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The women are together at the beach because (1) they have nothing to hide, and, (2) they're all connected in a very visceral way. Not only did they close ranks to protect someone who was really a hero in the situation, but Nathan and Bonnie have children that share a father; Jane and Celeste have children that share a father. I don't think those are the kinds of bonds that go away.

I thought it was clear that Perry recognized Jane. Not at first -- he was too focused on Celeste -- but you could see the realization on his face the moment he recognized her. I thought is reaction of going after Celeste in that moment was a buildup of his feeling of a loss of control over her and their entire situation, but was triggered by his recognition of Jane and mistaken thought that Celeste had brought all these women together against him.

This. I complained earlier that I didn't love the Maddy affair story. But it does serve the characters of Maddy, Abby, and Ed in their own ways. Ed's being the one I feel most. Last week, Maddy was breaking down and said to Ed "I did something so bad" (or to that effect) and it seemed she was about to confess. Ed reached over (despite his own anguish), touched her hand, and basically shushed her. He knew. He knew she knew he knew. She knew he knew she knew he knew . And so forth :) It was the unspoken that said so much (like so much in this series). Ed was being strong for both of them there and that takes quite a bit of character. He wasn't letting Maddy get her confessional; her suffering was hers to bear--which does not mitigate Ed's pain but that was his line to draw and he did with compassion as opposed to spite. I really don't think Ed knew anything until the night of the party, when he witnessed the weird interactions between Madeline and the other guy's wife and put it all together. I think when Maddy said she'd done something wrong, Ed thought she was talking about what had gone on that night at the dinner party. If Maddy had thought Ed knew, she wouldn't have been acting so burdened by the secret the night of the party, and talking about how she hasn't had the courage to tell him.

I can't imagine a universe in which Lena Dunham wraps up this show with Hannah in a relationship with any man, including Adam. This isn't Sex and the City. Carrie doesn't have to wind up with Big. Carrie could, conceivably, figure out that she can take care of her own damn self and be happy doing so.

Seriously? "Beautiful" is subjective. And I'm not a gynecologist, so I don't care who's flashing me her lady bits, my response would be the same: keep it to yourself.

This was your question to me: "But how would you feel if you were on a national TV show, and someone you had just met, someone with whom you had no real relationship, took it upon herself to speak about your accidental flash not once, not twice, but three separate times behind your back - on camera, so that it would definitely become part of the show - and then prolonged it further by buying you a pair of panties to point it out for all to see?" And that was my answer: I'd feel like the new person catches on quick how things work. You don't think Erika's suspicions or annoyances or however you want to categorize whatever the hell she did in Hong Kong isn't also part of the show? I'm fairly certain she's as aware of the cameras surrounding her as is Dorit or any of the others. No one said that anyone didn't have a right to do anything. But having a right to do something and having others view you exercising that right as appropriate or justified are two different things. They all know they're on TV, Kim Richards included, and they all know that their lives will be wide open to scrutiny and, yes, fair game for show fodder. They're not the first people in the history of the world to be on a reality TV show. They have years of precedents to look back on; they know the drill. If you're on a Bravo reality TV show, and you're filming, and you announce to a whole party that you're not wearing underwear, and you're don't feel much of a need to make sure your nether regions are adequately covered, then that's all part of the show and may well be the main story for the season. That's how it goes. And if you don't like how that turned out for you, I guess you won't be doing that again. And if you really, really don't like how that turned out for you, maybe you'll take your allegedly shy, naked fanny off the reality TV show and go back to the quiet, contemplative life of calling people "c***" and clutching your pussy on stage in front of enormous audiences of tweaking gay men who want to steal your look. Or maybe knitting.

I would feel like the newbie catches on quick. These aren't private individuals who were at a private function where this happened only to find that one of them had secretly been filming things and then posted the video to the internet afterward. They're on a TV show. All of this played out in front of cameras, visible to all present. No one forced Erika to, first of all, wear a micro-mini with no underpants, or, even worse, announce the situation to the entire party, in front of cameras. She made those choices, which makes the entire situation fair game. She has no right to whine just because one of her teammates took the ball and ran with it.

I actually don't remember PK making any kind of deal out of it. He reacted when his wife brought it up, but I don't recall him ever being the initiator of any kind of conversation about it.

She's a grown woman in her 30s. Her father has nothing to say about what she does or doesn't do.

If she did, I was probably long gone by then. The last time I read her column, you'd have thought Jill had donated her only kidney to save Ilana Angel's life.

I had to stop taking Ilana Angel seriously when she spent so much time being a champion of/apologist for Jill Zarin. 1) How old do you think she is? 2) EWWWW!!!

Melissa McCarthy's character in "Bridesmaids" was so much deeper than Hannah. McCarthy's character was a buffoon on the surface, but quite wise and compassionate under the surface, not to mention the fact that she'd amassed a fortune through wise investments and a great work ethic applied to a great career; Hannah has none of that.

I think Marnie's overblown sense of entitlement probably comes from a combination of being raised by a narcissistic mother who values the superficial over substance, and from being pretty, and used to always getting favored treatment because of it.

If you didn't know he could sing like that, then you should really enjoy this:

Not for nothing, but my husband's parents are first cousins. They had three children -- a physician, a psychologist, and a lawyer.

I've seen really good belly dancers, so I was really surprised when the woman who brought Whitney into this seemed to be so mediocre at it. Isn't she supposed to be an instructor? Whitney was fairly inept at this, but this woman didn't seem all that much better.

Okay, this is one of the many, MANY things that really bugs me about this show lately. I'm supposed to believe that this judge person just has to have Whitney come dance at her studio and, the first time she sees Whitney attempt the belly dance moves, she's so awed by Whitney's innate talent that she has to have her come perform for a paid gig at a restaurant. Okay, great. Sure, I believe all that. Right. Then I'm supposed to believe that, without any real rehearsals or set program or choreography, these three chuckleheads -- one of whom has zero experience belly dancing -- is going to show up for a paying gig and just wing it. Okay, sure, I believe that. Why not? THEN I'm supposed to believe that this is an actual paying gig belly dancing for diners at a restaurant. So, sure, I... NO! NO! NO! I WON'T! STOP IT! This restaurant is clearly closed for business. The women are actually changing at the frickin' bar, which would not be happening if this restaurant were open. The "diners" all appear to be Whitney's family and friends who are seated outside, with plastic sheeting creating walls and ceilings. THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT! STOP TREATING ME LIKE I'M AN IDIOT!!!! P.S. When people talk about what a fantastic dancer Whitney is, what is it they're talking about, exactly?

Thanks! It's so nice to finally be loved for my vocabulary rather than just for my stunning beauty. I look at Hannah in kind of the same way I look at someone about my size and shape walking down the street wearing something skin tight and/or with lots of rolls of fat exposed: I'm at once horrified and incredibly jealous that I can't live my life so utterly unconcerned about what others might think of me. I wouldn't want to be Hannah, but I would absolutely love to have even a fraction of her complete confidence in herself and lack of concern for other people's opinion of who she is.

I wholeheartedly agree. I don't think Rinna thought the guests were using coke, I think she was trying to show Dorit how it feels when someone tosses out rumors of drug abuse. Ditto on the YMMV. There's a difference between factually reporting something you actually saw and heard, which is really all Dorit did, and suggesting that you witnessed one of your co-stars and her guests all snorting cocaine during a dinner party. The fact that she first asked, "Were you in the guest bathroom doing cocaine" was bad enough, but then, after Dorit's exasperated denials, she followed it up with, "I just know what I saw". The question could -- by a really, really strenuous stretch of the imagination -- be considered as Rinna trying to make a point. But then to suggest that she actually saw this activity, that goes beyond any and all lines (so to speak). The more I get to know Rinna, the less I like her. And I didn't start out loving her.

I like the idea of the gold leaf in Dorit's hair until I saw the final result. She looked like she'd put some deep conditioning treatment on her hair and somehow forgot to take it out before leaving for the party.

Funny, I was just thinking last night, while watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, how much I hate the latest eyebrow trend. These really heavy, blunt-ended, pronounced brows look okay on some women -- especially larger women -- but on a tiny person, like Kyle Richards, it just looked kind of ridiculous. Hopefully the next trend will be everyone doing what suits their own face instead of everyone trying to do exactly the same thing, whether it suits him/her or not.

I'm wondering if that particular incident was taken from an account by someone who was at the meeting, which is why it shows up in both the movie and the TV show.

You should check out January Jones in Pirate Radio and/or Love Actually (not to mention The Last Man on Earth). Particularly in the two movies, you'll see her in a much different (non-Betty) light. Maybe this is just me being anything but a wide-eyed twenty-something, but, after Hannah's talk with Jean Louis, I wanted to grab her and tell her to find a lawyer and have Jean Louis sign away his rights to this baby now, while he's so sure he doesn't want to be bothered. Otherwise, a few years from now when he starts feeling broody, she could very well get a knock on the door and find herself blindsided by a custody battle. Of course she'd also be giving up any right she might have had to demand any financial support for the child, but I don't think that's something she would ever need or want to do anyway.

While Shay certainly has seemed disconnected from Scheana for a long time (and how could he not be, when she's so entirely self-involved), I haven't gotten the sense that he's been chemically altered, at least not in front of the cameras. I'm wondering if any of that's true, or if that was just a convenient story Scheana threw out there to justify her abrupt exit from a relationship she'd grown tired of.

Oh I so agree. But to be fair, I kind of cringe in embarrassment anytime anybody writes their own vows. They are usually so lame and cheesy. Thinking about it though, I've probably been to 100 weddings in my life. OK maybe not that many, but a lot. And I honest-to-goodness don't think I've ever been to one where the bride and groom wrote their own vows. It really seems to be more of a TV thing (both scripted and reality). I thought Scheanna seemed genuinely sad in the scene with LVP. But in the scene with Shay, she seemed like she was faking it. Now, Shay, on the other hand, seemed truly upset to me. But Scheanna looked like she was doing the classic "crying but not a drop of tear to be scene" reality show fake out. I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't already schtuping that new guy by the time that last scene was filmed. I wish couples would actually stop calling these altar speeches "vows". There are very rarely any vows involved. These things usually turn into (a) a really bad stand-up routine; (b) an Oscar acceptance speech caliber list of thank-yous; (c) a blubbering declaration of eternal love. Whichever it is -- a, b, or c -- I loathe them all. I didn't notice a ring exchange during the ceremony. Did I just miss that part? I noticed that "crying-face-but-no-tears" thing about Scheana in that last scene with Shay. She seemed very dismissive. Granted, he seems challenged in ways that probably aren't all drug-related, but he deserved at least a real conversation before getting shown the door.