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I emphatically totally agree. I'm really curious to see what the ratings for this reunion installment will be after that First Look. Hopefully Bravo will scrape up whatever salary Eileen and Rinna want to keep them next season. Just cancel the contracts on Brandi and Kim and apply their salaries towards Eileen and Rinna. Plus since it's looking pretty doubtful Yo will be able to return, they'll have her salary available, too. Dammit, just make it happen, Bravo...Keep these two ballsy newcomers!!!

That's something Brandi posted, I believe. Bear in mind I believe it was also Brandi who posted that by the end of the season we would all be in her proverbial corner and she would be vindicated or some such fucknuttery. I'll believe it when I see it. Quite honestly, no matter what she has up her sleeve, my disgust with her is so off the charts I can't think of a single thing she could produce that would have me on her side. Or Kim's. It could be interesting, though. I don't have the link but I believe it's up on that stoopidhousewives site.

Oh, thanks so much! I've seen Shaun of the Dead (and loved it!), but I've never heard of the other two so I'll check them out. Another little-known ZA flick I enjoyed was Doghouse: I'm not sure if it's available on Netflix or Hulu, but it was a lot of fun (I believe it's a British flick, too). Thanks again! Oh, thanks so much! I've seen Shaun of the Dead (and loved it!), but I've never heard of the other two so I'll check them out. Another little-known ZA flick I enjoyed was Doghouse: I'm not sure if it's available on Netflix or Hulu, but it was a lot of fun (I believe it's a British flick, too). Thanks again!

And Tawny Kitaen, legendary mistress of OJ Simpson during his marriage to Nicole Brown. Brandi is such a fucking hypocrite. How priceless was it when Eileen turned on her asked, "And what do YOU bring to the table, Brandi?" And all Brandi could reply was "conflict." I'll give Brandi a +1 for honesty in that answer. Gawd knows she hasn't brought anything else this season, except a "housewarming" party for a rental, the stalking of JR with Kim, and that screening of Eddie and Leann's show from the Island of Misfit Toys otherwise known as her bed. Yup, conflict is pretty much all she brought. It was just glorious seeing this beast finally called out on her shit. My birthday is this month. I should tweet Andy a thank you for the early gift of this reunion footage.

Ang is my favorite, too. A couple of seasons ago during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, when she was in her kitchen sans makeup and dressed in what looked like pajamas, making all of that food to deliver to the evacuees at the local shelter, she just made my little black heart skip a beat. It just looked so authentic, and I truly believed she was doing it out of the goodness of her heart and would have done it even without the cameras rolling. I got the distinct impression she's just that kinda gal. If she's too ill to continue filming next season, I think they just need to scrap this one.

I watched a few episodes of Z Nation on Netflix. I was expecting it to be cheesy for some reason, but I really found myself enjoying it. I need to finish up watching it before the new season. Can anybody recommend any other decent zombie shows (or movies) on Netflix, Hulu, or otherwise that are worth a watch?

What an amazing spinoff that would be, the chucklefucks of SUR battling to stay alive in the ZA. I can already picture Jax tearing off his chunky sweater to do battle...While Sandoval uses his flat iron a la Daryl and his crossbow for survival. Bring it!!! Now, back on topic, this show should be coming on in the next 2-3 months, I'm gathering. I'm surprised there isn't more promotional material out there. I loved the little 15-second promo clip but I want more, dammit!

It was so cathartic to at long last see somebody (in this case Eileen) use Brandi's own favorite line on her: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Seriously, between Eileen and Rinna, it was the most satisfying 11 minutes of Bravo viewership I've ever experienced. There was more substance in this First Look than there normally is in an entire 2- to 3-hour reunion. It was a thing of (reality show) beauty.

I need to rewatch this. I watched it on its initial run but, dammit, the first look of the RHOBH reunion just knocked everything about this first look out of my brain. It looks like it's going to be a great season. I loved all of their tag lines...and I giggled when I heard Heather still had "HOLLA!" in hers. After seeing this past season of RHOBH, damn if it wasn't refreshing to see a group of women who could still move their faces. I seriously cannot wait until Tuesday night for this and the RHOBH second reunion installment. It's like two giant-sized cuddles from baby jeebus all in one little Bravo package.

I'm not even going to give much thought to any "threatening" texts Kim supposedly received until they're shown on the reunion. This is Kim, after all, who has her own selective vocabulary and selective memory. Could be shit she's blown clear out of proportion, much like the My Goddamned House story. However, if there really are such text messages, I'll be all ears (and eyes). I'm 100% biased, now, though. I'll forgive Rinna just about anything after seeing her cut Brandi down to size tonight. I'm definitely playing favorites and not afraid to admit it.

Yes she was...and as I recall was really showing her ass, just like Brandi is during this reunion. Jill was overly confident with her place on the show, though, and had her posse on the show to support her. Brandi...not so much. Well, unless one counts the vile piece of nastiness known as Kim sitting next to her.

Oh lawdy, Mr. Persnickety and I were high-fiving each other and cheering Lisa R and Eileen on. I think we had more whooping it up during this clip than any other household in America does during the Superbowl. BEST. REUNION. EVER. And the best part?' Hell, we're not even halfway through it!!! Thank you, Bravo, thank you!!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG!!!! The last 30 seconds of tonight's first look have cemented my Rinna love like nothing else. A-MAZING!!!!!!!

Not much changes with this motley crew, does it? Horrible person that I am, I actually loved Farrah for a fleeting moment when she called out Caitlyn and Tyler on their fuck-and-awe "We're living our dreams!" moment. Seriously? As Farrah pointed out, dripping with sarcasm, what about those big plans to go get your degrees and show Carly how you did the right thing with your lives? Oh, that's right. You weren't sure which classes you actually needed to take to obtain those degrees so, rather than finding out, you back-burnered the entire idea. As any rational person serious about their education and future would do. And Tyler's Great Pronouncement that he would now go to school and get his degree? Buddy, you've been laying on your ass for, what, 4 years now, with apparently nothing better to do than obsessively participate in social networking and do an occasional public speaking engagement for Dawn? Yeah, let us know how that shit works out for you. Aside from being of legal age (and having MTV money), these 2 are in no better emotional place now to raise a child than they were back when they had Carly. Ryan, grab a dictionary and look up the word "insolent." There may even be a picture of you next to the word, since you're the epitome of insolence. And since Bentley is going into school, is Maci ever going to finish up getting her degree? Oh, that's right, she's pregnant again and, in the time since she's given birth to Bentley, she just hasn't had time to focus on school...even though she has ample help with Bentley courtesy of the grandparents and time to herself she could have used to study while he was in daycare. Silly me. Here again, that MTV gravy train isn't going to last forever. Hopefully I'm absolutely incorrect in this prediction, but I can almost predict a relapse in the not-too-distant future for Amber. It doesn't look like she's learned many (if any) coping skills and Gary stills knows which of her buttons to push for maximal effect. I agree that, unless she does and it's not being shown on the program, Amber needs to find something constructive to do with her time. Hell, if she doesn't want to work, take up a craft of some sort, anything to keep her mind occupied and not dwelling on the whole Gary situation 24/7. It's like nothing has changed in her life. She gets pissed off at Gary (or the world in general), grabs her security blanket, and goes prostrate on the couch rather than actually learning productive ways to deal with life's little (and big) bumps. I don't think these behaviors bode well for her sobriety. Ye gads, these morons....What are most of them going to do when this MTV easy money dries up? I roll my eyes so hard just thinking about how many seasons this show has had and how much money all of them have apparently just blown through.

I don't see this posted anywhere. I was going to make a separate thread for Big Ang, but in light of this news, I had difficulty coming up with a lighthearted name for it. Apparently, yesterday Big Ang had a tumor of the throat removed and it sounds as if it's malignant. http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/03/big-ang-cancer-mob-wives-throat-tumor-voice/ Get well soon, Big Ang...These women need you!

Such great moments from this franchise. Truly little satchels of gold. RHOC has had some real gems, too (Vicki showing up unannounced - and unwelcome - at Michael's college, Vicki creeping on Briana and Cody on their date, etc.), but for me nothing tops the golden moments of the NYC crew. I really have high hopes for this coming season with the return of Bethenny. And that clip of the Countess admonishing someone to "be cool, don't be...uncool" just has epic written all over it. Hurry up, Tuesday...Between part 2 of the RHOBH reunion and the premiere of RHONYC, the anticipation is nearly unbearable!

All it takes is for me to watch just a few episodes of the early seasons of this franchise to remember why it's always been my favorite. *Bethenny dropping a forkful of food into her lap while discussing with Luann manners and etiquette. *Francois going full-on apeshit at the season 1 finale, wailing at the top of his lungs whilst Ramona asks him, "Don't you know you're at a nice restaurant?" and looking as horrified at the kid's behavior as I looked at home. *Francois, in that same episode, going after Jason 1.0's uber expensive burger and stabbing it to pieces a la Norman Bates in Psycho. *Alex and Simon trying to persuade Francois into ordering in French at a cafe whilst scouring the newspaper for a picture of themselves at the Met. *Alex touting herself as beginning a new career as a model in what was clearly a Bravo-related promo opportunity and boasting about her good genes and how pleased she is with her own appearance when she looks into the mirror. *Alex getting a facial which reveals a gumball sized cyst on her cheek, after which she cops to not bothering to wash her face at night and to picking at the sore. *Alex showing up shortly thereafter for a "modeling" assignment with said cystic lesion and the photographer looking quite dismayed whilst Simon unexpectedly shows up to bitch about having to pay the babysitter an extra $20 for the photo shoot running overtime (probably extra time required attempting to camouflage that enormous volcanic cyst on her cheek). *Simon and Alex in a banana hammock and a string bikini frolicking on the beach (an image that is burned into my mind forever, thanks Bravo!) *Alex and Simon waxing poetic about their minuscule backyard and inflatable pool and how people in Manhattan are envious of this. *Alex and Simon gifting Francois with a piano for his birthday...Then Simon chastising him for getting fingerprints on it (likely because the delivery people were waiting off camera to take it back to the store as soon as the scene was filmed). *Alex breaking out in hives when talking to Kelli after the Morocco trip and Kelli demanding that Alex stop it as if it she could control the condition. Oh lawdy, my list could go on and on, but, in retrospect, most of my memorable deliciously snarky moments from this franchise involve Alex and Simon. I admit it. If they gave these asshats, the 2 ultimate poseurs, their own show in Australia, I'd be all over that shit. Now, back to my RHONYC marathon and counting down to the premiere next week.

I agree. I assume Demetria has seen the Bravo machine at work on other shows and is over compensating in her reserved behavior, doing her best to not provide the Bravo crew anything on film they could spin to make her look ridiculous. Good luck to her on that, though. Sooner or later Bravo will find her hot button and hit it repeatedly until they do get footage of her losing her cool. It happens to all the Bravolebrities sooner or later.

You know, I just now realized something. I'm going to play The Stroke Card here for my delayed reaction. Kim said on the reunion she has more pride than Lisa Rinna when it comes to choosing what she'll do on TV... Says the woman who was seen scrambling around on a hotel bathroom floor on her hands and knees in evening attire searching for what for all intents and purposes seemed to be her last crack rock.... Says the woman who was digging through plastic baggies in the back of a limousine searching for...something. Says the woman who was so wasted out of her skull at the SUR grand opening that she was proudly waving around her lipstick dildo to anyone who had the fortitude to speak with her... Says the woman who has humiliated herself to the point of no return on this show on multiple occasions. OMFG...I knew her statement was ludicrous at the reunion when I watched it but, in retrospect and thinking about it, it's now not only ludicrous, it's downright fucking HILARIOUS. Pride? Sorry, Kim, the USS Pride set sail long ago and you were obviously left on the dock.

I thought he said he was deaf at the beginning of the episode, which is why I asked in my earlier post if a hearing-impaired individual could have a career in the military. I was totally confused about what opportunities could be available in the armed forces for a hearing-impaired individual. I must have misunderstood him. This entire episode was just way too much clusterfuck for my brain. Ugh.

I was skeptical about this one. Until I saw that brief promo during TWD finale. Now I'm counting down the months until the premiere. Looks like a most excellent way to bridge the gap between now and the next season of TWD.

Felipe was deaf. He had a very typical speech pattern for hearing-impaired individuals.

Yes, that was brilliant! I also seem to recall Camille explaining her "art of war" strategy with Kyle as remaining calm so as to make the other person appear even more irrational and, in essence, winning any argument by default. And she was right. Her refusal to retort in kind when Kyle screeched "YOU'RE A FUCKING LIAR, CAMILLE!!!" made Kyle appear even more unhinged in that scene. The fights from season 1 were absolutely lighthearted fare in comparison to the past couple of seasons. I wonder which was more humiliating to Brandi... The Gerard Butler debacle in which he didn't even know her name after she bragged about their rendezvous or... Amsterboy confiding in Lisa they hadn't done the deed as Brandi had been gloating about because she was a drunken mess? I also laughed longer than I should at Lisa's statement that Amsterboy had been texting her practically begging her to join up with them. I wonder if that's why he was late to their "date," because he was busy trying to get Lisa to join them. I also really wish Bravo would have clarified just how late he was. It seems to me Brandi said at some point she had already had 3 glasses of wine, but I'm not sure if she made this statement when he arrived or later in the evening. You would think at some point Brandi would learn the meaning of discretion and put it into use, if for no other reason than to avoid this type of Butler/Amsterboy humiliation. Her seeming inability to learn from her repeated faux pas just mystifies me. She is either absolutely clueless or absolutely shameless. Or a little of both perhaps.

Mini Persnickety commented on Kyle's appearance at the reunion as well, asking why Kyle looked so different. Both of us normally think Kyle is quite lovely. We couldn't figure out if it was the hairstyle, something different with the makeup, weight loss, or something else entirely. I thought Kyle's style had improved exponentially this season compared to earlier seasons so I was kind of disappointed something about her appearance was "off" during the reunion. Camille was so deliciously grandiose in season 1 that I loved every scene she was in. Huge difference, IMO, between the "villain" Camille and the "villain" vapid, repulsive Brandi. I'll take a delusional hot tub Camille comparing herself to Jesus over a near naked, drunken, tampon-slinging Brandi anytime. And kudos to Camille for being able to nut up and apologize for her shady comment about Mauricio loving the ladies after the Dinner from Hell. This is something I expect no one to ever see coming from Brandi. Even at her very self-absorbed worst, Camille was civilized and had manners, both of which Brandi is sorely lacking.

What a clusterfuck of an episode. That background information on Paris Roxanne had my stroke-addled brain screaming trying to make sense of it and the third party involved in the messages. Good gawd, CIA level bullshit I guess. Then about the time my brain was deciding to calm down, we get Luis and his bullshit convoluted story about running multiple fake profiles, one of which was this Roxanne Gonzales. I need a playbook to follow this shitstorm. Anyway, the only conclusion I could draw from this was Luis was perhaps pissed off that he was losing his BFF due to her involvement with Felipe, so he catfished Felipe to show her what a dirty dawg the dude was and break up the relationship? He didn't seem to be attracted to Felipe himself and I couldn't find any other motive he would have for 'fishing Felipe. His text to the girl about "I have something 2 tell u" was apparently his big reveal about what a two-timing asshat Felipe was. Ugh. Again, what a clusterfuck of an episode. And Felipe, for the record, I'm pretty sure if you look long and hard enough, you can find a girl who, at 20 or so years of age, is eager to get married, is willing to move onto the family compound, and immediately get down into procreating. However, it is highly unlikely the girl will be an aspiring model. You should have stuck with the girl who apparently was willing to accept you the way you are. And, no snark intended, I'm confused...Can a deaf person have a successful career in the military? I have no idea what provisions are available in the military for the hearing impaired. I also am not sure if Felipe is completely deaf or partially deaf, further adding to my confusion. Thanks for the brain scramble this week, Nev. And glad you were simply glowing with delight at having Max back. I was, too.