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When Desperate Housewives went from a show built around showing sympathy toward housewives and mothers to... not being that for a little bit.
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Significant sources/Relevant Reading
‘Dallas’ at 40: The Inside Story Behind the Show That Changed Texas Forever – Texas Monthly
texasmonthly.com/the-culture/dallas-at-40-the-inside-story-behind-the-show-that-changed-texas-forever
Difficult Women – The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/sex-and-the-city-difficult-women
Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture – Vanity Fair
vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
amazon.com/Burn-Down-Complicity-Change-Hollywood/dp/0063269279
End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin
amazon.com/End-Credits-How-Broke-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B0BXSQZYQL
A Soap Opera Romance That Started With An Assault – In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett
open.spotify.com/episode/6lYlpr5siXCCqNZ1fYcgxl?si=32a9476ec06b481f
The Soap Opera Machine – Decoder Ring
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/06/one-life-to-live-todd-manning
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Jude Ellison Doyle
amazon.com/Dead-Blondes-Bad-Mothers-Monstrosity-ebook/dp/B07L2GC3T7
Edward Gein, America's most bizarre murderer by Judge Robert H. Gollmar
archive.org/details/edwardgeinameric00goll/mode/2up
The Ed Gein File: A Psycho's Confession and Case Documents
amazon.com/Ed-Gein-File-Confession-Documents/dp/0997614005/ref=sr_1_3?crid=TKFCE097AL72&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wsGLewh_GnDqlb-ttGLbDtnKplbehP2gwNq6ktgK3TYcX6rpAjrKdZ5S3n7KhoJT8c-p_aUG5VPbvtwtZbhOxElTjGK5HiC65Mk4i8mCgmrtFkbJ_vwd1EeC4KlfRDNiNaAyTFYKEwwgOM140Hd9WIlSO3hZGYHIF3DK22dcHuP33hl97sJODm6NCaD9oiiiOPzCHkrCVX30KdsHHrh92JQetttuGp1O5Jf0Y0mSnJ4.hvhqluUL5Pxxa1uBalw0qfXJRly6TcQmcu3oNeg4ohY&dib_tag=se&keywords=ed+gein&qid=1721425839&sprefix=ed+gein%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-3
Sheridan-Cherry Trial Reveals Ugliest Truth of ‘Desperate Housewives’ – The Daily Beast
thedailybeast.com/nicollette-sheridan-testifies-marc-cherry-hit-her-upside-the-head
Desperately Debating Housewives – Ms. Magazine
jessicaseigel.com/articles/desperately-debating-housewives
How Desperate Housewives Influenced a Decade of TV & Our Perception of the American Housewife – She Knows
sheknows.com/feature/desperate-housewives-real-housewives-2567042
How the hunt for a teenage version of Desperate Housewives launched the Pretty Little Liars phenomenon – Entertainment Weekly
ew.com/tv/making-of-pretty-little-liars-original-sin
Suburban housewife blues: How Desperate Housewives blazed a trail for Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere – Independent
independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/desperate-housewives-little-fires-everywhere-big-little-lies-teri-hatcher-a9534521.html
Desperate Housewives: soapy, superbly acted and still fun, nearly 20 years on – The Guardian
theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/10/desperate-housewives-soapy-superbly-acted-and-still-fun-nearly-20-years-on
10 Years Later, The First Season Of 'Desperate Housewives' Is Still A Television Touchstone –Huffington Post
huffpost.com/entry/desperate-housewives-season-1-anniversary_n_5793322
Where Only the Housewives Are Desperate – The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/11/26/where-only-the-housewives-are-desperate/f06da3f7-6b9c-4215-9383-4ba58587bb86
Welcome to Wisteria Lane : on America's favorite Desperate housewives
archive.org/details/welcometowisteri0000unse/mode/2up
The racial undercurrent – ESPN
espn.com/espn/blackhistory/news/story?id=1983393
BED, BURBS, AND BEYOND – Vanity Fair
archive.vanityfair.com/article/2005/5/bed-burbs-and-beyond
chapters:
00:00 Outstanding Achievement In Daytime Programming
15:19 77
23:57 Anti-heroine Housewives
30:09 such a wretched show
52:13 I've been there
1:04:22 looking [Van de] Kamp right in the eye
1:29:30 the woman who drove a man Psycho
1:44:38 extremely suggestible
1:57:38 meet Eddie!
2:21:14 Ed, Eddie, and Edie
2:52:33 LnL
2:57:16 "Gold-standard" gone wrong
3:12:42 154
3:21:09 call it a soap opera (within a soap opera that satirizes soap operas)
When Desperate Housewives went from a show built around showing sympathy toward housewives and mothers to... not being that for a little bit.
Tip Jar
tiptopjar.com/medusone
Socials
Twitter: @jasminpigemoji
Instagram: @medusonegirl or @jasminheartemoji
Significant sources/Relevant Reading
‘Dallas’ at 40: The Inside Story Behind the Show That Changed Texas Forever – Texas Monthly
texasmonthly.com/the-culture/dallas-at-40-the-inside-story-behind-the-show-that-changed-texas-forever
Difficult Women – The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/sex-and-the-city-difficult-women
Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture – Vanity Fair
vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
amazon.com/Burn-Down-Complicity-Change-Hollywood/dp/0063269279
End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin
amazon.com/End-Credits-How-Broke-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B0BXSQZYQL
A Soap Opera Romance That Started With An Assault – In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett
open.spotify.com/episode/6lYlpr5siXCCqNZ1fYcgxl?si=32a9476ec06b481f
The Soap Opera Machine – Decoder Ring
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/06/one-life-to-live-todd-manning
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Jude Ellison Doyle
amazon.com/Dead-Blondes-Bad-Mothers-Monstrosity-ebook/dp/B07L2GC3T7
Edward Gein, America's most bizarre murderer by Judge Robert H. Gollmar
archive.org/details/edwardgeinameric00goll/mode/2up
The Ed Gein File: A Psycho's Confession and Case Documents
amazon.com/Ed-Gein-File-Confession-Documents/dp/0997614005/ref=sr_1_3?crid=TKFCE097AL72&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wsGLewh_GnDqlb-ttGLbDtnKplbehP2gwNq6ktgK3TYcX6rpAjrKdZ5S3n7KhoJT8c-p_aUG5VPbvtwtZbhOxElTjGK5HiC65Mk4i8mCgmrtFkbJ_vwd1EeC4KlfRDNiNaAyTFYKEwwgOM140Hd9WIlSO3hZGYHIF3DK22dcHuP33hl97sJODm6NCaD9oiiiOPzCHkrCVX30KdsHHrh92JQetttuGp1O5Jf0Y0mSnJ4.hvhqluUL5Pxxa1uBalw0qfXJRly6TcQmcu3oNeg4ohY&dib_tag=se&keywords=ed+gein&qid=1721425839&sprefix=ed+gein%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-3
Sheridan-Cherry Trial Reveals Ugliest Truth of ‘Desperate Housewives’ – The Daily Beast
thedailybeast.com/nicollette-sheridan-testifies-marc-cherry-hit-her-upside-the-head
Desperately Debating Housewives – Ms. Magazine
jessicaseigel.com/articles/desperately-debating-housewives
How Desperate Housewives Influenced a Decade of TV & Our Perception of the American Housewife – She Knows
sheknows.com/feature/desperate-housewives-real-housewives-2567042
How the hunt for a teenage version of Desperate Housewives launched the Pretty Little Liars phenomenon – Entertainment Weekly
ew.com/tv/making-of-pretty-little-liars-original-sin
Suburban housewife blues: How Desperate Housewives blazed a trail for Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere – Independent
independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/desperate-housewives-little-fires-everywhere-big-little-lies-teri-hatcher-a9534521.html
Desperate Housewives: soapy, superbly acted and still fun, nearly 20 years on – The Guardian
theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/10/desperate-housewives-soapy-superbly-acted-and-still-fun-nearly-20-years-on
10 Years Later, The First Season Of 'Desperate Housewives' Is Still A Television Touchstone –Huffington Post
huffpost.com/entry/desperate-housewives-season-1-anniversary_n_5793322
Where Only the Housewives Are Desperate – The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/11/26/where-only-the-housewives-are-desperate/f06da3f7-6b9c-4215-9383-4ba58587bb86
Welcome to Wisteria Lane : on America's favorite Desperate housewives
archive.org/details/welcometowisteri0000unse/mode/2up
The racial undercurrent – ESPN
espn.com/espn/blackhistory/news/story?id=1983393
BED, BURBS, AND BEYOND – Vanity Fair
archive.vanityfair.com/article/2005/5/bed-burbs-and-beyond
chapters:
00:00 Outstanding Achievement In Daytime Programming
15:19 77
23:57 Anti-heroine Housewives
30:09 such a wretched show
52:13 I've been there
1:04:22 looking [Van de] Kamp right in the eye
1:29:30 the woman who drove a man Psycho
1:44:38 extremely suggestible
1:57:38 meet Eddie!
2:21:14 Ed, Eddie, and Edie
2:52:33 LnL
2:57:16 "Gold-standard" gone wrong
3:12:42 154
3:21:09 call it a soap opera (within a soap opera that satirizes soap operas)
