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Good grief. This makes MY blood pressure rise. Teddi’s opinion on this is worth the paper I’m not writing this comment on. I’d rather hear Tamra talk about… well, just about anything. Heck, at my doctors office, they weigh you in an open hallway and announce it to the whole hall if you don’t warn them you don’t want to hear it! (Ok, they don't *announce* it, but they do say it out loud…)

I believe it! I once took a tour of a very arid part of the world and they told us to keep drinking water all day long, whether we felt thirsty or not, or whether we were indoors most of the day or outside. Dehydration can sneak up on you VERY quickly! (And not to be TMI, but keep an eye on the color of your urine—if it looks any darker than pale, it COULD be dehydration. Emphasis on could… there may be other reasons)

Maybe Mau and Sandoval could get a place together?

The biggest revelation during this reunion was the flashback to Kyle and Mauricio in Paris circa 2013. I had to face the fact that I’ve watched this show for at least 11 years 🤣 Though I am really put off by how Erika and Kathy reacted to Sutton’s medical incident (even if stress/panic brought it on, it was obviously serious enough to require medical attention), I’m calling it now: Sandoval will “pass out” during the VPR reunion 🤣

Yep, that Penny! Oooh interesting theory! I do think the shop is real but I will buy that there’s an additional reality connection happening here.

Penny was on Next Food Network Star ages ago. She was absolutely obnoxious and insufferable on that show. I was 0% surprised that she was taking over the interview process.

There was something about a late-night pizza run and some people said things like “if they are doing a pizza run alone that late, she probably did something with him, too”—there may be more to it but that is what I remember seeing.

My initial reaction was to skip the reunion. I should have listened to my gut. It was not particularly interesting or insightful. Oh well. If I had, I’d have missed Dorit serving fashion fashion fashion. Kyle frustrated and irritated the heck out of me. She’s trying to use the Scandoval playbook AND she can’t get LVP out of her brain and mouth. Lady, take a cue from Frozen and let it go. I’m still not an enormous fan of Crystal, but I’m glad the “child bride” comment was revisited. “12-year-old child bride” was such a wrong-headed comment on so many levels. Crystal was 24—not a child! And Dorit’s snark about being successful didn’t land, either. Did she literally learn that day about Crystal’s coconut water business? I find that hard to believe. Most of the rest felt like a rehash, a bunch of deflection and rehashing, or a mix of all of that.

Emo: Had roots in punk, started to really emerge in the 90s with bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, but became more of a "thing" in the late 90s/early 2000s with My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, etc. I can definitely see Katie into this music as a teen. Anyhoo... Schwartz. It was a bad call to use him as the "unifier," but I guess that's what we got. Sandoval refuses to do the one thing that would ACTUALLY make some headway with the group: admit what he did was wrong, apologize profusely, promise to (and actually) change, and make amends. I don't know what his "status" is like with the whole group as of now, but at this point in time, none of them are having it, and no amount of Schwartz Schwartzing will move them. ESPECIALLY because Schwartz was complicit...despite his protestations to the contrary. PS I don't know if "boards on boards" is still a thing here, but I wanted to express appreciation for the levelheadedness here!

And it appears to be a pretty large fridge. How much does one person need in a fridge at a time, really?

Chokin' not Broken? (Too much?)

If you have Spotify, the Ringer’s podcast series “An American Scandoval” is worth checking out. Not that anything is necessarily new to you, but it ties everything together. Plus it’s fun and funny!

I loved that butterfly dress! I, too, would rather watch Sutton flutter around in a seasonally inappropriate sundress than Erika squeaking around town in Britney Spears couture (and that was the exact comparison I had, too!).

Agreed. I'm in California, and I've seen some absolutely wonderful, knowledgeable, helpful RNs. From what I've seen so far, Annemarie would not be one of them.

I genuinely don't think I've disliked a housewife faster and more intensely than Annemarie. Is there a Housewife Store where I can return her for a refund of my time? "I've never heard of your medical condition, so it doesn't exist. However that won't stop me from giving you unsolicited medical advice that also plays into the rumor Kyle and Dorit are trying to make into your storyline." Get out of here, lady.

On your last point: I figured that Sutton didn’t say anything before it was resolved (especially on camera) because she had no idea how it would shake out, and was concerned about saying something that her ex could use against her. Honestly, I would get pretty shaken by that too.

I'm thinking more of a run-in, at least initially.

I always get SATC jazz guy and the Seinfeld “hot and heavy” saxophonist mixed in my head. Maybe Carrie should get together with him! I like Aidan, but not for Carrie; Berger ultimately bothered me but I love Ron Livingston. I agree that a reunion of Carrie and Berger would have been preferable; they seemed more compatible. And, as you say, there’s more potential for a variety of interesting outcomes, given the way things ended for them, compared to the multiple reunions Carrie and Aidan have had. Let Aidan and his furniture fortune recline in peace 🤣 ETA: the whole scrunchie thing always felt forced to me. Now that they’re trendy again—Berger should run into Carrie wearing one…

Absolutely! Zero excuse for truly unhinged behavior. But when you act like Rinna has… people are going to have very strong reactions that mayyyyyy include being very critical of, say, Rinna….

“The way the fanbase reacts to the show now is not how it was when I first started.” I mean, her behavior didn’t have anything to do with viewer reaction or anything, right?

Came here to see if someone else had already posted it 🤣 It’s a great watch, especially as a Mad Men/Hamm and Slattery fan. John Hamm is so goofy! And Slattery can act allllmost as smarmy as Sandoval 🤣🤣

He'll be gooooooooonnnnnneeeee (off our TV screens) In a day or twoooooooooooooo

I never said it wasn’t… Both she and Sandoval were despicable in their actions.

Well… see, that goes totally beyond to me. I may not like some of how she SAID things, and I may feel that reflected poorly on her—but good grief, that wouldn’t make me side with Sandoval or Rachel!

Believe me, I’ve watched this from the beginning and am very familiar with what went down. I’ve been angry and disgusted on Ariana’s behalf for weeks now. Her anger, cutting remarks, and sharp responses are totally justified. I draw the line at “nothing” though. And that has zero to do with me being empathetic toward Rachel. I don’t like anyone calling anyone “nothing” as it’s dehumanizing.