Is Desperate Housewives a series that should never have seen an episode? This is what is clear from the testimony of the screenwriter who worked on the first season of the show.
on the pages of his book End Credits: How I Left Hollywood (quoted Entertainment Weekly), author Patti Linn talks about her experience in contacting its creator, Mark Cherry, on the series.
Patty Lynn writes that she joined the series with her writing of Desperate Pilot and its dark humor. He joined the writers’ room for the first season in 2004. The only person of color among the 10-person team, Lin was born to Taiwanese immigrant parents, and he quickly clashes with each other’s egos, especially Mark Cherry’s:
I never encountered overt racism until I worked for him.
“As soon as Mark wrote the first post-pilot episode, it became clear to me that he didn’t yet have a vision for what the series would be. That uncertainty, combined with obsessive tendencies, resulted in a showrunner who was impossible to like. No, he still isn’t. It’s, that was his mantra. He even wrote his own lyrics like he was hysterical. . . . He didn’t get what he wanted, he was angry.”
According to Patty Lynn, Cherry was isolated from others to write “In a secret place because he had a short attention span” : “Her solitude was the only way this hen would lay her eggs.”. He had only two screenwriters “loyal team”and gave it to others “What to take care of”.
Therefore, a very special atmosphere, which, according to Lin, should have had tragic consequences for the series itself, but inexplicably did not:
With this hugely inefficient system, it’s a wonder that a single episode of Desperate Housewives ever got off the ground. The quality that attracted me to the pilot (…) was lost to mass-produced junk that no longer had anything to do with the creative process. We were cooking stew. The fact that the show became the most anticipated, award-winning show on television, ran for eight years and grossed a fortune still amazes me today.
Patty Lynn is officially credited with writing only one episode of the series, Lost Confidence (Come Back to Me), S01E10. In this episode, Lynette (Felicity Huffman) struggles to leave her children with a babysitter, while Macy’s (Sharon Lawrence) double life threatens Bree’s (Marcia Cross) marriage. After Martha Huber goes missing, Eddie (Nicolet Sheridan) decides to call the police. Susan (Teri Hatcher) discovers an intruder in her home and Gabriel (Eva Longoria) suspects her husband of illegal activities.
Out of desperation, Marc Cherry has signed on for the series Devious Maid, which centers on a group of Latina housekeepers who work for wealthy families in the heart of luxury villas in Beverly Hills, and Why Women Kill, which follows the lives of three women living in three different eras. They deal with infidelity in their marriage.
Source: Allocine
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