Grosse Pointe Garden Society is what happens when NBC puts Desperate Housewives and Good Girls in a blender, and it'll attract some of the same fans.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society premires Sunday, February 23 at 10 p.m. ET.

NBC’s “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” premiering Sunday, Feb. 23, at 10 p.m., is the latest series to try to recapture some of the soapy spark that “Desperate Housewives” brought to primetime television over 20 years ago.

A good murder mystery is one thing, but when a TV show also manages to infuse distinct characters and extreme albeit hilarious melodrama, it's certainly worth tuning into. From "Good Girls" creator Jenna Bans and her co-creator,

In the era of Severance, Yellowjackets, and The White Lotus, every show is a mystery-box show, inviting—or demanding—its audience actively watch the proceedings, concocting theories about the symbolism and foreshadowing hidden within the disjointed narrative.

The premiere of NBC's Grosse Pointe Garden Society introduced a complex rode to a murder that cuts back and forth in time.

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That's one of the many things that make Grosse Pointe Garden Society work so well. There are flower metaphors aplenty. AnnaSophia Robb's Alice, a high school teacher whose beloved dog is missing, takes viewers through the show's cast of characters in the pilot episode by comparing them with their floral counterparts.