The Show You Need To Be Watching: Mob Wives on VH1

Do I need to say that this show takes place on Staten Island?  Because it does.  The show follows the lives of four women that all have connections to the mafia and the criminal underworld, including two women connected with the Gambino crime family.  The women are Renee, Karen, Carla, and Drita.  The first episode (which aired last week) set the stage for a confrontation between Renee and Karen who are enemies because Karen's father cooperated with the feds, which Renee's father saw as a betrayal.  Drama ensues when Carla throws a birthday party and invites Karen (who has just moved back to the island from Arizona to work on a book) without telling Renee.  This leads to a huge fight, but like women do, they start to make up the next day.  The most interesting of the women IMHO is Drita, an Albanian beauty who married a bank robber (although she says that she didn't really know that he was a bank robber).  Drita's Albanian family disowned her for not only not marrying an Albanian but marrying a criminal to boot.  Now she's left as a single Mom with two daughters.  So that's the show.  I'm waiting to see when one of these women brings a guy home and their husbands in the slammer send someone to kill the guy.  Hey, it can happen.

These women are looking for trouble