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I'd thought that she was going to e-mail them to herself, which would have been the smart thing to do before deleting them, and was surprised that she didn't. Now I'm wondering if Pippa's "They were BOTH there" to Diana after the engagement party was referring to Stephen and Lydia, since it sounds like Lucy has had nothing to do with Stephen and in fact tried to do the right thing and warn Diana about him. I wonder if Lydia somehow got sucked into Stephen's orbit and resulted in him doing something to Diana? I do like Pippa and Wrigley sort of making amends and hanging out just as friends.

Who else thinks Bree isn't the only student Oliver is romancing?

Is it even the same Evan? The actor playing him looks different to me.

What on earth happened to this season? This isn't the same show we left. The previews seem like it gets back on track - I hope so. It doesn't have the same feel as last season.

I binged the first season last month to refresh and prepare for this new season, and since I saw it so recently, it kind of hit me like a smack in the face that season 2 has a whole different feel to it, like they got new writers or something. The dialogue was awkward and dragged on unnecessarily in more than one scene, Stephen is now blatantly a psychopath, other characters feel like shadows of their former selves, the first-season chemistry feels like it's missing - what happened???? I'll still definitely watch, but am I the only one who's noticed?

Both Craig and Madison seem to have really grown up this season - two things I never thought I'd say. Did I catch correctly that Whitney's secret girlfriend's name is Larissa? Isn't this the blonde European (German? Swedish?) model he was with a few seasons ago, who Patricia really liked? She came to visit him at his L.A. house. If so, it's nice that they're still a thing all this time later - which casts further doubt on his "relationship" with Naomi. And also makes Taylor look even worse for sending him nude photos. Taylor . . . I felt bad for her after her outburst at last season's reunion, because she was so clearly hurting from the breakup and Shep's infidelities. I chalked up her immaturity to heartbreak. Now, though, I'm afraid I don't have anything good to say about her. Whether it was the show, the breakup, or her own nature that made her this way, she's not a nice person. She's petty and catty and manipulative and dishonest. I hope, for her own sake, that she quits the show and works on herself and grows up.

I loved Venita's ruffly blue and white bathing suit, and that pink coverup was gorgeous on her - that's definitely her color! Captain Sardine was awesome: "I outgrew the can" and "He's going to go all the way down to the bottom" when JT jumped in wearing a life jacket." There were some good one-liners and reactions, but otherwise, I've reached the end of my rope with Taylor. She's become completely unlikeable and insufferable. There are going to be big disappointments and heartbreaks in life, sweetheart. You're not special. Get used to it, and get over it.

Venita is entirely too poised and mature for this group. The fact that she makes her own hotel bed instead of leaving it for housekeeping to do speaks volumes about her character. Hell, she's probably the only one of this entire bunch that makes her bed PERIOD, no matter where she is. That fact alone means she's too poised and mature for them. Austen's whole "We're supposed to be in each other's lives!" speech to Olivia had be flashing back to him telling Chelsea that they were going to be old and gray and in the same nursing home because THEY were meant to be in each other's lives. Does he just trot this sentiment out whenever he feels it'll work for him? (And does anyone know if he and Chelsea are even still in touch?) JT did indeed look like a beach towel, but at least he recognized Austen's stupid schtick for what it is and told him to his face that he's a kid in a grownup's body.

I do wonder why on earth Taylor didn't just go back to her old job or at least her old field - what was it, dental something or other? Why couldn't she just do that? Even Kate Gosselin eventually returned to nursing. If she could do it, why can't Taylor?

It was nice to see Madison and Austen actually talking like grownups - quite the contrast to his therapy appointment, where it felt like he was rehashing the junior high cafeteria gossip of the day with his therapist, who smiled and said "Wow" at all the right places but who knows what was going on in her head. The dress Venita wore at the dinner was beautiful. I've actually come to really like her, as she seems way too mature for this group. Speaking of immature - as much as I don't like JT, he struck me as genuinely humorous a few times. The exchange in his bathroom with the bellhop legitimately had me laughing. As for Taylor, I'm awash in second-hand embarrassment for her. Ten, fifteen years from now, she's going to look back on her behavior and cringe, and then cringe even harder as she realizes the entire world saw her acting this way. I get that she's young. I get that she's hurt. I get that she wants nothing more than for Shep to say "I was so wrong, Taylor! I made a huge mistake! I'm so sorry I treated you that way! Please forgive me! I want you back! Marry me!" But she's really started acting ugly, all over a breakup - the kind of breakup that plenty of people go through every single day and come out the other side perfectly fine. Nothing she does is going to change her situation for the better - Shep isn't coming back - and, in fact, she's turning people against her.

OMG, I didn't even notice! LOL.

I'd be cool with that. I like Rodrigo. He seems normal.

I, too, would like to know exactly how Prince Charles and Camilla came to be friendly enough with Patricia, of all people, to have her over to Buckingham Palace for dinner and send her a piece of their wedding cake. I'm not getting it. I did enjoy Whitney being neurotic over the dinner and the guys messing up the house. And I liked that it was Patricia who finally said she didn't understand why this group was all sleeping with each other when there's a whole city full of other people. Can I ask why Austen and Craig arrived at Patricia's in a golf cart? Whose golf cart was it?? Who in downtown Charleston tools around in golf carts??? Gotta admit, that meal looked fabulous. But I've always wondered why, with Patricia's house being so grand and over the top, the kitchen is hardly bigger than a closet. That never made sense to me.

I caved and bought this season and have been rewatching it the past couple of days. I so wish and hope they might bring some of the other casts back. It's really enjoyable and enlightening to see how deep some members of the original New Orleans cast became as adults and how introspective and mature they were in revisiting their experience twenty years earlier. SOME members. Not others. Like Julie.

Well, that went downhill abruptly. Both Shep and Taylor are absolutely whacked in the head. Shep is a self-centered man-baby sore loser with a hair trigger. Taylor is a walking open wound who seems to think that by still hanging around Shep, he'll magically realize what he lost and come begging to be back with her. They need to avoid each other. Period. Why was Olivia wearing sneakers with her red plaid PJ suit? And who nonchalantly tells someone to just throw away a bra??? A good bra costs more than a pair of shoes!!! Otherwise, there were some humorous points. JT describing Shep as a "good-hearted annihilist." Craig saying he was young to "start a list of everything that is my nightmare that other people just think is normal." Little Craig is adorable. Rodrigo is hilarious. And there's no way the tin foil hats were supposed to be taken seriously. Also, the scenery this episode was beautiful. Plus JT kind of scored half a point by being able to laugh at and embrace his own stupidity. Coming up next week: do we really believe that Prince Charles and Camilla know Patricia well enough to send her a piece of their wedding cake??