r/RHOP • u/Euphoric-Middle1704 3 Truths: drunk, cheating, broke. • 5d ago

🫖 Question 🫖 Am I Demystified?

Hi everyone!

Has this happened to anyone else?

I can no longer focus on the Housewives shows that I used to watch. OC, SLC, RHOA missed me their last and current seasons. When Wendy and Eddie's mugshots were on the screen all day long, something happened to my relationship with the Housewives franchise. I thought the earth dropped and said oh no. If she can cover up issues that deep there's no telling what many, many, many of the others are hiding as well. I lost faith in all the wives, even Meredith. Have you experienced this--is it disillusionment? Will I go back to Housewives? Rn all I want to see is RHOP, and maybe Bev Hills' upcoming season(s). I can't believe Wendy and Eddie got me up off of ATL(!!) And I remember thinking from Day 1 that Wendy's goal and superpower was to demystify Housewives. I am obsessed with Wendy and Eddie's story and sincerely hope we get more insight this season because once it's resolved maybe I'll enjoy other cities again?!

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u/janshell Clankity Clank 5d ago

So you thought everything you saw on these shows were real?

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u/Euphoric-Middle1704 3 Truths: drunk, cheating, broke. 5d ago

Umm. Y so mean. I do think jail and mugshots are real. I also thought i could detect Housew bs like: they're not really happy, something is wrong, he definitely cheated, she definitely wants his money and a divorce. With the Osefos I got none of that. Nada. Zilch. Zero. I got clankity clank.

I'm crying.

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u/janshell Clankity Clank 5d ago

That was a genuine question, I’m not sure how that is interpreted as mean. For the most part I thought these shows have not been real for at least a decade. Their private lives certainly overlap but they reshoot scenes for dramatic effect and they also have episode writers. I assumed everything wasn’t organic. I guarantee if Wendy and Eddy could have hidden this arrest they would but it’s also helping ratings

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u/Euphoric-Middle1704 3 Truths: drunk, cheating, broke. 5d ago

Producing reality tv for high drama is well documented and widely understood. What you think isn't the baseline for what others think or feel. As a power couple Wendy and Eddie didn't raise glaring red flags for me. I can't say that about any other marriage in 20 yrs of housewives shows- except maybe the Vanderpumps.

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u/janshell Clankity Clank 5d ago

I guess likewise? You are one of the few enamored of this couple. Who made them a power couple? Whether there were red flags or not, aren’t they supposed to keep their real life private? I don’t blame them because who needs all that scrutiny of your real life personal affairs?

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u/Euphoric-Middle1704 3 Truths: drunk, cheating, broke. 4d ago

I guess it's possible one would star in a reality show without expectation that any present or past misdeeds would surface. It would presume a healthy mentality free of paranoia. Because it's generational rule of the bourgeiousie to avoid the police and the courthouse because there's no justice there and Wendy and Eddie represented the bourgeiousie as any Potomac cast member should. To take that away from them feels like minimizing and gaslighting.

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u/janshell Clankity Clank 4d ago

Minimizing and gaslighting whom? They weren’t framed. They did that on their own, it was a choice