Sex and the suburbs: US falls for desperate wives

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The Times
By Tim Reid in Washington
A new TV show sweeping the country is a raunchy satire on an outwardly wholesome setting



FOR a people accused of re-electing their President based on a zealous embrace of traditional moral values, Americans have a funny way of showing it. The hottest new US television sensation is a suburban whodunnit dominated by adultery, murder and four voluptuous, fortysomething housewives.

In just two months, Desperate Housewives, a funny, raunchy satire that sets out to expose the dark soul of America’s picture-perfect suburbia, has attracted an astonishing 25 million viewers every week and is on the verge of becoming the country’s No 1 show, the fastest rise up the ratings ladder of any drama series in ten years.

The series has become such a phenomenon and has caused so much controversy that it has become hard to escape, finding its way into casual conversations, television talk shows, political briefings and on to the cover of Newsweek. British television networks are reportedly scrambling to buy it.

Last week, in a shameless piece of calculatedly controversial promotion, one of the show’s stars, Nicollette Sheridan, pretends to seduce the Philadelphia Eagles football star Terrell Owens away from a game and into her arms when she drops her towel in front of him as he is about to leave the locker room.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1376243,00.html

[tjdee]

1. These viewers AREN'T VOTING.

Yes, I used caps so I could express myself better. ;)

I keep reading this about Desperate Housewives, and it's all so much bullshit because half of the country didn't vote, as usual.

Things like this are how I'm absolutely sure that the majority of the country is not conservative, but that conservatives sure as hell will get out to vote because they know what's at stake.

Silent majority, anyone?

[tx_dem41]

2. Spot on!

You beat me to it. I wonder if anyone has ever done a modified Nielsen rating for voters vs. non-voters?

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. no, conversatives watch it too

because they're in the privacy of their own homes. That's why when that nationwide sex survey came out it found that Republicans are freakier in bed than Democrats are. Why do you think republicans breed so often? Obviously they like sex.