Desperate Housewives (season 6) former best friends. Teri Hatcher portrayed Susan Mayer, who is married to Mike again. Felicity Huffman portrayed Lynette Scavo, who is trying to conceal her pregnancy in order to keep her job. Marcia Cross portrayed Bree Hodge, who is having an affair with her divorce lawyer. Eva Longoria portrayed Gabrielle Solis, who now deals with her teenage niece. Ricardo Antonio Chavira portrayed Carlos Solis, Gabrielle's husband and Lynette's new boss. Doug Savant portrayed Tom Scavo, Lynette's husband who returns to college. Kyle MacLachlan portrayed Orson Hodge, who suffers a terrible accident while trying to save his marriage to Bree. Dana
Desperate Housewives Springer Show". "Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence" (), from I.B. Tauris, is an academic look at the show by film studies lecturers Janet McCabe and Kim Akassm. "Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives" (), published by BenBella Books, consists of seventeen essays written from a feminist perspective. In Chalice Press' "Not-So-Desperate: Fantasy, Fact and Faith on Wisteria Lane" (), author Shawnthea Monroe is giving a Christian interpretation of the series. Also, following the "real life desperate housewives" phenomenon, several books have been released dealing with life strategies for contemporary women. In December 2006, it