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‘Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake’ review: 2 ‘Real Housewives of New York’ are dropped into small-town Illinois

Sonja Morgan, left, and Luann de Lesseps in "Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake."

For a time, I used to watch various incarnations of Bravo’s reality franchise “The Real Housewives.” Brightly lit and filled to their Botox gills with aspirational bunkum, the shows require little by way of mental engagement. These tantrums of the wealthy (and pretend wealthy) function as an easy distraction from your real-life headaches. I’ve likened the shows to sucking on a pop culture sourball, as you become transfixed by the uncanny valley of dysfunction, plastic surgery and obsession

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