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Total agreement. Every year, this episode sucks more.

That's my complaint, too. But Scott is terrific as Ripley. Reminiscent somehow of Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects.

Frankly, I don't see how they get another season out of this RH franchise. These women detest each other.

Business deals must get brokered at Kathy Hilton parties. Throughout Hollywood history, there's always been a handful of draconian grande dames whose invitations were highly coveted because that's where drunken production chiefs say to one another, Let's do a show where some TikTok influencer becomes a cop!! And the next morning, personal assistants begin arranging the lunch. 😀 That's really the only explanation for it. Kathy Hilton is boring as f--k. And her offspring are downright repulsive. Obviously, Andy Cohen is pitching something to someone. Hence Kathy Hilton's completely gratuitous appearance at this reunion. Sutton's breakdown was... interesting. Evidently, you don't need Andy Cohen to offer you cocaine or whisper sweet threesome nothings into yr ear to create a completely toxic show environment. I am thinking maybe Reality TV needs a new type of employee, analogous to the intimacy coordinators they have on set when actors are filming sex scenes.

The reason I used to like this show is because the dancers started the season as half-formed dancers & emerged from it as real dancers. That process was fascinating to me. There are plenty of places I can watch real dancers dance. But not many where I can watch people turning into real dancers. I don't want to watch accomplished dancers go through all the BS & ass-kissing that this show will impose on them. So, I think SYTYCD is off my watch list.

I hate everything about this new format.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. It was a big departure from his earlier style, for sure.

In Cold Blood was published in 1965; Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968. The individual pieces in Acid Test were published in magazines earlier. Still, I think it's fair to say Capote influenced Wolfe not vice versa. Of course, if you don't like what was then called the New Journalism—i.e. the introduction of the author's persona into the subject he/she is writing about—you don't like the New Journalism. It does come down to a matter of individual taste.

Awwwww. I loved the ending! Miami is def the best Housewives franchise!!!!!

I laughed out loud when I read this. 😀 YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm wondering that, too!!!!! 😀 I think In Cold Blood is a great book. And I like a lot of Capote's early writing—yeah, Other Voices, Other Rooms is overly sentimental & Gothic, but Miriam is a little gem & Breakfast at Tiffany's is fun. I don't think anybody except possibly Capote himself thought the published portions of Answered Prayers were any good. It's not the subject matter: Proust betrayed the foibles (sexual & otherwise) of his rich friends, and it's considered great art. La Côte Basque is just really badly written.

Amanda was the daughter from Babe's first marriage; Kate was the daughter from the second marriage (to Paley.) I've read that none of Babe's children bothered to attend her funeral, but that allegation wasn't sourced, so I don't know if it's true. And Episode 7 was a complete snooze fest.

Judging from the last name, this would have been Amanda Burden's daughter. Amanda herself rather famously disliked her mother. And Belle Burden had few compunctions about writing about her own ex-husband for the NYT's maudlin Modern Love series. I daresay she did a bit of fictionalizing herself in that one. (I suspect this because, in my own experience, people who say things about their intimates like, "I had no idea he was unhappy," are either lying or complete narcissists.) You can read her earlier piece here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/style/modern-love-married-to-a-stranger.html I guess it's okay to air dirty laundry so long as nobody has menstruated on it. 😀

I'd actually be surprised if Erika has "great sex." In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Erika is anorgasmic—at least at this point in her life. You have to be willing to lose control to have an orgasm, and I doubt that Erika is a big fan of losing control. I kinda suspect that Erika just uses sex as a promotional & manipulation tool.

Wait! What? They're replacing Comfort with JoJo Silwa? UGH. Jin, the last dancer, actually made me cry–even before the "spontaneous" (not!) tribute to Twitch. I have no idea why. I didn't even like her dancing particularly.