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Used to watch "The Real Housewives", when my cable channels were limited and I wanted to procrastinate hard, and they had back-to-back episodes. DRAAA-MAAA. Hilarious, in an unintentional way.
Season 2 just went on Netflix this fall, so I finally watched the last six episodes or so that I missed. The show is a guilty pleasure at best, as it doesn't have the balls to be any more than a silly soap opera of a detective/crime show. I've never seen so many stupid characters on one show before. The real joy of it is just watching Kevin Bacon (who just is really likable) + the interaction with James Purefoy AKA the nefarious Joe Carroll, who just is a pleasure to watch even when the script is terrible and the writers don't know how to keep him consistent. But really, this is pure soap with the characters just doing crazy shit and involving as little viewers' braincells as possible.
- how many times can the heroes repeatedly break normal police procedure before being fired or locked up?
- how many psychos are out there to worship joe when they meet him?
- how many times can joe get away / fake death / do crazy shit and somehow duck out "just in time"?
- how many stupid people work in law enforcement?
- how many times can the heroes steal information or discover things that the "experts" actually working the case do not?
- how many more bodies can stack up?
Okay, and the deal with Emma, who is one of the rational people on the show (aside from her obsession with Joe -- she does play the "voice of reason" and you don't want to fuck with her) along with Max :
Played by Valerie Curry, and she was a damned joy to watch. She took a thankless role that likely was going to be written out early and stayed WELL past her time because she was so damned good and no one wanted to get rid of her. Until now. Where they had stupid CLaire kill her off in the next-to-last episode... well, maybe kill her, since people never stay dead in this show. Claire was likable in Season 1, mostly, albeit stupid; here she shows up halfway through Season 2 after being dead seemingly, coming back to fuck up Ryan's life since he had finally moved on, and then she does lots of stupid shit after being advised not to by just about everyone, and manages to get into a knife fight with Emma and ends up killing her. Claire, who is smaller, less tough, has no training, no experience with killing people, and manages to make some nice clean shots to kill others in a running fight + stab Emma to death. And then, at season's end, after Joe is arrested, she dumps Ryan beacuse "they both have to move on." YEah, she comes back, contributes nothing to the plot except getting a number of people killed because she won't stay put, and then tears out Ryan's heart again by leaving... lol.
Anyway, back to Emma. Shortly before he death, she gives one of the most profound soliloquies on the show -- about death. And we realize she's actually looking forward to being dead... it offers some peace and relief. The idea of silence is actually refreshing to her. It's one of the most honest things I've seen on this show, which I suppose doomed her immediately, but... anyway... at least she manages to go out (1) believing Joe actually loved her over Claire and wanted to be with her, and (2) having come to terms with death and it's less a fright than a peaceful embrace.
She really was one of the highlights of the show.
Anyway, the biggest irony? After two seasons, the show effectively has not gone anywhere. Joe is back in jail, Claire and Ryan don't have a relationship, etc. PRetty much everything is reset. The only difference is a hell of a lot of people are dead, and Max and Mike are in a relationship. That's it.
I'm not embarrassed I enjoyed Gossip Girl (I only watched the first two seasons religiously), Sex and The City and Degrassi.
I'm embarrassed I watched all seasons of 90210 and enjoyed episodes of How Clean Is Your House? and Snog, Marry, Avoid. What can I say? I like watching people judge each other and clean houses in fur gloves.
I watch way too many shows that I probably should be embarrassed about but I love them so I don't care. The worst ones are probably:
I really loved the innocence of this show, and tbh I'm not going to list all the shitty abcfamily shows I watched and loved, The Nine Lives of Chloe King was another one that was pretty bad, okay really bad. I watched PLL but I'm not going to say I'm embarrassed cos it was good for at least the first two seasons. I stopped after season 3, but still keep up with what's going on.
I love AnnaSophia Robb what can I say, and Austin Butler is a cutie. The show was so bad though, I can vouch. It felt like Jane by Design from above, but with an attempt at more mature themes.
The show has gotten so bad now, but I'm mostly only embarrassed cos imo BBUK sucks and people usually think BBUSA is just the same so when I say I watch it I get a lot of judgemental looks or comments but w/e BBCAN is so much better though! But Dan's funeral <3
Summary I watch a lot of 'childish' shows tbh, I do watch shows with more dark/mature themes and etcetera, but I like relatively innocent, optimistic or fantastical shows too, sometimes a little more. I watch a lot of competitive reality shows, if there's no competition I cba.