- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2025
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GPGS is a breezy watch that joins a crop of new network TV shows that rely on nostalgia with a little bit of a twist. So despite its predictability, Grosse Pointe Garden Society has the ingredients that could very well make it bloom into the next Desperate Housewives.
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If you pine for the days when Desperate Housewives ruled on Sundays, this is your show. [3 - 23 Mar 2025, p.4]
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The Pleasantville archetype of a surface-level perfect environment masking something terribly wrong underneath is always fun to see, and Grosse Pointe Garden Society feels like the kind of show that could turn into must-watch appointment TV, if allowed to fully bloom.
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There is something cheerful, even gentle about the show, even when characters, in the future timeline, are reckoning with the aftermath of the murder — it’s as if bodies started turning up in, say, “Northern Exposure.” I found myself easily invested in their stories and hoping the conventional best for them: domestic tranquility, no jail time.
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Despite a handful of missteps, the NBC show is engrossing, confounding and off to a promising start.
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While the show hasn’t quite blossomed to its full potential yet, its early episodes plant some promising seeds that could bear fruit down the road.