The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Cite Your Sources
Each week brings another installment where Mia strives to win over the cast with her fairy tales. It comes as no surprise that when Mia referred to “the fathers of my children,” she was actually speaking about her first husband and eldest offspring, who has been absent from screen since her initial season. The cat, I am not, but a spectator of good taste who grew up watching daytime soap operas with my mother. Mia’s approach, with its knack for sensationalizing conflicts at all costs, resembles an old and worn-out playbook. While it may generate consistent on-screen drama, this is not the stage for such antics. Unlike Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald in the soap opera Passions, who would invent new ways to stalk Ethan Crane, Mia’s actions risk compromising her real life. As Karen put it, “The pressure of managing a virtual kingdom has clearly gone to her head.