Plot

A small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.

Set in fictional Fernwood, Ohio, this deliriously demented serial focused on the beleaguered heroine Mary Hartman, an average American housewife. In the first year, Mary suffered the travails of mass murder, adultery, venereal disease, homosexuality, religious cults, and UFO sightings, before she finally succumbed to a nervous breakdown on a syndicated talk show.—Mark Faulkner <mtfalknr@cc.memphis.edu>