Portae

She has embryos, so I'm assuming that she knows the sex and could choose to transfer a female embryo.

It's her insecurities talking, which seem especially triggered around Erin's (very privileged, very emotionally secure) home life.

Since Jessel is catching so much heat for her ideas about school, I'd really love it if someone looked into where all of the other women send their kids.

I guarantee you that that is just an excuse that clout-seeking New York parents say to make themselves feel better about choosing to put their children in these $$$ and elitist private schools. NYC now has universal PreK AND widespread 3K and I am literally hearing the exact same excuse about how they would love to send little Timmy to local public school but there just aren't any spaces. As if parents without $$$ just have their kids roaming the streets until 1st grade.

I'm not feeling Pavit opting out of the preschool app process and acting perpetually shocked by all of this. I'm a public school advocate for many reasons, but if Jessel and Pavit want their kids to do the whole NYC elite school track and all of the benefits that come with that (including a trajectory for high school and college admissions), then he needs to be about it for real. Like, do what you want, but be honest with yourself about the significance of your choices in a city like NYC.

Yup. And Jenna is playing this naive awkward thing for all that it's worth. You think that you have an "event" but can't remember what it is? Meanwhile, you have arranged for matching jumpsuits, a caterer, and handled all of the the logistics for production to be in your place on that night. Or you delegated. But still. Jenna doesn't strike me as a person who wanders through life. I see her much more as a "the dog walker needs to come get the pooch by 2pm because the housecleaner needs to scrub my apartment before production shows up to film at 5."

ALL OF THIS.

Re. the women being overdressed. I do think that some of them are erring on the side of caution (in terms of being overdressed) because they're filming a show. Nobody wants to risk looking bummy on camera.

Right. It's like the women are sensing that Jenna is getting preferential treatment (doesn't have to stay overnight, doesn't have to show her personal life, etc.) and starting to resent it.

The cast member that quit/was fired. There was drama between her and her husband and Brynn at the start of filming. Cheesegate and the dinner at Catch might have had to do with her presence.

I'm really hoping that Brynn settles down soon.

I think that her trauma from growing up poor (unstable housing situation, for instance) has resulted in a kind of overcorrection. I don't see it as braggy as much as fear of going back to that place. But also, I didn't think that she didn't want to eat at Catch because it's passe: I'm assuming that she and Brynn didn't want to dine with Lizzie. Also, she didn't really put down the Dollar Store. She pushed back against the idea of it as a "fun" place to shop (Erin and Jenna) because her associations with it are different. Erin was being an (unintentional) snob because she thinks that it's entertaining to "slum it" by shopping there.

I don't know. I'd probably dress up more as someone's guest because I wouldn't want to come off as insulting them by being underdressed. Also, women of color dressing casually isn't always read the same way as it is for white women, especially in spaces that are predominantly white and upper class. I'm also assuming that the women wanted to look good for filming. But I do wonder if Erin gave them any info ahead of time, like "the restaurant is relaxed and casual."

Ubah was using "Mississippi" as a shorthand for "underclass Black American," in connection to her reference to Brynn looking like a pimp. Rubbed me the wrong way.

I interpreted Leah's comment about "a weirdo white dude" as a likely a reference to Joe Farrell, the host of the party that they had attended the evening before. My guess was that, given his hosting of a huge and controversial Trump fundraiser the previous summer, perhaps he said some political/ideological statements that firmly planted him in the "weirdo white dude" category in Leah's estimation.