The Real Housewives of Atlanta

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Tuesday, Oct. 7, 9PM, Bravo

Bravo sets out to prove that it's not just white women who can be simple-minded, materialistic and rich (or wannabe rich). So Bravo turns its focus on so-called "real" housewives in Atlanta, to show that African-American women can be just as obsessed with buying things and flaunting them. To be sure, these women (including one NBA wife, one NFL wife and one NFL ex-wife) hardly qualify as "housewives," unless a housewife is someone who tells the maid what to do and drives a Hummer. These deeply shallow women seem to spend all their time shopping and lounging at the spa - when they're not acting catty about who has the most fly clothes, whose booty is hotter and who's invited to whose birthday party (you know, the kind where there's valet parking at the mansion). There's no doubt that watching these women is entertaining. But they're also nasty enough to curdle milk.