I keep seeing the adds for this show, but I can’t gather up the nerve to actually watch it.
Is it as cheesy/sleezy/bad as I think it is?
It’s at least as sleezy as you think it is.
Originally the show wasn’t really that trashy. Make no mistake; the Housewives are, without exception, vapid and fairly stupid. But the first season or two is mostly them going about their lives, spending lots of money on things, having the occasional catfight, etc…
Sine then, two additional series have been created - Real Housewives of New York and Real Housewives of Atlanta. The existence of the other series has really pushed Real Housewives of the OC into ultra-trashy mode this season (Atlanta was outrageously trashy).
To give an example from the latest episode…
[spoiler]Housewife Tamra is jealous of new Housewife Gretchen, ten years her junior and considerably prettier.
In order to “get back” at Gretchen, Tamra throws a dinner party and conspires with her husband and young adult son (with whom Tamra has a disgustingly Oedipal relationship) to get Gretchen so drunk that she makes a fool of herself.
The plan goes according to plan in a very long segment that features a blitzed-out-of-her-mind Gretchen stumbling around the party acting a fool while Tamra’s son gropes her and tries to make out with her despite her protests (Gretchen is engaged to be married to a man thirty years her senior who is dying of Leukemia).
The episode is to be continued.[/spoiler]
That’s as extreme as the show has ever gotten, but if you watch the show you should expect lots of cat-fighting, lots of really bad parenting (one of the Housewives - Lauri - recently quit the show because her son was recently released from prison and is a drug addict), lots of opulent spending, and in general lots of really immature behavior from adults who should know better.
I seem to have managed to watch at least one show per season and I’ve seen mud puddles with more depth than those women.
It’s most likely worse than you imagine, but you should watch at least once so you can truly appreciate your friends. And if you watch it and find your friends even remotely like them, dump 'em fast.
With friends like those, who needs an enema.
Holy molley!
Maybe jerry springer aint so bad after all.
They all kinda look like second rate trophy wifes to me. But, looks arent everything, so i figured maybe they had some other personal attributes their mates found attractive. Guess not!
I guess a dollar just doesnt buy what it used to 