Drat! My browser wasn't working, and in the meantime, Kanga's pipped me to the post! Never mind, this is what I was going to say:
Update for gobbledygook:
Episode 1 begins with improbably elegant, soignee american suburban supermommy & wife walking up improbably elegant steps to her improbably perfect clapboard house with her voiceover saying [paraphrase here:] "After yet another day spent polishing the perfection of my routine, I've decided to end it all..." In the background, there is the sound of a shotgun....
The rest of the episode follows the speculative conversations of her (also improbably beautiful, rich, but underneath-it-all deeply dissatisfied) friends [including Terri Hatcher (single mom of teenage daughter) a bored trophy wife (whose name I can't remember), Bree (who tries to be Mrs Perfect, whilst her marriage and family slowly disintegrates beneath her) and a harrassed erstwhile supermom of four kids under the age of 6, discussing why she did it. There's also a plumber (single man love interest) who, it's hinted at, is not really a plumber, but a mystery man on a mission.
Can someone else take over episode 2, cos DH has just come home and HE WANTS HIS DINNER!!!
(And I've saved up all my week's ironing ready for episode 3. How desparate am I?!)