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Are those brooch bouquets still a thing? I thought those had kind of gone out of style. I started listing all the things that could have been cut from the wedding in order for Tom to have been able to afford to fly his brothers to his wedding himself, or -- better yet -- for Katie to have done it for him, but the list got so long I just gave up. But how about starting with the friggin' diamond ring for his mother? That was just way too bizarre, and could have easily covered the cost of flying a couple sets of triplets in from Florida.

I'm not getting what them being moms has to do with anything. There are a lot of actresses on TV series who are also moms.

Reese and Nicole ARE the producers, so they're the ones making those decisions. This is a one-off series. It doesn't lend itself to a second season.

I get what you're saying, but Ed didn't say it like that. He didn't make the comment in the context of being surprised that Perry would let Celeste do something because Perry is controlling. He made the comment in the context of he, Ed, not wanting to let Maddy go on this trip, and being surprised that her friend's husband would feel differently. So he was basically saying, "I'm definitely not okay with this, but you're telling me Perry is?" I don't think this was ever meant to be anything but a one-off mini-series adaptation of the book. It doesn't really lend itself to being a continuing series, and I don't think that's what they wanted to do.

There was conversation about it being a new outfit, and Perry took a look at the price tag, which was hefty. He wasn't thrilled, but it didn't really become a thing.

She didn't hesitate to spend thousands on the suit she bought for her meeting with the mayor, and she didn't try to hide it from him.

No, that was kind of my point.

There wasn't any suggestion that any human, adult or child, actually, purposely killed the squirrel. It looks to me like the kids just found a dead animal (he's kind of flat, suggesting roadkill) and were being curious about it.

The funny thing is, if someone has a really unusual first name -- like Saxon -- and a very common last name -- like Baker -- if they're going to give a phony name, is the first name they'd change, not the last name, unless they're a total moron. A guy named Saxon Baker giving his name as Saxon Banks is easily tracked down. A guy named Saxon Baker giving his name as John Baker will never be found.

I don't think the theory about Perry being Saxon is "harebrained" at all. They're doing a subtle job of it, but they're constantly teasing Jane almost seeing Perry, but not quite. The most recent, and bold, tease was Celeste and Jane FaceTiming with Perry and the boys just in the other room, heard but not seen, but with the possibility existing of Perry walking in at any moment. And, I, assuming Ziggy and the twins share the same violently abusive father, perhaps the twins are the one harassing Amabella. Celeste tells the therapist that the boys never see what goes on between her and Perry, but they may have seen more than she knows, and are acting it out with Amabella. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Perry turns out to be both the rapist and our mystery murder victim, with Celeste as the killer. At the point, I could believe just about any theory! Very juicy!

The funny thing is, that second fake product pitch, for the app? It already exists. The creators pitched it (unsuccessfully, as I recall) on Shark Tank quite a while ago.

She must have changed your mind since that article you read: http://people.com/bodies/chrissy-metz-this-is-us-star-gastric-bypass-surgery-rumors-losing-weight-health/

The wedding was last year, but this was just in the "new" last month. So they were probably already having money issues. But another thing I was wondering: Schwartz was born and raised in Minnesota and only moved to Florida for college. So how did the whole family end up in Florida? Seems odd for the entire family to move just because Tom is going to college in Florida. http://radaronline.com/videos/tom-schwartz-parents-bankruptcy-vanderpump-rules/

I wonder if the $51,000+ included the $15,000 she spent on her dress.

I think Lala could be really gorgeous if she'd stop dressing and making herself up like she just drove her 1984 Duster into town from her trailer park in Covina. I don't know how she (supposedly) keeps pulling all these rich, sophisticated married men when she gets herself up like a two-bit hooker. She needs a visit from the wonderful British ladies from the original "What Not to Wear". They'd straighten her out, and feel her up. Win-win.

Here's what I don't get: If Katie and Schwartz can somehow afford over $50,000 for this shindig, including over $10,000 just for "extra" flowers, then why in the hell couldn't they afford to lay out the $1500 it's apparently costing his friends to pay for Schwartz's brothers to come to the wedding, and maybe buy a train ticket for his dad? This doesn't make sense. If Schwartz really wanted his family there, there was nothing preventing him from getting them there.

You try having someone tell lies about you repeatedly in a public forum and see how long you keep your composure. Kandi doesn't lose it often, but, when she does, it's usually for a good reason. There are few things more frustrating than having someone straight-up lie about you and then smile smugly as they force you to deny it. I'm just sorry Kandi couldn't slap the living shit out of Porsha at the time.

At least in terms of the spa episode, she started off the episode wanting the divorce until all the other women she met made it seem as though her getting divorced would only lead to her being alone the rest of her life, i.e. that she should stay in a questionable marriage, because the alternative for a woman her age was too horrible to consider. It wasn't about adjusting to being single, so much as she shouldn't leave her marriage. I'm also not sure what Hannah was expecting from Elijah. He hasn't proved particularly reliable in the past, and it doesn't seem like he would ever be able to get past his own self-centered nature to focus on the needs of a child. Speaking as someone who got married for the first (and last, I hope) time at the age of 52, I think Loreen should give the whole, "My life is over; I'll be alone forever" thing a rest. The only thing that would virtually guarantee her ending up old and alone is her own pissy attitude about everything. And Elijah's so busy thinking about how Hannah being a mother is going to change his life, how it's going to inconvenience him, that his opinion on what sort of mother she'll be is hardly a reliable one. All he can see is that another baby is taking his toy. I think the writers actually expressed this in not so many words with the lines of the actress playing Hannah at the end: "Kids are easy. It's being an adult that's hard." Kids aren't some magical shortcut to maturity and character growth. There was a brief discussion on the previous episode thread about posters with dumpster fire parents, so I think some posters on the boards can attest to the fact that becoming a parent doesn't imbue anyone with instant maturity. Yes, Hannah seemed to have this expectation that Elijah would want to be a surrogate parent for her kid. First of all, she should have known better. Second of all, has she even met Elijah? With all that said, Elijah's tantrum when he found out that Hannah told her mother first was not on. Grow up, Elijah. "I'm not going to die." "Good, because I don't think I could handle that." Aw, Ray and Shosh. Who's the worst, Marnie or Jessa? I give the edge to Jessa, because Marnie's self-absorption at least is hilarious. ("I feel like this is the grief talking...or the asbestos.") Of all of the "Girls", Marnie is the one who seems to have learned, and grown, the least. If you take the very first episode of the show and then watch the most recent episode right after, I think it would look like all of the characters are completely different people except Marnie, for whom it will seem that no time at all has passed; she's exactly the same. I find that sad, and a little disappointing. I suppose there's always a chance that she's going to have some sudden epiphany and realize what a narcissistic douche she is and mend her ways, but doing that in such a short amount of time as the series has left would seem unnatural and a bit of a disappointment in itself. So maybe what we're meant to take from Marnie is that some people just are what they are, right out of the box, and there you have it.

You can't really have it both ways. You keep telling everyone, unless you're there with the person. 24/7, or in their head, you don't know for sure what was done or what was said, etc. But unless you're in Kandi's head, you can't say with complete certainty what she was thinking or why she did what she did. Phaedra's a liar. We don't need to live in her skin to have noticed that over the past several years we've been TV-acquainted with the woman.

Yes, she would have been starting a straight rumor. There's a difference between spilling someone's secrets and just making shit up and spreading it around as fact. Kandi may have done the former, but Phaedra did the latter. Of the two, what Phaedra did is, by far, worse.

I'm not really understanding you. It was Phaedra who started the rumor about Kandi and this other woman, not Porsha. That's starting a lesbian rumor, on camera. And, yes, that certainly makes Phaedra look bad, not because anyone thinks it makes her look homophobic (I'm not sure how it would), but because it makes her look like a spreader of malicious gossip and a liar for not owning up to it.

It looks like, before she was married, she went by Pandora Vanderpump-Todd, and her brother is Max Todd.

She's going by Pandora Vanderpump Sabo. http://www.bhlmagazine.com/author/pandora-vanderpump-sabo/

Erika wasn't quibbling about anything. If Erika's son has a problem with the way he was raised, he's perfectly capable of bringing that up with his mother, and very well may have. And, just as it's his right to do so, it's Erika's right to confront her mother about her own childhood issues. If Erika had been raised differently, perhaps she would have made different parenting choices. But she wasn't, and she didn't, and everyone seems to have lived through it all.

There's a difference between me telling someone that I don't mind taking a dip in the lady pond now and then (as Andy Cohen would say), and you telling someone -- or everyone -- that I've been carrying on a torrid affair with a specific woman for a specific period of time, which is what Phaedra did.