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Why is The Real Housewives of New Jersey a smash-hit? The season finale's 4.6 million viewers
in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic testify to its broad appeal, but
why are we so enamored with these table-tossing housewives? Is it the
big hair? The brash talk? The back stabbing? One thing's for sure. It's
not their manners.
Out of all the Real Housewives series—from Orange County to Atlanta to New York City—"New Jersey" is the breakaway hit. Because I have deeply bad taste in TV... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey premiered last night on Bravo and it was just as gaudy, Mystic-tanned, and big "bubbied" as any trash-television lover could have hoped. The series, part of a growing Housewives
franchise that also includes New York, Atlanta, and the original Orange
County branches, depicts "real-life versions of Carmela Soprano, loud,
nasal, nouveau-riche wives who raise spoiled children and spend their
husbands’ money in vast marble and onyx starter palaces in Franklin
Lakes, N.J.," according to Alessandra Stanley at the New York Times.
Though Slate television critic Troy Patterson finds RHNJ
the most "synthetic" of the franchise because "the drama queening in
these parts is much too blatantly contrived," Stanley thinks that this
is... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)