How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Real Housewives
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Published 2024-01-31
Why was the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City finale the "best reality TV episode in history"? And why did we perceive it so differently from last year's "best episode", Vanderpump Rules' #Scandoval?
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SOURCES:
Jacquelyn Arcy, “The Digital Money Shot: Twitter wars, The Real Housewives, and transmedia storytelling,”, Celebrity Studies (2018).
Kate Authur, “Heather Gay Tells All: The Receipts! Proof! Timelines! of the Shocking ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ Finale and Reunion (EXCLUSIVE)” Variety (2024).
Kate Aurthur, “Inside How ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Captured the #Scandoval (EXCLUSIVE)” Variety (2023).
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All Comments (21)
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all I can say is... free my girl Monica
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I swear Real Housewives has gotta be an FBI honeypot lmao
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I think also in regards to Vanderpump, I’ve noticed the public can get really nasty with cheating scandals. Like the readiness to throw around words like ‘evil’ and ‘sociopathic’ as we saw in the reunion I’ve seen happen online as well. think people have a hard time not projecting their own personal feelings/experiences on to these situations. Also the worst of it is usually directed at women unsurprisingly.
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it's always a good day when we get a new one from you 💗💚
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Heathers whole speech was edited as a peak detective monoglue at the end of a spiraling game of modern day clue.
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Scandoval... i still remember what bus i rode when i read the news. That was an intense time to be on the VPR subreddit.
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Monica better be cast on the next season of The Traitors. She's the ultimate audience self insert and I love her for that.
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This is wrestling, except not everyone know about kayfabe.
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I am LIVING for this academic analysis of the Housewives franchise and our insatiable appetite for it.
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Gonna be cycling "Potential victims? All I think about are victims!" into my day-to-day lexicon; to the confusion of my friends, family, and co-workers.
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I'm catching up on salt lake cause i didn't know it was this GOODT
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As someone who doesn’t watch hardly any reality tv (just Dancing With The Stars and Great British Bake off) I feel like an alien observing human culture watching this video 😄
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Rewatching the VPR reunion is so rough. I’d say we are very lucky that the worst thing that happened was Raquel checking herself into treatment. I genuinely don’t think I’d be able to mentally recover from that.
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Real Housewives casting criteria: If you have no dignity, no integrity, only the loosest grasp on morality, possess no boundaries when it comes to personal behavior, and are willing to do literally anything on camera in order to be famous, then you're exactly the cast member they're looking for!
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Life is so much better when you give in to Bravo actually being high brow entertainment
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The pay onnvanderpump rules are based on seniority; Sandavol and Ariana have been on the show for more than a decade. Rachel was recurring for the majority of her time on the show, of course, someone who wasn't in the intro until her second to last season.
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This just makes me want to become a Below Deck scholar EVEN MORE
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Monica was a great villain mostly because circumstance, I don’t think she realized what she had. The SLC finale brought the whole meta narrative of bravo and its fandom to a head and all she could bring to the reunion was that lame burn book.
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Bethenny Frankel jump scare
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I know absolutely nothing about these shows so this is so interesting.
