“Desperate? Don’t you know he has ten THOUSAND a year?”
An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer compares the hit TV show DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to Jane Austen. Hmm.
Some see in the show traces of an even earlier narrative tradition.
“It has a 19th-century sensibility,” argues Marisa Parham, an assistant professor of English at Amherst College. “Like a campier version of Jane Austen.
“This show is not a comedy; it’s actually a satire in which a tight-knit community struggles extremely hard to make things work and yet all their efforts lead to hilarious consequences.”
We’re not sure about that, but we enjoy the show. If only it wasn’t on the same time as MASTERPIECE THEATRE!
