The Real Housewives of D.C. – Series Recap

In 2006, The Real Housewives franchise was founded as Bravo debuted a new show capitalizing on the craze of ABC’s scripted program, Desperate Housewives. The show was titled The Real Housewives of Orange County, and it portrayed itself as the opposite of how my mom interacted with my best friend’s mom, who lived next door to us when I was younger. The Real Housewives of Orange County became a massive hit, and you may not believe it, but it is currently in its ELEVENTH season. The show even got so big that several other Real Housewives spin-offs followed, each residing in places like Atlanta, New Jersey, Beverly Hills, and New York City. And in 2010, at the height of the Real Housewives craze, they decided to make its mark at the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., because…. God Bless the USA?

This was the fifth installment of the Real Housewives franchise, and it documented the personal and professional lives of five women residing in Washington, D.C. It had a lot of things going for it prior to the first episode airing. The Real Housewives was one of many reality show franchises that was ruling its own landscape, and the four installments that came before it have all established pretty massive success and publicity. The one problem is that THE WHITE HOUSE IS NO PLACE FOR REALITY TV! The Real Housewives of D.C. ended up learning that lesson firsthand, and it got canceled after one season, which didn’t even crack 2 million viewers. To this day, it is the only installment in the Real Housewives franchise to not get renewed for a second season, and it is only one of TWO Real Housewives shows to get taken off the air. This show’s cancellation effectively ended the Real Housewives‘ hopes of invading the area of our nation’s capital (for the next 6 years), and it’s easy to see why here.

Let’s report to the situation room and nuke these bad guys to kingdom come! This is The Real Housewives of D.C.!

MEET GOSSIP WOMAN

What’s up, everyone! My name is Gossip Woman. I am very excited to be one of the new writers for the Reality TV Guide reboot. I’ve known my pal, Turk182, since junior year of college. We met at a party, and after one too many to drink, we ended up kissing each other. Needless to say, it was my first kiss ever. We dated each other for a short period, but the relationship ended rather on great terms. We realized that we get along better as friends. Strangely, we never had any real disagreements. The only thing that we did disagree on was our favorite Reality TV shows. He liked the competition shows that he grew up with and wrote about in his first tenure at Reality TV Guide, and I was into the shows on BRAVO, TLC, E!, Oxygen, and such (even though I don’t like all of them). But that disagreement went to good use recently, when he recruited me to recap some of the shows that he wasn’t going to get to.

So, I’ll be writing about the current wave of Reality TV shows, the ones that feature those nobodies that want to think that they’re celebrities. You’ll see me talk about Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the Real Housewives franchise, Duck Dynasty, and a few more. Plus, I’ll be popping up in collaboration reviews here and there as well. Since I earned my degree in Music, it is with great pleasure to announce that I’ll be recapping this season of NBC’s The Voice. I’ll try to cover what already happened before tomorrow’s episode, since we’re behind four episodes. So be on the lookout for that very soon.

P.S. Sorry I went into detail about our relationship, Turk182. It’s one of those moments where I go on a roll about my personal life.

Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Guidice is Going to Prison

Reality TV, you’ve really gotten strange over the years. We didn’t watch Real Housewives of New Jersey. We probably didn’t have Real Housewives of Anywhere back then. We tried to avoid that like we’re trying to avoid Ebola now. Though, to be fair, the Real Housewives franchise is more disease-ridden than Ebola. I hope we don’t have to recap Real Housewives anytime soon. If we do, it’s only going to be out of obligation.

Anyway, onto the matter at hand. Real Housewives of New Jersey star/table-flipper Teresa Guidice has just been sentenced to 15 months in prison for counts of fraud and conspiracy.