Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Spanish, Italian
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 953 minutes

Synopsis
Expect numerous plot twists and shocking revelations in the complete third season of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, the Emmy Award-winning primetime soap. The show takes a vitriolic look at American suburbia and follows the lives of four dysfunctional housewives while also revealing tangled webs of intrigue and deceit. In season three, Gabrielle and Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) get divorced and Bree marries Orson Hodge (Kyle MacLachlan), a sinister man who ran over Mike Delfino (James Denton), and might also have killed his wife. Lynette tries her hardest to accept her husband Tom's lovechild, as Susan (Teri Hatcher) starts to date Ian (Dougray Scott), whose wife is in a coma. The 23 episodes include the dramatic season finale 'Getting Married Today.'

Synopsis
The women of Wisteria Lane are back, and it's time to air some dirty laundry. In the Emmy Award®-winning show's sensational third season, the gossip is juicier, the secrets are more scandalous and the revenge is even sweeter. Experience all 23 tantalizing episodes of Season Three, and get the dish on Susan's new love, Bree's unsettling marriage to Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) and a dangerous new presence living down the lane. Everything will come out in the wash in this spectacular six-disc set. Bubbling over with exclusive bonus features, including a behind-the-scenes look at the season finale and even more secrets straight from the show, this is the sudsiest season yet.

Customer Reviews

Desperate Housewives Jumps The Shark
I am pinching myself: there is not a single 1 or 2 star review for this series. How can that be? What have I missed? I really couldn't stand this show (why did I watch it through, you ask? The furtherance of my own marital relations required it).

Seasons 1 and 2 had a real originality and freshness: an unusual combination of romantic farce and dark thriller which made them compulsive viewing. But the formula seems to have been changed for Season 3. In the intervening period I've been treated to some really outstanding television in the shape of Deadwood, The Sopranos and The Wire - so perhaps I'm now seeing all of Desperate Housewives for what it really is, but I don't think it's that. When it started, Desperate Housewives was on that level. This series really seems to be inferior to the first ones.

Firstly, the series-long continuity of plotlines which was a feature of the first two series is gone. As is the morbid undertone, and the genuinely fractious family relationships: now the guignol is played purely for (cheap) laughs. The real brutality is perpetrated by the scriptwriters who seem to have grown ever more panicked as the series progressed: developing characters and plot lines are hacked to death and their bodies carelessly jettisoned nearly every episode. At one point they resort to having almost all the characters assemble at a supermarket to be held up by a gun-wielding homicidal maniac, in so doing conveniently terminating about three (admittedly moribund) plot-lines with one tin of tomatoes.

Characters we know from previous series behave entirely contrary to their established type: hard-man Mike Delfino (admittedly with the excuse of a severe blow to the head) becomes a hopeless and gormless romantic; Edie Britt stops being a shrew; Lynette Sciavo starts being one, and becomes an hysterical witch-hunter, then a cocquette; Andrew Van der Kamp abandons almost his sociopathic tendencies; we are introduced to and then lose, without regard to story or character arc, a series of wooden characters such as Iain Hainsworth (who apparently really is a Brit, despite sounding like Mike Myers' impersonation of one), the wife-of-the-person-having-an-affair-with-the-former-mistress-of-Bree's-new-husband, Orson Hodge's "dead" wife; Orson's mother, Edie's nephew; Edie's estranged son; Tom Sciavo's ex girlfriend and their daughter; even creepy Zach makes a half-hearted return and disappears.

Not a hint of structure; not a hint of direction; just a ghastly assemblance of stupid and irritating plotlines which seem to have been harvested from the Dynasty and Falcon Crest reject bin. You shouldn't expect to get away with this simply by rebranding it as "comedy" - but judging by the average reaction on this site, they did!

It's just too ghastly to countenance. We have bodies in freezers, bodies buried in backyards, bodies in kitchens, bodies in gardens, bodies in supermarkets, bodies coming back from the dead, coming back from comas, going out from comas, at least seven or eight characters in hospital, we have characters falling out of carparks, falling out of windows, falling off ladders, falling off rooves, we have on-again-off-again allegations of insanity, pedophilia, infidelity, spousal homicide and an utter overdose of love triangles and other types of love geometry - tracking who is shagging whom is so hard that you are caused to doubt the very foundation of the space-time continuum of love itself.

And I haven't even got onto the truly exasperating Susan Myer. Perhaps best if I don't, come to think of it.

Olly Buxton

BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
season 1=good 1st year for the housewives 3.5/5
season 2=excellent second year 4/5
season 3= the BEST season so far 5/5

season 3 had more drama, more twists, more snappy dialogue, character development, and the best episode of the show to date and one of the greatest things to happen on TV...yes of course im on about the episode BANG it was sheer brilliance and haven't seen anything quite like it before...felicity Huffman was brilliant in the episode,as are the rest of the cast a classic.
but the season as a whole became a classic and earnt the show more golden globes and awards and contains some really brilliant episodes, the best so far(and probably will always be the best season).
although marcia cross(bree)is absent from 6 episodes(due to real life pregnancy)the episodes seem to run smoothly enough and we get to understand the character Edie more and her development of a relationship with carlos.
the season starts with a wedding and it ends with a wedding(quite poetic)and the finale leaves so many questions open for season 4(starts on tv soon :):):):)!!)to answer.
all i hope is that this show will not deteriorate after this remarkable season and carries on the trend as shown...season 4 looks set to be very good,and i look forward to be reviewing it in the future :):).
season three is absolutely classic.

Wow!
I got this for Christmas and watched it in a couple of days, and it's absolutely brilliant! Now, i know that most people thought season 2 wasnt as good as season 1, but i didnt mind it actually. But after watching season 3, i can now tell it was a little weak. Although i still love it. But season 3 is just amazing! I cant decide whether i like this season, or season 1 the best.

I've always loved the houses for some reason in this show, they are so bright and colourful, and big and clean.

And the shocks in this show were better than ever, especially the very last scene! I dont usually watch DH on tv, i always wait for the boxset to be released, and it helps because the shocks are better and unexpected! The best characters this season for me, have been Tom and Lynette (as always), Gabrielle and Carlos, and Orson Hodge! The best episode was 'Bang' it was full of drama and shocks! And the Paedophile storyline was absolutely shocking and clever!

If i had one downside it would only be that i have a sneaky suspicion that Marc Cherry has stolen a few ideas from Sex and the City. They were quite a few similarities, and Kyle MacLachlan (Orson) played Trey in SATC and both characters had some similarities, and Gabrielle's new hubby played a politician boyfriend of Carrie's, and he's a politician in this! But that's all, apart from that it's brilliant! go get it now!