Desperate Housewives Is a New Victim of Unnecessary Reboots
Kerry Washington is now set to helm Desperate Housewives’ reimagining after more than ten years since the original show ended, and the first reactions don’t really align. Here’s what fans have to say.
Marc Cherry’s feature TV hit Desperate Housewives might have remained untouchable for the world of remakes, but that has just come to its end.
According to Deadline’s reports, Kerry Washington’s production company Simpson Street has now officially pushed the show’s offshoot into production preparations, though it’s still not clear whether Cherry himself would return to the story after all.
Hopes fade when remembered that the future series already has a writer on board, with The Flight Attendant ’s Natalie Chaidez also joining the team.
The news comes as a confirmation of Desperate Housewives’ reboot which so far doesn’t even have its script, but the original series’ fans are already divided over the upcoming remake’s worthiness anyway.
What Desperate Housewives Remake Will Be About, Explained
The flagship show ended on a pretty sad but satisfying note, witnessing its lead characters leaving Wisteria Lane for good, so it’s fair to suggest the reimagining will return to the iconic street to see its newcomers dealing with their own secrets in the present day.
This, additionally, might have even been confirmed by the official synopsis that says the reimagining is a “fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery in the vein of Desperate Housewives, set among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane.
On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream: beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway. But behind those white-picket fences and smiling Insta posts are SECRETS.”
Even though Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry isn’t confirmed to work on the project yet, he will likely be around, considering his own desire to come back to the story.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade … because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. It was such a fun place to write for. And there’s times when I go, ‘You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966”, Cherry said back in 2024.
Not All Desperate Housewives Fans Are Happy About Reboot News
Though the show’s potential reimagining did get several devoted fans since the news dropped, others still stick to the idea that the reboot will lack the entire Desperate Housewives vibe after all.
“It won’t be the same anyway with the all the political correctness and pandering. It’s WHY it was so successful because it didn’t give a f—k at the time (mostly)”, Redditor Footziees commented in a thread.
“It would be the same disaster as sex and the city reboot. What I loved about those shows was the early 2000 vibe. No one was scared to say some s--t”, InflationOverall6334 chimed in.
Still, there were those who added Desperate Housewives’ remake to their watchlist for one of the upcoming years.
“Pretending I don’t care about this so it happens”, langesent added.
“That would make sense. There’s been so much desperate housewives content lately, I think it’s that stealth pr where they get “meme” pages or pop culture pages to post for a relatively small fee, but it still looks organic”, rem_1984 noted.
