real housewives chatter

i guess if you've been keeping up with my media logs, there's been a lot of real housewives viewing this year. i started watching it probably the year before last, but very casually and not to the extent that i'm watching now (keeping up with seasons as they're airing, taking a look at online discourse, etc. i used to just binge watch a season and forget about it for half a year). reason for it, well, i can't really say. my best intellectual guess is coming off from suetonius' caesars, i need more gossipy-esque stuff about affluent people, but don't take that seriously. i don't think i remember which was my first one, but i think it might've been sydney or melbourne? or potomac for the us ones. and i think i've watched at least a season for the above plus chesire, new york, atlanta, rhode island, new jersey, and salt lake (partial for beverly hills and orange county, but oc might move to the 1 season completed group after this season ends💀) favourites... probably melbourne, potomac,…