Victoria Watches The Hotwives of Orlando

Rodolfo and I just started watching this show today and we are loving it! We've already watched the first five episodes (he put it on while I was working on preparing the potatoes, and the we just continued watching while they cooked and then while eating). I was very excited to hear about this show because,

1. I love comedy TV shows. Drama is okay, but I'm all about the comedy shows!
2. We like Kristen Schaal a lot. We mostly know her from Flight of the Conchords and The Last Man on Earth. She's pretty great :)
3. Just last year (I think?) we watched and loved the first two seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It's so funny because it was actually my husband who got us started watching the show, and it was pretty out-of-the-blue too. He just decided after watching some random show on our hotel's television that he loves "trash TV" and that we should check out a "Real Housewives" series. And wow, we had no idea how much fun it would be to watch! We probably watched both seasons over the course of a month.

This parody did not disappoint at all! It really highlights how ridiculous the show is and all the drama and crazy things that happen. So funny! I think they did a fantastic job with it. All of the characters are spot-on.

I'm sad to realize we only have 2 episodes left. :( Thankfully there's still The Hotwives of Las Vegas... the problem  is they're probably parodying a different set of women on another one of the shows, so idk if it would be quite as funny to us as this parody was... I guess we'll just have to find out which "Real Housewives" that one parodies and watch it!


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Update - November 21, 2017

So I haven't decided how I want to handle multiple entries for the same thing yet. I'll start by editing the post I made about it, with updates (as I am doing now), but maybe in the future I will make separate entries. I guess it will depend on how much I have to say about it. Because there were just two short episodes left of The Hotwives of Orlando, I don't think it warrants a whole separate post.

The wrap-up for the show was good. My favorite housewife overall was probably Veronica, the one parodying Lisa Vanderpump. She was really funny and really reminded me of Lisa, who might have been my favorite of the Real Housewives.

Shauna was pretty funny--I liked the bit where she had the interior designer come help her with her tent after she became homeless, lolol. It was especially funny to me since Rodolfo and I have been watching so many home-makeover-type shows. And Rodolfo figured out that the interior design lady was the actress who plays the mother of the girl who kills herself in Thirteen Reasons Why! It was so strange to see her in such a different, comedic role, when in basically every scene in 13RW she was bereaved.

I like Phe Phe. The way she acts can be annoying sometimes, but I like how honest and blunt she is, and she reminds me of Adrienne on Real Housewives, whom I also really liked. Rodolfo liked Phe Phe the least.

Kristen Schaal's character Amanda was pretty spot-on with Kim Richards, which was really kind of more sad than funny on the Real Housewives show. I mean it was kind of funny how awkward Kim was and how much she didn't belong in the group, but it was also sad and cringey because... well, seeing someone who totally doesn't fit in still have to show up and try to get along with the other ladies is... sad and cringey. We've all been there at one point or another, right?... And obviously it was more than just not fitting in, because of the alcoholism. But I think Kristen really showed what a sad and sympathetic character Kim was. She did a great job.

Angela Kinsey's character, Crystal, was pretty funny, although I don't love the way they portrayed Christian people through her and her husband's characters. It was a really extreme portrayal, which of course is what parody is, but I guess it just doesn't sit well with me when it makes fun of a group of people who are already pretty scorned these days. It's probably how black or gay people feel when they're made fun of, like, "Okay, haha, that's a little tiny bit true, but you're really just reinforcing negative stereotypes people have, and we're not REALLY like that, but now more people are going to think we are." It doesn't feel very good.

Hm... what else... Rodolfo said he really liked the "Alli" character, lol. She was pretty funny, how she was always stirring the pot but pretending to do it out of concern and friendship for each of the ladies. There WERE some ladies on the Real Housewives show who became kind of recurring characters who would show up and get screen time and we'd just be like "wth, who ARE these people? Why are they getting any attention?" But it did kind of help create drama sometimes when the main group of ladies were getting along too well.

Oh, and Tawney's husband Phil is the guy who plays Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, lol. I'm sure I've seen him in other things besides Groundhog Day, but it was my first time realizing that he's Ned Ryerson.

Anyway, good show! I would recommend it and watch again! There was some language and sexuality/innuendo and stuff, so I wouldn't recommend it for kids or teenagers, but I'd say there wasn't anything explicit enough that an adult shouldn't watch (... although the scene with Veronica and Phe Phe and the male dancers was definitely pushing the envelope...).