March 4, 2008
New York's Housewives Aren't Real or Iconic
Earlier this year Bravo announced their "Real Housewives" series would be moving from Orange County to The Big Apple. The show premieres tonight, and critics have already gone sour on it.
The NY Post describes the five women chosen to represent NYC as "status-hungry, money-mad matrons" (a real life Cashmere Mafia living in a Lipstick Jungle?). Appalled that out of "8 million residents representing every known corner of the globe" the network picked five who don't represent actual real New York housewives. Not really a shocker.
Variety calls the New York show an "irritant", where the original in California was merely a guilty pleasure. And The Daily News weighs in on the shallow show as well: "saying these women represent 'New York housewives' is like saying Alex Rodriguez represents the New York working class."
Bravo's VP or programming, Andy Cohen, declares "These woman are as iconic to New York City as the other ones are to Orange County." Iconic? Not anymore. Do these women look familiar to you?
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They look like tourists from one of the stuffier suburbs.
Look at their clothes, their hair -- also, they're all white.
They look like tourists from one of the stuffier suburbs.
Look at their clothes, their hair -- also, they're all white.
Y'know, though, who the heck is a housewife anymore? Women have, like, uh, jobs. You need to be in a household pulling in a comfortable six figures to be a housewife to begin with, so these women aren't necessarily all that exceptional for the particular feature being isolated.
these "ladies" are hookers who ended up getting married to their clients.
No...hookers put out.
Whatever, the whole show is about showing rich bitches and the warped worlds they live in. Once Orange County was played out why not come to NYC? A real, real, real housewife's life would be too boring anyway.
yeah, if they wanted to make a show on the "real housewives" of new york city, i'd imagine it would be a show on nannies.
or if you wanted to get REALLY iconic, it'd be a bunch of obese women slapping the shit out of their kids in public.
Ladies, we get it: you like to drink and f*ck. Point taken.
Women have, like, uh, jobs.
I can't tell you like how many, uh, of my female Ivy, uh, League graduate friends or associates stay at home because their husbands are like investment, uh, bankers or uh, lawyers.
I wonder if there will ever be anything new on TV again.
I know housewives/stay at home moms, and it, uh, is a job.
You come off like, uh, a real smarmy douchebag there, EastRiver.
I guess I'm a stay-at-home mom/housewife, not because I'm rich but because I lost my job. Since these women don't do dishes, shop for food, or clean up after their kids, I wouldn't call them housewives--that word suggests work, y'know? They're socialites.
One of them isn't even married and has no kids. So, what's up with that?
Just remember that eventually, their husbands will infect them with STDs that they caught from the hookers/strippers/secretaries that's they've got on the side. It comes with the territory of being married to kind of "women" portrayed. It always makes me feel better!
all of this hubbub just goes to show how new yorkers are ultimately humorless.
we live in the biggest, most important city in the country..can't we find any more pressing issues to be riled up about?
I'd like to have anal with each of them
boo hoo. cry me a fucking river. so they don't represent most nyc housewives, do you think the ones in the orange county one do?
orange county is a vapid, shallow, way-too-conservative place, but the women on that show are all self-made, hard workers. there's also ghettos in orange county, if you've never been.
get over yourselves, new yorkers.
uh, mmm, pfft, uh,uh, squirt, whirl, uh. huh?
They're not real New Yorkers? Whaddaya mean? It's not like they just got Photoshopped into that picture of New York...oh, wait. Nevermind.
wannabe Sex and the city.. Wannabe carries
The upper echelon isn't as stuffy as these people depict? The people I worked for when I was working in Bklyn sure as hell seem the same as these assholes.
The ugly manninsh blonde one from Brooklyn modeled for this craptastic clothing boutique I used to work for. Bleh! Her pictures are fugs and so are the clothes.
http://www.runwayconnection.net/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/b4a6380f514d04960ffa4340fa0ddb37.jpg
acrocksyo, you gotta warn us bout that link pic.
he has that kevin bacon jaw with some chimp properties. sort of like planet of the Apes.
Bah. This just continues the myth of the glamourous NYC life. I know plenty of people who bought into the myth and was disappointed when they actually moved to NYC.
Women have, like, uh, jobs. You need to be in a household pulling in a comfortable six figures to be a housewife to begin with, so these women aren't necessarily all that exceptional for the particular feature being isolated.
Six figures? Really? You know there are other states (or even other places in this state) with more reasonable costs of living, right?
JacqueMehoff, I wanted people to be scared! There are better ones of her with her saggy boobs showing! Now those are worth a gander!
This is exactly why I don't have cable.
This show is dumb. Ths OC one was at least a bit funny.
I watched for 5 minutes and could tell that only one of the women was actually FROM New York City, and that's the one that's not married with no kids!
They're just a bunch of poser tourists. The kind that when people ask where they're from they lie and say New York to be cool.
Dumb, will never watch again.