What do a neurotic redhead, an insecure divorce, a struggling mother of four and a bored brunette have in common? Nothing, except they&re all desperate and they’re all housewives.

ABC&s new Sunday night suburban hit has the whole country talking about the wild women of Wisteria Lane and the one woman who narrates it all from above.

An unhappy Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) starts the series by putting a bullet in her head in her living room leaving her fellow females on the block wondering why she would do such a thing.

Divorced single mom, Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), lives with her teenage daughter whom she asks for advice on many life problems such as whether or not to ask out the new &widowed& plumber in town.

Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) left the boardroom to become a stay-at-home mom of four crazy kids while her husband travels around the country on business.

Marcia Cross plays &Stepford-like& wife and mother Bree Van de Kamp whose family is sick of her perfection and in the pilot, her husband Rex asks for a divorce.

Ex-model Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is bored although her life is full of everything she ever wanted: a rich husband, a big house and nothing but free time. Gabrielle spends most of that free time in the bed or the bath with her 17-year-old gardener while her husband is at work.

Hatcher and company find a cryptic note in Mary Alice&s belongings while packing them away and five episodes in, still have not found an answer. Something audiences will be guessing about until the season finale. Maybe Mary Alice&s husband will answer some questions when audiences finally find out what he was digging up under the pool in the middle of the night.

This prime time soap opera competes for attention with the WB&s &Jack and Bobby,& &Law and Order: Criminal Intent& on NBC and &The Wire& (HBO). Considering the series debuted with 21.6 million viewers according to Entertainment Weekly, this dark comedy has nothing to worry about.

From Susan locking herself out of her house naked and being rescued by her hunky neighbor Mike Delfino, to Lynette getting pulled over for her rambunctious kids acting up in the car and scarring the cop into not giving her a ticket, Executive Producer and writer Marc Cherry is sure to keep us entertained for hopefully many seasons to come.