Desperate Housewives
Marry Me a Little
TV Flash files “Marry Me a Little” as hour 109 of 180 in the TV Flash guide — Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) on ABC, season 5, episode 22, aired 2009-05-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E22: listed hour 109 of 180 in the Desperate Housewives guide, hour 22 of 24 in season 5. It aired 2009-05-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bargaining” (S05E21). Next is “Everybody Says Don't” (S05E23).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
There's deception aplenty on Wisteria Lane: Bree keeps Orson in the dark; Susan and Jackson try to fool the authorities; Katherine won't level with Mike; and Tom tries to hide his age. Meanwhile, a witness to Dave's crimes surfaces.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Marry Me a Little sit in the Desperate Housewives guide?
S05E22 is listed hour 109 of 180 — hour 22 of 24 in season 5, season 5 episode 22.
When did Desperate Housewives S05E22 air?
Marry Me a Little aired 2009-05-10 and is listed at 60 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
- Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer
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- Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo
Felicity Huffman played Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives — the working-mom weather on a lane that gossiped like a crime blotter. Perfect lawns, imperfect sleep, a mystery dressed as a soap. TV Flash files her as Wisteria's most…
- 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
Nicollette Sheridan’s Edie Britt circled Wisteria Lane like a press kit with a pulse — real-estate glam, neighbor as rival, the fifth woman the mystery soap could not keep in the hedge. Desperate Housewives dressed like a crime blotter.…
- Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young
Brenda Strong narrated Desperate Housewives as Mary Alice Young — the dead neighbor who made Wisteria Lane’s secrets appointment TV. Voiceover as primetime soap scaffolding. TV Flash files her as the lawn-perfect ghost who started every…