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Why is Teri Hatcher so popular?

Can someone explain to me why Desperate Housewives is such a cultural phenomenon? I’ve seen it once or twice and it’s entertaining, but why do the stars keep making the covers of magazines, and what’s with the infatuation with Teri Hatcher? She was better on that Superman show with Dean Cain from the early ’90s.

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By Josh
— April 22, 2005 at 5:37 pm
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  1. Why is she more populat than death and destruction? The tsunami was more popular for a minute. But it’s a fair question. Are we content with the now thirty year old plus idea that Hatcher momentarily fills a void in the overpowering spectacle, that overpowering collection of reified commodities that clouds our connection to one another? Or is there some new critique?

    I don’t watch any TV anymore — except 50 Cent videos.

    Sending my love,

    csg

    Carleton — April 28, 2005 @ 4:17 pm —

  2. I’m not sure what language Carleton is speaking, but I’m not content with his neo-Debordian nonsense. For me, it’s not just a spectacle to distract us–our interest in Teri and Desperate Housewives says something about the mindset of many Americans. We’re in a really conservative moment, and it’s meaningful to me that so many people spend time watching a show about housewives who lie, cheat, and kill. It’s the national id or something.

    Josh — April 28, 2005 @ 4:24 pm —

  3. Because she’s fuckin hot, yo.

    Rachel — April 29, 2005 @ 11:03 am —

  4. Teri Hatcher is serious hot. And she is one serious desperate housewife. And maybe she represents, in all her stupendous hotness and desperation, an undercurrent *against* the currrent conservative movement. Although I am no fan of seeing rebellion associated with hysterical females (this again! I thought we were past the Yellow Wallpaper), perhaps Desperate Housewives act to dissociate themselves from the powers that placed them in the houswife position. It’s the zeitgeist, and the show is where cultural policy is being made.

    When was the last time the news seriously covered gender issues? When all those Afghani women started to vote? I don’t think so.

    Vik — May 4, 2005 @ 8:55 pm —



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