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The difference between Nene and other queen bees like LVP or Teresa Guidice is that Nene has castmates who can and will bring juicy stories to the show that have nothing to do with Nene. She came in salty and blustering, but these women are not beholden to Nene, they aren’t going to be cowed or intimidated by her, not even Cynthia or the new girls anymore. I think things really went left tonight when Porscha, who has her own spin-off now, just cracked everyone, including Andy, up and it was obvious no one was spending anytime worrying about Nene.

Is there something else about the shark room that makes it so terrible? I get the decor is not great, but is it like a saggy mattress and no heating, in the basement with no windows, next to boiler that turns off and on all night? Because the way everyone-not just Luann-talked/laughed about it, it seems to be universally abhorred. With respect, we aren't talking about one person getting a suite with a private pool and rain shower in their en suite and the other getting bunk beds and a shared bathroom down the hall. None of the rooms are really built for luxuriating in.

Dorinda decorates her bajillion dollar home with the same cheap Halloween shit as my kids pick out at CVS.

I think Kyle and Lisa know each other well, including knowing the other one is far from perfect. But they like each other anyway, so they work around each other's shortcomings and appreciate the good things. But they know each other and, come on, Kyle knows this is definitely something that Lisa is capable of. I didn't think anything Kyle said was out-of-line. But it does makes me sad.

Reading the book, and then watching this, it makes me wonder why so many people, especially in the lab, who knew it didn't work, who knew people were being given inaccurate results, continued to work there. I get it, people need jobs, etc., but, in addition to having tyrannical Sunny and con artist Elizabeth breathing down your neck 24/7, you are complicit in doing real, serious damage to real human beings. Not unleashing a shitty piece of tech-really actively harming people. It's unconscionable. Also, I hope George Schultz paid Tyler's parents back.

I thought the upgrade thing was kind of joke-y, like, "Haha we got upgraded, in your faces!" because they were all together as a group and it was just random. It was a short flight and it wasn't like Katie was back there alone-she was with everyone else in the group. But, yeah, Katie getting so wounded over something so silly shows she's really keeping score and looking for slights.

It is moving to me that Bethenny and Luann are supporting each other, that they are able to put differences behind them. I think the women on this show, for the most part, let shit go a lot more easily than on other franchises.

In this episode she reminded me SO MUCH of Nene in this past season's RHOA: Tired of it. Over it. "Do I really have to pretend like I care about this bullshit someone 20 years younger than me is trying to make into a big issue just so they can get camera time? Do I really have to be sixty years old and having another screaming match at another dinner with these people I don't fucking care about?" The truth is, as she said, the crown is heavy and it means you take a ton of heat and bullshit and you dish out a ton of heat and bullshit and I imagine it is exhausting after 10+ years, as you get older and your castmates get younger.

Also, the part that, starting to talk about it in 10 years means she will be trying to get pregnant at 44 or 45.

I feel like all of these people fell down a rabbit hole ten+ years ago and they are just now waking up to the fact that this is actually real life and, as mid-30s+ aged people, not early-20s aged people, they are at different stages of realizing liking to get drunk and baked is not enough for a lifetime friendship. I think this explains how mean they are to each other and how tolerant they are towards each others terrible behaviors.

Was Yvonna, Lavonna, Wakanda supposed to be a cast member? She really is aggro towards Eva!

I would love a show featuring the pulled-together, understated fabulousness of a group of women like Camille and Denise. Super-wealthy, but more chill and less trashy than the RHOBH crew. Maybe RHOMalibu?

None of the women on any of these franchises is irreplaceable-not Lisa, not Nene, not Bethenny, not Teresa Guidice, not Vicki. I get that LVP (and the other women listed) are the face of franchise and the star of the show, but that doesn't mean an equally as enjoyable show couldn't be made without them. I always thought LVP's canniest move was her ability to remain the center of the show while sharing very little of herself. Shame on the producers for letting one woman continuously dominate the show. It makes the whole thing out of whack, and we end up watching people try to wrangle for power without breaking the fourth wall. I also thinks it's interesting a lot of the franchises are going through issues with their "stars".

Why do people like Dorit feel like they need to say things like, "You have to travel first-class and do it right!" We all know she is deeply in debt. And, beyond that, I doubt ANY of these women travel like this on a regular basis. Certainly Teddi and Rinna don't have anywhere near that kind of money. The rest of them have more money, but, like many wealthy people, they seem to be pretty smart and involved with their money. Of course only the poseur has to act like blowing your wad on a giant hotel room is necessary.

Wasn't Lala and James's falling out because James made a joke to Randall like, "We all know each other in and out, if you know what I mean? (wink)"? So that joke, tame to the point of being groan-worthy, was enough to end their friendship, but all the talk of PJs and BJs and going down on Ariana and coming home to someone coked off his ass is just laffs and laffs?

Why would anyone want to be around Jennifer? Not just on the show, but in life? She's a big, soggy wet blanket: not funny, not nice, not smart, not peppy, not spirited, not interesting, not stylish, not interested in anyone or anything else. She so negative and dull and small-minded and uncurious.

Uncool of Carter to text "James showed up". Sandoval called and invited James, at the behest of at least Jax and Schwartz, and I didn't hear Beau or Carter object. Regardless, why does Kristin care so much? Also, she's on WWHL talking about how the girls should have handled her with kid gloves on the trip!? I don't know why anyone puts up with this delusional nut job.

He acts like she is Gigi Hadid or something, "Obviously you're jealous because she's a world-class knock out..." No one would look at Margaret if they walked into a room together because everyone would be gaping at Danielle's bizarre face. She looks like Jafar. She has a terrifying face and, yes, a nose straight out of Whoville.

I really hope this dog storyline isn't dragged out because EVERYONE knows PK and Dorit are poseurs but the show will never acknowledge it. So we have a phony argument about how or why they did what they did when everybody knows they got the dog to look good to Lisa and take Instagram pictures with their little dog like Kyle, but they don't have the money or discipline to have a dog so they stealthily unloaded it so Lisa wouldn't find out and they wouldn't have to pay a penalty. It's so disingenous.

Nene's self-absorption and lack of grace is what has made her a reality TV star, and it probably also means she is particularly poorly suited for being a caretaker. And Greg seems to be a worse than average patient/grump. But I think Nene seems like she is tired and old, beyond just this stress. Of all the grande dames on these shows-LVP, Ramona, Vicki-Nene has been on a hard hustle for a longest time. And there's no end in sight. She's the sole breadwinner and she helps support her children and her grandchildren. I don't like her, but I have sympathy for her. She said something at dinner, about having other problems she didn't want to get into. Anyone know what that was about?

Why does anyone still hang out with Kristin? OMG.

The priorities of these people are baffling to me. Punch me in the face? Sleep with my boyfriend? Lie, lie, lie for years? Call me a whore? Regularly act like a belligerent asshole in public? Tell the world you'll never have anything to do with me again because I am a loser? Advise my fiancé not to marry me? Hey, no problem, I'll get over it! "Talk about annoying things"? Ew. You can't sit with us. And one thing about Bravo is the seem to be loyal to the people who put it all out there, warts and all and, from being The Other Woman to asking for a divorce on camera, no one has done that more than Scheana. These women should be thanking their stars she's willing to do it because none of them want to.

Lisa is kind of nasty and mean, especially to people who piss her off. I think Kristen mainly wants Lisa to stop keeping her out of her home and restaurants, relegating her to the B-storylines. I also think it's funny Kristen said Lisa was "obsessed" with her, when Kristen is the one who keeps hanging around Lisa, pouting and trying to be let in, and Lisa just seems to want Kristen to fuck off and leave her alone.

But I think Lisa legitimately, actively dislikes her, not just "doesn't like her" for the show. I'm surprised Kristen is even allowed on the show.

Lisa's hatred of Kristen is the only thing on this show that makes any sense.