Its details are wonderful: Spoiled ladies in the nail salon, yappy little dogs, rickety trams, wet markets, and workaholic shopkeepers who eat bowls of rice while crouched over their cashiers.
Why might we, a culture of people so ready to dislike the rich One-Percenters, be madly in love with a wealthy, spoiled white lady who hates progress?
"Princesses: Long Island" (2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Bravo) Move over, Honey Boo Boo -- these spoiled Long Island ladies are the latest in trainwreck TV.
They were spoiled, very demanding ladies.
Here, the local – and fictional – Savastano family is presided over by the inscrutable but world-weary and soft-jacketed Don Pietro, flanked by his panther-like wife Lady Imma and spoiled lardass scion Genny, whose emotional, hierarchical and tonsorial "journey" across 12 episodes is the most profound.
Added into the mix are Lady Agnes's pretty, spoiled sister, Lady Persie Claire Foyy), who feels perhaps a bit too familiar with the family's chauffeur, Spargo Neil Jacksonn), a blond bit of rough with sympathies for what Oswald Mosley's fascist movement promises to do for the working class.
Rich spoiled kids doing rich spoiled shit.
Wishart pointed out that the snorkellers had stayed around Lady Elliot Island, one of the least-spoiled areas of the reef, and should have been in the more-threatened inner reef.
Spoil that and all is spoiled".
The cops knocked on the lady's door and explained about the spoiled claret and the plumbing.
