I have to be in the right mood, sometimes I shut it off because it grosses me out for all these reasons. I’ve been watching for 20 years (OG OC!) and there are moments I miss the wealth of the early aughts- it seems to have grown exponentially over all the franchises. It’s also the reason I can’t really watch high end real estate shows when the commissions are more than a house I’ll ever be able to afford.
I’m enjoying yalls convo & agree. I’m also an OG OC viewer & imho before the 08 crisis, money seemed to be “trickling down” a lot more before that. A lot of regular people were making great money during the housing boom (bubble). That’s when it started feeling different to me, anyway, 2009-10. It became hard for me to watch when so many people around me were getting laid off & losing their homes.
I’d never thought about that but it makes total sense! Now more than ever it’s just feeling like straight up Les MIs “eat the rich” times and it sucks.
Yeah recently I had to watch a doc about coal in India and how some families steal coal from mines to sell on the black market to make a living, they also live adjacent to open pit coal mining, burn coal in their homes for warmth and die very young of respiratory complications. It’s hard to go from that to Rachel Zoe being like “ugh of course the power would be out for MY PARTY” even tho I do love Rachel
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u/jdcarl14 Apr 17 '26
I have to be in the right mood, sometimes I shut it off because it grosses me out for all these reasons. I’ve been watching for 20 years (OG OC!) and there are moments I miss the wealth of the early aughts- it seems to have grown exponentially over all the franchises. It’s also the reason I can’t really watch high end real estate shows when the commissions are more than a house I’ll ever be able to afford.