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Between Lindsey and that sorority pledge on Scream Queens, this was not a good week for Taylor Swift look-a-likes.

None of the edgy jokes are particularly subversive because they aren't subverting any of the conventions/tropes. They are just playing them to the hilt.

Mona needs to remember she is allegedly making a reality show and not a scripted soap opera so you should at least stage things better. She loves to go to the well of someone surprising another cast member when they both have film crews at the time of said surprise visit. Like how is Brandi going to pop up and surprise her man when he's got a film crew of people already with him. At least just have her bum rush him with her film crew and call it a day. They did the same lame stunt with Rasheeda and Ashley Nicole.

This episode seems like something straight out of the Hotwives of Orlando/Las Vegas parody series on Hulu. It just ticks off a lot of the most common tropes of all the various Housewives cities. I mean, in just one episode you have: 1. The cast gathering for a party with a random as hell theme 2. Public confrontation at said party for no other reason than to get camera time. 3. Housewives making sure to get their product placement in for their various business ventures 4. Husbands who look like they hate their wives 5. And my personal favorite trope: the "I hate to even be discussing this nasty rumor" while simultaneously bringing that room up on camera. Like the show itself is its own best parody.

I could actually go with this because there seemed to be something off in terms of the Chanel being attacked by the Red Devil since they show it but only as her relaying the story and not actually something we see firsthand as it happened. I wonder if Gigi is the sorority girl holding onto the baby in the flashback. Wouldn't that be the traumatic event that froze her mentally in the 90s?

All I know is that I am particularly glad that a lot of the casual racism throughout the two hours is being called out.

Having so much of the first episodes revolve around Emma Roberts' character was the worst decision because Emma's style of acting is fine for a silent, five second gif but not for a series.

Jim saying to Meghan, "You're waving at no one" followed by Meghan's shrugging her shoulders in her talking head interview may be the greatest thing I've ever seen on this show.

Normally I'm against mouthy judges but in this case, she actually made way valid points about the good and especially the flaws in the designs than some of the actual judges who were too busy referencing Game of Thrones.

Maybe it's because I'm a terrible person but I read the Entertainment Weekly recap and legit chortled out loud when they said they were surprised Shannon didn't ask David if he had taken his mistress to this restaurant too.

I know I should hate Meghan, and she's definitely not somebody I would ever want to be around. But in terms of reality TV villains, she's gold in terms of just utter shamelessness in wanting to be one.

I'm glad this is on because politically incorrect anti-hero white male leads are so under-represented on television.

If Carole spent most of the season trying to be Carrie Bradshaw, Countess Luann tried to somehow merge the sex of life of Samantha Jones with the prissiness of Charlotte and didn't do either one of them particularly well in terms of creating a persona that wasn't annoyingly hypocritical at every turn.

The judging felt sort of out of whack because I feel like in another season they would've knocked Blake's outfit for looking too junior. I literally have seen similar designs for prom dresses. And I hope we're not starting a trend of a "racially insensitive remark per episode hurled at Swapnil" because that's gross. So this year, taking the unconventional material and making it look like fabric is fine? Because I remember them getting mad during the duct tape challenge for someone doing that exact thing.

Yeah, Luann's date was journalist Thomas Roberts. I was confused at first until I googled him and saw that he and Luann are apparently friends.

Those epilogue title cards for the season have always been shady. I don't think Heather's was particularly mean, given one year Porsha from Housewives only got that she and her husband were getting divorced. That was it for her card.

Well Bethenny had no choice when it came to the going to Ramona's party because it's the season finale party, right? And Ramona is the one who approached her as soon as she got off the elevator to have the discussion about the fashion show. And I say this as somebody who doesn't enjoy Bethenny.

I'm just confused by Tamra being all mad about someone saying she's a pot stirrer when she basically said on Watch What Happens that stirring the pot is basically her job on the show.

I think my all-time favorite episode of "Murder, She Wrote" will always be "Jessica Behind Bars" because it captures the sheer 1980s of it all when it comes to the show. I also enjoyed every time Jessica Walter showed up on the show.

I will always maintain that Kaleena never wanted to leave Tony as a manager and once he signed those papers, she decided to tank her deal with Deb so she would have an excuse to go back to him.

I'm not a fan of Kristen but I did love that she gave Ramona a side-eye when the ladies were fighting over the dude yet managed to not be actually involved in the fight.

This was one of the most gloriously shady episodes in Drag Race herstory, with RuPaul asking if Violet was going to snatch the crown OFFICIALLY one of the best things to ever happen.

I wish they would have to come up with their own World of Wonder YouTube series idea since that's something so many of the queens end up doing after the show and it would be a challenge actually related to things they have to do.

I just want an extended version of this episode with an exasperated Candis Cayne in the corner of the screen commenting on the queens. Her frustration was killing me, especially when you consider all these queens had to to do was a little dancing. No treadmill or wind machine like the girls last year.

I swear they did something similarly stupid on that Celebrity Couples Therapy bullshit show that had Slade and Gretchen went on.