The Orange County Register’s bizarre fascination with the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Orange County continues today with yet more column inches devoted to the show. The latest explains that Real Housewives season three debut marked its best season premiere, with about a million viewers. Which isn’t all the impressive considering the country has 300 million folks and you can get a million people to watch a cow chew its cud, you know, if said chewing cow led a sad and vacuous existence and dressed like a drag queen doing Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

But the Register is not only writing about it but links to four other stories written this week about the show. This continues two years of such coverage that has not only encompassed entertainment stories but the paper’s top-notch news columnist Frank Mickadeit. It all seems so beneath this multiple Pulitizer Prize winner to appear so “Garsh, thems making a flickerin’ picture show about one of us’n!” about a TV show. Especially since the show is so unabashedly lame. A point, amazingly enough, made by half of the four links today. In one, a Milwaukee Sentinel columnist confesses being completely mystified by the show’s appeal given its total lack of appeal. In another, something called “Pedro and The Watcher” gets right to the point: “Real Housewives is almost certainly the most pointless show in TV history, offering neither drama nor comedy nor anything else one might label as entertainment.” Like most people, they don’t seem outraged by the show, just bored, since all the show shows is how sad and empty these clueless women’s lives are, full of nothingness, triviality and scurrying about until the sweet relief of death. Hmmmm. Come to think of it, The Real Housewives of Orange County is the best, truest, realest show on TV.

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