It is becoming increasingly difficult to watch "The Real Housewives of New York City." They are imploding, and while I love a reality television train wreck, this is more like a slow, painful death. It is uncomfortable to watch, and leaves you embarrassed for them, and for yourself that you watch.
What is fascinating about these ladies is that they seem to forget that we can see what they are doing. It is not a live show, ladies, and it is going to be edited.
Bravo’s job is to give us great television, not paint the housewives in the glow of sunshine.
They truly appear to be oblivious to the cameras, or the manipulation that is reality TV.
Bethenny and Ramona are going for a walk. Bethenny wants to talk to Ramona about her fight with Jill. It’s all a bit anticlimactic, really. We all know Bethenny got married a couple of weeks ago, and we know Jill was not invited, so there’s no real drama here.
What is interesting however, is that Bethenny is complaining to Ramona that Jill is talking to anyone in New York who will listen about their falling-out, but she won’t shut up about it herself.
This entire fight started when Bethenny suggested to Jill that she get a hobby. Might I suggest that they all get a hobby? Maybe think about what you are going to do when your show is canned.
Ramona decides to dump all over Bethenny. We all know Ramona is crazy. Even knowing that, her attack on Bethenny is still shocking. Ramona tells Bethenny that she is a press monger; she thinks Bethenny planted all the stories about Jill herself, and is self-serving.
Ramona informs Bethenny she has no friends, is not normal, and will mess up her relationship with her new husband, Jason. I seriously believe Ramona is in need of medical attention. She is a meddling, mean-spirited, unkind, selfish woman with buggy eyes. I would be scared to be friends with someone like Ramona.
With each scene, I switch sides. I hear Bethenny talk about Jill, and I’m totally on her team. Then Jill comes on, and I think Bethenny is the one to blame for all the strife. This show has gone from being a guilty pleasure to work. At the end of the show you are exhausted, and that is not good television.
Bethenny and Ramona have finished with their fight and are now meeting Alex and Simon in Brooklyn. Just when you think things are calming down, you see Ramona has actually gone into Brooklyn. The world as we know it has come to an end. That Alex and Simon are the go-to people for normalcy is a sign of the apocalypse.
Kelly is proof that aliens live among us. This chick is a certified whackadoodle. Seriously. She is walking around the streets of New York, in her signature inappropriate-for-her-age outfit, wanting to talk to random strangers about fashion trends.
