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Mary Alice Young
Mary Alice Young (formerly Angela Forrest) is a fictional character on the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives''. The character is played by actress Brenda Strong and narrates the series from beyond the grave; the character's suicide in the pilot episode served as the catalyst of the series. The narration provided by Mary Alice is essential to the tale of Wisteria Lane, as the show revolves around her sharing the secrets of her friends and neighbours. Her narration technique is akin in style to Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.
Mary Alice is the most mysterious of the housewives because only bits and pieces of her story are known. A loving, doting wife and mother who was generous to her family and neighbours, she was the last person any of them expected to commit suicide. In death, Mary Alice sees things she would not have seen in life: her friends' vulnerabilities, lies and secrets. She does not judge them so much as love them more because of their foibles, pitying them for the ways they manipulate and hurt those they care about most. Although deceased since the first episode, Mary Alice continued to have a leading storyline throughout the first and second seasons of the show, with the story being led by her husband and son, Paul and Zach Young respectively.
For her performance as Mary Alice Young, Strong was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.〔(Awards for Brenda Strong )〕
==Development and casting==
The role Mary Alice was originally given to Sheryl Lee.〔("Development Update: March 3" ). The Futon Critic. March 3, 2010. Retrieved August 22, 2010.〕 A pilot was filmed including Lee, but Brenda Strong eventually took over the role, as producers thought that Lee was not right for the part.〔McDougall, Charles (January 5, 2005). ("Desperately seeking a ratings hit" ). ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved August 15, 2010.〕 Strong commented on the casting change for her character, explaining, "I think it was a conceptual shift ... There certainly wasn't something wrong with what () did. It was just that instead of vanilla they wanted chocolate, and I happened to be chocolate."〔Touchstone Television, pp. 96-99〕 Scenes featuring Lee were refilmed with Strong as her replacement.〔Audio commentary on "Pilot" with Marc Cherry. ''Desperate Housewives'': The Complete First Season. (). Touchstone Pictures. Retrieved March 19, 2011.〕 The mystery surrounding Mary Alice and her family was the main storyline in the first season of the series, and it is resolved in the first season finale. Series creator Marc Cherry had wanted there to be a "definite end" to the mystery, hoping to avoid similar viewer fatigue that ''Twin Peaks'' suffered after drawing out its central mystery past its first season.〔Audio commentary on "One Wonderful Day" with Marc Cherry and Larry Shaw. ''Desperate Housewives'': The Complete First Season. (). Touchstone Pictures.〕 ABC executives initially protested the writers' decision to have Mary Alice purposefully kill Deirdre Taylor, prompting the writers to make Deirdre violent in order to justify Mary Alice's actions.〔
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