Reality TV's 9 Worst Stock Characters
For more than two decades now, TV viewers around the globe have been watching total strangers attempt to live together, eat bugs for money, compete for a spouse, and sing or dance to win the adoration of millions of fans.
Bravo would have us believe that "real" American wives are elitist and snobby, and that they love shopping for name-brand clothes, cars, cosmetics, and jewelry more than they care about their kids, their husbands, their friends, or their communities. Watching their bad behavior plays on Americans' twin desires to hate the rich for having what most of us don't, and ultimately to be them. But there's nothing real about these carefully crafted lifestyle series, where women show up when and where producers tell them, and where advertisers position their logos and goods at the center of storylines.
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