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Bringing Up Baby: The Desperate Housewives' Guide to TV's Childbearing Tropes

TV post by Katherine Don on November 8, 2011 - 1:35pm; tagged Bringing Up Baby, Desperate Housewives, feminism on television, social commentary.
promo poster for Desperate Housewives showing the cast laying down on a pile of applesWelcome to Wisteria Lane, where every neighbor is a potential killer, every friend a potential enemy, and every woman victim to TV’s most overused childbearing tropes. Join me as we take a tour of these tropes—we need not even leave Wisteria Lane.
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The Box's Crush of the Week: Marcia Cross

TV post by Juliana Tringali on December 12, 2008 - 1:49am; tagged Desperate Housewives, Marcia Cross, Melrose Place.

Marcia CrossThis week the box crushes on one of TV's most entertaining actresses. Marcia Cross has been a guest-spot staple since she made her first television appearance in 1985, but she's best known for playing very different roles on Desperate Housewives and Melrose Place.

So which is more fun: an obsessively traditional housewife or a baby-napping husband hater?

 

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