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15 minutes ago, SuzWhat said:
I think at this point Emily is in love with Shane's family, not him.,
Just curious. What is so special about his family that would compel Emily to put up with Shane's nonstop mistreatment? Great Sunday and holiday dinners? A large estate?
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Medically speaking, this show appears to be lifeless, with no discernible energy, pulse, or cognitive function. Even the housewives appear to have been letting mortician trainees do their gaudy makeup. Time for Andy to do the world a favor and pull the plug,
Watching the interactions between Shane and Emily at that dinner, it struck me that Emily, with all her purported intelligence and lawyer smarts, seems incapable of seeing her husband as he really is -- a smartass, malicious kid who doesn't really give a damn about her emotional pains and insecurities. In fact, he constantly uses them against her, happily plays the part of the indifferent, even hostile partner, gaslighting and belittling her, gleefully sabotaging her own efforts to lose weight. While obviously frustrated and bothered by this situation, Emily continues to treat him with respect owed only to a husband who respects her, as someone who still deserves her consideration when he shows her absolutely none. Unfortunately, it's all wishful thinking on her part because she can never change (nor will he) his core personality, which is quite toxic to her. She needs to clearly see him for the jerk he really is and will always be. And she deserves a lot better.
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Good episode.
Tracy’s patronizing and oh so self-satisfied tone was appropriate for getting Gilfoyle to step up. But it will quickly become annoying if it defines her character for the rest of the season.
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9 hours ago, Mu Shu said:
While Tamra and Brown Betty were playing lipstick lesbians, Emily was acting like a very angry, jilted lover over Gina. That woman is going to snap one of these days. Gina better get a restraining order. And was it Emily who was drinking out of the bottle? She was pretty shitfaced.
Couldn't agree more. The dynamic between Emily and Gina is classic jilted/obsessed lover and disinterested bystander. Gina picks up on it and wants to get away even more.
Emily of course is dealing with numerous issues (obesity, health, an emotionally and verbally hostile spouse, demanding children, etc.) and so is under a lot of pressure. But perhaps there is a pattern at work here in her strong attraction to emotionally distant partners and her total unwillingness to understand the negative impact of this tendency on her own physical and mental well being and address it constructively.
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Finally watched this episode and came away with the stark realization that all of these housewives, with the possible exception of Gina, look old, tired, worn out, and extremely unhappy. While Shannon might have lost a bit of weight and had a few procedures done, her tight-lipped grimace, frequently worried eyes, and increasingly rigid personality make her look ten years older than she is. Taryn’s dark dull shifting eyes still belie the her continued scheming and machinations, but even she looks tired, lethargic, and checked out. Vicki continues her rapid decline into isolation, utter unattractiveness, and irrelevance even as she still casts scandals out of her witch’s satchel as needed to retain and exercise a small and pitiful vestige of her once unrivaled power. Emily has lost whatever real beauty she might have had in her premiere season and replaced it with a layer of adipose tissue and a constantly constipated expression that come from being married too long to a self centered and cold hearted little twerp of a man who will never love her, instead will do all he can to reject everything about her. She gamely continues to try and make her dead marriage work, but it doesn’t stand a chance with Shane so busy sabotaging it. Kelly is free of her marriage but captured by alcohol and other addictions, including plastic surgery, that fuel her chronic rage and sense of grievance and increasingly immobilize her badly swollen face. And finally there’s Gina, so unlikable last season, ever so very slowly coming to grips with the long denied fact that her marriage to a chronic cheat is over, that she is alone with the kids and her own bad life decisions. There is a bit of the survivor in her. And on occasion when she actually feels happy, she looks more youthful and healthy than any of her rapidly aging peers.
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Vicky is still the malignant narcissist most of us have always detested. Absolutely no self-awareness of personal insight. Ever. The way she repeatedly and quickly cycled between sweet little girl and angry raging bitch with Tamra was textbook. But I was expecting laps 2 and 3.
Her being on house detention with occasional appearances only makes it worse for her and the rest of them. It gives her long stretches to sit at home and stew about just how badly the world treats her. Then she charges manically into her rare scenes like an aging bull on steroids, ready to set things straight but simply confirming for everyone else that she's gone from self-obsessed bitch to full-on crazy. Engrossing viewing for abnormal psych majors perhaps. But the regulars simply respond by evading and hiding, leaving her to moan and bitch to herself (and Tamra, her increasingly cautious disciple).
Expect things to get even worse as Season 14 progresses.
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The Theranos swindle has fascinated me from the start. Read Bad Blood and viewed everything I could find about it on youtube and google. HBO's 2-hour documentary is a welcome, expertly developed and produced expose on Holmes and her fraud from the start, including previously unseen pep talks she gave to Theranos employees and revealing comments from their best teams about the terrible quality of their technology.
During videotaped questions from federal investigators who are building the criminal case against her and Sonny, Elizabeth has repeatedly claimed not to remember exactly what she promised and what her team actually ever accomplished. But the video record is already large and compelling enough to establish she focused far more on attracting investor billions than she ever did trying to direct the development of a workable technology or giving a damn about her mistreated employees. It proves, that she repeatedly lied about product capabilities just to keep the money rolling in and perpetuating the fraud.
Something is really off about her. Obviously some type of sociopathy and criminal mentality at work here. In addition to the video evidence against her, the fact that she also comes across as a deep voiced robot with a strange inhuman unblinking stare certainly won't help her if she ever testifies.
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It looks like Vicki has been playing around with her tranquilizer dosage. What the hell does her tweet mean? That Kelly is out of a job because the Vickster said "I don't use cocaine" during the reunion? What exactly is Bravo working overtime on? Finding Kelly a good rehab clinic? Scoring Vicki some more Xanax?
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18 hours ago, MrsWitter said:
It's probably reassuring for Casita to know that if her RHOC gig falls through, she can always get work as the "Rubber Faced Lady" at carnival sideshows.
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OK, let's start with some random reaction shots of Gina Casita in response to Shannon from last night's part 3 reunion.....................
A picture conveys a thousand words, and together with her actions it's clear that Gina Casita has hated Shannon's guts from the start, views her with utter contempt and resentment, and has been out to denegrate and destroy her from the very start of this season. But why? One, Tamra no doubt coached her on Shannon's hoity toity and self-absorbed ways before shooting even started (as she probably did with Meghan Edmonds). On a more Freudian level, perhaps Shannon reminds her of all those wealthier, well-educated women on Long Island who saw right through her low-rent, shit-stirring nature during her younger years and dismissed her accordingly and Shannon is payback. Third, she needed to hit the ground running during her first season, impress the hell Andy and the other producers right off the bat, show herself to be a very capable but younger Tamra version 2.0, ensure her place on the show.
Her season-long obsessive focus (and that of the others) on Shannon's fragile mental health has been a non sequitur, a red herring. from the start. Sure, Shannon has always been a vulnerable lady prone to obsessive thinking and feeling sorry for herself, but her mental health issues absolutely pale by comparison to the shortcomings, dysfunctions, and transgressions of all of the other housewives (with perhaps the exception of Emily). Tamra's long and sordid history of intentional cruelty and duplicity. Vicki's raging malignant narcissism and her many shady antics with Brookes, culminating in the cancer scam. Kelly Dodd, while she's proven to be a relatively reliable friend, continues with manic episodes and outbursts that make a wild pinball game seem like a relaxing yoga session. Still, the constant topic this season (and the reunion show), to the nearly complete exclusion of nearly all else, has been Shannon's precarious mental health and outrageous selfishness. It's all very selective and calculated. And wrong.
Near the end of the third reunion episode, Gina Casita, her arms flailing and eyes jumping out of their sockets, explodes at Shannon "You are an open book of bullshit!!" No, Gina, you, your fellow castmates, and the show's producers have been the real bullshitters. Shannon needs to climb out of this tank of vicious and relentless barracudas and get on with own her life in healthy, positive ways, far far away from the vicious RHOC cameras, producers, and cast.
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51 minutes ago, UsernameFatigue said:
The reunion shows are airing on Monday nights where I live, so just saw the show now. What struck me so funny in the first part was Gina asking Shannon if she was afraid that her constant concern with her weight would negatively influence her daughters. Now people lose weight for many reasons, including for their health. I wish Shannon had asked Gina if she was worried that her need to look like a wannabe low budget 80s pageant queen with her spackled on makeup and tacky sequined dresses would negatively influence her daughter? I can't believe Gina is only 34 - she looks easily a decade older when the makeup gun is set to clown. And speaking of weight, she looks like she gained some. Lots of double chin showing in her various facial contortions. In any case I think Gina should spend much less time worrying about Shannon's kids and more worrying about her own. The ones that she has foisted a divorce on, without even trying something as basic as marriage counselling. Though truth be told, I think Matt has had a girlfriend all along, and that is the real reason they are divorcing. Gina just isn't sharing.
I really think that both Gina and Tamra are totally jealous of Shannon, and her wealth. Tamra and Eddie can't be doing well with Eddie's health problems. I would imagine they are barely hanging on to the gym, and doubt it has ever been a money maker. I am sure she is seething at Shannon's 23 thousand dollar a month support.
Gina seems to have set into the reality of divorce, and maybe that it isn't all sunshine, roses, and exes with benefits. When she toddles off to her little house so her ex can take over hers, she must think that she is going backwards in her life, spending part of it living in what amounts to a badly decorated college dorm room. Though from what I have seen of Gina this season, she deserves nothing more.
I heartily endorse everything said here. And it's damn well written to boot.
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3 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:When is someone going to take down Tamra for all of her backstabbing, shit stirring, vile behavior? What are these other housewives so afraid of?
Because she's so skilled and practiced at what she does (shit stirring, backstabbing, etc.) that no one else has the guts or fortitude to take her on directly. She's a relentless street fighter that you never want to cross, even when she's quoting the parables of Jesus or crying over Eddie's latest cardiogram.
Perhaps if they joined together and all mobbed her when she was really down and vulnerable (like when she slipped and broke her foot in Mexico), they might stand a chance..On second thought, no, she'd simply come back at them all with a fury.
They all know that beneath her mask of professional respectability...
Lies this...
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Just a sampling of the many odd faces of Gina...With the nonstop wild facial contortions and frequent use of her hands, she really does belong with Teresa and Caroline and the rest of the New Jersey mob show. Not sure why she's so obsessed with confronting Shannon (and providing us with these reaction shots in the process) when the other RHOC ho-wives have plenty of shortcomings (newbie Gina herself being near the very top of the list). Guess she's programmed to go after the most vulnerable grass-eater in the herd. Whatever the motivations, she's objectionable on countless levels. And needs to be gone.
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3 hours ago, ChitChat said:
I'm thinking that given the seriousness of Eddie's health condition, he probably realizes that all of these women aren't worth a minute of his concern. He's probably looking at all of them and thinking to himself "Bitch, you think you've got problems?" I feel badly for him in that he is limited on his activities. He is missing out on his livelihood, and for a lot of men, feeling like they aren't providing for their family is a pretty big deal, not to mention how difficult it must be to come to terms with the limitations and seriousness of his condition.
I've been thinking the same thing. You can see it in the bleakness of his outlook and facial expression. Now he has to summon immense energy just to smile and make brief small talk for the cameras. Not too long ago, it was so easy for him to dismiss these chattering ladies with a smile and a silly grin when he knew he'd soon be hitting the nearby hills for a few hours of endurance yamming on his fancy racing bike, leaving the goddam OC completely behind. No more. Now he walks around a middle-aged invalid, with his speeding pulse and that jumping fish sensation arrhythmia in his chest constant reminders of his own fragile mortality. No wonder he sighed so deeply when Shannon started complaining that no one was fair to her on the drive over to the ho party. If she has any real clue of the hell he's going through, she sure doesn't convey it.
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Gina and Tamra's meeting before the "party" was just a symposium on how young and old sociopaths interact. Tamra's TH concern that she can really trust Gina (and visa versa) was laughable. You two carry on tearing Shannon apart but try to keep it civilized and empathetic in appearance for the braindead viewing audience. As others have noted, Gina's strange extreme facial gyrations when she tallks (which is most of the time), particularly the way she moves and stretches her mouth and alternately bugs and squints her eyes, is really off-putting and a bit repulsive. Like some strange animatronic device holding court with the other RHOC robots.
You could tell Emily's mother was making a real effort to be positive and outgoing. Good for her. Emily still treated her like some fragile schizophrenic in short and tenuous remission, liable to break down and start tossing dishes and the kids any second. She's a world class moron and has obviously never bothered to research what chronic depression really is and its genetic components (her mother didn't choose it to deny her a "normal" childhood).
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Gina is the type we all knew and strenuously avoided in high school: the compulsive talker who needs to narrate life for everyone else, especially her clique of dumb and mute syncophants who gather around her like worker ants around their queen. Always gesticulating about wildly with her hands to make one irrelevant point and nasty point after another, rolling her eyes wildly to subtly communicate sarcasm, and jabbering nonstop about what's wrong with any person who has the courage to see and treat her for the annoying little ditz that she really is. Like some errant black hole in the center of the galaxy, she sucks all the positive energy out of any situation and destroys it with her infantile, negative, jealous commentary. She is the worst.
Oh Emily, wert thou aware that serious and persistent delusional thinking is a key hallmark of mental illness? For example, to continue to believe you will have more children while your marital partner holds you in the greatest contempt and can't stand to be within a few feet of your desperately clinging Amazon persona? I think you've got Shannon beat by a mile when it comes to loss of contact with reality.
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Wow, the repetitious and over-the-top venom in so many of these posts. Tamra must be busy at the local public libraries posting from so many different user names
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21 hours ago, Gem 10 said:
Like I said somewhere else. Steve doesn’t like Vickie. Steve likes the BJ’s, so she told Tamra.
No, no, no, no. That can't be possible.
Still, I guess it's a preferable alternative to other forms of tank servicing. I doubt the She Beast would accept anything far less odious and humanly palatable. For example, scratching her ear lobes with a pencil eraser. So BJs it is. All old Steve has to have is a vivid imagination (to effectively replace the reality facing him down in the room) and a very strong stomach. Plus an iron-clad promise from the Vickster that those hefty monthly allowance checks will keep on coming. That's the most important caveat.
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1 hour ago, CigarDoug said:
You are overthinking this. Yes, WE know it is an elaborate scam, because we saw it unfold. But even if the DA is suspicious, which she is, her mind isn't going to make the leap that the scammers have dozens of cell phones and Jimmy rode a bus all the way to LA to pull it off. She doesn't have the resources to do DNA testing and fingerprinting all those letters. Not for a minor felony.
If this was a murder case, if the FBI were involved, yes, the good guys would be a lot more careful, do a lot more digging (like sending local agents to investigate the church), test the envelopes, the handwriting, etc. and the scam would have been exposed.
So the ADA spent all that time and effort calling the phone numbers listed in that mass mailing Jimmy organized. But never once thought of calling the Coushatta police or county sheriff to confirm that the Free Will Baptist church even existed and, if yes, their address and phone number.
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On 9/18/2018 at 2:53 AM, queenjen said:
IKR. The second he said that he CRIED, Shannon just went blank behind the eyes and physically withdrew from him. Prior to that she was feeling herself on this handsome guy's arm, going on a date and getting complimented. I remember thinking 'nooooo, Shannon. Run to that, not away', because she's used to being with weapon grade douche, David Beador who can snarf down corn chips while waiting for Shannon to cook him a low calorie healthy meal, and not a man who actually LIKES her. Tom may not be all that, but he's perfect to practice being friends with at least and in the meantime get a feel for a man who is not a controlling abusive psycho.
Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that Shannon, despite her protestations to the contrary, is subconsciously attracted to abusive and cheating douchebags like David and will naturally gravitate toward those types of men, I'd offer that her first date's immediate and frequent references to crying suggests he's at the other end of the spectrum, the self-absorbed and neurotic type who falls apart at the drop of a hat and doesn't have the cajones or the emotional maturity to keep it to himself, particularly on the first date.
A guy can be smart, successful, and sensitive, but that sensitivity is best focused on the woman he loves and her own needs and happiness. Not on his own travails.
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In the short previews for next week's episode, we see Kelly telling Tamra that Steve is dating Vicki for her money ("Money talks and bullshit walks!). Obviously word of this discussion quickly reaches Vicki's ears (via the Tamra-net no doubt), who we next see standing in a kitchen next to Emily and Tamra and shrieking/bellowing at the top of her lungs "He has money!!! She continues "It's bullshit! Everyone is always after what I have!" Including Steve, no doubt, but in reference to her money only.
We can assume she didn't have to pay to fix this one's teeth. But I suspect male escorts would still be cheaper over the long run and provide love tank servicing for a nominal extra fee.
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As some have noted, that volatile exchange birthday party exchange between Shane and Kelly (and then Emily) was probably the highlight of an otherwise very dull season.
Shane is an odd duck. Short (5 foot 5 at most) and rather funny looking, he probably still gets carded at bars and liquor stores. And like a lot of short men, he already harbors deep grudges against the world, including loud, obnoxious women. Nor is he a physically or emotionally affectionate husband in any sense, usually keeping a few few feet distance from Emily, who, towering over him, still has the arm length to frequently reach out to touch him. Strange marriage dynamic, far more a prissy, angry, demanding son and a nurturing and protective mother relationship than that of husband and wife.
But the fates were firmly against Shane when he decided to intervene in Kelly's argument with Steve. No doubt he's had plenty of encounters with his wife's friends and associates, and he probably figures his verbal jousting skills against women are formidable. But taking on Kelly at that moment, in the mood she was in, was a fool's decision on his part, like a BB gun toting hunter taking on an enraged and slightly wounded grizzly bear.
So she was already pissed at Steve, and she didn't remember her introduction to Shane a few minutes earlier (BTW, you might want to get those short term memory blackouts and the heavy alcohol consumption checked out, Kelly). In her eyes, Shane was just some adolescent boy-sized stranger standing there next to Steve. Hee decided to defend Steve when and after Steve told Kelly to take a hike and walked away from the table. He even lobbed a few incendiary questions and comments her way ("He's the only man that's ever written about you?" You're drunk." "That's your normal behavior? Ugh."). Talk about prodding the enraged beast.
But the very best part was when Kelly walked over to Emily while still casting comments back at Shane (little twerp, little pussy, little bitch). Emily asked who she was referring to. Kelly pointed back at Shane. That's when the protective mother proceeded to go after the raging grizzly, egged on with a few words of encouragement from the now-chastened Shane standing at her side. You can't write scenes like this one, folks.
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Emily threatens to pummel Kelly
Glad to see that Kelly has learned to channel her psychotic rage into more entertaining and productive venues. Good for her. Looks like Shane has yet another admirer.
Is Emily this season's VickiBot?
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S14.E16: Viral Videos and Vendettas
in The Real Housewives Of Orange County
"I don't need those stinkin'' sex swings;. I have Steve Lodge"
Right. You two use a sex teeter-totter. Which allows Steve to remain several feet away at all times and still get a thrill of his own.