Product Details

• Actors: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria Parker, Ricardo Chavira
• Directors: na
• Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G General Audience
• Studio: ABC Studios

A primetime soap with a truly contempoary take on thehappily ever after, Desperate Housewives takes a darkly comedic look atsuburbia where the secret lives of housewives aren’t always what they seem.Desperate Housewives The Complete Fifth Season fast forwards five years wherenew mysteries bind true friendships with a balance of humor and drama, twistsand surprises.Bonus Features Include: A closer look 5 years later, Miss Piggytakes Wisteria Lane, dialogue between Marc Cherry and Teri Hatcher, DesperateHousewives evolution of a modern classic, Cherry picked, audio comentaries,bloopers, deleted scenes For its fifth season, Desperate Housewivesretained its best addition from season 4–Dana Delany as Katherine–and took abold leap. That is, they took a jump five years into the future, and the newangle sparked the show to one of its more compelling seasons. Now Bree (MarciaCross) is running a wildly successful catering business and Orson (KyleMacLachlan) is finally out of jail. Susan and Mike (Teri Hatcher and JamesDenton) are split again and sharing custody of son MJ (Mason Vale Cotton), anddating a new guy, Jackson (Gale Harold), and lonely Katherine, respectively.Lynnette and Doug (Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant) are struggling to makeends meet at the pizza restaurant, and Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is now a momand trying to keep a house together with a blind Carlos (Ricardo Chavira).Following her forced exit, Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) has returned to WisteriaLane with a new husband, Dave (Neal McDonough), who seems to be everyone’sfriend but has a deeply sinister side. He encourages Tom to take unnecessaryrisks, and starts a husband band that leads to a local “Battle of the Bands”that takes a dark turn and lands one of the Scavo teens in hot water. Edie’sunlikely friend, Mrs. McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten), has her suspicions andenlists her private-investigator sister (Lily Tomlin), not realizing she’smade a target of herself. Every season, one Housewife seems to step up as astar, and this time it was probably Longoria, still impossibly self-centeredbut showing new depth as a frustrated mom. Other guest stars include FrancesConroy as Carlos’ too-close client, Steven Weber as Julie Meyer’s newboyfriend, Joanna Cassidy as a potential new member of Bree’s family, PollyBergen as Lynnette’s mom, Swoosie Kurtz as Susan’s coworker, and Beau Bridgesas a one-episode handyman named Eli Scruggs. –David Horiuchi