Has the Golden Era of the 'Real Housewives' Franchise Come and Gone?

   

Since the beginning of the new decade, countless stars on a myriad of different Real Housewives franchises have decided to leave the show.

Those include women like “Real Housewives of Atlanta” stars Nene Leakes, Cynthia Bailey, Sheree Whitfield, Kandi Burruss, Kenya Moore Marlo Hampton and Eva Marcille. It also includes women like Candiace Dillard-Bassett, Robyn Dixon, Monique Samuels of the “Real Housewives of Potomac.” And we can’t forget the departures of Eboni K. Williams, Annemarie Wiley, of “Real Housewives of New York” and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” fame, respectively. (And those are just the Black women.)