The Real Housewives of Sydney is returning for its third season — but there are 31 other franchises to watch, too. Here are the six to get started on.
Whether you've watched Real Housewives , you've probably encountered it via pop culture, such as when a breakdown on Beverly Hills became the 'woman yelling at cat' meme.And by that, we obviously mean the Real Housewives .
Conceptualised by the franchise's infamous host and executive producer, Andy Cohen, this reality TV series may have been hit byand featured an alarming amount of problematic behaviour over its 19-year history, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming one of the most successful reality TV franchises of all time.Tracing the tears, tantrums, and scandals in Australian reality TV — from Sylvania Waters to The Bachelor. As it turns out, we as a society cannot resist watching ridiculously rich grown women being horrible, doing horrible things to each other and fighting about it on vicious reunion episodes gleefully helmed by Cohen. But the Real Housewives is about so much more than the absurdity. It's also about the noughties nostalgia, the memorable fashion, and the discussions on politics, gender, class, race, religion, sexuality and marital woes that these women facilitate. The Real Housewives of Sydney , back now for its third season, has given us many of these things since it premiered in 2017 — from Lisa OldfieldBut there's a whole, frankly overwhelming, empire beyond RHOS: there are 31 RH franchises, comprising 11 US versions and 20 international adaptations. Some are more intense than others. If you're looking to delve deeper into the Real Housewives universe, we recommend starting with these six — in very particular order.As the sixth Housewives franchise, Beverly Hills could hit the ground running — by 2010, Bravo knew what made the series sparkle. The Tinsel Town setting also provided instant intrigue, as did celebrities in its cast: Disney child stars Kim and Kyle Richards, and Camille Grammer, aka Frasier's wife. If RHOBH is "a few clowns short of a circus", to quote Lisa Vanderpump, then Kyle Richards is the ringmaster.To begin with, it's petty fights and financial peacocking , but there's a greater wealth of darkness underneath. Grammer's marriage crumbles; Taylor Armstrong, who threw a $60,000 fourth birthday party for her daughter, is in an abusive marriage; and Kyle, furious with an erratic, out-of-control Kim, reveals her sister's alcoholism on camera. This is just season one. There's plenty of silliness in Beverly Hills, too, with a rotating cast of ridiculousness — including Lisa Rinna, Denise Richards and Yolanda Hadid . Countless one-liners, memes and pop-culture moments come from this show peek-a-booing on and off the show as old wounds resurface.Most Real Housewives casts require a balance of level heads alongside the table-flippers, but New York is true to its city — it's a place where only the delusionally strong-willed can last. Launching in 2008 as the second Housewives franchise, New York's 15 seasons can overwhelm — don't start with the recent woeful reboot. The first season was created as a different show and re-skinned as Housewives due to the franchise's popularity, and it's a little janky. You'd miss so much wonderful madness, including Alex McCord and her Australian husband's desperate social climbing, but you could skip ahead to season three.Many icons come and go across the show. Or, in the case of Bethenny Frankel, they come, go, make millions, come back, go, and then campaign toAn exception is the one-of-a-kind Ramona Singer. A china-shop bull fond of a pinot grigio, she's constantly apologising for causing offence, and is the source of so many of the show's most jaw-dropping moments. While other characters live several lives on the show, Singer barely grows across her 13 seasons before the reboot — one that came, in part, due to her behaviour. While wine is the Housewives franchise's motor oil, alcoholism is very much the through-line of New York. The funniest antics are tinged with darkness: It's fascinating, and yes, a little exploitative. But it's not all Turtle Time . RHONY is filled with sincere, grounded moments too. Widows Carole Radziwill and Dorinda Medley sharing their ongoing grief and love over the years is remarkably moving. As is, somehow, Sonja Morgan's ridiculous but emotional dog funeral, where the released ashes blow back onto the guests.The idea of these people existing in Melbourne and their commitment to the assignment that is being a Real Housewife.This is partly because the latter has had two more seasons to shine — it not only premiered earlier, but it continued to pump out episodes while RHOS went on hiatus after audiences We Chit Chat with Caroline Gaultier ahead of the Real Housewives of Sydney's season finale and reunion. And it's partly because the rebooted RHOS perhaps compensated too much for this former chaos, offering up a significantly more sanitised and earnest second season, with drama that sometimes felt overly contrived. The bulk of RHOMelbourne, on the other hand, was filmed in the golden Real Housewives era of the 2010s, when drama that felt real came first and the ethics of it all came somewhere near dead last. And yet, RHOMelbourne managed to keep far enough away from the line the RHOS crossed. Large swathes of RHOMelbourne's later seasons do feel scripted, but this is easily forgiven because these moments are ironically hilarious. The Melbourne backdrop is similarly comical, and the casting is what Real Housewives dreams are made of — from no-nonsense barrister andAnd while the Real Housewives franchise is known for regularly featuring an episode with a medium who inevitably spouts divisive predictions or advice, RHOMelbourne goes one step further and has one on the cast: psychic Jackie Gillies, whose husband played the drums in Silverchair.RHODubai is a recent addition to the franchise, but its two seasons have had a significant impact on the universe for two reasons: the casting is impeccable, and there is no easing into this show. There's but one Emirati in RHODubai — the rest of the cast are expats from the UK, US, Lebanon and Kenya, and only two of the women have close ties. This means the drama is free-flowing from the start. It's vicious at times, but not overwhelmingly so. Chanel Ayan modelled in Brazil and New York City before moving to Dubai. She was the first Black supermodel to feature on the cover of a Dubai magazine.Points of conflict include age-gap relationships featuring older women , the pursuit of femmepreneurship, religion and spirituality, Emirati customs and female genital mutilation., even if it's an awful way to describe a real person), it's Caroline Brooks. Was she unfairly edited or a victim of But if there's a hero, it's Chanel Ayan, for whom this show is worth watching alone. The Kenyan-born Somali model/businesswoman counts Rihanna as a fan and is simultaneously the most fabulous and funniest Real Housewife of all time.In its first episode, RHOSLC offered a brief sparkle of its full shine when Mary Cosby, the first lady of a Pentecostal church, established that she did not like fellow housewife Jen Shah becausePhoto shows Two women with blonde hair and shiny teeth pose against a photo wall reading 'Hayu' and 'Prime Video'. They are smiling. Salt Lake City housewives Heather Gay and Whitney Rose discuss leaving the Mormon church, the bizarre life of a Real Housewife, and more. This is the sort of ridiculous one-liner that SLC is fond of. Thankfully, the show readily makes fun of how ridiculous its feuds can be, shown in campy flashback sequences with lots of reverb. It's Housewives for people familiar with Housewives tropes. Mormonism and religion overhangs the show. Cousins Heather Gay and Whitney Rose both left the church following divorces and ostracism, whereas Lisa Barlow remains a Mormon, despite owning a tequila company, among other apparent contradictions. Add in Cosby's church — which has been called a cult by former members, though Cosby denies this — and her "arranged" marriage to her step-grandfather, and SLC is operating on another level of bizarre. And that's before you get to the Jen Shah of it all, who was sentenced to six-and-a-half-years in prison for wire fraud in a scam that targeted elderly people. Jennifer Shah was sentenced to more than six years in prison in 2023. Her sentence has since been reduced a number of times.In season two, Homeland Security interrupts filming to arrest Shah. She maintained her innocence aggressively until the eleventh hour, something that divided the cast as evidence mounted. There was worry the show might collapse after Shah, but a run of expert casting has kept things fun, fresh and ridiculous. A special shout-out to one-season-and-done housewife Monica Garcia, who had spent years harassing her future cast mates via an anonymous Instagram account. The resulting confrontation — complete with Gay's NIDA-worthy monologue — is perfection.You'll learn everything you need to know about the exclusive Maryland community from RHOP, the Real Housewives' most slept-on franchise. Basically, it's an affluent but sleepy town that borders Washington DC. The RHOP cast — which is made up entirely of Black Housewives, ranging in age from 27 to 61 — makes up for that, although it does take a while to heat up. The first season features the conservative Karen Huger preaching about etiquette for an inordinate amount of time, but by the end of season two, the self-professed Grand Dame of Potomac has moved on. The real drama starts in season three; if wading through so many episodes to get to this point feels taxing, start here. The Grand Dame of Potomac, Karen Huger , stepped away from her obsession with etiquette by the time of this season 4 reunion.And reality TV doesn't get better — or more unhinged — than season five, episode 13, when Monique Samuels seemingly enters a violent fugue state and refuses to let go of Candiace Dillard Basset's wig.Only the connoisseur will appreciate its delivery of the classic Real Housewives tropes — from power struggles among queens to girls' trips gone wrong — and recognise the ways RHOP reinvents the Real Housewife. The Real Housewives of Sydney season three is streaming now on Binge. Find the rest of the Real Housewives universe on Hayu.Photo shows Volodymyr Zelenskyy wearing all black with his left palm on his chest alongside Donald Trump wearing a blue suit and red tiePhoto shows Image of two people, one claiming to be NSW Health worker, talking to content creatorPhoto shows Palmer poses in front of his new logo, a lion with a trumpet with flags on a yellow backgroundPhoto shows A young man looks at two young women in swimsuits as he walks by them lounging.Photo shows Honoree Jane Fonda accepts the SAG Life Achievement Award onstage during the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild AwardsPhoto shows Volodymyr Zelenskyy wearing all black with his left palm on his chest alongside Donald Trump wearing a blue suit and red tie
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