Blog #5

http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/arts/television/22housewives.html?ref=todayspaper


My article is titled "Miami, Another Battlefront in the War Against Wrinkles." It is a television review of yet another version of a Bravo TV show titled "The Real Housewives of Miami." There have already been five shows so far (Orange County, Beverly Hills, Atlanta, New York, and New Jersey), which makes this the sixth. The author of this paper, Ginia Bellafante, argues that these shows are beginning to merge into one. They are all replicating the same lifestyles of the same kind of middle-aged spoiled housewives. She suggests that a good way to switch things up and make the show even more interesting would be to "relocate to Cleveland or Reno or Detroit". I completely agree that this would be a great idea. Ginia adds that in this non-existent show, "former high-spending wives of laid-off auto executives could be shown cutting coupons and shopping for their clothes at Kohl’s." That is definitely a show I would be interested in watching. I believe there is a possibility that the author's argument could be biased simply because she is a woman, and could maybe be jealous of these housewives' luxurious lifestyles. This author has written many other television show reviews, therefore I think she is qualified to make this argument. The context of this article is non-academic.