The series "Desperate Housewives", released in the US TV channel ABC in 2004 and immediately became a hit, won great popularity not only in the United States, but throughout the rest of the world. The audience and experts praise - no praise for the creation of Marc Cherry: the first is called "Desperate Housewives" a new type of television series, refusing to hang up on the project label 'soap Opera ", the latter showered creators of the series, the actresses involved in it, and himself telefilm numerous prizes and awards. Without going into technical details and details, try to figure out what is the reason for such a resounding success "Desperate Housewives."

No matter how unpleasant it would be to hear the fans and above turn to fans of the series, the secret of the popularity of "Housewives" is precisely that is the most that neither is a real soap opera. No, we're not here see "Hispanic" and "Santa barbarovskih" kinks in the story: the audience does not come with intense attention the schizophrenic kinky scenario - someone who is a cousin of the summary aunt and brother-not defiled Does he accidentally love affair with his great-cousin of the side line families? And the characters are far from the traditional serial stencils, according to which heroes necessarily two-meter handsome athletic with thick hair and blue eyes clouded with passion or green eyes, and character - long-legged beauties with chiseled figure and seductive breasts the same passion bleary eyes.

That's all we could see twenty, fifteen and even ten years ago. But our world is changing, becoming less naive and romantic and more cynical bubbled and pragmatic. And we are changing along with the world. A within the meaning of the producers of TV channels "we" - is primarily a TV viewers, consumers TV products. Consequently, to motivate have become more cynical and pragmatic viewers need more cynical and pragmatic series. And in the production of the television series American TV currently left far behind, and the Mexicans, and Brazilians and Indians, and all-all-all.

Bridge changeover from the old to the new US the series became incredibly talented, almost brilliant, the project "Friends" release on television screens from 1994 to 2004. Remember the first American TV series a completely new format? That's right, the famous "Sex and the City." A Now let's find dramatic differences "Sex and the City" by "Desperate Housewives" ...

Do not try to, fundamental differences still find impossible. In both cases, the main target audience is the same as the basic "Serials" contingent. Chief American connoisseur and lover of TV series - middle-aged Balzac Age   a woman who already has a family, a husband, children, a no wealth and material resources, which must be daily work and concerns support. Life - it's everywhere life, that in Russia, the US, and funny engaging in it is almost nothing. Therefore, the need middle-aged women to remind them that there is life the same women as they place and adventure, and adventure, and intrigue (and affair), and, most importantly, the victory over men and themselves.

It is this cornfield - American show housewives their attractiveness to others and to ourselves - and I began to plow series "Sex and the City" and the continued occupation of this project "Desperate Housewives". The "sex" the search for love, even if often understood too literally and landed, took a leading role, and the motive smothered in the grip of everyday family life, women can be traced only as a secondary narrative line. While in the "Housewives" is a rejection as of women as homemakers, children utiratelnitsy snot and vyglazhivatelnitsy a married collar shirts sounds already in full voice. That's the whole principle difference. Yes, "Desperate Housewives" humor more and more with the prefix "black" - Well, life since "Sex and the City" cheerful and kind is not He becomes.

And since almost all the same. Back in the center of the story the intricacies of the fate of several women (because women curious to watch women), again almost all of them in varying degrees correspond proud The title of "bitch" and those who initially superficially and not to bitch It is, in the end, too, are not without bitchy qualities. Again, male characters assigned is not that a secondary role, they simply present as interior decorations of walking and talking, by and large account almost no influence on the course of the narrative. Again, the attention of the audience are precisely the image of women is quite normal that you can every day meet on the street or in a shop - and for this purpose are selected not stellar actresses and professional, but non-illuminated performers.

The creators of "Housewives" correctly repeated the successful path "Sex and the City," added a few of their strokes (like memorable soundtrack, applying for an original approach to camera work, the already mentioned black humor) - and got the desired result. And judging by the fact that the shooting of the series is planned at least until 2010 year, Marc Cherry companions are going to develop their conquest. However, work on "Desperate Housewives" came the forced break - not spared side project of Hollywood screenwriters general strike that began in the end of 2007.

Alexander Babitsky

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