{"id":1903,"date":"2021-07-06T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:45:25","slug":"the-housewives-the-real-story-behind-the-real-housewives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/the-housewives-the-real-story-behind-the-real-housewives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLevy\u2019s 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. 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