‘The Valley’ Finale Is Perfect—and Destroys Two Marriages

Vanderpump Rules, in many ways, serves as the non-aspirational, more grittily realistic take on the bougie world of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It’s a cast full of people seeking fame and glory, who have all achieved that through the show, but will never fully be able to transcend that branding.

And The Valley, in just one season, has managed to usurp the darkness within VPR as it shows something even more chilling: the harsh reality of the American couple. Most of us can’t relate to serving West Hollywood tables in hopes we’ll become an actor or score ourselves a critically panned producer who can take us on private jets, but the mundane world of suburban melodrama is universal.

The Valley is most akin to Bravo’s debut Real Housewives franchise, The Real Housewives of Orange County, whose “behind the gates” approach has documented the chilling underbelly of suburbia since 2006, rom divorces, cancer scams, cheating scandals, an endless array of disastrous husbands, and harrowing parenting stories. The Valley is a sordid prequel, a cautionary tale with no happy ending.

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