Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy-drama TV series, based on the American comedy-drama TV series Desperate Housewives.[1]

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Series overview

International broadcasts

Differences from the original series

• Andrew isn't gay.
• Katherine is not a lesbian and doesn't leave the street with Robin.
• Susan doesn't move out from Wisteria Lane in the 6th season.
• Eddie doesn't kill his mother or move in with Lynette.
• Julie doesn't become pregnant.
• Edie doesn't have a son.
• Mike isn't a plumber, he is an electric engineer.
• Bree never becomes an alcoholic.
• Orson doesn't hit Chuck with a car.
• Yasemin's house doesn't have a gas explosion in the 1st season, its windows are smashed.
• No plane falls onto the street.
• Bree's house doesn't get damaged from a tornado, it is damaged by a gas explosion. Sylvia blew up the kitchen to kill herself.
• Karen McCluskey's house doesn't get demolished by a tornado.
• Gabrielle is acted by two actresses, firstly (1-80) Evrim Solmaz, then (80-154) Deniz Uğur.
• There is not as much sexual content as in the original series.
• Karl doesn't die, but he doesn't appear after the 2nd season. In the rest of the seasons Karl is changed with Julie's uncle Ejder.
• Bree and Karl don't get together.
• Susan doesn't do cleaning in front of a webcam in lingerie.
• Edie doesn't die, Özge Özder continued to act as Renee Perry from 124th episode until final.
• Karl doesn't buy a house for Susan after hers burnt down, he rents one.
• Susan doesn't stay in a caravan after her house burnt down.
• Susan doesn't write a children's novels, she is a tailor.
• Susan and Karl don't have sex in the second season. Karl comes to Susan's house drunk and vomits so she has to take him into her house.
• Victor Lang doesn't die in the tornado, he's shot by Wayne.
• Carlos doesn't become blind from getting hit in the head with a flying object, he becomes blind from being shot in the head by Victor.
• Beth doesn't commit suicide with a gunshot, she cuts herself in Susan's bathroom.
• 4362 Wisteria Lane, Edie and Renee's house, is replaced with three houses. In the first episode it was a first-floor, single-story apartment flat. After a fire it's replaced with another apartment flat in the street. In the third season it's replaced with a blue, two-story house.
• Mary Alice's house doesn't include a pool. The pool is replaced with a tree.
• There isn't a character for Ida Greenberg.
• Alejandro isn't Gabrielle's stepfather, he's her ex-husband who beat her during their marriage.
• Susan doesn't get locked out naked, she was in her bathrobe.
• Susan doesn't have a relationship with anyone when Mike is in a coma.

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