Vanderpump Rules

I'm not gonna lie. At first I thought this show was going to be horrible, but it's a nice escape into a sort of fantasy world. It's also shot very well. Anyway, Lisa Vanderpump manages a close knit group of friends who are models/actors trying to make it into Hollywood. The show's really centered around four people. Jax, Stassi, Kristen, and Tom. I will admit, Jax does seem a little immature, but Stassi's no better. Lisa sometimes meddles her way into the drama, but I can't take her seriously. Is she really going to fire Jax for getting too drunk. Haha nope. It's interesting look into the world of young singles trying to make it in Hollywood. Lisa's restaurants do look pretty cool. Give this a watch you'll definitely like it!

After watching a few of the housewives shows in the beginning i thought I'd give this a go, and I'm so glad I did. If it's your thing then I can see why it's ran for so long. I started the first series and just got drawn in so bad with the craziness I couldn't stop watching... to see everyone evolve and grow is fun to watch and the bonkers parties and drinking and trips is just so indulgent when you're sitting in on a rainy day. For reality tv lovers I'd totally recommend watching it all from start to finish. As annoying as some characters are.. I ended up missing them when they weren't in the show as much!

This is literally exactly what they joked about in Seinfeld, but in a bad way. Nothing happens in this show other than arguing. Nothing else. Still not extremely boring but far from a masterpiece.

The RH series are like candy that you know you aren't supposed to eat, but will sometimes gorge yourself on. I know many of the scenarios and scenes on the RHOBH are half-staged and at least manipulated by the producers. It's like watching a living real life soap opera but with pet dogs and massive over-the-top mansions.

What Vanderpump Rules is missing is so much. The personalities are just too young and shallow to really care about, and the cast members are absolutely horrible at their jobs: screaming matches, openly defiant behavior towards management, and personal drama brought in spades to the workplace. Are we supposed to be sympathetic to self-important, entitled twenty-somethings who can't even do their jobs professionally? I'm also not buying into half of the romantic relationships on the show. At least one male cast member who identifies as straight has been rumored to be gay in real life.

The drama is petty and the stakes are low. Instead of lavish lifestyles and wild parties we get high school level bickering between vapid narcissistic living dolls. At least if they actually took their jobs seriously and acted in a professional manner I might almost like them. I realize that the producers are probably encouraging them to act over the top, but it just makes them less sympathetic and the show less believable. I can't even believe this show was renewed for another season.

This show centers primarily on the lives of a group of shallow, materialistic, narcissistic twenty something years olds whose only dreams are to achieve fame and wealth by any means necessary. Despite it's title and setting the show doesn't really have anything to do with Lisa Vanderpump or the running of her business. Instead, the viewers are given a glimpse into the absolute shallowness and vapidity of the people working there. The casual cruelty and callousness with which the staff treats one another is disgusting to watch and I cannot for the life of me remember a single interesting/positive fact about any one of them. I don't love to hate the show like I do The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I just hate the show.

What I have the most trouble with though, is that Lisa/Bravo would allow something with such a toxic and negative message to air. By giving these people a platform on a national TV show they have granted them legitimacy. However, not once in any of the interviews did I hear any of the cast members say that they loved singing, or acting, or anything else that takes a degree of talent and hard work. All I saw was a bunch of narcissistic essentially empty people claiming that they deserve to be famous for no real reason other than the fact that they are relatively attractive. Their absolute obsession with things like beauty and money is so disheartening to watch because I cannot fathom how empty these people must be to only be able to judge their worth and the worth of others on these arbitrary and hollow standards.

What's even worse is the permissive attitude which reigns in the restaurant. Their behavior is excused because they are "young and passionate" and yet at the same age I am fully aware of what behavior is and isn't appropriate in a work environment and that I must treat other people with a minimum level of respect whether I like them or not. The message that this is sending out to the next generation is that there are never any real repercussions for messing up. None of the staff care to conduct themselves professionally because they know that there aren't going to be any real consequences for their actions.

All in all I am extremely disappointed by this show. Especially, as Lisa presents herself as someone who is so against the cattiness of her cast mates on RHOBH. And yet, she allows the same thing to go on in her own establishment and promotes it by letting it air on national television. In most any other environment these people would be fired on the spot for their behavior. The only reason I give this show 2 stars is for the fact that it is so horrifying I found myself unable to stop watching. I suppose this is what Bravo is relying on to pull in viewers.