Desperate Housewives Monologues Dataset
Personal Project, Summer 2025
A dataset of extracted monologues and narrator dialogue from the TV show “Desperate Housewives,” organized by season and episode. The project includes scripts for processing subtitles and analyzing the show’s unique narrative structure.
Project Overview
The monologues, primarily narrated by the character Mary Alice Young, are a distinctive storytelling device in “Desperate Housewives.” Each episode begins and ends with a monologue that frames the story, providing insight, foreshadowing, or thematic commentary on suburban life, relationships, and morality.
Features
- Complete Dataset: Monologues extracted from all seasons, organized by episode
- Processing Scripts: Tools to convert SRT subtitle files to plain text
- Text Combination: Scripts to merge episode files with clear season/episode headers
- Markdown Exports: Cleaned monologue text for each season
Use Cases
- NLP Analysis: Study language patterns, recurring motifs, and narrative structure
- Sentiment Analysis: Track emotional tones and thematic evolution across seasons
- Machine Learning: Training data for text generation or classification models
- Academic Research: Analyze the show’s approach to social commentary
- Creative Reference: Inspiration for writers, educators, and content creators
Technologies Used
- Python
- Natural Language Processing
- Subtitle (SRT) parsing
- Text processing and extraction