Kerry Washingtons Desperate Housewives reboot sparks outrage: I dont want it

“Desperate Housewives” fans aren’t interested in returning to Wisteria Lane.News broke Tuesday that Kerry Washington is making a reboot to the popular comedy-drama series at Onyx Collective (owned by Disney) with “The Flight Attendant” showrunner Natalie Chaidez.The pair are executive producing the series alongside Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher.

Chaidez will also write the project.The show is currently titled “Wisteria Lane,” after the street from the ABC series that starred Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross.According to Variety, the official logline says the show is “set around a group of 5 very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called ‘Wisteria Lane.’” “On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream.Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets,” according to the show’s summary.Fans of the original series quickly blasted the reboot news on social media.“Whyyyyyy stop ruining the classics and come up with something original,” one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).“No.

Bring back the originals,” another person wrote.“Oh hell no enough of these remakes my lord and it never hit like the OGs,” a third account wrote.“Unless marc cherry is behind this, i don’t want it,” someone else said, referring to the original show’s creator.“If nobody’s cheating with the gardener in episode 1 i’m not watching,” another tweet read about Longoria’s Season 1 storyline with Jesse Metcalfe.More critics compared the “Desperate Housewives” reboot to Max’s critically panned “Sex and the City” sequel series “And Just Like That.”“Legit not the original cast with the same premise as the Sex And The City reboot I don’t particularly care tbh,” one fan wrote.Another tweeted, “the same thing that happened to sex and the city is...