Photo: Natalie Cass/Disney Most reality lifestyle shows are stuck with a necessary truth: None of these people would actually be friends, and many would never even know one another if they weren’t all cast on the same series together. On the Housewives series, there’s little defining cohesion to the group beyond “we live in the same region.” They walk into each other’s homes and are astonished by how bad the cheese/wine/décor/layout is. These are not women who know each other or belong together.