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I wonder if she realizes that it's not a compliment. She doesn't. 😊 Takeaways from the final reunion episode: • There's a difference between lying and playing someone's ass • NEVER leave non-waterproof mascara where your glam squad might find it and misapply it • Girardi's kids don't talk to Erika • Kathy is not ADD but EFG I could read the subtitles under Crystal, Garcelle and Sutton just as clearly as if they were scrolling across my screen, and what the subtitles were saying is, Just sit on it. Don't say a word! This will all be over in [T-however many minutes]. And then I won't have to talk to these bitches again until filming begins for next season.

Hit the + sign on your computer while you hit the "quote selection" sign on your computer screen.

Didn't Monique do more or less the same thing? Minus the sexual assault. I mean, I'm def not interested in rewatching back episodes to see if I'm right or I'm wrong on that one. But it is my impression.

"White privilege..." Well, you know, this is an absolute showstopper. It's an accusation that no well-intentioned white person (I thought of inserting a joke here about how I am speaking for all well-intentioned white people, but I figured it would go over like a lead balloon, so I didn't) can ever dispute because on a macro-level, it is always true. But if the intention of a communication is to further understanding between two, uh, white people, it's an ineffective strategy. So, I guess Candiace is not interested in furthering understanding between Michael & Chris. Other takeways: • The clothes the Housewives wore to the vow renewal were Not Good—except for Askale who is not technically a housewife. Evidently, Karen did not get anyone to take a picture of her rear view in that dress—lots 'o back fat! Ashley is now three sizes larger than those slinky little minis she longs to trademark. Wendy's red dress was beyond hideous. Robyn and Mia—okay, I guess, they were not wearing paper bags. Gizelle's dress was good, but when your foot is encased in an orthopedic boot, sequined silver may not be the way to go. • Ashley needs to ditch Michael ASAP. • But Robyn needs to ditch Juan even sooner than that. • Most entrepreneurs would wait until they had excess inventory before they increased operational costs by renting a supply hangar. • Venues with high staircases all have elevators somewhere because otherwise they are not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. I don't know why the producers made poor Gizelle struggle up those stairs. • Candiace's relationship with her mother really confuses me. If she's so important to you that you want her there at every juncture of your life—deal-signing, the vow renewals of a castmate you rather pointedly do not like—then why the constant sniping? Can it be that Candiace doesn't really feel whole and fulfilled without someone she can be bitchy to at her side?

I'm thinking all the stores would have been closed in Italy after dark because earliest lockdown in Europe. But come to think of it—why the hell was this taking place in Italy if they weren't going to have Mitch die of COVID? What was the point of the location?

Gotta say I did not understand any of the writers' choices here except that the producers decided Mitch had to "pass"—and what's with the showrunner being unable to use the word "die" in the aftershow backflash? Mitch's death is almost as crazy as that old National Lampoon joke: And then they were all run over by a truck. I do love Steve Carrell. Jennifer Aniston doing über-neurotic, though. Just say NO!

GREAT description. I guess I'm in the minority here because I ❤️LUVVED❤️ that Birkin bag. Not enough to pay whatever inflated price Crystal paid for it (assuming I'd just won the lottery), but It looked like the facade of a little dollhouse. I thought it was adorable. Yah, Crystal kicked the winning goal for sure with that question. Like many other posters, I'm mystified as to why any of the other Housewives should give a damn if Erika is keeping score. If Erika hated me, I would wear that hatred as a badge of honor. Oh, yeah—and Erika did actually snarl at one point during the episode. Her lips actually curled up over her teeth and her eyes got all squinty. I was fascinated! I don't think I've ever seen a human being do that before. Only pitbulls.

Engineer husband.

Huh. Personally, I was beyond creeped out by Gizelle's therapy session. What the hell is wrong with being an independent woman who does not need to be in a relationship? And I ask this as someone who is happily married. This whole deal whereby parenting now not only includes working yourself to the bone to feed, clothe and house kids plus buy them the right Christmas toys but also modeling behaviors that are based on some Neanderthal concept of partnership strikes me as deeply cray cray. And I was Team Wendy's mother all the way. That selective memory game some adults try to guilt-trip their parents with is a total drag. Ashley... I guess I'm a distinct minority here because I like Ashley. She gets that she was hired by Bravo to stir shit up, so that's what she does. She grew up in poverty, wanting to be rich, so she set her cap for the former owner of the Watergate and made sure the prenup gave her pay-out enough to maintain the lifestyle to which she wanted to become accustomed. There is not one ounce of sexual tension in feeding someone cheesecake with your hair in a greasy bun in a room with seriously ugly furnishings, but she knew it's what the Bravo producers wanted, so she gave it to them. I could almost read the thought balloon over her head: In another year, I can ditch this asshole and start to live. I am picturing living for Ashley as being some place like Laurel Canyon in the late 70s/early 80s. Also, why isn't PETA picketing Karen? Putting living creatures in an airtight box? That is so fuckin' cruel.

Why? I'm not asking this snarkily, by the way; I respect your opinion although obviously I disagree with it. But why is it "unfair" to expect someone to read a document to which they've afixed their signature and which, moreover, may carry a warning along the lines of danger of perjury? Because "most people don't do it"? People are acting foolishly or recklessly if they don't do it, in my opinion. The attorneys don't review it so that the signatory doesn't have to review it. The attorneys review it so that if the signatory has any questions, those questions can be answered.

Presumably, her signature is on the legal instrument that established EJ Global LLC, She is the sole owner, after all; she had to have signed the tax returns—I believe under penalty of perjury. Money was advanced as a receivable from Girardi's firm to her LLC. More than $25,500,000. The money was all spent on her. One might even say, money was diverted for her use. I don't think she's criminally liable for anything, and I'm not a lawyer. But the burden of proof in civil actions is very different than the burden of proof in criminal actions. I think there's a good chance she'll be liable for paying back the $25,500,000 that was diverted for her use. There's a long list of lawsuits, going back at least two years, accusing Girardi of allegedly—there's that word again! 😊—defaulting on million-dollar loans from numerous litigation financing firms and failing to pay clients their settlement funds. These predate Erika's divorce filing. Maybe she could ignore the first couple. But the third is the song that the caged canary in the coalmine sings. 😊. If she ignored that one, she is either very stupid—which she takes great pains to tell everyone she is not—or she was doing something very wrong in continuing to allow EJ Global LLC to receive money from Girardi's firm. Frankly, her claims of ignorance carry no water for me! If your signature is on something, if you sign the tax forms, you should be aware of what's going on with it.

Yup, yup, yup. Plus I'm having a hard time believing that she was the one who found him. I mean—wasn't he lying at the bottom of some sort of ravine? I can't picture Erika hiking to the bottom of a ravine.

What a snooze fest. My three takeaways: 1. I got the distinct impression that Erika thought she was channeling Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct during the viewer Q&A segment 2. I just cannot feel an ounce of sympathy when any of those over-Botoxed HWs cry because their foreheads do not move. Call me old-fashioned! But faces squish when real emotion is involved. 3. Actually, I can believe that Harry Hamlin thinks Rinna is the smartest person he knows if "smart"="shrewd"—which, if you're talking about going from nobody to somebody in the uber-weird show biz ecology, I think it does.

Thank you!!!!! With all her foibles, I like Candiace and really don't want to think badly of her.

Yup, yup, yup. But I thought finding a hotel was excellent problem-solving on G & R's part because (a) Gizelle should not be hobbling up and down stairs on a broken foot and (b) true, Robyn should shut up about her period, but I get why she needs to be close to a bathroom in the middle of the night, particularly with males in the house. I don't understand why it was that big a deal. And woththehell. They were supposed to wake Wendy up at 12:30am to say goodbye for the night? Did Candiace actually call Ashley "the forehead Darkie" or did I mishear? That's incredibly offensive!!!!!!!! It creeps me out big-time when old men yammer about their Viagra-or-Ciialis-rigged erections. And men flashing their dicks? I mean, I guess I'm showing my age here because it shouldn't be any more offensive than the Spring Break girlZ flashing their tits for Instagram, but for some reason, it is, it is. (Agree that Ashley forgot she lives in a glass house on that one.) Karen's yellow pantsuit wasn't doing her any favors. I liked the interaction between Mia and Candiace. A lot. And I thought it was perfectly reasonable for Ashley to get irritated by G's bus teasing. It was teasing with a really aggressive edge. Like his radar had identified her as the weak one in the herd, and he was leading the pack for the kill.

Huh. I find all the characters quite fascinating although, of course, there are a lot of them, and they're hard to keep track of. Great episode! The redemption of Mitch doesn't bother me, but it might if a different actor were playing him. 😊 Planting both Fred and Mitch in Italy means one of them has got to die of COVID. (Offing both of them would be overkill I'm thinking, and though this show lives and dies on melodrama, I don't think the showrunners/writers would go quite that far.) Not sure how Mitch's tape gets leaked. But obviously, it must get leaked. Plus, Martha Gay Hardin is noot necessarily a better actress than Jennifer Anniston, but if forehead movement is anything to go on, she uses less Botox, and that makes her more interesting to watch.

Yah, but that's one of the reasons I ❤️ her. She's so into the couture!!!!! 😊. She's like a little kid with it.

I'm sure this has been referenced, but since Bravo's B-roll has been subpoenaed, I'm fairly sure the network will do an in-depth cost/benefit analysis to determine whether they'll invite Erika back next season. Sure, her presence boosted ratings. (I, for one, tuned in to see the train wreck!). But gaathering together all those editing room floor snips has gotta be a lot of aggravation. https://pagesix.com/2021/10/12/bravo-subpoenaed-for-unaired-rhobh-footage-of-erika-jayne/

Oooo, la, la! Finally—the reunion! Looks first: • Erika: Seems to be channeling some unholy love child of Molly Rignwold, circa Pretty in Pink, and Madonna, circa Desperately Seeking Susan. And is it me, or did her head look like it had been designed to be screwed off from her body? • Rinna: Beyond hideous • Kyle: Was she doing some kind of experiment, This is what happens when you don't wash your hair for two weeks? Dress looked as though it had been designed by the Spanish Inquisition's head stylist • Garcelle: Dress may have looked good if she'd been standing up. I did like the sparkles on the eyelashes though. • Sutton: Good color, bad dress. I did like the way the shoes looked, but I was getting phantom pains in my Achilles tendons thinking about wearing them. • Crystal: Channeling the most kick-ass Mom on the PTA's Christmas Coat Drive committee. Plus what has she done with her cheekbones? •. Kathy: Did anybody lose a red chenille bedspread? •. Dorit: Looked great! Either Bravo's resident stylists and lighting techs hate these women, or they were doing a work slowdown in preparation for the upcoming IATSE strike because they were not doing the magic designed to make these women look fabulous. Now, to the action (admittedly, there wasn't much): I have developed a lot more sympathy for Dorit upon learning both her parents are Israeli. I love Israel and Israelis, but they can get very fixated when they have a point to make—particularly when that point is obscure to every other person in the room. Anyway, Dorit doesn't bother me as much as she once did. Rinna cuddling up close to Garcelle looked remarkably like a ventriloquist's dummy in some kind of horrifying all-female remake of that old Anthony Hopkins movie Magic. Summation: Garcelle continues to be my favorite BH housewife because not only is she beautiful, she's smart. And I for one ❤️LUV❤️ Kyle's reactions shots.

But Mia was shedding tears. What was weird is that her face remained frozen.

This season has been so lame that I'm not going to re-watch any of the past episodes to confirm or deny my impressions. That said, my impression is that Gizelle & Robyn's reactions following Wendy's plastic surgery were more about Wendy's change of attitude than they were about Wendy's plastic surgery. They both noted her personality seemed "different." Many posters on this board noted the same. I don't remember G&S explicitly linking the personality change to the rumors about Eddie. I remember they mentioned the Eddie rumors, but correllation is not causality, and since Wendy has a Ph.D. in community affairs—which would mean she had to have taken at least one statistics class—she knows this. So I call complete bullshit on Wendy's overreaction. The video shoot was low budget. I've produced videos. Candiace didn't have any production assistants to wrangle performers and extras when they arrived on set. That's most likely because she couldn't afford them, and it results in a chaotic mess from a perfomer's point of view (and Mia was showing up as a performer.). The finished product may look terrific. That doesn't mean it wasn't low budget. Absolutely. "Yo mama's a ho!" is kind of a generic insult in this context, tossed at Mia to get a reaction because nothing else seemed to have gotten a reaction out of Mia. I don't know that it was altogether Candiace's fault that thiis turned out to be the remark that triggered Mia. (Did anyone else find it really fucking weird to watch Mia cry? I mean, with the amount of Botox in that face, that face was practically immobile, so it was kinda like wtching a statue cry!)

Mitch in northern ITALY? My guess: He's gonna get COVID. Dunno whether he dies or lives on (as Mother Teresa. 😊 )

Erika must have a stash of Polaroids depicting other members of the RHOBH having sex with barnyard animals. There's no other explanation for why they go to such lengths to placate her. And that tracksuit in the opening scenes! Wearing a tracksuit with heels is a fashion misdemeanor, but a lime-green tracksuit with heels? Fashion felony! This episode otherwise was a real snoozer. The dragon was cool, but I couldn't really get beyond holding a Chinese New Year's party at a Japanese restaurant.

Actually, this is the reason I started watching Potomac. In the first couple of seasons, race issues were dealt with in a way I'd never seen before. I'm white, and my Black friends don't talk to me about race. There's only so much you can learn from reading Toni Morrison novels. Race doesn't seem to me to be as big a theme now as it was the first two seasons—beyond the use of slang terms that I'm unfamiliar with. Mia asked a question about Candiace's husband. I agree that the question was inappropriate. But is asking a question gossiping?

Obviously, I'd make a terrible Housewife. 😊