You have Mob Wives, Real Housewifes of X city, Basketball Wives, Football Wives, etc etc.
These shows claim to be reality shows but they are really nothing but what appears to be mentally unbalanced rich women attacking each other and fighting. Even the promos for these shows only play up this aspect, its just catfights all the time.
Are we to believe that this is a reality show, and these women are actually so mentally unbalanced that they physically attack people over nothing all the time? How are they not in a mental hospital or prison?
Rich women might be able to get away with a lot but attacking an average of one person per day? BTW it makes the wives look like the dumbest people on the face of the earth, it seems even the producers are laughing at them.
There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s a lot of manipulation (both in production and editing) that literally screams drama. Otherwise nobody would watch any of those shows.
Would you watch a show about six rich but boring housewives? I don’t think anybody would. Hence, the drama.
However, there are millions of crazy people out there, who go day to day hiding how f-ing insane they are. It doesn’t surprise me that there are people who are willing to let that side out for a fee.
My daughter was home for Christmas and she loves them - so I got a big dose of Real Housewife’s of…
They come off as completely scripted. Maybe not actual lines, but certainly the scenes and general content of the conversation. The tell is that fact that none of the people talking are wearing microphones. So that means that there is a guy holding a sound boom right over the heads of the people on screen. This, in turn, means that the scenes are staged.
In other shows you can plainly see the lapel mikes and battery packs on the participants.
No visible mike = staged with a blocked out set = scripted.
That doesn’t make any sense. Documentary-style shows regularly use handheld portable booms. Do you think the guys on shows like Dirty Jobs are working from a script? Because they sure aren’t wearing lavalier mics.
But yeah, “real housewives” type shows are pretty much all manufactured drama.
The participants know that if they don’t bring some drama, they won’t be signed for another season. That said, sometimes things start small and get out of control, surprising everyone involved. They’re attention whores, but they can be entertaining. And you learn how not to behave.
Like Pine Fresh Scent says, it can make you feel better about being poor.
The Real Housewives seem to get more scripted every year, too. Or at least they didn’t seem as scripted in the original series or two.
Now it’s like…you can clearly - CLEARLY - tell that some of the women would want to have nothing to do with the other women but are like “oh hey does everyone want to go to Morocco? I booked us a villa” or “hey why don’t you let me make you a signing star? I think you have potential.” Uh huh.
I don’t believe that the dialogue is all that scripted (I do believe that the cast might ramp it up to keep their jobs) but it seems that 9 out of 10 times when people get together, even if it’s just 2 housewives having lunch of shopping, that it’s an assignment from the producer.
I also think that the Richards girls are both on drugs and spoiled brat child actors.
Yep. And even when it’s not obviously an assignment, the conversation doesn’t flow naturally. Maybe the producers don’t suggest the topics, but the women know why the cameras are there.
Kyle too? She’s a spoiled brat but I haven’t seen drug behavior from her. Kim’s a basket case, poor deluded woman.
I have never watched a nanosecond of any of these shows, but I’m amazed at their existence given the utter sexism of their premise. “Real WIVES of Pro Football” or whatever … these women have no status of their own apart from their attachment to their famous/talented/whatever husband. Really, American women? Or for that matter, American men? So little value is placed on women that we’re only interested in observing them if they’ve got status because of who they’re married to?
Of course I am exaggerating; it’s the fact that they’re rich, period, that makes anyone give two shits about what they do. But honestly, I can’t help but be reminded of a women’s club I was a member of in the 1980s in a small rural Southern town: the list of the members in the handbook was entirely a list of men’s names. Mrs. John Doe, Mrs. Steve Smith, Mrs. Jack Johnston, etc. A women’s club, and all the members were listed by their husband’s name, who presumably had status.
(When I questioned it, they said the founder was still alive and they were afraid of her, so they dared not change the practice as long as she was around.)
I don’t understand why they use “wives” in the shows’ names. For one thing, it’s misleading – some of them aren’t even married. In the Beverly Hills franchise, the wives do have their own identities. Two of them were child actors, one owns two fancy restaurants, and another is a member of the Maloof family, which owns casinos and a basketball team. The only one who was cast because of her husband is Camille Grammer.
It’s fun to watch in a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous way.
Are we to believe that this is a reality show, and these women are actually so mentally unbalanced that they physically attack people over nothing all the time? How are they not in a mental hospital or prison?
