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Erika is divorcing Tom https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhobhs-erika-jayne-files-for-divorce-from-tom-girardi/

If Jackie wants to take a break from this group, I won't miss her. She can take Heavenly and Quad with her. Contessa's styling was a hot mess.

Gina is so uninformed that she does not know the basic fact that public schools are obligated to provide better support for special needs than a private school will. There was no valid reason for her to go off on Braunwyn, either then or when Braunwyn apologized (even though Gina was the one who made a scene). Vicki looked far better as Marie Antoinette than she does when she styles herself. Tamra is trying desperately to keep the drama going with her runtelldat but is it really such a shock that some of these women don't like each other? I don't like any of them either.

Ashley is so thirsty filming herself taking the pregnancy test. Karen is not wrong to side eye Michael or to be upfront with Ashley that she does and provide receipts for why.

I do not think that Bruin is biologically Bryan's son. Bruin was not a healthy infant - he was severely premature and hospitalized - though I'm glad that he seems to be doing well now. Given his early birth and immediate health challenges, it's possible that his birth parents did not yet have a plan in place, or that the plan changed because of those concerns. Yes, there is generally a wait for healthy, white, full-term babies, but that was not his situation. Brandi and Bryan were willing and able to step up and be his parents - partly because he is a redhead - which seems to be the best outcome for all of them. I also think there are a lot of better Br- names than Bruin.

We agree on this much at least: Brandi has not behaved well, and Brandi's actions are not an excuse for Leann's.

Leann still scares me. She might hide it a bit better this year, but she’s still a nasty, damaged person who is absolutely vicious in response to the slightest perceived offense. I don’t know why Cary and Stephanie are maintaining neutrality when they’ve been on the receiving end, unless they’re just afraid of becoming her targets again. If I were Brandi, I’d be pissed that my best friends welcomed a woman to stay at their party after they dragged me to talk to her and then she pushed me in the chest. I like watching most of the cast, but I don’t think I’ll be back next year if Leann and her darkness remain on her show.

Wow, even after all these seasons, Vicki still surprises me with how low she’ll go. Her accusations at Kelly are brutal and reflect more on the accuser than the target.

I think that Emily has repeatedly made it clear that Shane’s children (from his prior marriage) are not her children, and are not her children’s full siblings. Her daughter has at least two half-sisters, and every time Emily talks about needing a sister for her daughter, she is dismissing his daughters as second-rate members of the family. I also think it’s pretty outrageous that she opened the memorial box to their miscarried twins on television. Emily is not someone who has lived her entire life on television for years, there are many things she has yet to share. If she exposed that private moment to an audience, then it is understandable to me if Shane did not treat it as a private moment of comfort in a marriage. So to me, they’re both pretty cold towards each other, and frankly neither seems like a prize as a partner.

Carole's criticism of Ramona's party was vicious and ungracious. Ramona seemed genuinely proud of Carole and shone the spotlight on her multiple times with the toast and cake. Even if Carole would prefer abject genuflection, it is unseemly for her to criticize a kindhearted gift. Dorinda was vile towards Sonia, multiple times, and gleeful in retelling it. I suspect she practiced the 'ho on fire' line and I suspect that her vitriol stems from feeling betrayed when Carole told her that Sonja called Dorinda fat. Money can't buy you class, indeed.

I think the only reason that Jack came out of that house carrying mementos along with the dog is that viewers have pointed out how strange it is for the Pearsons to have so much memorabilia from their childhood.

I think that there are many valid ways to parent, including from a geographic distance in some cases. I also think that if someone talks about the ways that she was parented and its lifelong impact on her (mother treating her as an adult, father leaving her, coming second to her parents' own needs), then that invites looking at the subsequent choices that she made as a parent herself.

Meghan carried herself well this episode. Despite being understandably surprised and hurt by Peggy's reference to Aspen, she listened to and accepted Peggy's explanation while Shannon and Tamra screeched in outrage and deflection. Vicki is just awful. "I don't want you to think I'm turning my back, but I'm turning my back"

There are stories from their pasts that I'm interested in seeing - Kevin's first foray into acting, Kevin & Sophie, Randall having more exposure to a black community at college, Randall choosing to live n an all-white neighborhood, even Rebecca adjusting to all three kids living home at once, or Rebecca falling for Miguel - but those are not the ones that are being shown.

I didn't like this episode. I felt that Kate hijacked Kevin's work with more of her self-centered emotional outpourings. It's been twenty years since her father died, and she has been around celebrities before. Her fangirl conversation with Sly would have been an awkward thing to do with her brother's colleague even without failing to mention that the dad in question had been dead a long time. I'm not surprised that Kevin was thrown off by the subsequent Sly speech, or that Kevin was the one to contact Kate and apologize. The idea that Kevin is in denial with unexpressed lingering anguish seems like a retcon. Last season he spoke openly about losing his father, including in the cabin and with the widow at the funeral. Now, he's apparently never been able to mention it. He did an entire play about death and loss last season without breaking, also. Separately, I find it uncomfortable and odd that K&K refer to each other as twins when Jack & Rebecca made such a huge point of all three being triplets. Neither K has referred to Randall as anything but a brother. Previously, they've presented that Jack and Miguel are close friends and the two couples interact. Rebecca being independent friends with Sherry well after that divorce makes Rebecca's subsequent marriage to Miguel more odd. It's one thing to fall for your late husband's closest friend, it's another when his ex is your confidante. We are watching the stories unfold simultaneously, but the adult big three characters are now acting as though the pain of their father's death is immediate. Sure, they all had some issues last season, but they were actively attempting to resolve them (Kevin quit the Manny, Kate pursued weight loss, Randall searched for his birth father). Now it seems like all three triplets' lives revolve around the pain of their childhoods and specifically of losing their father. Randall and Kate have stopped working, and Kevin's now unable to perform at his job because of this. Twenty years on, that does not match them especially watchable adults. Knowing that the teens end up stunted makes their story less compelling, too.