

One day his mother, Gloria, asked Orson to stay with him, saying she had to visit a sick friend, but Orson later left because he had plans to go out with his friends.

When the truth came out, it caused a scandal at their church and he became an alcoholic. When he was sixteen, his father Edwin had an affair. He grew up in a very religious household. He was circumcised when he was 5 years old. Anything that tries to knock that apart becomes a threat." Cherry called Orson Bree's perfect match, but added that their similarities "will ultimately prove to be the downfall of the relationship." Storylines Backstory MacLachlan commented that his character is "desperate to make this relationship with Bree work. A character portrayed by Julie White appeared in the second-season finale and would have been Orson's accomplice, but the entire storyline was discarded in favor of the mysterious disappearance of Orson's wife and White's character was not seen or mentioned again. When Orson was introduced toward the end of the second season, he was to be a con artist. The cast responded positively to the new material for the season. They developed the Orson plot line around the "idea that one of our women marries a guy who has dark secrets and possibly a violent streak." Cherry opined: "I thought there was something exciting about that, but real and relatable." Greenstein commented that the writers worked backwards from the second season's cliffhangers to develop the Orson storyline, forsaking the original material that had been developed earlier.
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For the third season's mystery, series creator Marc Cherry wanted to incorporate more of the series' regular characters rather than bringing in various new ones, like they had done in the second season with Betty Applewhite ( Alfre Woodard) and her family. The character of Orson Hodge was planned as a romantic interest for Susan Mayer ( Teri Hatcher), according to executive producer Tom Spezialy, until Cherry decided to pair Orson with Bree Van de Kamp ( Marcia Cross). MacLachlan left the main cast in season six, but made guest appearances until the eighth and final season. Orson is introduced in the final episodes of the second season of the series, and becomes the main mystery of the third season. The character is played by Kyle MacLachlan. Orson Hodge is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.
