The Mediocrity Celebrated on Bravo’s ‘Vanderpump Rules’

I have a confession to make – I am a huge sucker for reality tv. It’s my deepest guilty pleasure. Mostly because it’s easy, senseless, television that I can have in the background if I want to completely turn off my mind and disconnect from the world. The most addictive substance, of course, is The Real Housewives franchise which allows viewers into the fabulous lives of America’s elite social societies. I’ve also fallen deep into the RHOBH spinoff, Vanderpump Rules. The show is a delicate mix of Real Housewives meets The Hills – with less responsibility and life lessons and more trash and mediocrity. The show follows a group of not-so-young waitresses and bartenders who work at Lisa Vanderpump’s high-end lounge as they try to make it big in Hollywood. Okay, “try to make it” is giving them way too much credit, but you get the premise the show is going for. So what’s my problem with the show? It’s true that it’s senseless, easy, trashy television but behind it lies a much bigger message for it’s younger audiences – the fact that you can find success in life by having no goals, ambitions or morals. That’s my problem with Vanderpump Rules and the level of mediocrity that it celebrates every week that it’s on-air.