holy meatballs!
Even though I don’t have cable television at home, I still find ways to watch my favorite shows online. Mostly, I watch Lost, The Office, and The Real Housewives series from Bravo! TV. I recently started watching the Housewives from New Jersey after my mom suggested it to me; she told me that the women from this series were the most ‘real’ that she’d seen on reality television. Knowing our shared interest in human psychology and reality television, I immediately checked it out.
These women are really something else. There’s Theresa, Dina, Jaqueline, Danielle, and Caroline. It’s the first season where two of the housewives are actually related, Jaqueline and Caroline are both sisters and sisters-in-law, based on the fact that they married two brothers. Jaqueline is married to the third brother from said family, and Theresa is a long-time family friend. Of course, being from NJ, they’re all Italian. Danielle is newest to the bunch and the catalyst for many of the show’s dramatic moments, based on her sketchy past and involvement in prostitution, cocaine abuse, and multiple arrests (based on a book that was written about her by her ex-husband. Danielle denies about 85% of the claims, saying that she only was arrested and changed her name.
During the season finale all the women gathered together with their families for a last supper. After some mild verbal accusations were thrown around about Danielle’s book and which one of the housewives had revealed it on national television, this went down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCet3ekQ0E
Honestly, I think the way Theresa handled the incident was pretty damn cool. Since I deal with not being able to fully express my feelings through communication I found it amazing that she was able to get so angry, tell Danielle exactly how she felt, release that anger without hurting anyone, and move on with her life. I loved how the women just accepted the incident because she was a ‘feisty italian’. Now, I don’t think it’s acceptable to just go around flipping tables every time you get upset, but I should be able to get upset, deal with my anger in the moment instead of holding it in, and then move on with my life! It would save me a lot of internal conflict and holding in emotions.
And who says we can’t all learn a little something from reality television?
