network holds the Philippine premiere of the world's biggest new television sensation "Desperate Housewives" at 9:10 p.m.
Starring Golden Globe and Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards winner Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Nicolette Sheridan, the smart, satirical and compulsively watchable "Desperate Housewives" is already a runaway hit with all audiences, from men to women in all age groups. It's the highest-rating new show on US television and the winner of a SAG Award for Best Comedy Ensemble and a Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, to boot - and it's only the first season, too.
"Desperate Housewives" is America's biggest TV hit in years - and there's nary a hip, wisecracking twentysomething or a crime-fighting forensic scientist in sight. In fact, unlike a great many of the formulaic television shows on the air today, "Desperate Housewives" tackles a topic a lot of people never considered - the secret life of housewives. But the women of Wisteria Lane aren't your ordinary housewives, either. Susan Meyer (Teri Hatcher) is a neurotic single mom still bruised by the fact that her husband left her for a 20-year-old woman. Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) is a formerly high-powered businesswoman left powerless by the most humiliating enemy ever: her four young sons. Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross) is the perfect housewife, with the perfect house and perfect family - except that her children hate her and her husband wants a separation. And former model Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) is rich, gorgeous and spoiled - and having an affair with her underage gardener under the nose of her starting-to-be-suspicious husband.
But even outwardly placid communities like Wisteria Lane get shattered, when faced with a bullet. Literally. It was one self-inflicted bullet to the brain that killed Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), a friend of Susan, Lynette, Bree and Gabrielle. Among her personal effects, her friends found a threatening note, alluding to a dark secret in Mary Alice's life - a secret Mary Alice may have tried to prevent with her death.
Was Mary Alice being blackmailed? Who could have been blackmailing her? And would Mary Alice's friends be putting themselves in danger as they get even closer and closer to finding out what Mary Alice's secret is?
Find out what the secret lives of Wisteria Lane's "Desperate Housewives" are like starting Thursday at 9:10 p.m. only on Studio 23. (PR)
(May 26, 2005 issue)
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