The Housewives, Brian Moylan
The Housewives, Brian Moylan
5 Rating(s)
List: $26.99 | Sale: $18.89
Club: $13.49

The Housewives
The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives

Bestseller

Author: Brian Moylan

Narrator: Brian Moylan

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2021


Synopsis

From Brian Moylan, the writer of Vulture’s legendary Real Housewives recaps, a table-flipping, finger-pointing, halter-topping VIP journey through reality TV’s greatest saga…

In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution, along with The Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami, Potomac, and more. Over the years these ladies have done a lot more than lunch, launching thirty-one books, a cocktail line, two jail sentences, a couple supermodel daughters, Andy Cohen’s talk show career, thirty-six divorces, fourteen albums, a White House party crash, and approximately one million memes.

Brian Moylan has been there through it all, in front of the screen and behind the scenes. The writer of Vulture’s beloved series recaps, he’s here to tell us the full story, from the inside scoop on every classic throwdown to the questions we’ve always wanted to know, like—what are the housewives really like off-camera? (The same.) How much money do they make? (Lots.) He has a lot to say about the legacy and fandom of a franchise that’s near and dear to his heart, and inextricable from pop culture today.

A must-have for any fan of real drama and fake [redacted], The Housewives is the definitive companion to an American TV treasure.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"In THE HOUSEWIVES, entertainment journalist and self-proclaimed Real Housewives anthropologist Moylan provides a complete history of the franchise, which thanks to interviews both on and off the record with members of the production team as well as current and former housewives is both painstakingly thorough and incredibly juicy...In the words of former Housewife Bethenny Frankel, Moylan truly “mentions it all.” -- Booklist, starred review

About Brian Moylan

Brian Moylan is a Real Housewives anthropologist and writer for Vulture, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dennis on May 19, 2021

This book is a fun history lesson for any Real Housewives fans. Brian Moylan did his research and I give him kudos for trying to wrangle as many housewives (former and present) and producers to gather information. For all the people that Brian interviewed, thank you for taking part of this because I......more

Goodreads review by Meredith B. on May 31, 2021

This is one of the first audiobooks that I've listened to and being a Real Housewives fanatic, I absolutely loved it. I loved that the author read it himself and you can tell he is a real expert on all things Real Housewives and truly all things Bravo. I think there are parts that can get off Real Ho......more