{"id":162286,"date":"2022-11-04T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=162286"},"modified":"2022-11-04T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:58:54","slug":"the-reviews-review-real-housewives-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/the-reviews-review-real-housewives-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Review<\/em>\u2019s Review: <em>Real Housewives<\/em> Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_162300\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162300\" class=\"wp-image-162300 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/reality-2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-162300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Season 5, episode 3 of<em> Selling Sunset<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my favorite lines of reality TV dialogue belongs to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> star Kenya Moore, who once <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NkI185EObDc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an adversary, \u201cI\u2019m <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone with the Wind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fabulous,\u201d snapped her fingers, twirled the tail of her peach-colored chiffon dress centrifugally like a tipsy Wonder Woman impersonator, and eventually spun out of the scene on a dime. Presumably, this was a nod to Scarlett O\u2019Hara, the quintessential Southern belle, a prototypical Georgia peach. Ever since the episode aired in 2012, the line has been memed to death by pop culture nerds and reality TV obsessives, probably with much the same fervor that movie buffs have parroted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhett Butler\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xLnTWxpTQt4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">famous closing quip<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to O\u2019Hara from the 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell\u2019s novel. (When O\u2019Hara asks Butler what she\u2019ll do with her life if he walks out on her, he replies, \u201cFrankly, my dear, I don\u2019t give a damn.\u201d) I love how ridiculous the reference is, especially in the context of a petty poolside skirmish. I dig the layers of racial commentary in the comparison, whether intended or not. What does \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone with the Wind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fabulous\u201d actually mean, on a scale of style? Does it speak to a propensity for overwrought fashion, melodramatic flair, Southern grandeur? A tendency to leave devastation in one\u2019s wake? If that\u2019s the case, then maybe it\u2019s Butler, not O\u2019Hara, to whom Moore alludes when she sashays away from her rival. Viewers of the scene are left with the image of the sway of silky fabric, and her winsome Miss USA wave\u2014the gesture reminiscent of a done-in O\u2019Hara, who clutches a large plantation doorframe as her man storms out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Niela Orr, contributing editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with the stress of releasing and promoting a book this fall, I needed a stupid new distraction for my downtime. This is how I began watching the incredible, probably unethical Bravo reality show <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanderpump Rules<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the spin-off <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Housewives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series best known for its low-rent setting and the gleeful promiscuity of its cast. Other writers have already rhapsodized about the timelessness of its emotional arcs, which blend the savagery of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, Claudius <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the camp of, well, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Housewives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> franchise, but what kept me watching solidly for the last month and a half is its startling darkness: rarely has a reality show starred quite so many genuinely cracked and frightening people, with Jax Taylor, a self-described \u201cnumber-one guy,\u201d being the most cracked and frightening of all. Taylor, a steroidally buff model-turned-bartender with the cold gaze of a shark, may be the most obvious sociopath in reality TV history; a philanderer and gaslighter par excellence, he is even better at lying than he is at finding reasons to remove his shirt. (If a fan video of him overlaid with Patrick Bateman\u2019s opening monologue from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Psycho<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not currently exist, this is a grievous oversight.) It shouldn\u2019t feel like sinking into a warm bath to watch the televisual equivalent of bear-baiting, but then maybe I\u2019m a little bit of a dead-eyed sociopath, too. Additionally, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanderpump Rules<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> features some of the best dialogue ever committed to the screen. Even Shakespeare did not think to have Macbeth exclaim that seeing Banquo seated at the table was \u201clike seeing a ghost, but like, a bitch ghost\u2014like a ghost that\u2019s a bitch\u201d\u2014but then again, Shakespeare never worked a shift at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrestaurant.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Philippa Snow, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/10\/31\/dawn-kaspers-death-scenes\/\">Dawn Kasper\u2019s Death Scenes<\/a>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite scene in reality TV is from season five of the real-estate melodrama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selling Sunset<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when Chrishell bets her boss and then boyfriend, Jason, that she can fit through the doggy door in a house they are trying to sell. If she can slip through\u2014which she does\u2014she gets to set the price of the house: $10.495 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Fiona Alison Duncan, author of <\/b><b><i>Exquisite Mariposa<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loathe reality TV, but I am sometimes nostalgic for the period when the genre hadn\u2019t yet become itself\u2014when people were still confused about how to perform ordinariness, and about how to portray themselves attempting to appear ordinary. Obviously, they mostly failed, and it was often that failure that was the point. I\u2019m unlikely to ever watch <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Real World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Simple Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laguna Beach<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America\u2019s Next Top Model<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> again, but in a twisted way I\u2019m happy I did, if only because it brought me one step closer to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6OhhUDQJU4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">understanding Tyra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>\u2014Maya Binyam, contributing editor and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7922\/do-you-belong-to-anybody-maya-binyam\">Do You Belong to Anybody?<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t feel like sinking into a warm bath to watch the televisual equivalent of bear-baiting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68386],"tags":[67827,3938,59,68563,27888],"class_list":["post-162286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reviews-review","tag-featured","tag-real-housewives","tag-reality-television","tag-selling-sunset","tag-vanderpump-rules"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Review\u2019s 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