The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

In any RH franchise there will be some good drama, but RHOSLC brings unique a backdrop of snowy mountains, religious elements and the most diverse cast of any RH show. Jen Shaw, Lisa Barlow, Meredith Marks, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay and Whitney Rose are each fascinating women on their own. From open to credits I watch every week.

Let's skip all the boring stuff, we all know what this show is. Here are my unqualified psycho assessments for all the girls:

Jen Shah: Histrionic Disorder

• categorized by exaggerated emotionality and attention seeking behaviours
• Overwhelming desire to be noticed
• sense of self-worth depends on the approval of others

Mary Crosby: Psychopathy. (Or antisocial personality disorder at the least) -Disregarding or violating the rights of others -Inability to distinguish between right and wrong -tendency to lie often -Narcissism

Heather: Mentally stable for the most part. "Religious trauma" and a bit of an inciting conflict problem.

Lisa: Antisocial personality disorder -Lisa seems to display some pretty evident dark triad traits at the least (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellian) she's NOT a psychopath, but she's definitely manipulative and does show some pretty evident narcissism.

Meredith: Anti-Social Personality disorder. Clearly she's very neurotic and often withdraws as a coping mechanism. It seems like she's often masking her emotions, and generally plays her cards pretty close to her chest. She unable to be vulnerable very often and displays some narcissistic tendencies.

Whitney: I don't even know what to say. At first I thought she was just really stupid, but then I realized it's more that's she's just extremely naive. Lisa's not so far off with the Nancy drew comment. Maybe another histrionic.

Alright, so I think The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City might just be my favourite of all the Real Housewives franchises. I mean, these women are crazy or criminal or grifting or Mormon or cult-leading maniacs in designer clothes. What's not to like!?

I know theres allot bad reviews but I watch these for entertainment, and these ladies sure do that, when they don't dissing there religion, or looking down there noses at others, there telling taxi drivers to hurry them up to the for even though there only 3 shows in and think there already famous lmao. Not even the longer shows women speak like that to people. But no I like it, it's more refreshing than seeing a bunch of 50yrs+ rhony women trying it on with young men and think there gods gift..

As somebody who previously lived several years in Salt Lake City, I think that the issues these women talk about and face are extremely relevant and entertaining. Those who have never lived in the city do not know how much the church has an impact on the community, and how people who are not apart of the church struggle to fit in. Although most critics find these women vapid socialites, I believe that their lifestyles are more upper middle class than other housewife casts, making it more interesting and realistic. People also have to remember that the point of reality TV is to entertain, and in order to do so you need to have controversial moments that reflect reality. These women are doing that, and they are sacrificing their own real life reputation in order to shed light on issues and altercations that happen consistently with everyday Americans. The audience should stop throwing rocks from glass houses and appreciate their candidness.