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 had a great week. You know, I know it was a very wild weather week, at least in the U.S.

We've had hurricanes, we've had torrential downpours at Burning Man, mudslides, all kinds of stuff.

And we're getting ready to watch bad weather back on our television because the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is back this week.

And I think I'm ready for it.

I do.

Every time that we get towards the end of a Salt Lake season, I'm feeling kind of down about the franchise because they don't feel like they're actual friends.

And it seems so built on alliances and games.

And that's not that fun for me to watch.

I want like authentic friendships.

But I'm hoping that with season four, these women having been on seasons one, two, and

three together, maybe some of them have

actually forged authentic friendships, even if it didn't start out that way. And so that's my

hope for the season. I want to actually see women who engage with each other and care about

each other, not just shade each other, if that makes sense.

Of course, we've had a lot of shocking news in the Bravo world this week.

Carl and Lindsay broke off their engagement.

That was not something that I or I think most viewers saw coming.

You know, I know a lot of people are looking to the last season and saying, oh, Danielle was right or Paige was right. I think they could have

been right that maybe Carl and Lindsay weren't the right match for each other, or maybe they were

moving too quickly, or maybe they hadn't solved some really

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