The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006–2013)

A look at five families living in a protected Southern California enclave, and the real-life housewives who reside in one of the wealthiest planned communities in the country.

Creator:

Scott Dunlop

Stars:

Vicki Gunvalson, Gretchen Rossi, Tamra Barney

Cast

Series cast summary:
Vicki Gunvalson	...	Herself (80 episodes, 2006-2013)
Gretchen Rossi	...	Herself (79 episodes, 2006-2013)
Tamra Barney	...	Herself (78 episodes, 2006-2013)
Alexis Bellino	...	Herself (65 episodes, 2006-2013)
Lynne Curtin	...	Herself (50 episodes, 2006-2010)
Jeana Keough	...	Herself (43 episodes, 2006-2009)
Laura Waring Peterson	...	Herself (33 episodes, 2006-2009)

Storyline

A look at five families living in a protected Southern California enclave, and the real-life housewives who reside in one of the wealthiest planned communities in the country.

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Plot Keywords:

county name in title | place name in title

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Genres:

Documentary | Reality-TV

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Details

Official Sites:

Bravo Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 March 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Narancsvidék asszonyai

Filming Locations:

Coto de Caza, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dunlop Entertainment, Evolution Film & Tape, Kaufman Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Sleepaway Camp (2012)

User Reviews

Totally, Utterly Disgusting

I didn't expect much from this alleged program - and when looking at it, not only was I right on - it was worse. Besides Desperate Housewives, this is one of THE worst shows for women...and men.

Maybe this is playing well in some part of the United States and the World that finds this a guilty pleasure. Let me get one thing straight: The shows 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' are a guilty pleasures - this is just plain sad.

I guess this is a program to show you what happens when little girls who have no exemplary role models in their lives except for plastic dolls like "Barbie" grow up and have to maintain a job and/or household. This actually takes place is a crappy suburb that tries desperately to raise itself up to be like Beverly Hills, Chicago, The Hamptons and Miami .. but does nothing but make you wish that a big wave would come and wipe the whole County out so it could start all over again.

These children's lives are sad and meaningless. The households are gutless. The women are very competitive with jewelery, fake boobs, shrieking "Bride of Frankenstein" voices, and dried out leathery skin that even makes George Hamilton blush. It's like watching the "walking dead" trying to stay alive by any means necessary - and that means finding "Ken dolls" with the appearance of lots of money.

And the men...for goodness sake, who would WANT these self-centered whiners? These women are falling all over them because of..THE MONEY! And the men are perfectly fine with that. What a trophy!! I was waiting for a few of the guys in the series to bronze the women they have and stick them on the dashboard of their leased cars! But they wont do that because that means they'll have to KEEP them. These are men that would trade their women in quicker than their coveted cars once their butt starts to sag.

Oh, but the children connected with these 'super-elastic bubble plastic' families. God help them. They may just go back to Orange county and wait until the next generation of vacuous self-designed "Barbies" or "Kens" come along that they can manipulate and support.

It's Orange County, for goodness sake. Orange County is a nice place, a great place, many kids grow up there just fine. All the folks in this series are picked are squeezed (forgive the puns) into a "certain section" for entertainment value only.

Be forewarned: This show will show you the incredibly debt ridden existence of pretentiousness. My guess after watching this show: These folks are lower middle to Middle-Middle class trying to show an Upper-Upper Class existence. Posers.

Nothing but a show about whiny posers who think life is much better because they can now charge their boob jobs instead of being seen buying Jacqueline Smith fashions from K-Mart.