UPDATED: Mob Wives Season Five: Reality Check
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| Natalie is smokin'... |
The new season of VH1 hit reality show Mob Wives should be called World War III because the woman on the show are at war, literally, and the drama doesn't look like it's dying down anytime soon.
Season 5 of the reality series made its debut on Wednesday and by the looks of the show, it's clear that the women may be not be in a jolly mood this holiday season.
During the season 5 premiere of 'Trust No One,' viewers quickly learn that cast mates Angela Raiola (Big Ang) and Drita D'avanzo are now opening up to Natalie Guercio (Renee Graziano's sworn enemy) and of course that wasn't going to sit well with Graziano.
Luckily for Graziano, she didn't cast all of her trust in one basket, and her BFF Karen Gravano is back and the two are not a force to be reckoned with; Guercio is going to learn this lesson the hard way.
In addition to the dynamic duo being the best of friends, their fans have their backs, and after the premiere episode, viewers immediately took to Twitter to support the wives [meaning Gravano and Graziano].
Yes, I agree. World War III is a much, much better name for Mob Wives. Any episode now Big Ang is gonna be driving a tank right up Renee's liposucted ass; Drita and Natalie will cover her flanks with Uzis, but Karen Gravano is gonna zip across the sky in her own Blackhawk -- because, hey, they are "literally" at war!!
And most certainly the drama will live, because without it there is no show.
The "looks of the show" do indeed warrant concern. Whatever the hell that means.
Drita and Big Ang actually started opening up to Natalie for most of season four until..... Natalie tweeted!! Then Big Ang and Drita rejoined Team Psycho in the final minutes of season four. Apparently that's not the preferred storyline so they're back on Team Delicious.
Karen has so much free time she flies right into New York to protect Renee, because, hey, Natalie tweeted!!!! It's not like Karen left her husband and kids behind, abandoned them.... wait a sec. That's actually what she did, right?
Renee is the boss though!!! Why would she need backup? Certainly the tough as nails Renee doesn't need any backup! (Actually she does; she is all talk (all bullshit, I mean) but it doesn't matter.) Karen is simply giddy -- and ripe with fury at Natalie, a person who couldn't care less about her, Karen, or Renee -- and Karen's giddiness is real because she's just grooving that the bitch is back!! Her lawsuit blew up on her because the videogame company used the truth to defend itself. "She really is fat," they noted in court papers. So... the bitch is back!!!
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NOTE: Who goes to work and gets so many calls in a row from their kids and husband, begging her to come home? Drita can't though!! She's TOO BUSY!!! She has to race all over Staten Island to be in her stores so the cameras can film her walking around and talking on the phone!!
She's too damn busy!!!!!
So she hangs up and makes a beeline out the front door, probably for a smoke. Why didn't she just run home and visit the kids? And, presumably, Mr. Lee?
And what was that noise about overbooking - "we overbooked -- we have two clients coming in at the same time today..." OK, we don't know what the hell goes on in that shop but wouldn't that be a good thing, to have more business? They can only cater to one client per frigging day?
I know, I know -- you're not supposed to take a reality show seriously. Silly me!!
We will give the show props for its expert hand at exploiting social media. They are using tweets instead of press releases -- and blogs and websites run photos of the things and write entire stories around these phoney messages. It's all a great idea, actually, as long as you remind yourself -- it's all bullshit. We watch Mob Wives for the entertainment we used to get by watching midnight wrestling on channel 9 on Saturday night.
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NOTE: We believe Renee did poorly in show testing and that is probably why she's been promoting herself nonstop since the end of season four (it also certainly helps if your sister is, like, the show creator). The current season will be devoted to repairing Renee's image as a raving drug addicted psychotic.... In fact they appear to be loading the cast with anyone they can get their hands on as long as they kiss Renee's ass... (Some dynamics on the show are probably much more true-to-life than we'd guess. And we're just guessing -- but sometimes they can't hide their true colors.)
NOTE: Victoria Gotti? Really???
One final observation about that blog post quoted above, at the top of the story... it sounds more than a bit biased. It'd be fun to see who owns that site. Anyone out there got any inside dope??? We are always looking for chatty insiders -- or tipsters -- and we offer total anonymity.
Referring back to that opening quote: Read the last part of the last sentence of the second to last paragraph again.
Guercio is going to learn this lesson the hard way.
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| Natalie, watch your back... |
Does anyone get it?
[BTW: Luckily for Graziano, she didn't cast all of her trust in one basket, and her BFF Karen Gravano is back and the two are not a force to be reckoned with; Guercio is going to learn this lesson the hard way. -- "now" maybe? We agree with "not," actually.]
But also notice that all fans' tweets included in the story are pro Renee/Karen....
Anyone notice Karen's storyline? RumorFix: "The VH1 star also reveals she’s starting a medical marijuana business and her struggles will play out on the reality TV show."