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It's also a play on "Desperate Housewives"
I must confess that, not having seen the show, the title had made me assume that it was a docusoap type show about real people from the same rich-bitch social background as the characters on Desperate Housewives, rather than a show about typical, or normal housewives.
It is and I'm sure that reasonable, rational, intelligent people (such as Buffistas) know that it's not really honest true housewives, but I'm cranky and have chosen this as my thing today.
Down with rich housewives! A pox on their Prada!
I think a lot of shows give a distorted picture of what "real" life is. I mean, how many of them show people having to actually work at a job (not something exciting, but the boring kind most of us have), deal with finances, cope with commutes, deal with children who have meltdowns and aren't constantly spouting off sassy one-liners, etc.? Going by a lot of them, you either have an exciting job with life-or-death situations all the time or an office where you wander in and schmooze, with an occasional gesture to work. That job pays enough that you can live in a nice place with spiffy furniture and, when your friends drop by, you always have food and drink handy. grr
I mean, how many of them show people having to actually work at a job (not something exciting, but the boring kind most of us have), deal with finances, cope with commutes, deal with children who have meltdowns and aren't constantly spouting off sassy one-liners, etc.?
But how many people would watch a show like that? Most people want to watch people with idealized lives, or else shows like Cops, where they can watch people who are bigger fuckups than they are...
Roseanne and Malcolm in the Middle were more reality shows. At least in my housewife experience.
From Slashdot:
Doctors affled by girl who doesn't age
Whoa. My first thought was "maybe she's a harbinger of a race of humans who will live to be 1000."
Real Housewives of the OC being crazy wealthy sort of makes sense. I think the area is commonly regarded has well monied.
New Jersey, however... its a whole state. Some parts have crazy money but Real Housewives of Essex County or Bergen County just doesn't have the same ring to it. They could have named it Tacky With Cash (And Just Enough Mob Connections That We Can All Say, "Ooooooooh!" But Not So Many That We Risk Loosing Fingers When We Exploit Them).
Roseanne and Malcolm in the Middle were more reality shows. At least in my housewife experience.
I was going to mention Roseanne. I didn't watch a lot of it, but it seemed remarkably grounded in actual life.
But how many people would watch a show like that? Most people want to watch people with idealized lives, or else shows like Cops, where they can watch people who are bigger fuckups than they are...
Hee! And right here we have the difference between US telly and UK telly: US telly tends towards rich people with glamorous jobs, exciting lives, swanky cars and posh houses; UK telly tends towards working class people with no jobs, miserable lives, knackered old cars and rented flats.
Hee! And right here we have the difference between US telly and UK telly: US telly tends towards rich people with glamorous jobs, exciting lives, swanky cars and posh houses; UK telly tends towards working class people with no jobs, miserable lives, knackered old cars and rented flats.
And in Australia it's about comfortable middle-class families with high school kids that live near the beach.