Re: Real Housewives of Fairfax County Filming
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: February 13, 2008 11:08AM
that's retarded Wrote:
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> The reasons Real Housewives of OC was successful
> were
>
> 1. Interest already there due to "The OC" and
> "Laguna Beach" shows.
> 2. Warm weather = more bikinis and parties to
> film
> 3. Frivolous California culture is entertaining.
>
> No one wants to watch a bunch of spoiled lawyer's
> wives from a generic suburb like Fairfax go
> shopping at Tysons II wearing coats, sweaters and
> scarves. Or sitting on volunteer boards. Or
> whatever they do with their free time (because
> it's not sitting by a pool in their bikinis
> drinking like on the OC show).
>
> Our rich people are so much less tacky than
> California's rich people. And the tacky factor is
> half the appeal of a show like that.
Besides the culture is different in NoVA. The wives here don't get plastic surgery as they get older. The husbands divorce them, get a hot trophy wife, and the first wife gets half of everything, becomes a lesbian and lives with her "life partner" in a $750K condo in Ballston.