Lorena occasionally used to watch the Orange County and New York City versions and I have had some exposure to the content but looks like she got tired of them pretty quickly. Bravo was using a formula for the series and everything started to look staged. It was also clear that real housewives of wherever did not live like that and as much as these women were pretending to be wealthy (and some of them actually were) they were more than anything, desperate for attention. So isn't it interesting that the versions for Canada, Greece, and Israel are actually based there but the one with French housewives is actually not based anywhere close to France. Disappointing for us Francophiles , it is actually based, you guessed it, in Beverly Hills and that is why the name of the show is: “Les Vraies Housewives de Beverly Hills.” For some strange reasons the only French word they used is "vraies" for "real" and I am sure that all of my French friends are offende...
My Life In Bits And Pieces in Massachusetts.