“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!
January 9th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
That’s so funny–we posted on this article at almost exactly the same time!
January 9th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
I didn’t even see yours–I guess you deleted it?
I saw the article this morning but didn’t have time to post it.
January 9th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Yes, I deleted it. I went to check it and your (more clever) version was there too! Too much of a good thing, you know.