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The highlight in each season is usually a dinner party, trip overseas or cocktail function to launch a boutique/real estate agency/fundraising effort/skincare line/rosé collaboration/dog rescue centre where people scream, dredge up past grudges and point fingers. They paint a picture of women’s lives as consumerist fantasy where collecting more wealth and fame are the ultimate goal and displaying any social or political awareness can brand you an outcast. It’s difficult to put my finger on why shows like this are appealing enough to keep me from even considering watching anything else for the past few months (I still haven’t seen Tiger King, but based on the memes I have questions about Carole) because, on paper, they shouldn’t appeal to anyone with a brain or a heart. There’s no time wasted scrolling Netflix for something new to watch when you’re only in season four and the housewives are on their way to Gigi Hadid’s graduation party where they’ll argue over a possibly cursed necklace! From two metres away, I watched these two go from strangers to people with a shared language in minutes.Īnd after that, there were 10 more seasons waiting for me. following their 10-day guest appearance on Arthur Godfrey's radio show. In the park, we ran into another of my friends who was dying for someone with whom she could debrief on Beverly Hills’ fourth wall-breaking season premiere. During the first socially distanced walk I took with a friend in April, we discussed the latest events in Vanderpump Rules, Summer House and Real Housewives of New York. The fun of an empire like this one is in the communal shorthand it breeds in fellow fans: you cannot Housewives alone. These women’s careers exist in a vast universe outside of this reality show, which mirrors the joy of consuming Real Housewives. In later seasons, soap stars Eileen Davidson and Lisa Rinna join the cast, along with Garcelle Beauvais (Coming to America) and Denise Richards, whose bitchy eyebrow is as powerful in a talking head confession in 2020 as it was in the films Wild Things, Starship Troopers and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Camille invites the women to see her husband’s Broadway show during season one, before his affair comes to light and their marriage breakdown becomes a plot point on the show and in the tabloids. The Richards sisters, Kyle and Kim, grew up as child stars in the town, and are introduced alongside flashbacks to their roles in Halloween (Kyle), Nanny and the Professor (Kim) and Little House on the Prairie (both), as well as family photos with their nieces, Paris and Nicky Hilton. She continued landing roles in the films The House on Sorority Row, Easy Wheels, Eternity. In Beverly Hills, it’s all done against the backdrop of Hollywood, which makes it all the more insidious and excellent. In 1982 she made her debut in film in the movie Goin All the Way. Photograph: Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images