Desperate Housewives Writer Gets Candid About Show’s Toxic On-Set Atmosphere

There are some shows that you never get tired of rewatching. They are called "comfort" shows and you rely on them in your darkest times to make you feel better or to share some laughs with your favorite characters.

One such show is Desperate Housewives, fight us. Fans are still so obsessed with this show because it offers so much that sometimes it's even strange that one show has so many equally important storylines.

Desperate Housewives has run for eight seasons which encapsulated everything that can happen to a group of friends and even more.

Focusing on the suburban life of four neighbors who have become best friends over time, the show also holds a lot of mystery and dark secrets. And fans just found it amusing.

“I love the sense of community despite it being the suburbs. The fact that the whole neighborhood knows each other and are (most of the time) really good friends is what I love. I also think that despite the mystery being good, the dark comedy is what makes the show consistently entertaining regardless of what season we’re in,” Redditor martellstarks said.

Wisteria Lane, the street where all the main characters used to live, had seen many things including deaths, murders, adultery, backstabbing etc. But as it was revealed, even off-screen life between Gaby, Lynette, Susan and Bree shared some unpleasant moments.

One of the former writers of the show, Patty Lin made some revelations in her new book titled End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood.

For example, the fact that Teri Hatcher, who played sloppy Susan Mayer on the show, had feuds with her co-stars was already known. But Lin also added something about how writers felt about her.

“We’d sit quietly in the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher,” she mentioned.

The show's writer still can't understand how the series ended up being one of the best shows on television when the time on set was actually disastrous and poorly managed.

“We were putting out schlock. The fact that it became the hottest show on TV, won multiple awards, ran for eight years, and earned more revenue than God still boggles my mind,” Lin said.

Well, if you feel like binge-watching Desperate Housewives and trying to capture the tension between the main cast, the show is available on Hulu.