"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong is sobbing and screaming uncontrollably during the ceremony, a Moroccan luxury item. The catalyst for the collapse of the housewife Camille Grammar colleague, who had spoken openly about Taylor allegations of abuse against her husband Russell Armstrong in the previous episode. "You have no idea what it did for me!" Armstrong howling about Camille.
This was the scene of the Bravo series of the season in second place and the undermining more because viewers know what is expected of him, two weeks after he was shot, Russell killed himself.
Reality TV thrives on friction, but how much is a lot of drama? After the suicide of the apostles, and presented the network with the moral dilemma that will also test the limits of public interest in a scene from the reality. It turned out that there was little controversy damage ratings for this series. "He pointed to the season's second offer of 2200000 viewers, 46% for the first time since the first season. Averaged 2.2 million viewers this season, which ends on Monday night, about the same number of viewers drawn in the last season.
"It was the opposite of what he had ever met," said Andy Cohen, Bravo president of executive vice president for development and talent and executive producer of the series, reflecting the conflict in the network to determine how to proceed .
The news of Armstrong's suicide in August, as expected in the second season was about to offer. In the days that followed the death of Russell, is being studied and the effects of decisions and difficult choices faced by the network: cancel the season and edit any of Taylor or Russell, or both, or go in the season was envisaged. Called the Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara of the season to be canceled, and his book: "The appeal of the sample, and the housewives of the Real Madrid" has been, in part, and is celebrated in life real - every dinner speech, which was manufactured only erroneously narcissistic and faces change ... Surgically the scene the man was moving slowly towards self-destruction. How can we see now think of something else? "
Gold and copper network to provide for a period of three weeks, and after consultation with the other housewives, with the producers of the series. They decided to go ahead with the images is more or less as planned. Taylor focused on the story line as a woman against domestic violence and the solution of marriage.
This was filmed one of the reasons, according to the lawyer, Ronald Richards Russell, Russell was in a state of panic, that the opening of the exhibition, besides the pressure and scrutiny that comes with reality TV fame. Also detected growing financial problems - Russell, a struggling businessman, had amassed millions of dollars in debt after the collapse of the technology, and before his death, he and Taylor with a lawsuit for $ 1.5 million over alleged diversion of money for investors.
Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California and author of "celebrity culture and the American Dream: celebrity status and social mobility," the soap opera element keeps people in line, "I think networks, and the end result is what makes qualifying, "he said. "Looks like it will be closer to the edge as possible. Even if someone is a bit unstable emotionally, and I think that makes the big TV. Not necessarily for good social responsibility, but do not know that his main concern . "
Messengers of season 2 was "Real Housewives" manifestations of a step, but said. He offered marriage counseling session with Taylor, and emotional growth ceremony at the gala birthday of his daughter, and discuss their plan to sue one of the "Real Housewives" cast members to spread the rumors the newspaper said.
"There are some things left in the show, and we were very deliberate about why we left," said Cohen. He added, "to ignore or cut some things you can overlook the very important issue."
The program also aired scenes Taylor's alleged assault, without Russell of the camera in a dispute or discussion. In the days that followed the death of Russell, Richards said the family will sue the network if the pictures do the messengers of the air. However, Richards now says the family has no plans to take legal action.
The president has rejected the idea of Bravo Frances Berwick that the network tried to use emotion or situation. "We were covering the story line as we would with any other cast member," he said. "I do not think that would be transmitted to ignore an essential part of their journey," he said, adding that there are five "housewives" for consideration.
"They deal with different issues," he said. "Lisa [Vanderpump] is to deal with all the preparations for the wedding of his daughter and her restaurant. It is a dominant story as well. And then, Kyle and Kim interaction [Richards] and are trying to repair their relationship, and all that are happening with Kim and her domestic situation and their health. "
Berwick also said that Taylor is in favor of the way they handled the situation of the network. , Said Berwick, "said Taylor, to some extent, after protection of the chambers could have been on, unfortunately, for the benefit of its mechanism and security."
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