Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A disappointed review of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”

By on October 13, 2008

The season premiere of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” last week was not only a disappointment – it was a downright embarrassment to Atlanta residents.

HOUSEWIVES

Grade: F
Verdict: Atlanta’s elite definitely do not include these women; only their husbands.

Episode two of the three installments airs tomorrow night, and fans of the show know what to expect: money that can’t be spent fast enough, exclusive parties and most of all, endless drama. In this respect, the Atlanta show definitely delivered.

But why couldn’t the producers of this show find any classier women?

This season’s cast is comprised of DeShawn, NeNe, Sheree, Lisa and Kim.

Kim, the odd white-girl out, is a self-proclaimed “black woman trapped in a white woman’s body.”

Three of these women are, or were, married to athletes, and the remaining two (NeNe and Kim) are with businessmen. Kim, however, won’t reveal the identity of her current boyfriend and claims that a lot of her friends have not even met her “Big Poppa,” as she calls him.

So why am I so disgusted by these housewives? Let’s take it to the tape. DeShawn is the National Basketball Association housewife who appears to live up to her title.

She hired someone to do everything around the house for her (including a chef, governess, nanny, estate manager, executive housekeeper and maids), so I think she might just be a woman that sits around her house, doing nothing more.

NeNe is the epitome of Tiffany “New York” Pollard, from “Flavor of Love,” both in how she looks and acts. NeNe is perhaps the funniest of the crew, but she seems to always be looking for trouble and thrives on drama.

And no, she doesn’t work either.

Sheree is in the process of getting a divorce from her National Football League hubby, but she doesn’t seem upset in the least bit that the marriage didn’t work out. In fact, she acts like she got married and divorced strictly to get a “seven-figure lump sum” from him. No job, no class.

Lisa is the only one of the cast that makes her own money, and she seems equal with her NFL husband. She seems to be the most “normal” of the group, but that doesn’t stop her from claiming an athlete-wife war when she says that “NBA wives are snootier than NFL wives.”

This show doesn’t portray real housewives at all.

I would be more interested in watching a show about middle-class Atlanta women who work and help support their families than five women with nothing to do but spend their husbands’ hard-earned cash.