A lowbrow way to spend a Saturday morning.
Okay, I'll admit it. While I hold myself to high standards (I consider myself well versed in movies and literature and would even perhaps define myself as a movie and literature snob), I do have a fondness for a particular show that some may deem lowbrow. One could even make the argument (and rather successfully, I suspect) that the show in question is just as responsible for the dumbing down of American T.V. as is The O.C..…
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26 - adrianna
hi i loved the show i was wondering if there will be more episodes
27 - JE Curran
I watched it because I am moving to Orange County next month. My opinion of the show is boring and inane. As for the housewives themselves, their conversations are mind-numbingly insipid.
I can stomach their shallowness, their self-absorbtion, but their boring verbage was like submitting myself to the drip, drip, drip, of Chinese water torture. Gawd, if they are examples of what Orange County women are truly like, I guess I will rarely be leaving the house.
28 - madalaine
Jeanna is such a shallow bitch--and in so much denial.... she has $$ and can't get enough.... sounds like an adiction because she has an unfulfilling life. Definitely in the sex department! Her kids are shallow demons.
Laurie is nice but essentially too nice and more than a tad on the Patrick the Starfish side.... If she spent more time with her kids, she wouldn't have one in a halfway house.
Jo--- Jo, Jo, Jo..... she may play stupid because it makes her more lethal, but she KNOWS she doesn't want to be tied down, so why not just go out on her own-- oh yeah, cause she won't have the 'Cedes anymore... And Slade-- stalker boy.... he's gone a little nuts in the eyes.... When he said he was Jo's best friend, I just about peed myself. He threw her out, took her mode of transportation after SHE gave up her job for him.... some friend! (And I think that Jo TOTALLY got naked at the Playboy party, btw, not to mention that Slade is all bojangly bowlegged!)
Vicky--- she is a stroke waiting to happen. She is so busy proving that she is all that and a bag of chips-- for whatever childhood reason, she has to be praised all the time and she has to make herself attractive--- and she wants to be a MILF??? Freak.
And the new chick--- she's an accident waiting to happen. Her house is flooded and she can't get in-- and it happened when she was babysitting Jeana's kids?? So, what is the hold up with getting it fixed? If she can lease a house in Cota Country, then she can certainly fix her house.
Duff is a freak too. He's on the prowl for her, but she's not biting-- at least not yet...... until she needs more $$.
These people are even more dysfunctional than the other 99% of the world!
29 - Elena
SLADE, WAKE UP & SMELL THE ROSES BABE! YOU BUY HER A GUITAR, DIAMONDS & MORE YET SHE STILL WANTS TO GO OUT WITH THE GIRLS?!? OH, AND "THAT WASN'T THE GUITAR I ASKED FOR"! PLEASE, THERE ARE SOOO MANY WOMEN THAT WOULD LOVE FOR HER MAN TO BE THAT ATTENTIVE! JO IS IMMATURE & SELFISH!
30 - corvero
somehow i think the whole show is a fake....
31 - isabelle
I am so repulsed by Jo de la Rosa, who is dumber than a box of rocks. What makes her think that she deserves the best? Because she has a set of fake boobs? What has she achieved in life? If that boyfriend of hers would stop thinking with his dick, he'd realize what an embarrassment she is!
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32 - Ramon
I can't see why everyone is so hooked on this crap. After surviving through one episode of this mind-numbing reality show, I wanted to rip my eyes out and stomp on them. Furthermore, I can't believe people actually congregate about the brilliance of a show that focuses on a group of arrogant and shallow people that have conversations about nothing. What is the purpose of this program? To make society dumber? If so, then well done to the producers.
33 - Trish
Ok... Are we seriously considering putting Jo on the radio? Like, are they SERIOUS??
34 - Bridget
I am sorry but JO has got to go. I never respond to anything but she has got to be the dumbest girl I have ever seen and she is a horrible singer! and...Slade??? what a loser for thinking she is so great. Slade, get a life! there is no reason someone lilke Jo should be on TV. She needs to go back to school. She ruins the show.
35 - vanessa
I just love the show, I never miss an episode! Hope that there will be a season 3!!!
36 - Sweepy
It's a cheap shot to call them shallow. They are as complex as many characters you find in literature, yet you must unpack it through their coy and alcohol infused behavior in front of a Hollywood camera, which brings with it all kinds of complex feelings for women hooked on the Hollywood dream of being famous and beautiful and rich. The struggle Jo went through in coming to terms with her feelings, in recognizing the condescending and controlling aspects of Slade, and yet having been sheltered and to young and inexperienced to be able to communicate respectfully about it, I think any woman who was 21 and cute and still immature and having too much fun drinking is likely to relate. Laurie is delightful as a true snake, unfeeling of her children's pain, determined to smile through an ultra-strict stance that only serves her personal freedom and interests. Jeanna is a laughing Buddha. Vicki is emotionally ill, she has addictions, yet she is also a success, she floats on that high energy that some people are lucky to experience, and she happily feeds it into her work. Yet she is a mess, she seams about to implode. Her story is both tragic and delightful, as are each woman's story.
I do not as much care for the 3rd season, but the first I could watch over and over. With the exclusion of the ever complex Jo and the cancer survivor turned therapist from the first season, the women who remain are now all too similar: uneducated, married and had children very young, live a somewhat to very wealthy lifestyle, leave behind a string of broken relationships, and are hooked on the hollywood mystique. But the first 2 seasons have been there and done that. Getting bored with it now, plus I'm bored to tears of anything involving the 20-year-old children or Laurie's wedding. Jo was interesting because she was a youngster placed into a world of grownups (and expected to behave as such by many bloggers for some reason). 20 year old kids just being kids is definitely a yawn. but the first 2 seasons I will definitely buy on DVD!
37 - Dana Fraser
Is is true that Slade in "real life" went broke? Of course now, he has money again by representing a woman who would be SUPER rich by being naked and NOT singing.
38 - FYI
A midday chat with the Real Housewives of O.C.
October 27th, 2009, 5:53 pm · 24 Comments ·
posted by RICHARD CHANG, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Coverage of real estate troubles of ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’
39 - Lucy Catford (London)
The programme is currently being shown in London, we are up to where Vicki is considering divorcing her husband, (very sad)!!
Go Vicki, the woman is making her own money, she is a brilliant inspiration, and by far the best house wife on the show. Followed by Tamra who managed to rid herself of that nasty controlling Simon, her new boyfriend Eddie, is a million times better.
I also like Peggy who seems like a very nice person. Alexis seems incredibly jealous of her, always trying to compete. Alexis married a fat, ugly dubious man simply for his money. While Peggy genuinely has the hots for her handsome husband. Alexis is probably thick, and probaly left school with no qualifications, so runs around looking for older, ugly men to latch onto. Peggy's husband respects and adores her, Alexis's husband treats her like a doormat, and a maid.