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Last night’s premiere of Mob Wives—which chronicles the rapidly shifting moods of four scary women with intimate ties to the mafia—was kind of a guilty hoot. (Ken Tucker agrees!) Will I watch again? Oh, probably not. But that doesn’t mean I’m not grateful to these rough-edged, heavily eye-lined ladies for a helluva night. Here are five reasons we’ll always have Staten Island.
1) Mob Wife Karen Gravano, daughter of turncoat Sammy the Bull, made her 11-year-old Karina pinky swear to be her BFF. Without blinking a false eyelash, Karen then announced “Not only am I mom to Karina but I’m a house mom at a strip club.” Cut to her monthly book club dancing around the poolside strip pole and chugging from a cheap bottle of booze.
2) Drita the Albanian gets a call from her husband, in jail for bank robbery, and is sent on a goose chase for Vanilla Coke. (Anyone else distracted throughout the hour thinking the ringing phone was actually coming from your house?)
3) Drita is married to Karen’s ex boyfriend Lee. “You probably remember that painting,” Drita said, pointing at the picture above her sofa. “Yeah bitch,” said Karen, “I do know that picture because it was sitting on my bedroom wall when I used to ride your husband.” Zing! Then the two got spray tanned in Drita’s living room.
4) Renee, the craziest of the lot, went on a fur coat shopping montage. Definitely go with the red. Matches your eyes!
5) Karen and Renee, loaded on Patron shots, fight outside a club whose noxious fumes penetrated the TV screen.
Karen: “Tell me you want me to leave!”
Renee: “Are you testing me?”
Karen: “If you have a problem then tell me to leave.”
Renee: “Leave.”
Karen: “No.”
Renee: “I don’t leave anywhere and I never f*!%ing will.”
To stayers! Anybody else watch Mob Wives? Are you hooked or nauseated—or a troubling combination of the two?
Scarily, I did run across this as I was channel surfing and watched some of it. I hope that they can’t somehow track me thru my TV and come and threaten me into some kind of submission. Will I watch again? Don’t think so; don’t wan’t the nightmares!
LOL! I was actually afraid of that too! Too many viewings of The Godfather, I guess.
and on another note,isn’t this and shows like bad girls club the kinds of shows women should be against?if a man created a fictional series(not that this reality crap isn’t complete fiction) inwhich women behaved like they do on those types of “reality” shows,women would be denouncing the show and the man who made it.
LOVED IT
I actually thought “Italians can’t catch a break.” when I watched a few minutes of this show. Jersey Shore, Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Mob Wives are surely affecting our subliminal thoughts about Italians.
There’s always Mario and Luigi.
LOL yes. There’s always Mario and Luigi. Then again, there’s also Wario and Waluigi. (Are they Italian too?)
Agreed – when will some Irish types from South Boston going to catch a break, huh? LOL
I love that theme song. Talk about catchy.
Love, loved it! Karen’s comeback to si was pretty hilarious! Love when she said she used to stare at the picture while riding dritas husband….bam! You NEVER date ur friends man… Going to be my new addiction!
And the decline of civilization continues…
And we wonder why bullying and intimidation is such a problem in this country. Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact we glamorize it and have 20+ television shows based on it…
Thank you. This “show” is a disgrace among disgraceful programming.
I Luv’d it & will defenifitley be watching the theme song is Great!!!
Ditto Ditto Ditto
I like the show.. at least these woman are real…unlike the phoney woman on the Housewife series on Bravo who are only where they are which is by injection. I do not think of them as bad girl but more like tough woman who say what they feel and tell it like it is.. More guys would rather date these women them the other princess’s. these woman can taqke care of their men…
thats the reason I like the show so much. They say what they feel and really tell it like it is. They are real. Take a look at their houses, do you see a manision, no. I think we are seeing them for who they really are. It is not all about material things as it is with them housewives on bravo. so fake.
As an Italian American I have to say this show doesn’t bother me at all. Then again I’m in Chicago so maybe if I was from the Eastcoast it would bother me more. It is a guilty pleasure to watch but I think the craziness of their lives helps me realize Im more normal then I thought.
Bank robbery isn’t exactly Soprano’s stuff, is it?
Also, a lot of the dialogue here is hype for the camneras. The Albanian’s bank robbing bum of a hubby asking for mozeralla and cold cuts is sheer BS doubtless inspired by that scene in “Goodfellas” (which she mentions) where they’re cooking an elabriate Italian dinner in their jail penthouse like cell. There is no way to store cold cuts or mozzarella in a convicted bankrobber’s 9 x 6 foot cell. Even the Goodfellas scene (where they at elast were based on real mobsters, not bank robbers) was a fantsasy.
The women are all really ugly and prematurely aged. Don’t reward thuggery by making C-list celebs out of women who love crminals.
that scene in goodfellas was actually how it was for those guys,but you’re right about not rewarding thuggery.unfortunately with this sort of drek and a lot of the more popular rap acts,thuggery IS rewarded.so is ignorance.
@MLK actually some prisons do allow the groceries. The public may not know this because thankfully they have law abiding family memebers but everything he asked for is allowed except the Coke but its been yeaaarrs since I know exactly whats allowed times change and so so rules. There are some NYS correctional facilities that run like hotels with guards and all the cooking and grocery lists really do go on.
Unfortunately I am hooked to this show. It’s so crazy bad that it’s good lol
Absolutely loved this!
Semi-hooked and mostly nauseated. I found this show kinda dull. I will, however, watch again-those preview fights were intruiging! I’m wondering what Sammy the Bull did to Renee. I know what he did, but how did/does that affect Renee? Did I miss something? Eh, well heres to hoping for a better episode 2. Maybe this is like Jersey Shore- starts off dull and ends with a bang…bad choice of words?
This show is like a horrific car crash, You know you shouldn’t look but you just can’t help it!!
I didn’t watch it and became nauseated just reading about it.
Um….ok