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[SouthsideofNo]

Premieres on June 10th.

The supertrailer is up and it looks like we have Chicago's version of Renee, Karen, and Drita.

http://blog.vh1.com/...railer-is-here/

[prmami]

So Pizzeria is a "dancer?" Ok then.

Edited by prmami, May 24, 2012 @ 1:48 PM.

[PhillipKyler]

Caught the sneak peak, it was like watching an SNL parody of the original MWs.

Maybe it's me, but I feel like I've seen these introduction episodes a million times now. Step 1: Introduce the ladies and establish their connections. Step 2: Get one of the ladies to host a dinner/party where everyone gets wasted. Step 3: Fighting! 

They also jumped into all the drama way too soon. First, Renee's (the blond) over the top relationship with her daughter. Build up to that storyline, don't just throw it at the audiences' faces. And she comes off as pretentious and always talks as if she's reading off a script. Then the end fight, which I didn't care for. At least with the Drita/Karen blowouts there was history there that made the audience give a shit.

Overall, I'm disappointed. None of the ladies stood out to me. Whether you hate the original MWs, at least each had something likable about them, couldn't find any sign of that with this group.

[shopper gal]

ah so it was a sneak peak? I wondered why there were so few comments. I DVR'd it - I'm in for the Chicago scenery, though my guess is they are in the 'burbs so I doubt I'll recognize much.

[PhillipKyler]

They called it a "Sneak Peak" but I'm pretty sure it was the first episode. The only promotion I saw for it was a short promo during the reunion for the original MW.

[prmami]

Yep it was the full first episode though it's supposed to "officially" air on June 10th. I fell asleep on it before they met up for drinks and started fighting.

So far I like Renee (the blonde) the least. Her THs and her scenes (especially the one with the daughter) were over done.

[ToukieSmith]

Why do these women insist upon wearing their hair so long? IMO, it makes them look older than they think they are.

[Empress1]

it was like watching an SNL parody of the original MWs.

Co-sign. It was embarrassing - they were SO over-the-top and nothing that came out of their mouths sounded genuine, particularly the curly-haired one. "I LIKE BIG FAT-ASSES." Stop shouting, lady.

Why do these women insist upon wearing their hair so long? IMO, it makes them look older than they think they are.

These are some ROUGH-looking women. When it came out that one was a stripper, I was like " ... the standards must be pretty low." The blonde one too, looks a mess - between the tan and the too-long, wrong-shade-of-blonde hair, she just looks haggard. I shan't watch again. I thought I was going to see Tough Love (it was in Tough Love's time slot) and I did end up watching a big chunk of this, but that's enough.

[thistlehead]

I watched the sneak peek. I wasn't impressed. This just seemed like the low-rent version. I doubt I will watch again, and I have watched every episode of Mob Wives.

[shopper gal]

Low rent is an understatement. I finally got around to watching this.

Lemme see - one of the Mob Wives is a Stripper and one lives with her dad?

Oy...I will say I liked the curly haired one.

The stripper seems to be tranq'd up.

[prmami]

I think the curly haired one (Leah) is the one who lives with her dad. Has she ever even been married? Kids?

[80sBaby]

They all came across very forced. It was like the script said, E1-Fight. The one that egged on the fight was like a dog with a bone. The matter was talked about and the two really involved hugged it out and moved on. When she started in with the "She told me about it, so I'm involved." BS, it was ridiculous.

I'll give it another try, but I don't see it grabbing me like the NJ women.

[shopper gal]

VH1 just doesn't have a good track record of spin offs. I fear this will be like Football Wives, or BBW's LA. Just doesn't live up to the original.

[Patsy Stoned]

This show got two stars {out of a possible 5} from the NY Daily News. I won't be watching.................

Edited by Patsy Stoned, Jun 8, 2012 @ 12:45 PM.

[dianewannabe]

I'm not sure that I will be able to handle listening to their awful accents for too long... Also, it should be called Mob Daughters, not Mob Wives. I'll try a couple more episodes but I am not holding out hope.

[reggiejax]

I am a lifelong Chicagoan, and have always had an interest in true crime, particularly organized crime. I had not watched the original Mob Wives, but the Chicago setting for this show mandated that I at least give it a try.

What a piece of shit. Just more of the same old nonsense you would get on any of the other numerous "Wives" show. One would think that at least the specific hook with this show, the mob, would make it interesting, but mostly it just shows how trashy these women truly are.


Not to mention that only Nora and Renee have significant mob connections. Nora's father indeed was a feared hitman (btw, as his daughter, she certainly has the right to get mad about such labels, but that doesn't make them any less true), and Renee's uncle was a fairly well known and high ranking mobster. Although evidently, Renee has exaggerated her relationship with her uncle (claiming they were very close and he was her mentor). Her cousin, John Fecarotta's son, went on the news a couple of weeks ago and blasted her for exaggerating her connection, and using the name Fecarotta (which is not her name), to get on tv.

Christina's father was no one of consequence, as his ability to go straight 25 years ago suggests. Pia's father was a dirty cop turned informant, but he was more under the mobs thumb than a connected associate.

Leah seems to at least be the most enjoyable cast member, with a lot of attitude and a straightforward outlook on things. But the irony here is that her mob connections are by far the smallest, and might possibly even be non-existent. No one, and this includes people whose business it is to know these things (cops, reporters, etc), seems to have ever heard of her father, William Desimone. Whoever he is, his connections are likely minimal at most. Most likely knew a lot of mobsters, but wasn't one himself.

Edited by reggiejax, Jun 11, 2012 @ 12:04 AM.

[Ladle]

I kind of love the curly-haired self-proclaimed "chubby chaser" and the one who looks like a matronly Snooki. Also digging the strong Chicago accents.

The blonde needs to tone down both the overacting and the blush.

I think I'm in for the season, but I wish they'd shown more "fun" scenes in the preview. An entire season of nothing but cursing and hair-pulling will get old really fast.

[AFDiva]

Fame whore logic:

If ones dad is a 'rat', then she's scum. Yet if ones daughter's dad is a murderer, it's all good and she's wonderful?? Shut up blondie!

[heebiejeebie]

I always thought that the original of this franchise suffered greatly from the start. From thinking every single trainwreck moment from the Real Housewives franchise was a must have for their own.

So I was curious to see what another remove from the origins would look like. And it was even uglier and messier. And that is saying a lot when the orginal decided in a second season to really dig in and glorify criminal lifestyles, blame the law for doing its job and bringing on a mush-mouthed braying Bride of Bigfoot who pretty much embodied in her huge hideous form of her own making every bit of entitled ignorance and thuggish behavior -- an It called Big Ange (I believe the Ange actually stands for Angina).

First? The stripper likes to strip. Yes she is fully aware of the poor perception this lifestyle conveys. But she'll pop in an instant if anyone else dares to make that conclusion. But deep down? I suspect she dysfunctionally thinks it defines her as being sexy. Poor thing. The light are kept low for a reason Troll Doll on the Lake.

Second? The dumbass who whines and sneers at her crooked cop of a father. Could someone explain the chronology here to her? If he did any betraying. Any breaking of his bond and honor? It was when AS A COP, he went bad. He betrayed society and the law he swore to uphold and protect you walking mass of genitals.

Third? the blond? How flawed is her logic in an attempt to find something to pick a fight over at the get go? Her own man is a murderer. The lowest of the low when it comes to whining abouthim in regards to what he did to HER. But the daughter of a caught bad cop turned state's evidence? Even lower! Huh? Someone might want to explain to her that turning on the criminals which might include murderers is actually a good thing.

Even the fight seemed scripted. Like they had to have one to raise the ante and get on the map that is the trashiest reality show netowkr, VH1

[Shutomei]

Okay...I bought the whole VH1 resolve to clean up their TV by eliminating the "...of love" cheesiness in favor of a different, more sophisticated class of reality shows. This show, along with "Basketball Wives" and "Mob Wives NY" are making Miss New York appear like one of the Bennett sisters in "Pride and Prejudice".

[DeeNice]

Why do I CONTINUOUSLY crack up at Nora's Voice over, "I'm so happy we're all getting along!" Great job editors. I roll on the floor every time.

I too love the chubby chaser. She's so dramatic yet seems so real, so unabashed that she lives with her father at her age and will take him with her if she ever gets married. lmao!

I don't dig Christina, but I agree that one should not open the door to friendship troubles with another. It invites all kinds of problems...and with these people - hair pulling drama. yikes.

[EndoKE]

Even the fight seemed scripted. Like they had to have one to raise the ante and get on the map that is the trashiest reality show netowkr, VH1

I think this show will be fighting with Basketball Wives to be the trashiest reality show ever.

Loved the Chicago accents, but man those are some hard looking women, all of them looked older than me (I'm 52).

[Ladybugnine]

I tried, but I just cant, with this show. Too many jump-cuts, editing, whatever. There's no "story" here. Too many meetings, leading to fights, rinse, repeat. Not to mention boring.

[shopper gal]

Yeah what Ladybegnine said.

I think this show suffered from the 'sneak peak' that was two freakin' weeks ago. It's just doomed.

I can't believe I tuned in to find women in their 40s fighting about facebook.

Curly hair - chubby chaser is my fav.

AND WHY DO THEY ALL SHOUT THEIR LINES?

So annoying.

What was Pia driving when she took Nora to the funeral home? I think it was a Kia - I'm not hating on Kia's, but how's that successful stripping career going for ya Pia?? What I most loved is that she's A) driving it and B) looks like she lives in the backseat. Who drives around w/ comforters and garbage bags full of crap in their car. I love it.

[Patsy Stoned]

K--I watched this show and all I can say is this:

These women make me embarassed to be a woman, if you know what I mean.

I'm out.

[Picky Eater]

I'm highly skeptical that any judge would take custody away from a (self-proclaimed) loving mother and give custody of a child to a man that's committed "many felonies" (I believe that's what Renee said). (Renee is the blonde one, right?) There's got to be something more to the story.... either (1) she's no prize of a parent herself and we just haven't heard the details, or (2) when we see her carrying on and getting hysterical over losing "custody" of her child, what's really going on is that the ex is getting some sort of visitation rights or something.

If, on the other hand, what she appears to be alleging really is true (and, again, I'm skeptical), then the courts in Chicago must be REALLY corrupt.

[reggiejax]

I caught what I guess was the most recent episode online. Still basically the same old nonsense. Still, there was a glimmer of what could have been during that one scene with Pia and her friend Frankie, who happened to be the daughter of Harry "The Hook" Aleman, the gangster Pia's dad testified against. It was interesting to see that, despite the history between them, they could still be friends. Give me more of that instead of all the pointless back and forth between people who barely know each other and have no interest in having any relationship except one that is dysfunctional, scripted and solely for the cameras.

[prmami]

Don't like Renee at all. She thinks way too highly of herself.

[EndoKE]

I can't stand Renee either. I like Leah though. Why is Renee upset that her boyfriend knows Pia? Aren't men allowed to know women that they're not dating? So what you don't like Pia and Dave does? I can't stand people who think they have the right to own other people. They don't know realize that slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.

I detest people like Renee who look down on other people because of their professions. I used to think like that too, when I was in my 20's; but then I grew up and realized that not everybody has the same privileges and advantages in life and if stripping is what Pia needs to do to survive, then that's what she has to do.

Edited by EndoKE, Jun 30, 2012 @ 9:18 AM.

[travelguru]

*sigh* Another "wives" show where no one is actually a wife. And in this show's case, hardly "mobbed up" either.

I think these gals watched to much of the original show and thought that "hey, even though we"re all ugly with annoyingly irritating accents, we too can be famous if we make up fights & pick on each other a lot"!

I found the frizzy haired one who kept spouting off italian slang words (ok we get it, you're Italian), to be most annoying. Followed by the mentally challenged one running around looking for her fathers corpse. And the blonde who thinks she's Drita....just no.

VH1 missed the boat on this one.