Trapped indoors for nearly 12 months, terrorized by the maskless hordes and horrified by the government's mishandling of the pandemic, you sort of run out of stuff to watch. But in the age of endless mediocre content creation, one can never actually run out of stuff to watch. Instead, you start to ask yourself whether there's anything you haven’t watched that people seem to like. And that’s how you end up letting your friend convince you to watch dozens of seasons of Real Housewives in the space of a few months. What, exactly, is the appeal of Real Housewives?