lorilu6461 What is wrong with you viewers? Housewives of Orange County is a very entertaining look at life behind the gates. I will never be able to afford the lifestyle so I enjoy the fashion and the glimpses of their parties and their homes. They also show us that money cannot buy true happiness and contentment but it sure is fun to have. Lighten up viewers and give these women a break! They deal with the same problems with husbands and children that we all deal with. I believe they are truly loving and caring women. So what if they have boob jobs and botox. If I could afford it, I'd have it too! One opinion I'd like to express though is that I don't think Jo and Slade will make it to the alter. He seems to want a mature housewife that will take care of his home, his children and his every need. Nothing wrong with that! He is a very generous man and there are a lot of women who would love to be in Jo's shoes. She is too young and unsettled for the part he wants her to play. I say to them, "Move on". Good luck to them all! Can't wait to see Season 2!!! Love, Lori (from a small town in the Upper Peninsula of MI)

j_graves68 I would watch this show in passing when my wife would DV-R/ TiVO it, watching it all wide-eyed and transfixed. I don't know what makes me more sick- watching these shallow bimbo and himbos, or watching my wife watch it and wonder if she secretly admires these people and their lifestyles. Their kids are all spoiled and disrespectful to the point where I want to slap the taste from their mouths; the women, the men and "children" are narcissistic and I cannot relate to them. They have no values and this just tells me that when one acquires that much wealth, this is the result. These exclusive and sheltered people who think that Coto de Caza is the center of the world have no qualms about being rich and spoiled. They never address how they would like to help out or donate to charities out the goodness of their steel-cold hearts. I never see the parents or grandparents of these families on this show. I would hear sound-bytes from them saying, "...I think that the country will definitely learn from us and see how families really are over here..." It's so arrogant for one thing (I think that she takes notes whenever watching our president make his self-righteous speeches), and for another, people in other parts of the world think that this is how American families live, act and operate (shows like "Wifeswap," "Supernanny" are the other dark horses in the running when it comes to this). I gave this two stars because of the multiple characters and that they switch families quickly and just in time before I get a chance to get bored of hearing how bored upon bored this woman is, or that woman is. Or how this married woman "needs a boyfriend" But believe me, what is already there is plentiful and too much. I have no sympathy or empathy for these self-centered people no matter how dysfunctional they are. I just shrug my shoulders and apathetically say "that's too f*$king bad."

nikinoo92 wow that tammy is the meanest person on earth. if she was my mom i would want to live with dad even on the north pole. i live with dad and he is cool and not mean and if dad dated her i would be so mad .she is cold hearted and i hope she gets what she deserves .that a guy is bad to her and she wants duff back and he is in love . she is so mean about losing her money from here it was her exes money so get over it . COLD HEART person she needs help with her life. I am also a little upset with the spoiled way the kids act. they have big houses and all and they are stuck up. the kids all but colton are mean and loud and no one i know would ever be their friends. this show upsets me and i glad i was raised the RIGHT WAY.

collinsholbrook Once I'd seen the trailers for the show I knew it would be hard to watch and hard not to! As for the complete reality of the show - which is like the other shows, doubtful - I can only draw a distinction in themes: in reality TV, the " little guy'" is pitted against an adversary larger than life, the message being that the little guy can win against the odds, that we are all, in some ways, heroes. This show gives the opposite message: that we are all victims of forces beyond our control. The show is bittersweet because these women, their communities, their families, are incapable of rising above the clichés and traps of too much cash, too much free time...and too much high hair!! It is hard to stomach so much tackiness without a trace of irony or humor ( Footballer's Wives deals with the same kind of characters, but better). These women are deadly dull, and marriage looks less like a sacred institution worth protecting, and more like a form of prostitution! Thank god for the gates which keep them inside, an effective quarantine for the rest of us. I chuckled when I heard one of these dames complain about downgrading to a 2500 sq. ft home! But as I considered it- or tried to consider it seriously - I decided that for women such as these that would be a calamity, which is disgusting if it weren't so pathetic. Conspicous consumption? how about contemptuous consumption! And where is CPS? Shouldn't they be alerted to the abused children in these gilded cages? But all this said I do think the show should be watched if only for its shock value: evidently hair hoppers and 80's has been skeezers do win out, even if no one else does. I hope this show does not see broadcast outside of America. We don't need another 5 reasons for the world to despise us