Why Women Kill was created by ABC’s Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, who also served as executive producer and showrunner on the show.

Season 1 was set in three different decades, 1963, 1984, and 2019. It followed three women who lived in the same Pasadena mansion across those decades and who all dealt with infidelity in their marriages. The cast included Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Alexandra Daddario.

Season 2 was set solely in 1949 and chronicled one woman’s attempt to belong no matter the cost. The cast included Allison Tolman, Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario, Veronica Falcón and Nick Frost.