Emmy and Golden Globe award winning drama-comedy Desperate Housewives is a prime time television series that showcases the lives of the women that live on Wisteria Lane a street in the fictional American town of Fairview, Eagle State. In April 2007 it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 115 to 119 million viewers.

1. Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Britt
2. Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis
3. Marcia Cross as Bree Hodge
4. Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo
5. Teri Hatcher as Susan Delfino

1. Ranked in 4th place with 23.7 million viewers
2. Ranked in 4th place with 22.2 million viewers
3. Ranked in 10th place with 17.5 million viewers
4. Ranked in 4th place as of April 2008 with 17.9 million viewers

• CleverDonkey.com: Desperate Housewives Review (3/4)
  • "Combine Sex in the City, the Stepford Wives, and The Gilmore Girls, add a dash of Twin Peaks, and you have the recipe for Desperate Housewives."
• National Review Online: Move Over Lifetime - Desperate Housewives Review
  • "Who cares if it's shallow, retro, and anti-feminist? All the women on Desperate Housewives are, after all, "just housewives." And that's a major part of its charm."
• BlogCritics Magazine: Desperate Housewives Review
  • "Watching the wives and their husbands try to keep up carefully crafted facades is where much of the show's humor comes from, however dark it may be."
• FilmStew.com: Desperate Housewives Review
  • "Rarely has desperation been so intriguing, or so unabashedly sexy."
• PopMatters: Desperate Housewives Review
  • "In its acerbic yet frothy way, Desperate Housewives satirizes women's cliched, impossible choices: career or family, love or sex, independence or intimacy."

• DVD Verdict: Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season Review
  • "Desperate Housewives has everything going for it - a brilliant script, an incredible cast, and handsome production values. The real secret about the show is it's simply guilty fun!"
• Reel.com: Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season Review (3.5/4)
  • "A terrific ensemble cast manages to pull off this genre juggling act with plenty of zest and flair."
• 7M Pictures: Desperate Housewives The Complete First Season Review (3.5/5)
  • "The show has all the elements of a soap opera, but it's told with the edge and sardonic wit of "American Beauty.""
• Home Theater Info: Desperate Housewives: Season One Review (3.5/4)
  • "What makes this show work so well is the combination of humor and mystery. The writing is witty beyond what television has seen for a very long time."
• tvdvdreviews.com: Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season Review
  • "If you are one of the ten people in America who has not kept up with the exploits of the nation's number one comedic drama, now's your chance to catch up with the passion and peril of Wisteria Lane."

• Reel.com: Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Extra Juicy Edition) Review (3/4)
  • "This season offers the same soapy mix of fakers, stalkers, cheaters, exhibitionists, bad drivers, bedhoppers, blackmailers, gold-diggers, killers, deceivers, stay-at-home strugglers, virtual prisoners, petty criminals, and tricksters as Season One. "
• 7M Pictures: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season Review (3.5/5)
  • "Ultimately, "Desperate Housewives" is still a decent show. It's worth a look if you're a fan, and the DVD set gives you a good opportunity to watch the season uninterrupted and in proper order. "
• Home Theater Info: Desperate Housewives: Season Two Review (2.5/4)
  • "This season took the basic premise that made it a hit and occasionally went too far over the top. "
• tvdvdreviews.com: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season Review
  • "Okay, so it's far from perfect. Critics and audiences alike bemoaned the fact that season two was just not on par with season one. But a second trip down Wisteria Lane will show you that Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season is still funny, romantic, and utterly addictive."

• DVD Verdict: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season Review
  • "Guilty pleasures don't come any guiltier. This show makes me want to move out to the suburbs, and inspires just a touch of paranoia about what those soccer moms are hiding in the back of those minivans."
• 7M Pictures: Desperate Housewives: Season 3, The Dirty Laundry Edition Review (2/5)
  • "The DVD includes a spotlight on the glut of weddings of the show (often a sign of jumping the shark), a look at the Latina version of the show, deleted scenes, bloopers and Marc Cherry's favorite scenes. "
• Home Theater Info: Desperate Housewives: Season Three Review (3/4)
  • "Sometimes a popular television show stumbles just a bit. One such case in Desperate Housewives, the smash hit for ABC which after a stellar first season got a little off track in season two. Fortunately for fans season three returned to what made the series a hit in the first place."
• tvdvdreviews.com: Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season Review
  • "Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season finds the series back on track after a rocky second season. The main mystery might be a bit rushed, but this is completely forgivable when the season as a whole is so entertaining."