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The Amazing Kate Casey! Welcome back for another episode of reality life with KKC.

Hope that you're having a great midweek because I've got a great episode for you.

Joining me in this episode is Louis Staples, a culture writer.

And we talk about The Real Housewives Year in Review.

He's got a great article out in the cut. It is called

The Real Housewives Bumpiest Year yet. And in this episode, we get into it. If you can believe

this, over the last 12 months, there have been 134 Real Housewives episodes. I'm sure many of you

have watched them as well. So when you know, we're sort of moving into a new chapter,

months and years of the Gerardi scandal, the Jen Shaw scandal, learning about the lives of new cast members,

we're moving into kind of a new chapter. So on Potomac, they let go of three cast members,

including Robin Dixon and Candace Dillard Bassett,

who were always fighting. And then we met new cast members, and there's a whole new dynamic on the show.

Then on Real Houseways in New Jersey's 14th season, you had the constant fighting of Teresa and Melissa.

The show took a very dark turn, and the networkers put it on pause.

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