Midnight Cheese

I've had a couple of serious addicts in my family, some of whom are no longer alive, and not one of them has ever been as mean and selfish in that daily, 'What about me?' way that Kim has had about her beginning in season 2 until now. Folks have lied, have created tremendous stress and heartache, but in terms of the minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day interactions, none of them had that kind of mean to the bone thing that Kim has. I don't remember a family get-together where people were stressed going in about having to deal with the addict, in terms of worrying about passive-aggressive attitude. I just think at heart Kim is a bitch. Being able to indulge softened her in season 1, it seems. 'Sweet, kind-hearted' Kim seems to me to be smoke and mirrors. zoeysmom, I didn't know about the rehab flunkout after season 1 or Kyle taking Kim's kids to Aspen. I know you know someone who grew up with Kim, Kyle and Kathy. I'm totally eager to know anything your friend shares about the dynamics. When Kathy (who seems foul as hell to me) was shilling her dresses, using Kimberly Jr. (<-- snerk) and her prom as her in last season, Kathy seemed very impatient and short with Kyle. Kathy tried to be an actress but was nowhere near as successful as either Kim or Kyle, right?

Dammit why did I check? I came to post here about Ben - does anyone else remember that during his run, one of the questions was "What is the Civil War?" but Ben answered, "What is the War Between the States?" - and you could see Trebek stare at him for a beat or two? Anyone else remember that?

Sober as a judge! Not her drugs in the limo to the SUR opening party, where she revealed her period was late and said, "I'm gonna have a baby!" while slapping her purse onto a table! Kim's cracky big-bowed shirt was honored as a Dlisted Hot Slut of the Day (bonus: Kim is described as "shimmering sun-damaged spaz of a human Vicodin"): http://dlisted.com/2011/12/20/hot-slut-day-1370983617/

I just don't see Kim ever showing gratitude to anyone, for anything. Ever. She is the most intensely selfish HW on this show in my opinion. I know Brandi is the least-popular housewife by far for maybe most BH viewers, but I also think that Brandi's messes aren't anywhere near Kim's. I don't think being wasted during a night out and having your ass and tampon string showing and even getting 1 DUI (and I HATE drunk drivers and want harsher across-the-board punishments) are comparable to how I see so much of Kim's behavior - I'll just mention this terrible situation with Kingsley, that it seemed extremely likely given her expired-license situation that Kim was driving around high and unlicensed during seasons 1 and 2, so possibly for a year-plus, that she's apparently had murky custodial situations with at least her youngest, Kimberly, and that she wanted to sic her kids on Brandi during the s. 2 white party. She blames everyone around her for her own fuckups (creepy ex-boyfriend Ken, Kyle, Brandi, Lisa, Yolanda). She puts a terrible emotional burden on her kids (Kimberly). I think she's an awful woman. She is 'nice' and 'charming' when she wants to get flattered and I think she is also the only person on this show, maybe across all of the shows, who is a danger to others because of her intense selfishness and general incompetence at life. WireWrap, I didn't know that behind-the-scenes people forced Kim into rehab. I couldn't agree more that Kim's contract should have been canceled/not renewed after that point.

I feel like I'm on crazy pills (/Mugatu). Kingsley is a very powerful dog and has bit four people. It's not his fault he has a self-pitying, indescribably irresponsible crackhead/pill addict/'alcoholic [yes, she just has a drinking problem...]' for an owner but this is fucking ridiculous. He needs to be removed from her home, ideally to a sanctuary where he can live forever, and not be adopted out to anyone other than a Cesar Milan/Tia from Villalobos type. It is not the fault of people for not following unstable Kim's 'rules' with her dog. She is not kooky or down-to-earth or the 80,000 other Kim excuses - she's entitled goddamned trash! I knew this was coming the first scene I saw her with her dog - where she took the dog over from her I'm completely sure totally irresponsible son, who got him as an impulse (so Kingsley's life began with a certain instability), then got her fucking drug-seeking nose job where she claimed that unlike every other g.d. rhinoplasty patient under the sun, she needed 'the lightest dose' of anesthesia (in her crackhead attempt to seem 'extra-clean and sober' to Kyle and the cameras), and then Kim blamed Kingsley for 'jumping up and re-breaking' her nose (to let her avoid one of Lisa's parties, remember?) DON'T look at the photos in zoeysmom's link if you're not strong-stomached - it's a very deep, bad-looking bite. The NY Mag recapper Brian Moylan began including descriptors in last season's recaps in all of the Kim/Kingsley scenes a la "Kingsley, Kim's dog, who will one day take her life." But that's not often the way, is it? Instead, Kingsley has bitten others in his misguided attempts to protect his selfish idiot of an owner. I can't stand her. I really can't. All I can think now are her innocent neighbors with their own dogs and kids and elderly friends and family being fearful that the crackhead's dog could put them at risk. Kim doesn't give a shit when Kingsley bites a significantly older woman who was 'her second/surrogate mom,' with the bite tearing tissues apart and going clear to the bone and she doesn't care when Kingsley apparently does the same exact thing to her niece's hands. So what's it like to live by her with him in his 'fenced-in area' under the control of someone who probably spends days in pill-induced stupors? Kim is a piece of shit!

Kim failed to socialize Kingsley, full stop. She failed with his training. Her statement makes it sound like in the crack-stuffed coffee bean that is her brain, the world is supposed to understand that Kingsley is just protective of her, and I'm convinced she confuses that with the kind of love a dog is supposed to have for his humans and vice versa. I doubt she walked or exercised him. I doubt elements of her statement. I think she's a hardcore liar. This story makes me livid. Kim disgusts me. Alexia could've been killed, not to mention what might have happened if someone smaller like Portia had tried to pet the dog. I don't wish for a happy ending for Kim. I think she's a total selfish asshole and it kills me to side in any way with Kyle, but being Kim's sister certainly has had more than a fair share of challenges - which is not to say anything great about Kyle. But my god. What a foul person to put out that 'feel sorry for me, at least a little' statement while her niece is recovering from her dog's deep bites.

So, I don't like Kyle but damn, give her a key to the city for dealing with Kim. And I really felt for Kim during her first season. But hell no, Kyle, she does not ever, ever take responsibility for herself. Hell to the no. Lisa Rinna has always seemed pretty fake to me so if she's genuinely losing it and glass-throwing, I have a feeling my gullible self will be very surprised throughout this season.

True, Wire Wrap. I really, really can't handle Jac or Caroline but I also really don't see Teresa as calm person at all; the incident where Ashlee physically ripped out Dinyell's hair started because of Teresa chasing her down the country club (or Brownstone? I don't remember), with Jac in hot pursuit and staring down Dinyell as Dinyell cowered in her town car after being attacked by Ashlee (Ashlee of course floated the bullshit that she was 'defending her mom' because she'd 'heard' Dinyell hit Jac. Such damned b.s.). I wanted Ashlee, Jac and Teresa all to get backhanded by fate for that mess. All three of them charged after 1 woman who was trying to beat a retreat. It was disgusting, though it did lead to Teresa's "Silverback" nickname, since she and Jac were I believe wearing janky furs courtesy of Posche Boutique while giving chase. I just think Jac is also a very aggressive (aggressive-aggressive and passive-aggressive) woman in her own right - and nobody's victim, as much as she is equally IMO desperate to claim victim status.

I agree with hottesthw - thanks for the blog link breezy424, I didn't remember that at all. But frankly, and just IMO, of course Caroline will dust off her MD (I'm sure she earned it like she was willing to earn Albie's second degree for him but for the meanies at Seton Hall) and claim this instead of writing "I was a giant asshole and told my SIL she was wrong for having her husband 'babysit' his own newborn.' Chick is full of shit as far as I'm concerned.

Absolutely - I just don't think there's been any evidence whatsoever that Jacqueline suffered from PPD. She suffered from having a bitchy, manipulative SIL. This is one of the many incidents that I filed away where I just don't see Caroline's take on anything as being necessarily aligned with reality. Someone just floated that Jac had PPD as fact in light of the Jac/Caro punch. It's not been substantiated.

My recall is that Caroline was being a bossy, nasty bitch to Jac about Jac 'forcing' Chris to 'babysit' Chris, Jr. - his own son. Jac got pissed and punched her in the face. Where this bull about 'post-partum' issues comes from I have no idea (meaning: if we can't assume that Jac's own shitty behavior as aired comes from some kind of personality disorder/malfunction, how are we to assume that Jac suffered from PPD? She didn't say that. Neither did Don Caro). It's giving a benefit of the doubt to Jac that others certainly don't receive. As I see it, Jac and Caroline are both bitches, but Jac's own admissions from her own giant papier-mached gob make her out to be a handsy fucking lunatic. In one episode, she CERTAINLY admitted, in a confessional, without prompting, that Ashlee frustrated her because as a same-sized or bigger adult, Jac could no longer 'pull her hair' the way she did when her daughter was little. Yes, she did say that. What kind of asshole jokes/brags/laughs about that to a damned camera years after the fact? I'm glad she's not pulling a full Howife salary, I think she's foul, and I am quite certain that if Chris Laurita could swing it financially (meaning enough to support 2 households since Jac seems absolutely work incompetent and she's vengeful and has no self-control), Jac would find herself divorced. Chris has paid a heavy price for some Vegas-trained head.

I flat-out don't believe Don Caroline about Dina seriously making a relationship with Chris conditional on him leaving Jac. Now, I can believe Dina blurting something like that out, but I don't believe it to be something truly serious, just a statement made in anger. Caroline can lower her voice even more and pull on her Sincere Bulldog sad-jowl face and I still won't believe her. As much lying as Dina has done, Don Caro has done her same share, and the idea that she's a beacon of truth because she's a fat-breasted, boundary-free mom to her despised daughter, Albie and the other one doesn't hold for me and never will. However, I have no compunction whatsoever about writing that Chris, Chris Jr. and Nicholas's lives would probably be a hell of a lot easier if Chris ixnayed that marriage and amscrayed the hell away from the Whorish Easter Island head that is Jac, and split custody. That is obviously not feasible because of the bankruptcy issues Chris Laurita is facing - he's had basically 'fuck my life' written across his face as a general rule, before Nicholas regressed and was diagnosed. He is married to an unbelievably unstable and immature crap-pile, and life is damned short unless you're Chris L. and are staring at the greasy balloon-head tweeting like a fucking maniac on the king-sized pillow next to yours. Then every day must feel like 500 years, but without much joy. The less said about the twins, the better. Ha, just kidding! I am loving all of the descriptions of Thing 1's foobs in her wannabe goddess gown. They are mean, petty, stupid, illogical, hard-faced, hard-hearted, squeaky-voiced pieces of shit. They added grossness to a show that has featured Richie Fucking Wakile, and that's no mean feat. Kathy may be entitled to feel burned or glee at Teresa's punishment. But I hate an insincere bitch trying to show her 'care' and 'compassion' through her smirk and her coming on the show to get her piece (and eat it many times over a la mode. Mangia, Kathy. Maybe Richie can turn his witticisms about Victoria's college peers and 'enjoying the meal plan' on your always-silent in the face of his misogyny fat fucking ass) while insisting she cares. No. Fuck her. She adds nothing to this circus. I really LOL'd at the tweet about no one coming to her book party/sad cannoli horns. Wah-wah. And Rosie - who I like in combo with Joe Giudice; those two foolios make TV magic together - can shut the fuck up about 'people' needing to let Twitter go. Some TWoP genius described Rosie as the out-of-control chained-up monster in the basement when she raged during that past reunion about killing Teresa for daring mention Mr. Pieri. She's a crazy fucking beast with significant social problems that we've collectively decided are too uncomfy to look at closely. I'm happy she's out and proud but she is scary and has a lot of insecurity and mismanaged rage, and I'm glad the nice seeming woman she was dating or 'dating' got away. But I would welcome the Rosie and Milania Comedy Showcase, too (with guest appearances by Joe and the girls until his time comes). The other stuff - what can one say? Dina's not zen, and apparently not much of a stylist (though I too appreciate that she does not immediately panic and decide to show her chest at every single opportunity). Teresa G. will never be able to proffer an apology; I think the comments about her perspective being tied into some very old ideas as posted upthread by copacabana is likely very true. I'm not saying it exonerates her but that theory is easy to understand, at least to me. Teresa may be able to acknowledge this when she completes her sentence, and rededicate herself anew to her girls, and possibly ending what's turned out to be a bad union for both the Giudices. I don't know, just spitballing here. And....Melissa Who? And Amber - whatever. Keep fucking that chicken, I guess. (/tm Ernie Anastos, pride of NYC newscasters).

I can't believe Alexandria leaves before Helen and Kate. Helen's a one-way gown-making crybaby fucked-up monkey, and Kate is a spineless fake-assed talent-free craven kiss-ass, with fatally frumptastic taste, poor skills and no eye. (And no character. Helen is evil and Kate is the banal basic bitch that lets evil thrive when it might benefit her.) Ask either of those idiots to make separates that actually fit - but don't hold your breath. Eff! I can't even wrap my head around a universe where Chris March, Alexandria and Dmitry might depart before Helen, Kate, Ben and Gunnar (though I'm sort of loving Mr. Deatharage's 'Jackie O.' black sleeveless turtleneck and big necklace confessionals.) Each of those 3 have actual ability and a great sense of what works on the body - Chris dressed Meryl Streep in one of her best, least-fuddy-duddy looks in recent years. I don't think he was worried about getting 'burrito smells' into Meryl's 'thousand-dollar gown,' either, Helen*. http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2010/01/19/meryl-streeps-surprising-dress-designer-project-runway-alum-chris-march/ * Helen sounded as delusional as Gob Bluth describing the expense of her garments:

Alyssa seems nice enough but also not particularly quick on the uptake - she's marble-mouthed in such a strange way for a 40+ year old grown woman. But I'm here to share my dismay about the way she's styled! I think she had a pretty young child in her first PRAS season, and now is pregnant with her second in this one, but damn! There was no reason for anyone to put Alyssa in that formless silver shiny expand-o-dress for the runway presentation, none at all, including being 8 months pregnant; she's pretty and the producers/stylists can certainly put her in better clothes, hair and makeup for sure. I mean, Asos.com would be a better place to start than the nonsense you can see Alyssa will be in throughout the season!

I hope Alexandria calmly heaves a sewing machine at the gruesome twosome and takes out HelenandKate. Or is it KateandHelen? Where does the remora (Kate) go in name-placement compared to the host (Helen)? Kate's design with those cupcake-liner titcups was a fucking disaster, but very, very Kate. I loathe her and wish that despite those Fembot boob darts that Patricia was waving goodbye to Pancake. Ivanka had her dead to rights - there were execution issues of course, but Kate has no concept or intellect guiding her tacky, tacky designs. She takes insipidity to offensive levels and is a fake 'nice girl' to boot, a disgusting combination. Julia, I'm with you - most excited to see Dmitry and Fabio (I saw Dmitry heading into a Ricky's on Monday night and wish I'd had something to ask him to sign 'one-way monkey! Love, Dmitry' or similar). I'm also happy to see Chris March, though I agreed with Ivanka's take on his look, and am interested in seeing what Samantha and Sonjia do. I remember Sonjia made a fantastic jacket during her season, and she had some interesting looks and can carry off blue lipstick, which should be impossible. And I'm glad that Alexandria is back and probably has some good defenses against letting psychotic crybaby Helen and her sniveling handmaiden even come close to touching her.

Oh great. This tacky, bitchy, shady, cowardly and talent-free trick is back again. Kate's first design was taste-free - she is the ultimate cheesy bridal princess designer who is absolutely delusional about what a client familiar with luxury goods looks for, and worse, Kate has a fake-assed personality to boot (TWICE waving her hand in front of her face to show how upset she was at Patricia leaving? Witch please). I hope Alexandria wins the challenge that sends Kate home, in a gale of tears and bad sewing and delusional attitude. She SUCKS. I can take bad attitude and occasional interesting design (Sebelia, Bennett, Michelle from Kate's season). I cannot take the human equivalent of Ladies' Night at The Cheesecake Factory thinking she knows a g.d. thing about making beautiful, interesting clothes AND being a fake bitch on top of it. No ma'am.

Bethenny was on bed rest for something both serious and probably a travel deal-breaker for other pregnant women. In her own words: http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/life-style-exclusive-bethenny-frankel-my-miracle-pregnancy-30263 I'm also just going balls to the wall with my opinion (hey-yo! Now I'm as original as Bethenny!) that giving birth to a 4 lb/12 oz baby at 35 weeks is not average or normal because it isn't. It's an underweight fetus/baby for that stage of development. Yes, there are more underweight premies and some babies born that early are as chubby as full-term babies, but average is 5 1/4 pounds. We all have our opinions and mine is that Bethenny followed her fucked-up diet, self-promotion and moth-to-a-flame fame-seeking dictates during what she herself sold as her 'miracle pregnancy,' and that she is very lucky that Bryn is healthy. I think Bethenny loves her daughter. I also think she's already well on her way to being Bernadette, Part 2, in Hello Kitty 4T pajamas. She is IMO a complete hypocrite (props to quinn upthread) and disingenuous huckster.

Amanda's collection was so strong and sharply styled. She was the clear winner AFAIC. A skinny white young dude, this time with an accent: total catnip for the judges and producers. I just can't get hot over Sean's imagination-free exploitation of a micro-trend. I don't think 'fringe almost everything' is what a good designer does; Leann Marshall's s. 5 'waves' collection was amazing and the way a designer could inject a particular idea into a particular bit of craft but in a varied way: each of her 'wave' skirts showed variations that differed from her wedding and bridesmaid gowns; there was design there. Sean's fringe was the exact same heft/width, in different colors and attached in different places. It was an add-on, and not integral to the design of at least half of the pieces where he sewed on fringe. It's too bad. I feel for Kini but thought he was just uninspired and may have a real struggle to generate concepts and ideas that will lead to great design. Char should be proud of herself - I think she's really genuinely good at problem-solving under intense time and other pressures, and I think she managed to inject a pretty cool vibe into her somewhat lackluster already-in-the-stores RTW-style collection. The wrinkling of the underlayer of that aqua dress drove me mad, but I was still happy for Char and I hope big opportunities come her way, and that she can thrive financially as a designer.

Oh, no - I like Heather and Jonathan together from what we've been shown. Hopefully it's just some strange blip or something. (Incidental to all this but I would really love to go to Miraval Spa.) Those kids in the photo with Bethenny are really cute. Jaime Foxx looking away while Bethenny engages in her typically subtle moves is hi-frigging-larious.

All IMO: Heather can act like an a-hole bully. Bethenny *is* a bully who cannot thrive without torquing reality to her will (too many episodes to list, but I'll just say that IMO this was the core of her 'relationships' with Julie, Jason, his parents, and most of her fellow RHONY members excepting Sonja). I don't see them as the same person at all. Heather can be a nasty bitch but I also see her as a genuinely strong woman. Bethenny is IMO generally a nasty bitch in most of her interactions, and is prone to cruelty, manipulation, dishonesty without actually being strong. Strong people don't behave as Bethenny did in even just the aftermath of her canceled show, or even in her pajama LOOK AT ME! social media moment. A strong woman wouldn't be so incredibly disingenuous while tooting her skinny little 'honesty' horn non-stop.

Oh, the return of honest, unfiltered Bethenny! Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and all of our birthdays have hit at once! Which will she say first, 'Break me off a piece of that!' (while staring at her expelled-from-college-due-to-rape-allegations boyfriend) or 'They're real, and they're spectacular!' (while gesticulating to the Grand Canyon between her implants and talking about her 'breast lift' to try and seem 'relatable.') Which '90s catchphrase did you miss the least? Because that's the well this thirsty jerkoff will go to first. Snaps in Z formation. I could puke - and that's on topic, since 'contains emetics' is what follows the asterisks in any given Skinnygirl product and of course Señorita Joker Face herself markets her ED to amazing success - that this trick is back for this particular goat rodeo. Big paychecks are a wonderful thing but I couldn't stand her foghorn voiced arrogance from the very start. At least her kid won't be on. Maybe her PJ's will make an appearance though. I don't see Bethenny getting along with Heather, and I don't see Heather being worried about that, at all. There is more to life than (earned, amazing) serious wealth. Bethenny is IMO an unstable liarfaced narcissist, with no ability to connect in any real way with anyone. Heather's got her big flaws, as do many of us, but she's not *that* and she doesn't intimidate too easily. LuAnn can probably be much more relaxed now, post divorce, post Jacques, and date openly; LuAnn's got her flaws but I don't see her making the same shitteous romantic choices; love her or hate her, men seem to fucking love Lu and she seems to know that. Bethenny doesn't have that quality -- neither do Ramonja. I think it'll be 'what affair, what divorce? [blink blink blink blink] Ramona and delusional soused Sonja laughing at Bethenny's quips as stolen from 'The Real' and the year 1997. So New York! Sigh.

Trash be trashin' - but hey, according to Sexy J, wearing jeans is just part of her amazing branding! Along with being a rude dick during a small cabaret show, and otherwise drunkenly pouting that she's not the woman on stage. http://www.realitytea.com/2014/10/16/sonja-morgan-rude-drunk-molly-ringwalds-exclusive-cabaret-show-confirms-rhony-return/ Ugh. This trick. So not madcap, just so not a decent human being.

The detail that made me reflexively believe Allison's account more than Noah's dealt with dress, too: in her recall, she and the other waitress were wearing normal uniforms, with skirts to the knee. In Noah's, Allison seemed to be the only waitress covering an entire restaurant, and wearing a skirt she couldn't lean over in (the dress was probably shorter than the mini she wore in Noah's recall of their beach meeting). Her credibility went way, way up with me without me even realizing it until after the fact. I thought the writing was really rather sensitive and excellent, especially the use of 'Peter Pan.' Tragic without being grossly manipulative. Again, very, very hard to picture that Allison would laughingly refer to how 'terrifying' the work is anywhere near the anniversary of her son's death. (I'm trying to be objective, but so much of Noah's take doesn't yet make emotional sense to me.) I think the show is compelling and I like the split POVs. I also like that Victor Williams is the interviewing police officer - random, but I love him as Deacon on 'King of Queens,' my rerun guilty pleasure. And Ruth WIlson has had that ducky curled lip for so many years now - I think she's an excellent actress, and doesn't seem the one, at least not yet, for doing anything to fake-up her face. Dominic West looks good and all, but older than his time as McNulty. John Doman as Noah's terrifying FIL made me laugh - I loved how much he as Major Rawls on 'The Wire' almost needed to stick it to McNulty, so seeing them again playing tension against each other is great.

If Andy said to Caroline Manzo that he 'loves' Thing 1 and Thing 2 and their 'family,' that's all I need to know: the Santa rumor, true or false, was known and probably an integral part of why the twins were added in. They don't have interesting lives, and had less connection to the cast than any prior RHONJ characters (Dinyell was the crazy lady with the Dina fixation or something like that. It was stupid, but it wasn't straight out of nowhere from a bunch of nobodies. In fact, the only slight connection with the new idiots is the one between Amber and Melissa, but that of course brings in the big problem of little Jim). I truly don't care at all about the publication of this rumor - Teresa did what they are all told to do, brought it up just as Amber/Jim had. Any damage, assuming that anything like actual human emotion flows through any of these new foolios, was likely done before casting. I don't even think Dee and Dum give a shit in a real sense, but rather that they feel they have to be part of the 'react to the Giudices' circus, and so now one or both are setting up a totally one-sided 'war.' I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. Even with Teresa going to prison, the show could have survived, I think, with better casting, and that IMO does not involve any of the newbies or their nasty men, human emetic Richie and Kathy (and holy shit, she was a big 'ol mess, looking like she was fit to burst out of her outfit's seams like a cannoli overstuffed with sweetened ricotta in this ep), or Jacqueline with her Bailey's filling her pelican-like throat pouch and talking through what sounds like a fuckton of Xanax or tranquilizers. Disappointing, Andy.

Next week's preview shows Thing 1 or Thing 2 saying, 'Kah-mah. Clink-clink' re Teresa, post plea or post sentencing, holding her little wrists out cutely. Jesus F. Christ, those idiots would have zero current job (...outside of the lucrative paths of exclusive cube-dwelling private plane concierge who tours homes with her fake boyfriend, and layabout 'restaurateur' (wife) to her unfaithful inked-brow shit-nugget of a husband). Both of those fake-knockered morons have zero storyline. They have no charisma, nothing to speak for either of them, nothing to offer. Just, yuck. Love you, muffyn. Exactly. Hearing one of those hard-faced tramps do her terrible Michel'le impression and talk about how a woman just needs Dunkin' Donuts and some idiot famewhore man by her side....jeez I think they're awful. Awful, boring, vapid - but mean as fucking snakes.