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Obviously, I'd make a terrible Housewife. 😊

I'm not implying that Candiace had an ideal childhood. I'm saying that she has economic privilege. I don't think adults should slap each other. But a slap is not the same thing as systematic neglect. I respect your opinion, @RealReality. But I don't agree with it.

Obviously, everyone has their own opinion here, and that's fine. In my book, there is no comparison between an addict who is so neglectful that her child ends up in foster care and a mother with boundary issues. But, hey! That's just me.

Not at all. It's because Candiace was brought up in an upper middle class household, while Ashley and Mia were not. (I can't remember anything at all about Monique's background.) And not only was Candiace brought up in an upper middle class household, she's been pampered and babied her entire life. That's why she seems so much younger than her 36 years. I don't dislike her, but I'd kinda like to see her pay some dues.

True enough. But I instinctively root for the underdog, and Candiace does not feel like an underdog. I don't dislike her, by the way. She, Robyn and Karen have honest reasons for being on this show that go beyond exhibtionism/narcissism—Robyn and Karen are promoting product lines; Candiace is promoting a music career. I get it. And I think when she's out and out nasty, it's probaby because a Bravo producer is whispering, Gotta come up with a storyline.

Mostly a bor-r-r-ring episode, but it did kinda explode in the last few minutes. I have to guess that most of the Mia/Candiace catfight was the result of Bravo producers prodding them with big sticks 'cause, you know, who the fuck cares? It's a completely let's-pretend fight, but if it were a real fight, my sympathies would be entirely with Mia who has lots of rough edges because she does not come from a privileged background the way Candiace does. I really don't get Candiace's obsession with the size of Mia's feet. Yes, Candiace, tall people generally have big feet; growth is proportional because us tall people need a larger base of support. Why this should attract disdain is a mystery to me, honestly. And Candiace's video shoot was "low-budget" not because it took place in a parking lot but because it did not have a production assistant telling people what they should be dooing as soon as they arrived on set. My Ashley ❤️LUV❤️ was reaffirmed when she took care of her own suitcase. It's a really obnoxious noveau riche thing for people not to carry their own luggage.

According to Brian Moylan's Housewives book, Bravo pays for stylists for talking heads and reunions but not for routine shoots.

Yeah, I thought Sutton's, "I don't want to play Fancy Drew anymore" was the best line of the night." Could be Xanax. Could also be borderline personality disorder. Oh, Kyle has definitely gained weight. It was really apparent in the last episode in some of her profile shots. Increasingly, I am thinking that Kathy Hilton takes massive quantities of downers.

I've always thought post-"work" Erika is borderline ugly. Soignée, to be sure. But ugly. In the photos of her, just after she married Girardi, she was genuinely pretty. I'm not exatly sure what cosmetic procedures she had to make her look so coarse.

I dunno. I kinda liked that Gizelle hosted a party at her under-construction house. I am who I am, she seemed to be saying. Take it or leave it. Since these Housewives shows so often seem to be about Keeping Up Appearances (under the weirdest of circumstances), I find Gizelle's attitude refreshing. Also, for once the party games looked like actual fun. She probably should have given the contractors the day off, though. The bit about not letting some of the women use the bathroom was pretty hilarious. My guess is that she made announcement to see Karen and Wendy squirm. A demonstration of shade at its finest! Wendy squirmed—she is such a tool—but Karen just blew Gizelle off magnificently. On the Hideous Outfit Scale, I'd have to award Wendy's costume first place. And I loved Candiace's blouse—wacky sleeves and all. Appropriate for a get-together with these ladies? No. But definitely appropriate for a get-together with Bravo's cameras! But I kept worrying about how much pain Candiace's nipplles were gonna be in when she ripped off the body glue!

And Tom throws Erika under the bus! 😊 https://pagesix.com/2021/09/23/tom-girardi-seemingly-implicates-erika-jayne-in-legal-battle/

Kathy sleeps so much, I suspect she pops tranquilizers with her morning vitamins. Glam-squadless Erika in her bathrobe looks really weird to me. Those hyaluronic-acid-pumped lips! Those Sculptra-chipmonk cheeks! Those beady, little eyes! Kudos to whomever first caught the Baby Jane resemblance—yes, she looks just Baby Jane in perimenopause! Special to Rinna: That Bravo stylist who smeared orange eyeshadow on you for your talking heads? He/she is not your friend!

I dunno. I guess I'm out of synch, but I thought this was a bor-r-r-r-ring episode. My main takeaway was how old these women look without their warpaint. There was one quick shot of Rinna's face just before the facial mask was applied, and I thought, Ho-kay! There is no painting in her attic! Also those pants Kyle was wearing at the two-couples dinner? They weren't doing her any favors. (There was also a profile shot of her in that segment that made her look downright matronly.) Just a data point: It does snow in the towns in the San Gabriel foothills every once in a blue moon—and it happened the San Gabriels got a lot of snow at the end of Jan/beginning of Feb this year. Lot of LA cops live in those foothill towns. If you're not used to driving in snow, even a little snow can be daunting. So, Erika might not have been fabricating her son's accident (though I'm guessing she embellished it.)

Personally, I'm so shallow I'd keep Rinna around just to see more of the dresses in the garage. Sutton really is quite delightful even without the only thing remotely resembling a social conscience that any of the Housewives has (always excepting my new celebrity Best Friend Garcelle, of course.). I LUV Sutton, social awkwardness, face massager, wacky couture, impulse buys that would pay for two months of my mortgage and all. There need to be more rich people like Sutton—and Kathy, too!—and I need to be able to watch them, 24 hours a day if I want to. Maybe we exempt them from paying taxes if they allow us to wire their mansions with spycams and put them on 24-hour video feed. My big takeaway from this episode, though, is that it's quite possible Dorit comes by that accent naturally. I didn't realize her father was Israeli, and her mother was born in Tangiers. When you grow up around parents who are not native English speakers, you do tend to internalize some of their weirder inflections.

Specifically, Ashley's new baby has "lip tie"—which is the name given to the condition where the frenulum is so thick, it actually restricts movement of the upper lip. This can make it painful for the baby to suck, and that leads to the situation where the baby will only take small amounts but will need to feed more often. https://www.webmd.com/baby/what-is-a-lip-tie#1

Also looks like Eboni-K-Williams is the only one without breast implants. If RHONY comes back for another season, that'll change. 😊

Leah speaking about LuAnn: "She's got Wop energy." How the hell is this not an offensive, racist comment?

Well, she was complaining about it in the context of not getting any sex. So I was actually shouting, "Get a vibrator"! 😊

For the confessionals? But not the narrative bits? Yeah, that would make sense. Erika looks way better in the talking heads. Silly me—I thought it was the lighting. 😊

OmyGAWD!!!! What a great, great, great episode! Fabulous table settings! Lavender roses! Baccarat butterflies! Lipstick readers!!! Enchiladas of the gods! My absolute favorite moment, though, had to be during that talking head, when that gnat committed seppuko in Rinna's lip gloss, and she didn't even wash her face!!!!!! 😊. Just applied more lip gloss. I generally like Jean Paul Gaultier's couture, but you have to be tall to pull off those kinds of architectural designs, and Dorit is not tall. Hence, it fitted her very, very badly. While we're on the subject of clothes: Erika's blue boots clashed with the blue of her ill-fitting suit. Also, I am beginning to understand why she needed to spend $40,000 a month on a glam squad: She is clearly incapable of choosing the right shade of foundation for her complexion tones, and thus now looks like a life-sized bobblehead.

Personally, I think Sutton may be more worried about being deposed. Hours and hours of RHOBH B-roll gets shot; very little makes it into the show. Who knows what Erika sez on that B-roll? Or what Erika says to her castmates when she's un-miked? I imagine the B-roll will be sunpoenaed at some point if an actual case is brought against Erika. But what about the off-mike remarks?

I don't think Sutton's letting Erika intimidate her. I think Sutton is displaying good manners at a luncheon party that Crystal (and her party planner! 😊 ) put a great deal of effort into making nice.

Well, this was a sweet episode. I was almost persuaded they liked each other. Almost. 😊 I'm trying to figure out the name of the course that offers indentured servitude to Sonja Morgan as an externship. How to Identify the Enemy Class in the Glorious Peasant Revolution to Come? We didn't see Sonja drinking while her interns packed. I'm inclined to write off her general loopiness there to cognitive impairment associated with COVID. It wasn't odd to me that LuAnn immediately leaped to the conclusion that alcohol was the cause, but it was odd to me that no one pointed out to Lu, Wait a minute—this girl is just recovering after three weeks of an illness that affects some people really severely.

My understanding is that TJ Maxx is a high-end liquidator. Meaning they don't buy stock that didn't sell at other stores, but they do buy stock from manufacturers that those manufacturers can't push to other stores as well as from department stores that over-buy. So, as a first-run outlet? If I owned a fledgling clothing business, I would definitely not want to strike a deal with TJ Maxx! 😊 And Macy's just seems like the wrong demographic. I dunno. I actually think Robyn's best retail partner might be Target if she can get the operational costs associated with manufacturing down. Target's actually made a formal commitment to spend more than $2 billion with Black-owned businesses by the end of 2025: https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2021/04/Target-Commits-to-Spending-More-Than-2-Billion-wit I guess I'm out of synch with most of the posters here, but Robyn remains my favorite housewife because she is so unlike the other housewives with their manufactured storylines, and general idiocy and posing. I lost a business in 2008; I can totally relate to her remark about signing up to do surveys because that's the only way she could get $$$ to feed her family. Failure, bankruptcy, and the like do change people (unless you're Donald Trump, I guess); you do get scared to try again. Learning how to fly again is a remarkable narrative, and it''s too bad that Bravo doesn't consider it a storyline equal to bolting big, new, Wendy-tits on your chest or the oh-so-boring Gizelle/Karen feud. 'Cause you gotta know, it's alll in the editing. If Bravo had decided to edit Robyn to be interesting, you wouldn't be able to take your eyes off her.

I realize I'm not Reza's demographic 'cause I am not a gay male, but I think he looks like shit. Wait! That single bed Tommy was lying on was backstage at the reunion production studio? I was so hoping it was in the MJ/Tommy marital home and that he had started sleeping in the guest room and D-I-V-O-R-C-E is imminent!