This post is dedicated to any and all discussions about tonight’s episode of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey!”
Teresa and Caroline are done. Teresa and Jacqueline are done. Time for therapy with little bro, Joe! Will they both actually listen to each other and find “love in a hopeless place,” perhaps? We can’t wait to see what happens!
The show starts tonight at 10:00pm EST, but this thread’s here all day. Let’s discuss!
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Not to be mean, but I think Teresa is just not very intelligent and most of what she says is fed to her through her husband. She was probably at one point, very nice and endearing, but the many years of being with her selfish, egotistical husband has her brainwashed. I feel sorry for her because, just like a little feral kitten who is doing bad things, she doesn’t know any better because she doesn’t have the right influences. Think about it girls. We all have women in our lives who change their personalities and interests depending on who they are dating at the time.
I love that this thread exists. Great idea to use this as a platform in which we interact not just by reading the same posts, but by talking about them too. I want to mention Teresa – the hot topic of the season, and the individual whose inability to cope with reality is directing the season’s story arch. Teresea, with that scrcunchy feature-full face of hers, is impossibly endearing. I find myself adoring her the angrier she gets, which has something to do with the way in which when someone as fundamentally adorable as she is does something as outrageous as throwing a table, serves as an action-based pun. I can’t not love it. And for a while, erred on her side of any argument; she’s inarticulate, another quirk which paints her outrage outragesouly cute, and seems to lack insight, making me wonder how could anyone take her all that seriously? But, as the season wore on, it seemed that the other ladies of TRHNJ thought her just as endearing – with the exception of her Sister-in-Law, but let’s not go there – until they were made the subject of that which she fails to see. The line between reality, and reality-TV is, for Teresa, problematically unindentifiable: Teresea, the woman, and Teresea Geudice, the reality star, are undifferentiated, so much so that it’s not even clear to Teresa what the preferable pronunciation of her last name is – Ge-you-dice when referring to her as a friend, Gweh-dee-chey – when referring to her Jerz-a-licious fame-tabulous image. I can’t help but notice that from episode to episode, Teresa floats from co-star to co-star, reaching out to anyone who will stand on whichever side of this line she finds herself on at that particular plot-point. I hesitate to say this, as I hate when social commentaries stereotype their subject into hot-topic pop-culture issues, such as the un-reality of reality-television. In the same interest, I also question if the production team of the BRAVO hit are catering to this buzz issue, orchestrating a series in their editing room that fits neatly into it, or, if the show is shedding a color-corrected light onto a fragment of her psyche which needs therapeutic illumination. What do you ladies think of Teresa? And to what extent is your interest in the show driven by her darlingly dichotomized self?
I’m starting to really heart Joe Gorga. Oh geez….