Reaching the 'New Jersey' exit, not a moment too soon with these 'Housewives'
You have no idea how low-rent an expensive life can be until you've watched "The Real Housewives of New Jersey."
But you'd better hurry. Tonight is the finale to the six-week series, which means that if there is a God, we will be saying goodbye forever to Dina, Caroline, Teresa, Jacqueline and Danielle.
Which means we can all take a shower and move forward as if this were just a cheap dream.
On the other hand, anyone hoping the show would eventually devolve into Trailer Trash Theater - and really, there's no other reason to have kept watching - won't be disappointed.
The producers aren't stupid. They know if they put the women in expensive clothes, send 'em to a fancy restaurant and give 'em a few drinks, there's a very good chance we will soon see a cat fight that makes "Jerry Springer" look like "Pride and Prejudice."
It's not the highest aspiration for a television show, but the producers had little choice.
To be blunt, we don't really like any of the women here. We don't hate them or wish them harm. They just aren't very sympathetic or interesting. Once we've seen a few minutes of their self-indulgent lives and heard them gush about each others' implants, there's not much to keep us watching.
That's why the producers made it clear in episode one that the particularly self-obsessed Danielle didn't get along with some of the others, notably Dina.
Whether this "feud" developed by luck or design, it became the show's ace in the hole. Between tedious segments about bringing up kids, spending money, bantering about sex and spending more money, "Real Housewives" continually hinted it would eventually give us a showdown.
Twenty-five years ago, it turns out, Danielle's first ex-husband wrote a book that said she was, among other things, a hooker. Dina and Caroline found the book and apparently talked it up a bit, infuriating Danielle.
At dinner tonight, Danielle puts the book on the table, and the ensuing conversation is about as tasteful and civil as we would expect.
But what really says it all about "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" is that while they have the conversation, most of their kids - some not yet teenagers - sit at the table, soaking it all in.
Not that we should be surprised. The kids were also sitting at the table when Teresa started describing how her husband - he's the one with the open shirt - liked her new implants so much that he tried to jump her in the car on the way home from the doctor's office.
Teresa describes herself as "very classy."
By the standards of her circle, that's probably true.
Bravo David Hinckley
Couldn't have said it better myself. The 1st line is my favorite.
If BRAVO really wanted to "Do Some Good," couldn't the money that went into the production of this crap have been better spent elsewhere? Who are the smart guys that thought they HAD TO get this on the air? This trainwreck truly shows you can take the girl out of the Trailer Park but you can't take the Trailer Park out of the girl.
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