Bravo Housewives Quotes

Men can spend ten hours every Sunday watching the NFL, and that’s never called a guilty pleasure! That always bothered me. Lifetime was also the No. 1 cable network for fifteen years, which shows you both how powerful women are in TV and also how desperate women are to see anything about themselves—even if it means being kidnapped, beat up, or killed off by cancer, which is all Lifetime seemed to do to women there. That’s why I wanted Bravo, and Housewives, to tell women’s stories in a completely different way. This wasn’t Lifetime, it was a different ethos. Our women had the power. They were CEOs of their lives, come hell or high water.

Levy’s defense is that most people are looking at The Real Housewives as a linear text, like a movie, television show, or a novel. Scholars analyze the shows individually and in a self-contained manner, reading them from start to finish. Anyone with a DVR clogged full of Bravo content knows that this is not the way that the shows are aired or how they are consumed by most people. There is always more than one franchise of The Real Housewives on at any given time, sometimes more than one on the same night. That means the shows shouldn’t be seen as a straight line but as a matrix, where one show can correct the bad impressions made by the others.