Hot Takes: The End of Real Housewives of New Jersey?
The whole point of a show like The Real Housewives is drama, confrontation, and engagement. So, what happens when the women won't engage, won't confront, and won't engage? That's exactly what's happening on the current season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and it's making for strange television. So much so that Bravo has scrapped the traditional reunion for this season, only the second time the network has ever done that. (They previously did it for the final season of the old Real Housewives of New York City before the network totally revamped the show and the cast.) What is going on in New Jersey?
Essentially the situation is that the feud between certain cast members like Teresa Giudice, Rachel Fuda, Margaret Josephs and Melissa Gorga is so strong that there's just no traditional path to resolution. During this entire season they've either not engaged at all with one another, avoided filming with each other or just shut down during shooting. I feel like the women thought talking about each other would be enough for the "drama," but it's not.
Executive producer Andy Cohen teased on Watch What Happens Live that part of the reason they decided not to have a reunion is because the season finale "is kind of like the reunion and the finale all in one." (This feels like a way of saying he's retooling the show like Bravo did with RHONY without saying he's doing that.)
You would think these women, so dependent on this show for their fame—especially to promote their other businesses—would recognize this problem and just suck it up for the sake of their employment. Their engagement is literally the point of the show. A great example of a cast with tensions who are still able to engage is The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Recently I was at an event with a friend and the cast of RHOBH were filming—to live in Los Angeles means sometimes you encounter people filming a reality show. While there, I watched Kyle Richards yelling at Dorit Kemsley, and the rest of the cast basically sitting there looking bored with each other. But even though they all seemed at odds, they were at least together, engaging, bringing the drama, the entire point of the show. The ladies of RHONJ could learn a thing or two from these Beverly Hills frenemies. (And I hope they do, because I love RHONJ.)
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