Eventually, if nothing changes, all of these shows become toxic and overproduced. The balance tips further and further from the women’s lives and personality conflicts and swings towards co-workers jockeying for position through subterfuge and leaking stories to the press, with the juicy stuff happening off camera and behind the scenes. And the women become more and more bitter and self-protective as their fame (and the subsequent backlash) grows. It can be good fun to watch the implosion for a season or two, but it’s not sustainable. I find it exhausting to watch.