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That scene in the kitchen with Kyle and Rinna and Kyle's testimonial makes it seem like Kyle has figured out which way the wind is blowing when it comes to how things are going to be perceived with the Denise storyline and is trying to get out of its way. The problem is she is too much a part of it, especially in getting on camera.

This show this season is operating on some Shakespearean levels of dramatic irony. That entire scene of Monique talking about them icing out Candiace, her high fiving of Gizelle is so a thing of beauty when you know from the opening of the season that they fully turn their back on Monique at some point. More has happened in three episodes of this show than entire season of RHOBH.

Yeah, I think Dorit is one of the ones navigating this best. She's giving us the ridiculousness of looks while also managing to get through this Denise stuff fairly unscathed. Her telling Denise to stop saying Bravo and basically asserting it's out there so you make your moment NOW a couple episodes ago was some of her best work on the show.

Jeffrey Boyer Chapman critiquing anybody in that terrible makeup job is hilarious as it is insane. I enjoyed everybody cackling at Ilona and Scarlett fussing with each other because it had the energy of two siblings in the back of the family van (tm Vicki Gunvalson) picking at it each other. I also cackled at how Jimbo was like I WELCOME OUTSIDE OPINIONS to the girls and then like immediately went the fuck in on Rita for giving a critique.

This Denise/Brandi storyline would be a lot more entertaining if someone was good at their job/role. Like if people were better schemers and more smooth with their machinations OR if Denise was better at having her wits about her when confronted. But since both sides are equally fumbling this storyline and have put human wet blanket Teddi at the center of this again along with low rent Georgina Sparks Brandi, none of this is paying off. Like Lisa Rinna is an absolute monster and a terrible friend but at least is giving an almost operatic performance of this and I like Garcelle's contributions to it. The rest of the women need to like either embrace being Mean Girls fully and not complain or stop making this whole thing central to the show.

Jeffrey's "Welcome to the competition, girl" made no sense since Jimbo literally just won Snatch Game last week and has been doing well for most of the competition. I used to be annoyed but now I'm like actively anticipating what thing he'll say each episode to piss off the internet.

If this was RHOA, RHONY or RHOP, the moment Denise said she had heard things but wasn't going to say it, there would've been a smash cut to someone else in the confessional being like, "The gossip is".

This show operates and moves at a pace that makes me forget we're on the fifth season. It's surprisingly still fresh feeling.

It must have obviously worked in the past BUT given the way Bravo seems to have no problem cutting ties with OGs, they all probably need to learn not to do it. And also that their tantrums about being on the show are now fair game. Across all the franchises, there is a level of fourth wall breaking that usually was limited to the reunion.

I did enjoy everybody being rude as hell about the Gizelle/Jamal thing because I think they all know it's a relationship just for storyline. Also, if Candiace needs to learn origami if she keeps insisting on folding a napkin and crying every episode.

Gizelle is such an asshole but I'm fully putting "It made sense to laugh" in my arsenal of insults.

I honestly thought that this was one of the best libraries they've had in years. Rita's reads of both Brooke Lynn and Ilona had me cracking up along with Lemon's delivery of calling Priyanka fucking stupid.

I just realized that if this was an episode of Gossip Girl, Brandi Glanville is the Georgina Sparks.

It's hilarious that these women are going with Why would Brandi lie/Brandi is telling the truth since most of these women have gotten into it with Brandi because they accused her of lying about something. Garcelle's talking head where she said it was Denise's personal business but also she wanted to get down to the bottom of it made me cackle because that's a level of honesty about wanting to be messy.

Shea won four challenges on her season so I don't know how she was not the front runner of the season. Like you can prefer one of the other folks to her for a variety of reasons but just on like track record alone, she was legit the front runner of the show. Her loss was a lot more shocking compared to say Jujubee or Alexis. Jujubee hadn't won a challenge on her season and Alexis was on Raja's season, who pretty much won the moment she walked through the door. Shea's loss showed that getting to the finale no longer guaranteed your win because the finale took such huge importance. And it would be argued that season 10 and 11 suffered from that because girls took the wrong lessons away from the Sasha/Shea lip sync because yes Sasha had roses/surprise, but ruveals are nothing if they aren't part of a large lip sync narrative. That's why Sasha beat Shea. The roses helped tell a dynamic lip sync story.

I know people seem to dislike Shea talking about the rose petals but seem to act like she just came up with this topic. They all have story producers and clearly people are asking her about it in the talking heads so if people have that much of a problem, that's a production issue. And I get why she would be super devastated by it. Up to that point, she would've won her season going into the finale. But the rose petals permanently altered the course of Drag Race.

I've enjoyed Stacey prior to this episode but this episode really highlighted how much fun she is when she's let loose with the contestants. Jeffrey Boyer Chapman continues to not be good at judging because he seems to have watched to many compilations of Naomi Campbell on The Face and Michael Kors on Project Runway and missed the part that they can get away with their bitchy because they have the expertise in their industry to do so. Like do I agree with everything Brooke Lynn says? No. But it coming from someone who has literally done this competition before at least makes it feel like it's coming from a knowledgeable place.

These women have always "believed" Brandi when it suited whatever agenda they had and then turn on Brandi for being a liar when their plan backfires. It's happened for literally years on this show.

When they kept trying to say that Blair has been making the judges laugh all season in order to drama up some version of suspense, I rolled my eyes so hard.

Priyanka talking about how they've all suffered from a mooseknuckle and then gesturing at Jeffrey Boyer Chapman's crotch made me scream with laughter, I had to rewind it multiple times. Both this and Drag Race UK has such a welcome irreverence that is sorely lacking from the US version.

Brooke Lynn screaming/chasing after the girls at the start of the mini challenge had me cackling with laughter. There is a playfulness in this version, Thailand and UK that is missing from the American version

Ramona is such a wild character on this show because she is someone who has decent insights into other people but completely lacks empathy. Part of me thinks her family background made her this way and why she's so quick to use an apology to neutralize the other party.

Leah being like, "The other ladies get messy!" is not that great of a defense. Like if I saw someone drowning, my instinct would not be "I'll drown too!"

I have been watching reruns of the ID show Obsessions: Dark Desires and it sometimes reaches places of unintentional dark comedy with some of the truly bizarre choices the victims on the show make. The episode where a woman develops an entire relationship with a man online without ever speaking to him and going to meet in person and having her baby stolen not once BUT TWICE by the same scammer was so wild. Like I don't know whether to laugh at the sheer insanity or cry over someone who clearly was so desperate for affection that they overlooked any red flag of danger.

Someone in the YOuTube comments about Ted being the villain pointed out how How I Met Your Mother is similar to 500 Days of Summer except Ted is viewed favorably by his creators and 500 days of Summer is deconstructing their male lead. I never thought of it that way.