"There is something slyly ingenious about this book from Kate Durbin. It is one of the most sophisticated renderings of the constantly fluctuating neutral state between cinematic documentation and unreality that I’ve ever encountered in a book. Durbin, like Nathaniel West, seems to have translated American fantasy life into an enthralling, neutral dream state."
–Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire

"Kate Durbin calls attention to the types of criticisms regularly lauded at women in the public eye. She reassesses a culture that at once fixates on public images of women–voyeuristically watching their lives for entertainment–while simultaneously mocking, dismissing and condescending to them."
–Marisa Crawford, Bitch

"Durbin makes a clear Thoreauvian argument against consumerism while celebrating the women who succeed within this broken system, a thirst for success and savagery that is most commonly thought of as the domain of men. This desire for comfort and entitlement of personhood, belies the very shallowness which their reality costs. Durbin understands this sacrifice and while deconstructing poetic codes gives each [real housewife] a veranda of her own, a Malibu view."
–Nikki Darling, The Art Book Review