Desperate Housewives
TV Show • 2004
ReportLooking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
This tv show contains 32 potentially triggering events.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Thistlepixie
S4
A character waiting for her cancer results projects her feelings about her disease onto a possum invading her garden. When she gets the news that she's cancer free she goes outside and sees the possum laying dead in her yard.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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S4
E13
Gabrielle tries to abandon Carlos guide dog at the training centre, due to it barking when she raises her voice to Carlos. Luckily she finds her way back home
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Is someone tortured?
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Gabrielle’s ex stepfather tries to attack her before Carlos kills him. Angie and Danny are tied up by Patrick and and treated with a bomb, which he forces Abbie to make
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Quite a lot of woman get hit, slapped, shot and strangled by others
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Many people leave the show, or just the neighbourhood, without saying goodbye or having a chance to. Both from leaving the neighbourhood and dying
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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S2
E21
I Bree abandons her son at a service station.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Gabrielle and her family are stalked by her abusive ex stepfather. Lynette follows Tom to Atlantic city as she believes he may be having a affair.
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Anne has a abusive husband who beats his wife severely. Carlos, in a flashback, aggressively grabs Gabrielle to make her sign a prenup and forcibly drags her from his car and Chuck her onto the ground during their divorce.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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There is a lot of secrets kept and lies told by pretty much every character in nearly every episode
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Thistlepixie
There are multiple scenes where a mother slaps her child across the face
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Addiction
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Mike was found by Susan to be taking pills. Tom gets prescribed medical weed but lynettes throws it away
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Is there addiction?
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Bree , Andrew and Carlos all were addicted to alcohol and Gabrielle can be considered to have a shopping addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Bree Andrew and Carlos all suffer from alcohol addiction.
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Animal
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S4
E6
A possum is found dad in lynettes yard
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Is there a dead animal?
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S4
E6
A dead possum in lynettes yard
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Are there snakes?
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S3
E20
Snakes at a reptile themed birthday party
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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S3
E13
Alma drugs Orson and rapes him
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Is there pedophilia?
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Gabrielle was,raped by her step dad as a child. A neighbour was discovered by Lynette to have many pictures of shirtless children and teenagers in his basement
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Is rape mentioned?
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CommanderTav
S1
E9
In the beginning, it is implied that Gabriella was raped by her sted-dad
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Is someone restrained?
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Melody0660
Some people are put in handcuffs. Patrick handcuffs angie to the bed and tied up Danny and Eddie handcuffs her husband to the bed and leaves him there so she could watch tv
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Gabrielle is reavlled to have been raped by her stepfather as was his other daughter. Brees boyfriends father tries to make a sexual move onto her while drunk. Orson is drugged and raped
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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S6
E23
Patrick ties up danny and puts duct tape over his mouth
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S3
E13
Someone is drugged and raped. You don't see the actual act, but it's still rather explicit
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Bodily Harm
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Gabrielle is sexually assaulted by her stepfather as was his other daughter. Danielle dresses provocatively and sleeps with her Married teacher to spite her mother. Andrew while on the street pimps himself out including with a marries teacher
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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MJ is kidnapped by Dave. Gabrielle calls immigration in effort to get Graces, Gabrielle’s bio daughter, mom taken away so she can keep her and technically kidnap her from the family she knew
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Does a parent die?
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Carlos mother dies. Mary Alice young shoots herself. Mike dies
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Does someone cheat?
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Many charcaters have been cheated on or have done the cheating
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Does a family member die?
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Many of the characters have a family member who passes or were the family member who passed
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Melody0660
S8
E23
The episodes ends with the ghosts of all that dies on the show watching Susan leave wisteria lane
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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S1
E2
Paul young throws a toy chest, later found and discovered to have a dead body in, into river
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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dumbasssb
Season 1 episode 20, within first 8 minutes audio only, shes sat in new car and talking about leather smell.
Season 2 episode 11, baby v* on gabrielle and can see it on her jacket, not triggering at all tbh
Season 3 episode 6, Susan is very drunk and runs to the bathroom, audio only and super easy to see coming
Season 3 episode 16, finds out she’s pregnant and goes to bathroom - 10ish seconds later audio only, another 10ish seconds later more audio only. Found this one quite triggering, might be as it caught me off guard
Season 4 episode 1, Lynette v* in a handbag as her kid is performing in a school show around 19/20 mins, audio only
Season 4 episode 12, around 33:40 she’s kneeling down in the bathroom, audio only
Season 5 episode 3, around 35:20 kid gets up from the table and v*, audio only, not very triggering as super fake sounding
Season 5 episode 13, around 22:20 Lynette v* into the toilet, audio and slight visual. Safe when she’s out of the bathroom and on the phone
Season 5 episode 15, around 1 minute in kid v*, no visual only unrealistic sound. You can skip the first little bit of this episode and not miss anything
Season 6 episode 6, guy asks if they have a sink and runs off, few seconds later around 9:25 v* sounds no visual
Season 7 episode 1, Lynette’s baby v* on her around 15:30 after they say she has the perfect suburban family, visual and audio but not realistic
Season 7 episode 20, after trying the brownie she says ‘I need to go buy a new handbag’ then cuts to her v* into the bag outside, safe when it’s back to Tom’s office. Wasn’t /too/ awful but definitely one of the more triggering instances
Season 7 episode 23, after gaby’s stepdad is gone she leans over and v* no visual but realistic audio, safe when it’s back to in the house, found this one quite triggering!
Season 8 episode 1, Gaby has chewing tobacco, mute when she gets out of the car, v* into a bin no visual realistic audio. Safe when cuts to man in car
Season 2 episode 11, baby v* on gabrielle and can see it on her jacket, not triggering at all tbh
Season 3 episode 6, Susan is very drunk and runs to the bathroom, audio only and super easy to see coming
Season 3 episode 16, finds out she’s pregnant and goes to bathroom - 10ish seconds later audio only, another 10ish seconds later more audio only. Found this one quite triggering, might be as it caught me off guard
Season 4 episode 1, Lynette v* in a handbag as her kid is performing in a school show around 19/20 mins, audio only
Season 4 episode 12, around 33:40 she’s kneeling down in the bathroom, audio only
Season 5 episode 3, around 35:20 kid gets up from the table and v*, audio only, not very triggering as super fake sounding
Season 5 episode 13, around 22:20 Lynette v* into the toilet, audio and slight visual. Safe when she’s out of the bathroom and on the phone
Season 5 episode 15, around 1 minute in kid v*, no visual only unrealistic sound. You can skip the first little bit of this episode and not miss anything
Season 6 episode 6, guy asks if they have a sink and runs off, few seconds later around 9:25 v* sounds no visual
Season 7 episode 1, Lynette’s baby v* on her around 15:30 after they say she has the perfect suburban family, visual and audio but not realistic
Season 7 episode 20, after trying the brownie she says ‘I need to go buy a new handbag’ then cuts to her v* into the bag outside, safe when it’s back to Tom’s office. Wasn’t /too/ awful but definitely one of the more triggering instances
Season 7 episode 23, after gaby’s stepdad is gone she leans over and v* no visual but realistic audio, safe when it’s back to in the house, found this one quite triggering!
Season 8 episode 1, Gaby has chewing tobacco, mute when she gets out of the car, v* into a bin no visual realistic audio. Safe when cuts to man in car
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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Melody0660
Paul young is arrested for murder, the person was still alive, Felicia Tillman is arrested for framing Paul young for her murder, Bree is arrested as the police suspect her for murder, Gabrielle was arrested for ‘assaulting’ police.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Bree checks herself into a mental health institution after having a breakdown. Carlos was sent to a institution for rehab for alcohol and zach was sent to one for drugs
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Many of the charcaters end up in hospital whether it’s for a illness, injury or pregnancy/birth
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Does someone have cancer?
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Lynette gets cancer but survives it. Karen gets cancer in the end of the series and passes at the end
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Eddie, zach, Katherine all have mental health problems and are mentally insane/unwell
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Bree and Andrew heavily drink and suffer from addiction due to stress and depression. Danielle cut herself in effort to commit suicide.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Eddie attacks women and strangled them to death for rejecting him and zach attacks and threatens Mike and Paul. Katherine kidnaps MJ and stabs herself during a mental breakdown
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Karen lays down behind a car to get someone to run her over. Danielle slits her wrists in effort to commit suicide
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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S6
E10
Katherine stabs herself and has a break down following that
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S1
E1
Mary Alice young shoots herself.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Many babies are born or seen I. Flashbacks crying
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Is there screaming?
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There is many dramatic moments that cause screaming both from pain, anger and sadness
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Gabrielle and her family are watched by her ex stepfather. Dylan is watched by her father before he tells her the truth.
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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Lynette, Danielle, Gabrielle, Julie and Susan all give birth during. the show
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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You see a few babies being born and one of lynettes twins are stillborn
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Does someone miscarry?
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Gabrielle miscarrys and Lynette has a stillborn baby
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Prejudice
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Danielle had a large age gap with her teacher who she sleeps with, one of lynettes twins had a affair with a married mother of his friend and Bree had a relationship with a man much younger then her
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Plenty of sex scenes but nothing to graphic or revealing shown
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Gabrielle is raped/sexually assaulted by her ex stepfather as was his othe daughter, Danielle often dresses and acts provocatively to spite Bree
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Bree hits two people with her car. Andrews hits and kills Carlos mom. Edie crashes into a pole and gets electrocuted. A car hits into the applewhites car and reveals a body in their trunk. Mike crashes into MJs kidnappers car
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Bree hits Juanita with her car and later hits a man with her car. Brees son hits Carlos mother and kills her.
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