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The Excommunication of Saint Monica
Looking back on a decade of the Housewives Institute, and looking ahead to how Monica’s big debut bodes for the future of our favorite shows.
The reasons are both macro and micro and, of course, have everything to do with the blockbuster reveal in the RHOSLC finale that Monica charmed her way onto the show through her association with Jen Shah, was running a tea-spilling stan account called Reality Von Tease, trolled the women online for years, and was lying to them about it the whole time. Yes, that is right, a 44-year-old mother of four who went to Vassar and has a master’s degree from NYU hurled her prosthetic leg at another woman in front of television cameras and a gasping room of image consultants, facialists, social-media interns, pet psychics, people who have used the phrase “glam squad” without irony, and reality-television stars. Real Housewives of Potomac: TheGrande Dame, Karen Huger, has been held hostage in Texas for so long that she is now entering her 60s at a public hotel pool, preparing to acknowledge her milestone with a sip and paint, apple pie, and a group appearance at a drag show.
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