Desperate Housewives
You'll Never Get Away From Me
TV Flash files “You'll Never Get Away From Me” as hour 26 of 180 in the TV Flash guide — Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) on ABC, season 2, episode 3, aired 2005-10-09, 43 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E03: listed hour 26 of 180 in the Desperate Housewives guide, hour 3 of 24 in season 2. It aired 2005-10-09 (43 min). The listed hour before it is “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” (S02E02). Next is “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (S02E04).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Bree's mother-in-law, Phyllis, gets her in trouble with the law; Susan tries to accept Edie's new role in Julie's life; Lynette's boss-from-hell makes her miss Parker's first day of kindergarten; and Gabrielle and John meet again.
Viewer FAQ
Where does You'll Never Get Away From Me sit in the Desperate Housewives guide?
S02E03 is listed hour 26 of 180 — hour 3 of 24 in season 2, season 2 episode 3.
When did Desperate Housewives S02E03 air?
You'll Never Get Away From Me aired 2005-10-09 and is listed at 43 minutes.
Where should I start Desperate Housewives?
The pilot. Mary Alice is the first leak, the lawn is the rope line, and the four women are already not amicable. Starting mid-mystery is how you miss who owed whom.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Four women, one lane, a narrator who already knows the bodies. Watch it when you want soap that dresses like a mystery and gossips like a crime blotter. The lawns are the red carpet; the HOA is the publicist; nobody on Wisteria was ever amicable, including the dead.
Flash: a lawn so even it looks like a press kit, and a woman who is already dead enough to narrate. Desperate Housewives premiered on ABC in 2004 like a velvet-rope crime scene — Teri Hatcher’s Susan, Felicity Huffman’s Lynette, Marcia Cross’s Bree, Eva Longoria’s Gaby, Nicollette Sheridan’s Edie circling the wreckage while Brenda Strong’s Mary Alice told on everybody from the other side of the hedge. The museum desk wants “suburban satire.” Cute. The lane is an afterparty with an HOA. **They are not amicable.**…
Filed against
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- Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo
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- Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp
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- Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis
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- Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Britt
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- Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young
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