Pop Culture and Its Reflection of America: Mob Wives Essay

Doing research on pop culture is not an easy thing. Most of the music, games, shows, and concepts that we consider a part of pop culture are fake. Therefore, finding credible resources was really hard. A lot of the time it took going through a few hyperlinks and side stories to get credible articles.

I researched the series Mob Wives. Initially, I thought the show was fake and maybe the women were really wives and daughters of deceased or incarerated mobsters, but their storyline in the reality show was fake. After doing some searching I found out that this show followed these women through the events of their real lives and this is how women who want to follow the "bad boys" or "wise guys" end up. They are left all alone with children to raise. Now, finding or creating a job is their only option. The show does increase their popularity and makes it possible for them to have good business.

We can see how America has become facinated with the idea of strong, violent, but at the same time gorgeous women with the rise in fame of the mob wives. Shows like the Real Housewives of New Jersey are played out and Mob Wives is continuing with more seasons in different cities. In a sense it seems like America is flirting with the idea of how far they can push women. The old tradition of how a woman should act has been shattered and now she can only go for a downward spiral. By hard work and determination the women can overcome their obstacles and be back on top and make a clean rise from the fall their mobster family members have done.



Now all alone and no one else to depend on, the Mob Wives stick together and try to make their mark on the world and share their story.