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I’m struggling to articulate something that’s been bugging me since the reboot started. Even though I know logically the episodes are the same length they always were, they seem so much shorter. It’s like nothing really happens but it takes up the whole episode. In old L&O there would have been an investigation, some comedy business with Lenny, an interrogation scene, new information to change the investigation, an arrest, a scene with Skoda, a legal debate in Adam’s office, a tense cross examination, Jack having a temper tantrum about something, more investigation, a surprise twist at the end of the case, and then a little stinger in the elevator to wrap everything up. Now it just seems like there’s no twist, no development, nothing actually happening. What are they doing to fill the time? Just me?

I found this pretty interesting. I’ll admit the my favorite part was trying to match the case to the corresponding Law & Order episode but over all pretty good.

I’m catching up after a years long break from RHOBH and just came here to post…Kathy is afraid to put in contacts so she’s walking around blind? What the fuck did Big Kathy do to those girls? I’ve never seen three more neurotic women in my life.

I’m finally watching this season years later and I’m having the same reaction to Kyle. Lots of the time it seems like she’s on something or drunk or something. I’ve never liked Kyle and I could buy her as just being bitchy now that she thinks she’s HBIC but she also seems hyper all the time too. I don’t know if anything ever came out to explain her behavior this season but she is annoying AF.

As someone who also married a Tom Schwartz (everyone love him, but he couldn’t keep a job or unload the dishwasher) I felt Katie’s reaction to her date not knowing what penne was. It’s not one thing, it’s all the things and expecting everyone to find your childlike headspace adorable. My current partner is an adult with investments and a house and a retirement plan. I don’t have to explain the grown up world to him. He knows how to cook penne pasta. Trust your instincts Katie!

I think Lindsey’s best friend works in PR in DC. I assumed she got them the invitation.

I just watched this episode. Yikes. Summer House is taking a dark turn I’d rather not see. I need my Good Vibes show back. Cierra and West are actually bringing the good vibes though. They are so cute together. And West really brings out the fun, goofy Cierra I like. They seem to really bring out the best in each other. Which is what your friends and partners should do! But speaking of couples who DO NOT bring out the best in each other: Amanda & Kyle I almost rolled my eyes out of my head when Amanda had a breakdown about Kyle complaining about her to other people. Isn’t that what she’s been doing for 8 seasons?!?!? Does Amanda have a personality then complaining about Kyle to people? It’s all she does! What the hell? I think what Kyle is worried about is that Amanda expects the lifestyle she grew up with but doesn’t really know what that means in practical terms. I’m not even sure Amanda realizes how uncommon it is to have a trust fund or that she grew up pretty rich (it seems. From what we’ve seen). I think Kyle is sort of buckling under the pressure of a big house in an expensive suburb and summers in the hamptons and private schools for the kids and summer camps and nice cars and so on and so on with a wife who seems to want to be a stay at home mom and also seems to never want to actually talk about money or budgets or doctors or anything practical. But when he tries to talk about it he just ends up saying Amanda needs to work more and Amanda starts crying and the whole thing goes to pot. Lindsey & Carl: Yikes that was bad. Carl seemed checked out before they even got to the house and Lindsey was on a mission to be a huge bitch to everyone. Now before I get to Lindsey’s reaction, Ive got to admit the “it’s not that deep” would have pissed me off too. Carl has a bad habit of being really dismissive of women and suggest they’re just being stupid or crazy. He did it to Lauren all the time back in the day. She would try to have a reasonable conversation with him and he would react with a really condescending “it’s not that serious.” He’s a jerk like that. And if I was walking into a house of people who hated me for both my own behavior AND his behavior while not hating him at all and I was trying to talk though a worry that I was going to be in the hot seat again by myself because Carl doesn’t get put in the hot seat and got “it’s not that deep?” Oh I would be angry too. You know what I wouldn’t do though? Lose my ever-loving drunk as fuck mind and start accusing the seemingly only sober person in the room of cocaine and insisting that he was fighting with me when he wasn’t and then use bottled water as a way to start a new fight. What the hell Lindsey? Just sober up and apologize. That’s your only move here.

I agree that I’m having a hard time buying that Tom and Sheena are so close. But I did feel like Arianna dumped Sheena as a friend once she went official with Tom and became a main cast member. It wasn’t a falling out exactly but they didn’t seem that close. I would forget at times that Arianna came on the show as Sheena’s friend. After she got with Tom it felt like he was pretty much her focus. Maybe Sheena and Tom did become close if hanging out with Arianna always meant Tom too? Or maybe Sheena is full of shit?

I got the feeling Brick wasn’t 💯 on board with Sheena’s mom’s parenting style. In the store he mentioned something about her mom making Sheena feel like she’s not doing a good job as a mom which was triggering her OCD issues. It seemed like there might be some family dynamics at play Brock would like a little distance from.

Amanda and Kyle aren’t ready for a house and kids? They are 40 and 32, what do they expect to happen to make them ready? Those two…I’m surprised they haven’t already announced a divorce.

I just discovered this on Netflix and I’m really enjoying it. I’m even liking the portal of Manson as someone who seemed amazing to some people or like a dirty little pimp to others depending on your point of view. I know there is this idea of Manson as some sort of other worldly Rasputin that mesmerized anyone he met but I always thought a lot of that was based on the Helter Skelter book which seemed to be based heavily on Bugliosis personal feelings. I’m not saying that they aren’t valid but there seem to be just as many people who were involved in the case that thought Manson was a violent drugged out pimp and other then talking a lot of gibberish was pretty much like any other violent drugged out pimp. Most of his followers were young and not particularly sophisticated. I think it makes sense to show until the murders he really hadn’t impressed too many people in law enforcement as being all the important.

What was going on with the back of Arianna’s hair? Where those clips?

Yeah, I think Arianna is going to get a villain edit and I think she’s going to make it easy.

I’m not disagreeing but I think there’s only about 10 years difference between Rand and the Toms. It’s basically two people in their late 30s hanging with someone in his late 40s. And if Rand can make you look immature…

“John is a very private person!” Said in Shannon’s overwrought, hysterical seagull screech.