The Real Housewives of Dubai

I am so tired of seeing the commercial for something that looks so pointlessly boring and annoying, I write this "review" in the modest hope that the show's advertisers will avoid platforms that do not cater to their target audience. I'm a 50-something year old political junkie who watches MSNBC, CNN and various political/public affairs channels on YouTube. This inane "reality show" has no interest to me and I can't imagine most viewers of MSNBC would watch it. SO why the f--k do I see the same commercial on EVERY commercial break for MSNBC's shows, sometimes more than once per commercial break? It's so annoying I turn down the volume on this single commercial.

PLEASE, whoever produces this garbage, please realize that this show interests me about as much as I'm interested in licking the men's bathroom floor in Grand Central Station. STOP!!!

So, where are the Emarati women? These are not the real housewives of dubai, these are the real expats of Dubai. And no they do not represent anything about Dubai. All these fake women, brought together to show off plastic, and gossip about each other is not entertaining. Boring dialogues, forced drama, no chemistry, too much pretending! Yawn !

The problem seems to be the women did not know each other before the show started. Ayan is a gorgeous model and she's running around throwing shade at women she just met (You said I was unimportant?) and picking silly fights to create drama because there is none otherwise. Caroline Stanbury is a wealthy hard-working influencer who is busy hyping her shoe brand, her podcast, and all the brands who pay her in Dubai including the hotel Raffles where she has a second wedding to her husband Sergio for the cameras. Add to that the restaurants who are paying the producers and its not a tour of billionaires backyards in Palm Jumeriah but a string of waiters welcoming ladies to lunch in restaurants that can be anywhere offering up the specialty of the day. They intercut it with shots of Dubai landmarks and hit a few but this show could be anywhere. The women are ethnically diverse with one caucasian, two Arabs, and three of Black or Afro-Caribbean descent. But they aren't really diverse. The women are five American citizens, one British citizen, and one Emirati who I came to watch because she was the manager and girlfriend of Michele Morrone the most gorgeous actor of 365 Days. But that relationship professional and personal seems to be over and he has not so far appeared in the show. So that thrill is gone. The Emirati Sara Almadani is frankly quite boring despite her many tattoos which are "haram" in Muslim culture. She takes a shot at the toxicity of the Emirates masculine culture and tells us she's raising her son to be a person but then goes through this fake pantomime of trying to get him to sit on the floor and eat with his hands to pass on the tradition. When he refuses she turns to the nanny and says "Maureen I tried." Sure once for the cameras. She is not rich enough to be a thing of envy her kitchen is a 1970s laminate hell. And there must be many rich Emirati women they could put on the show - some with traditional values who might clash with the other stars or perhaps could give us a real lesson in Emirati culture. Honestly, this is a miss for Bravo. They were led by brand sponsorships and forgot all about talent and character and plot.

Tried to watch the first episode and couldn't get through it. I've spent time in Dubai and know "Real" house wife's from the Emirates..... these ladies are certainly not them.

Don't waste your time or money. I tried watching the first episode because I enjoyed Caroline Stanbury in Ladies of London and was interested in what life in Dubai was like. But that isn't what I got. Only one of the ladies is from Dubai and none of them are truly describing what it is like to live there (based on what I have heard from friends). They are acting like this is Las Vegas. Sadly, I'm going to pass on this franchise. P. S. Bring back Ladies of London!