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I don't like Kyle, but I also find it very hard to see her like this. Nobody deserves to lose their best friend that way.

My guess is that it's her parentified older daughter. :(

My luxury is full-on mute at this point, but I did get many compliments on the Old Navy blazer I wore to work the other day. I do have to take Heather's side in Sexgate. It's gross to ask someone on camera (or...at all, frankly) for details of their daughter's sex life. I don't know that I'd share something like that with my close friends, much less a national audience. (And I do think Heather saying to her daughter "get drunk and have sex!" while not being something I would say to my kid on camera, is very different from talking about actual sex that the kid is or is not having.) Further, I think Heather has a point that "When was the last time you had sex?" is a much different question for a single woman. What ever way Heather answers that question, she's going to get flack from someone! True, she does make sexual comments frequently but I think talking about balloons looking like balls or whatever is, again, very different from talking about sex that you are personally having or not having. That said, Heather lost me with her comments about Monica not being single. I don't like Monica at all, and I generally like Heather, but that was uncalled for. If Monica's separated from her husband and considers herself single, who is Heather to say otherwise? Heather came across as really judgmental there. I, too, would love to see the text messages between Monica and her relatives, as it seems like we're missing a chunk of information here. Maybe there was a bunch of fourth-wall stuff in there that they couldn't show, or maybe Monica's just a lying liar who lies (or both!), but hopefully shit will come to light at the reunion.

"Vow renewal"

The editors could have gone all-out with the pirate theme and titled this episode The Hills Have Ayes.

Just when I thought I had gotten used to Whitney’s fillings and dillings with theengs, she pronounces the word “spirit” as “spit”?? ”In the spit of being honest…” GIRL.

I did actually have that same thought.

I was totally shocked to hear PK say that he wanted to send the kids "back to public school." That just seems so off-brand for them!

Dorit's one of my least favorite Housewives, but I have to say that she looks absolutely gorgeous in jeans, a sweater, and glasses. I wish she'd stop messing around with fussy outfits and tinfoil in her hair, but I guess I don't understand faaaaashun.

I'm so interested in knowing the actual order of operations here. Did Kyle get wind that Sutton was going to use the cheating rumors as a plot point, and retaliate by bringing up Sutton's drinking? Or, did Sutton get wind that Kyle was going to use "Sutton's a drunk" as a plot point, and retaliate by bringing up the cheating rumors? The editing of the show makes it seem like the former, but perhaps it's the latter? Regardless, *reclines and lights up a J*, I'm immensely enjoying this season.

New Girl questioning Sutton's esophageal disorder was giving me "Dr. Terry saying Alexis's nose job had to be purely cosmetic" vibes. Has anyone else been around long enough to remember that episode of RHOOC or just me?

Was Mikey slightly less terrible in that scene than he usually is, or is it like the women's frozen, reworked faces where I've become so inured to them over time that they start seeming more and more okay and normal? FWIW, PK also seemed normal and reasonable in this episode...

I legit SCREAMED when Garcelle made that comment about Dorit still having all of her jewelry. And then Sutton's comment about maybe not being so picky if Dorit managed to fall in love with PK! The shade was OLYMPIC LEVEL in this episode. And I am here for it.

Touché!

That's almost too bad. Not that I'm a Vicki fan (is anyone?) but I think she works well as a Friend Of sometimes, in a jumpscare kind of way. Like, for the same reason someone would watch a spooky movie.

Is it bad that my first reaction to this news was a genuine “Who’s Jennifer?” Took me a minute…

I wonder if it says something about how boring Angie and her husband are that I became obsessed with the continuity errors happening behind them during their dinner. Another patron was there, then gone, then back again! The table behind them was cleared, then set, then cleared again!

Not a Meredith fan, but I loved that she kept casually churning the butter throughout multiple scenes because she didn't want to leave the chore undone.

@65mickey, I do think it's a good point that there's a racial dynamic here, with a white woman yelling at a Black kid that he's out of place. I was considering the incident through my own (privileged) lens as a white person/mother, but Garcelle is used to her kids being treated differently by larger society (and specifically the cast of this show). So I could see how this would land differently for her. That's a really fair point.

Okay, I'm going to say something, and I know I'm going to get excoriated but... *deep breath* .... here it goes: I don't think what Erika "did" to Jax was that bad. I say this as someone who generally likes Garcelle and loathes Erika. And I say this as a mother. It's not like Erika was yelling at Garcelle's son. She was telling him to "fuck off" in a lighthearted way -- I thought the gist seemed to be that she was saying what a good kid he was for hanging around and that he should go home. And this is not a 5-year-old. This is a teen. A teen who was raised in L.A., adjacent to the entertainment industry. Pretty sure he's heard the f-word a time or two. Hell, my 9-year-old has heard the f-work and knows what it means. She also know now what "DILF" means because she randomly read it on a bathroom wall, but I digress... Now, should Erika have said what she did? NOPE! If I had been Garcelle, I would have been pissed! But, for Garcelle to bring it up over a year later, after everyone's already apologized? For her to scold Dorit for not scolding Erika in the moment (again, over a year later)? For her to say that Erika should have apologized to her son (after telling the women that she didn't feel comfortable with them around her kids... Like, again, I haaaaate Erika, but I can understand why she wouldn't have approached Jax directly)? For Garcelle to compare the incident to Dorit literally being held at gunpoint in her home? Come on. Okay, commence throwing the tomatoes.

Yeah, I have to agree. I'm not a big Sutton fan, but this is the kind of content I tune in to see.

I don't want to be an ass, and I truly wish happiness for all, but I cannot work up the energy to care about Crystal's brother's ex-fiancee who didn't even consent to have her image on the show. I can barely work up the energy to care about Crystal's own plotlines ("What plotlines?" you ask) as she is such a non-entity on the show this season. What's next? A storyline about Dorit's thief's dog groomer? Sutton's ex-husband's urologist?

I feel like that could be read as Sutton not trying to make a scene. She didn't want her exit to become a "thing" on the show.

Oh I totally agree that this is what they do. Every decision is dissected, every minor comment debated ad nauseam. It must be exhausting to be on this show, knowing that any of your “friends” would turn on you, given the right conditions. I still think we can critique them for what they do.

The vibe I’m getting from the women is less “This is a change for you- I’m curious as to why you stopped” and more “This is weird and you’re no longer any fun.” YMMV.