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Desperate Housewives takes a breather from its hectic (and highly rated) first season to offer this retrospective episode, originally telecast as a special. In lieu of the series' traditional narrator, the late Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), actress Tracy Fraim provides the blow-by-blow commentary. In addition to choice film clips from previous episodes, "Sorting Out the Dirty Laundry" provides tantalizing clues to the various and sundry mysteries introduced in the narrative -- and also a few all-too-brief glimpses of what is to come during the remainder of season one.