Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a good week. I'm really excited about the announcement this week,

and I'm not sure if we got it officially from Bravo or just all the Bravo accounts that I follow on

Instagram. But the first week of February, we are getting Summer House on Monday, the Real Housewives

of New Jersey on Tuesday, and Vanderpump Rules on Wednesday.

And I am just so excited. I love all of those shows. I don't know how I'm going to keep up with

all of the TV I'm watching for those next few months while they're all on concurrently. But I am

so, so excited. And speaking of

summer house, I have finally caught up on Winter House, and I'm actually really enjoying the season.

I really like that every couple of days, they're having new people come and visit the house,

and it's sort of changing the social

dynamic of the group and I find that really interesting. It was so fun watching the Tom's

come and now we've got Lindsay and Carl. And I'm very conflicted about a lot of this. I

it's interesting to see how everyone seems to love Carl, but a number of people seem to have a

problem with Lindsay.

And normally I defend her and I really appreciate her as a person on reality television

and as a woman in her late 30s

navigating, being single, getting pregnant, having a miscarriage, entering a new relationship,

trying out sobriety, all of that. But there is this part of me that goes back to season one of Summerhouse. And if you guys

heard me talk about Lindsay four years ago when I started this podcast, I had a very different tune

about her than I do now. And it's because on the first season of Summerhouse, she was so mean to her roommate, Christina Gibson.

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