They do it so much better in the U. S., don't they?
This is the sort of tv that makes you want to gouge out your eyes just to make it stop. A bunch of footballers' wives with almost no redeeming features showcase their lives, mortifying an entire county in the process.
For the uninformed, Cheshire is in the North West of England. It's an attractive part of the country, filled with pretty villages, and has historic Chester as its county town. Its proximity to cities such as Manchester and Liverpool make living there a good place to enjoy the best of both the metropolitan and the rural life. Unfortunately this proximity to the aforementioned cities is what makes it the main stamping ground of the dreaded WAG.
What amazes me is that any of these women would think that participating in this televisual excrement would be in any way beneficial. From the trashy trash talk in the opening credits, you gasp in disbelief that anyone with a grain of common sense would think that this was a good way to introduce yourself to the wider community. And they all seem to have made it by marrying money, either footballer money or millionaire-businessman money. They then swan about in oversized, hideously-decorated mansions, bragging and bitching, and looking for a fight. That's when they're not shuttling between the beauty salon, the jewellers, the cosmetic surgeon....
I'm sorry but these women are just dreadful. Thick, crass, gobby, vain, shallow and appallingly ill-mannered, they make a mockery of womens' emancipation, not because they married money, which is not a bad thing in itself, but because they failed to understand how to behave when they got it.
'Beverly Hills' does it so much better.
