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Over the course of the first season, Bree has suffered prhaps more than any other character, finding her idyllic, plastic existance challenged by a series of new domestic dramas. In each of her travails she surprises the audience in new ways-she will do things if she's asked, wants intimacy even though she seems incapable of feeling. As her life shifts in strange and unpredictable ways, Bree, like a flower, opens up, becoming warmer, more nuanced, more complex, and real.
In the pilot, Bree's teenage children Andrew and Danielle despise her and her husband, Rex, wants to leave her, saying he just can't live in this "detergant commercial" anymore. He wants the woman he fell in love with who used to burn the toast and drink milk from the carton, and laugh, not this cold perfect thing she's become. Bree is wounded by his request, so wounded that, whether purposefully or not, she almost poisons him to death. No-one messes with Bree and no-one tells her what to do.
Although she wants the perfect marriage, she also wants her marriage to work, and showing surprising openness, she suggests they go to couples therapy. It's not long before she learns that Rex cheated on her with Maisy Gibbons. The moralistic, NRA-supporting Bree, who has never once strayed, is so furious at his betrayal that she determines to divorce him. Then she decides instead to opt for revenge, dating the strange loner pharmacist George Williams. Though her motivation was only to hurt Rex, as she gets to know George she discovers that she enjoys his company. In the most unlikely of places she begins to get to know what she wants in a companion, and in a sense, who she really is.
As the Van de Kamps struggle in their marriage, Bree has to deal with two angry children who seem to blame her for all the family problems. When Andrew confesses that he was involved in the hit-and-run, this devoted mother hides the evidence so Andrew will be off the hook, and then realizes sadly that he doesn't feel at all repentant. The extremely religious, moralistic Bree has birthed a child with no apparent moral compass-and as the truth of that sinks in, Bree wonders if she has failed as a parent.
Just as she seems to be opening her heart to others, Bree discovers that her son Andrew may be gay. No matter how sophisticated she would like to be, she believes homosexuality is a sin and she tells the son that she loves him but he has to change.
With her once-perfect family now fractured, Bree encounters a loss more painful than all others. Rex dies under mysterious circumstances, and Bree becomes a widow. Little does she know that George Williams, the pharmacist and her possible love intrest, is the very man who killed him.
Despite all the challenges to their relationship, the more Rex and Bree fight the more she feels the extent of her devotion to him. Bree has been a one-man girl from the moment she met Rex at a Young-Repulicans meeting. Showing bravery we might not have expected from her, she finally gets him to admit his secre. And the most unlikely dominatrix on the planet, a woman who probably would have been satisfied with the missionary position for life, agrees to role-play with handcuffs (as long as she can run them through the dishwasher first).
But peace for Bree is fleeting, and just as she and Rex seem to be coming together again, she learns Rex's big secret. He has been going to Maisy Gibbons for extra. First she tries bribing Maisy so the truth doesn't come out, but when that fails she realizes that there is a better place to spend her money-on a friend in need, Gabrielle-0deepening the women's friendship and strengthening their bond.
