Miami, with its plastic surgery billboards and hundred thousand cars that, according to Will Smith, everyone has, seems like the ideal setting for a long-running Real Housewives franchise. But the Miami version lasted only three seasons. Andy Cohen revealed why in an Instagram post, saying bad ratings were the real reason Real Housewives of Miami was cancelled. "Like, it went down for the reunion," he wrote. "If it's going down toward the end that's just never a good sign."

Cohen also cited the illness and ultimate passing of Marisol Patton's mother — aka Mama Elsa — as a reason the show faltered. Part Queen Mum, part Walter Mercado, Elsa was a dispenser of sage wisdom and spiritualism on the show, and when she left, Real Housewives of Miami was never the same. "It was a big hit," Cohen continued. "It was...it just ended."

For her part, Lea Black sees it differently, saying on her YouTube show Lunch with Lea that the show was never meant to be a Real Housewives franchise; it was originally titled Miami Social Club. And when Bravo chose to make it part of the Real Housewives family, "Miami didn't have its own identity," Black said