Coffee Order Culture Corner
Real Housewives of Rhode Island, Euphoria, The Pitt, Coachella---MENTION IT ALL!
There’s a lot going on in the world of pop culture.
We’ve got Bravo hotter than ever with Summer House drama up the wazoo and the smash success of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island (Lisa Barlow is somewhere in Utah stress eating Wendy’s with “Ben Affleck”), Bieberchella, Lena Dunham’s memoir (I’m halfway through), trash episodes on HBO—and that’s barely scratching the zeitgeist surface.
I may regret writing this before seeing The Devil Wears Prada: 2 next week, but there’s always next Friday, and then the Friday after that, and the Friday after that, and…
This week, I wanted to go back to Coffee Order’s roots, where I gave my hard opinions on everything going on that doesn’t affect me at all in reality. My own personal lalaland of controversy, press coverage, and celebrity.
I’d say we’re overdue. Let’s MENTION IT ALL!
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island is a program I was highly skeptical of. I’m pretty sure I told a bunch of people that I wasn’t going to watch it. I’m happily eating my words.
First of all, I had no idea Rhode Island was so Italian. It’s basically a New England New Jersey. I’ve of course been a bunch of times being from Connecticut, but for some reason I assumed it was waspy like Nantucket or Fairfield County. There are accents on this show my ears have never heard before. Dialects of the English language I didn’t know existed. See exhibit A:
Alicia is really important to me. Everything about her is spectacular and I feel a draw to protect her for some reason. The fact that she’s been engaged for 11 years because her husband won’t give her equity in the Pizza Mamma business is obviously very scary to me, and I hope we work that out before Season 2.
Kelsey is also someone I feel connected to, which is weird because we couldn’t be more different. For those of you who don’t know, she’s a 30 year-old former Miss Rhode Island who is in a polyamorous relationship, living in her main boyfriend’s empty 16k square foot house while he visits his other girlfriend for 6 months in Miami. In the meantime, she’s trying to figure out if a kind man named Bill who she’s known since high school could do what her main man can’t—supplement her lifestyle and give her children.
These are storylines never before seen to The Real Housewives franchises. This isn’t about plastic surgery or tax evasion (yet) or opening weird clothing boutiques. These are unique problems that these gals are bringing to the table, which makes them so compelling, along with their obvious mob ties and beyond bizarre livelihoods.
In terms of Summer House, I’m a little tapped out and just want the reunion to come. Mia did a great job on Watch What Happens Live, she’s going to be a star, and she’s an amazing friend for Ciara to have in her corner right now.
