The Real Housewives of Miami: A Mynt Meltdown
Bravo?s producers of ?The Real Housewives of Miami? promised a blockbuster season. Alex McCord told us on rumorfix that this production staff created Season Three of ?The Real Housewives of New York City.?? Last night, the producers broke the golden rule.? The viewers have to have connected with the reality star before they were thrown into conflict.? If we don?t know the housewife or their best friend, the viewers are not invested and just want the combatants to vanish?in a puff of smoke.? Miami is a city of beautiful people who seem selfish and superficial.? This was the problem in Season One of ?The Real Housewives of Miami? and ?Miami Social.?? The audience did not connect and the ratings were dismal.
Adrianna is the star of this reality show.? She knows that she is being filmed.? When the new housewives are discussing Elsa?s face with Lenny, Lisa?s husband, Adrianna knows that the comments about Elsa being scary will not be popular with grandmothers on the prairie.? We can all see that Elsa suffered at the hands of a bad doctor.? Elsa is not a healthy person.? That conversation by beautiful young women was not fair.
Adrianna toured an exhibit in her large art gallery with her partner.? The gallery has her partner?s name on the window.? Adrianna must have a smaller percentage of ownership.? She has worked in the art world for 7 years.? Adrianna studied art in the University of Paris/ Sorbonne. Adrianna knows the business. In the past, crowds came to art opening for a glass of free champagne and to be seen.? Now, she wants to create an event for the art collectors. She wants to sell art, not throw a party for friends.? Her partner is happy to have his gallery on a national television show.
There are interesting relationships with employees of the housewives, who have become ?friends.?? Like Jeff Lewis and Zoila, there is a friendship, but the home owners are not equals in the friendship. The employee?s financial survival depends on the homeowner and their benevolence.? The employee entertains the homeowner.? It is what it is.? The homeowner feels they have the right to describe the employee and their relationship. This unequal relationship is common in domestic situations, but watching it play out on reality television is different because the employee cannot give their side.? Bravo let Zoila share her thoughts with us.? In ?The Real Housewives of Miami? that did not happen.
There are business relationships that cause problems in the personal lives of the Miami housewives.? Romaine, Joanna? boyfriend, is a successful club owner.? He came to America with $1,000 and he spent that money in two months.? He became a waiter, a bartender and club owner.? Mynt, Romaine?s club, had its 10th Anniversary.? It is unusual for a club to last that long in Miami where new is the place to be.? Romaine has an excellent DJ and the music in a club has to be trendy.? The DJ dated Joanna?s sister, Marta, for four years.? He cheated on her and continued the relationship with the woman that he left Marta for a while ago.? This is the basic problem between Marta and Romaine. Romaine?s success is based on the music of his club.? Marta would like the DJ to be fired.? Romaine is a smart businessman and he is sick of the constant fight over a man who helps him make a lot of money.
Joanna is temperamental when not drunk, but when she is intoxicated she can see the DJ working and goes insane. She screams at the table and confronts Romaine, who thinks she is crazy.? He reminds her that her sister went insane and threw things like tampons in a confrontation over the DJ and his?infidelity.? The two Polish sisters from Chicago have issues. They may be beautiful, but no one will have peace with them in his life.? Romaine lives with Joanna, but he does not want Marta sharing his apartment.? In essence, Romaine does not want a packaged deal. This conflict will never end.
Lisa and Lenny are endearing. He is a genius, who always wanted to be a surgeon. They tease each other, but seem in love.? Lenny is friendly and hard-working.? He is generous to his wife.? Lisa does take care of him and the relationship is fun to watch.? They both love to party and are moving to Star Island and away from an area where homeowners prefer quiet.? ??Lisa is honest about her reactions to people, so she will soon be a part of the drama.? Lisa is young and she comments about being over 40 at a club.? This is going to get her in trouble.? The neighbors of Star Island may not like loud parties.
Anna is crying when she is alone in her home. She is covering up her red eyes with makeup while her grown daughter watches.? Anna?s prosecutor boyfriend wants her to divorce Robert, the father of her children.? Robert wants the divorce.? He wanted the divorce two years ago.? Anna stated in the first episode that she doesn?t care what we think, but she knows she is in Limbo.? Robert is not going to change.? Anna?s daughters know this.? Anna wants to have her family as it was in the beginning.? This is sad to watch, but this happens to women.? Men move on even though you did everything correctly.? There is nothing Anna can do to fix this.
Karent?is in love with a player/Latino soap star.? Her mother hates seeing her suffer. Karent?has discovered that her boyfriend is selective when he shares what is going on with Anna and text messaging.? The player leaves messages on an open Facebook page to Anna.? Anna is a lawyer so she took screen shots and kept a file.? Anna had the evidence that Karent?does not want to see. Adrianna wants Karent to understand what is happening, but like Anna, she prefers to live in her own dream world. ?Karent?s mother will save her daughter, but not there will be heartbreak before this is over.
Marysol?Patton claims to have the largest PR Firm in America.? She has owned it for 10 years.? I don?t know who this is possible when there are PR firms in LA and NYC that are huge.? Marysol?wanted to please her client who had issues with Elaine walking at his event.? Marysol?s?firm?did not let Elaine Lancaster/James walk in that?Miami event.? There seems to be confusion over what happened next.? Marysol?was in charge of a red-carpet at a Miami fundraiser for the children of incarcerated adults.? Elaine claims that small-minded?employees of Marysol?did not let Elaine walk at this event last year.? Marysol?denies that this happened and claims that Elaine is confusing the events.?? As viewers, we have no way of knowing who is correct in this argument, but I bet both Marysol?and Elaine are jumping to conclusions and protecting their own names from damage.? This is often the case when there has been a previous confrontation as there was when Marysol?did what her client asked.? Elaine was hurt at the first event, and she perceived that the people who hurt her were doing the same at the second event.? Those people were also reacting to Elaine and were hurt by her comments and accusations.? There are small-minded?people, but I think the real culprit was the man who hired Marysol?for the first event. Perhaps, Marysol?should have stood up to him, but that would have caused her problems too.? I?m sure that man would have hurt her business reputation also.? It?s a Catch 22.? Is a friend, Elaine, more important than a client to Marysol? Marysol chose the client.? This is one hot Miami mess.
Bravo made a mistake in this storyline. We have to know people before they walk in with guns blasting.? Bravo took us into a yearlong battle between Elaine and Marysol without a shield.? We needed to know more about Elaine as a person, so we could see that Elaine was honest.? Having two housewives give conflicting statements is confusing.? If we knew Elaine better, we could make better judgments to?help us decide ?if? Elaine was overreacting or was a victim.
The ratings of this series are over 1 million a week.? This is the lowest of all of the Bravo Real Housewives? Series.? New Jersey is close to 2 million.? If this was the first season, those numbers would be fine.? Bravo would give them a chance to get their sea legs.? I don?t understand why this show isn?t better.? Adrianna is wonderful.? The stories of Anna and Lisa are interesting.? I don?t know why America is not connecting with Miami.? I love the Latin culture and music.? The women are trying to make it in a difficult economy, and they are successful.
In Season One, two of the reality stars acted like high school girls, I don?t see that dynamic this year.? There are only 8 episodes, so Bravo had trouble creating an interesting story line with their hours of film.? I suspect the show is missing a villain.? Every housewife show has someone who takes the hits and fights back.?? None of the women in Miami wants to damage their reputations.? They want to survive after the cameras pack up and leave for NYC.??? I don?t think the conflict from a runway last year will be enough to save ?The Real Housewives of Miami.?
There are scenes where someone familiar to me is screaming at Elsa at a party. He is Kim Zolciak?s friend, Thomas Kramer, who had the strange home filled with stuffed animals. Kim brought the Atlanta housewives to his home for a vacation. That man was unsavory and had a history that made me uncomfortable.? I hope he does not cause Elsa pain.
Thomas Kramer, Kim?s friend, throws infamous parties at his mansion on Star Island:
http://thomaskramer.com/rhom-featuring-tk/
I think Star Island is Miami?s Scary Island, but without a storyline of conflict for the real housewives, where can Bravo go next season?
Here is a mystery:? The Real Housewives of Miami are holding glasses with something green.? Is it possible mint leaves?? Is mint the symbol of the city of Miami?
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