Thursday, April 09, 2009

Caroline in the City

To my extreme delight, I discovered this morning that the thirty-minute preview of Real Housewives of New Jersey is online in its totality at BravoTV.com. And it looks like the show is going to be the best parts of The Sopranos, minus all of the stuff about crime that confused me plot-wise and distracted me from Carm and Ade and all the other fabulous ladies with hair volume I'd kill for.



As Michael K predicted, the "ginge" is indeed the best character in the grab bag on RHONJ, or as it shall be known from herein, "The Caroline Manzo Hour." While generally the women on the Real Housewives franchise are women of a certain age who style themselves accordingly, Caroline is literally a pitbull wearing earrings. She is on this show because she is a monster, and you need a monster to be at the wheel of the Crazy Bus. So Team Caroline it is.



Also, as you've probably heard, Caroline and Dina are sisters married to Manzo brothers Tommy and Albert. But what I didn't know was that Jacqueline , the former Vegas girl who "loves to pamper herself," is married to Caroline and Dina's brother Chris. So basically, Bravo has gone and created a show in which three out of its five glorious Italian-American stars are, more or less, related. Would you want to be at the disadvantage of not being one of those three? I would not. I would rather torture and kill myself with fatty foods and delicious prescription medication, thank you very much.

That said, I wish all the best for Teresa Guidice and her buh-bies, and the delightful Danielle Staub, who is a ravishing natural beauty. I wish there was a 24-hour Real Housewives channel, but there are a lot of things that I hope will exist one day, like cashmere Snuggies and macaroni and cheese that comes out of the faucet, and a black president.

In the meantime, I only have one criticism. Why the FUCK are those women not holding out silver zeppoles?!?!?!?