‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ Are Fighting for Their Lives. It’s So Good.

There are few things as sacred as a Real Housewives 1-on-1 sit down. As two women awkwardly order prop food items they’re sure to ignore while trading vicious jabs inside a public space, the 1-on-1 is one of the finest Housewives set-ups, from an undercover hipster Cynthia Bailey dueling with a chronically late Porsha Williams to Diana Jenkins and Sutton Stracke ping-ponging “So you say” and “That I know.”

But the 1-on-1 has become...