Article: `Desperate Housewives' speak their minds, tartly.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Mike Duffy

LOS ANGELES _ If you're going to explore female lives of not-so-quiet suburban desperation, heck, why not do it with a stylish twist of dark merriment?

And so we have ABC's "Desperate Housewives," one of the very few new fall season series that dares to be a little different.

Better still, "Desperate Housewives," which will air at 9 p.m. EDT Sundays on ABC beginning Sept. 26, has great fun putting an imaginative spin on the conventional cliches of prime time soaps. It colorfully tells the stories of a small circle of friends who live along cozy Wisteria Lane.

"We've got some comedy. We have drama. We'll have some ...

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