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Brian Moylan is the author of the New York Times best seller The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Housewives. He also writes Vulture's Housewives Institute Bulletin newsletter. He started covering television in 2000, and his TV reporting and criticism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, Gawker 1.0, Time, Cosmopolitan, Town & Country, the Washington Blade, and many other outlets.

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    Vanderpump Rules Recap: Grampy PantiesThis Miami trip is all about making up, with or without old-man prosthetics applied.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Losers WeepersJust as I was starting to warm to Jennifer, she engages in one of the dumbest fights we’ve seen in a long time.
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    Vanderpump Rules Recap: Dress to DepressWe’re back where we belong, watching Stassi have a series of never-ending fights with her closest friends over the pettiest of matters.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Beach Blanket BuffoonsThis is looking less and less like the actual Hamptons with every passing second.
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    Vanderpump Rules Recap: Book ’Em, DaynaScheana, along with Danica and Charli, are like the new witches of WeHo, trying to make sure that everyone hates Dayna.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Mother TuckersMargaret hosts a drag brunch to honor Mother’s Day and set the stage for a lot of Teresa-related drama to come.
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    Vanderpump Rules Recap: Are You Being SUR-ved?It’s official: I do not understand this show anymore.
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    Vanderpump Rules Season-Premiere Recap: Hidden Valley RanchesThe series returns with a bunch of new, unfamiliar faces at SUR and the growing sense that this show needs to be cleaved in two.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Finale Recap: Boot Scoot BoogersAs we arrive at the end of the season, one thing has become clear: It’s time to say goodbye to the Tres Amigas.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: For Whom the Kell TollsThe Vicky-vs.-Kelly thing has become a black hole that swallows the rest of this season.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Throw Away the KeyRemember when Housewives vacations used to be fun?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Enemy EngagementTamra and Kelly’s big confrontation ends with them both being wrong, both being right, and both acting disgracefully.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Throw Momma Down the StairsA leaked video has resulted in a line being drawn between Tamra and Kelly, and everyone has to choose sides.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Puppet Master and ServantThe women are mostly off on their own this week but manage to come together to accuse Tamra of being a master manipulator.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Best Frenemies ForeverMaybe Tamra’s getting sloppy. Maybe she just doesn’t care. Regardless, thank God we have her.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Fit to a TeaThe costumes aren’t the only things that are all wrong at Vicki’s tea party–themed birthday.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Going OverboardSay hello to Kathy, the president of OC Fashion Better Part of an Afternoon and Booze Cruise and the savior of this season.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ms. ConductorTamra’s own story lines may have dried up, but that doesn’t stop her from driving all of this episode’s action.
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    An American’s Guide to Drag Race U.K.Here’s everything U.S. viewers need to know to navigate the franchise’s trip across the Atlantic.
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    We Can’t Look Away From This Juicy U.K. Soccer Wives ScandalWhat to know about Coleen Rooney, Rebekah Vardy, and a truly scandalous British tabloid feud.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Save the DateGina and Emily’s fight seems less about a “pity date†and more about the show itself. But most of all it seems dumb.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Surrender at MiravalUltimately, this episode isn’t as much about fighting as it is about healing — but there’s still plenty of fighting.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ding to the DongI don’t know what kind of energy maintenance is going on at Miraval, but that crystal whisperer needs to work overtime on these women.
  24. close reads
    The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute WorstPaul’s signature move has gone from a cute gesture to a threat to The Great British Baking Show as we know it. It must end.
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    Every Member of the American Horror Story Ensemble, RankedWho’s the best actor in Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Having a BowlNothing ruins Zen Time like a bonk on the head.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Mommy QueerestThis episode is just littered with family fights that will never end.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Braunwyn or LoseBraunwyn is jumping into Housewives with both feet and all 18 consonants in her name, and when her cravenness is laid bare, she can’t take it.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Their First RodeoKelly is not about an eye for an eye. If you try to take her eye, she’ll cut off your whole head.
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    Exclusive! The Real Housewives React to Bethenny Frankel Ditching BravoYou heard it here first.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Train Has Left the StationFor a “friend of,†Vicki sure is doing a lot of the heavy lifting of creating Housewives drama this season.
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    Southern Charm Season-Finale Recap: Threesome’s CompanyIs Shep’s ugly fixation on Austen and Madison’s relationship fueled by jealousy, misogyny, or some potent cocktail of the two?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Be the Pigger PersonVicki refuses to acknowledge the new world order where she is not a major part of the show and, honestly, it’s a little sad.
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    Southern Charm Recap: These Dogs Don’t HuntThis Ashley story line feels about as real as this truly fake foxhunt.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Premiere Recap: Son of a GunvalsonThe specter of an absent Vicki looms over a disjointed premiere that finds the Housewives oddly isolated from each other.
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    Southern Charm Recap: It Makes You ClapThe final lap of the Colorado vacation is quite a thing to behold.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Pot Goes the WeaselKathryn is the undisputed MVP of Austen and Shep’s dumb weed dinner.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Bus Stop Bust-upThe subtext of this show is really that all the guys are stupid idiots and all of the girls know better.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Ugh, AshleyWhy would Eliza think it was a good idea to invite Ashley, a woman who is universally reviled by the cast, to a party?
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season-Finale Recap: The Tears of a CrownThe Rich Women finally reckon with the season’s two biggest villains, Camille Grammer and Lisa Vanderpump.
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    What to Know About Love Island Before Its U.S. DebutThe UK reality-TV sensation is coming to America, airing five — yes, five — nights a week. Here’s what to expect, and why you should watch.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Eliza Do LittleNaomie is worried about Craig — and, honestly, we should all be worried about Craig.
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    The Real Housewives of New York Finale Recap: Ho, Ho, HoesWhich is the bigger bust, the turnout at Luann’s Christmas cabaret show or Bethenny’s weird S’mores and Whores party?
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    Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live’s Best, Worst, and Wildest Guests“Let it be noted that I did not plead the fifth.â€
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: The Fall of St. CamilleCamille has fully reverted to her season-one self, and it may not be pretty, but it sure is fun to watch.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: 12-Step AerobicsWith the drama and tears of Miami behind them, the ladies seem to have an actual blast at Dorinda’s ‘80s-themed jazzercise class.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Whine TimeThis week, the rich women only do one thing: get drunk. And boy, do they ever.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Cabaret of LightA series of petty slights and a whole lot of narcissism light the fuse on a truly spectacular dinner-table blowup.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: The French EvolutionThe Rich Women head to France, without their beauty squads but with a bone to pick about Lisa and Erika Jayne.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Moons Over My HammyLuann counters the other women’s criticism that she’s annoyingly self-absorbed by … talking about herself.
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