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They zoomed in on her phone which appeared to be a RAZR, definitely not an iPhone so it’s not looking good for her loyalty.

Well, Erika got that one wrong! Interesting timing: didn't filming on the new season just wrap? According to a People article, Mo had told Tamra and Teddi on their podcast a few months ago that he and Kyle addressed the rumors of marital strife during filming. Outside the family, the most devastated person right now has got to be PK.

I think as in IMDB. Not sure why they felt the need to shorten it that way: "You can't IMDB Serious" would have sounded slightly more clever (if a bit clunky)

"Heather's acting like Taylor stole her Oscar, like she's Dame Judi Dench!" Peanut Gallery Gina is my favorite Gina. I love her play by play when HWs get into rich bitch arguments. Not to relitigate the Malibu Country "scandal" but if Tamra had been offered a part as she smugly claimed, there's no way she wouldn't have jumped on it. Taylor keeps changing her story regarding the movie and blaming it on "miscommunication." Now she's claiming she wasn't just giving Heather the role, and that Taylor herself had to audition for her own part when she'd told Heather that she'd been offered the role since she was friends with the director. Heather had even remarked last week that those were the best roles, the ones that you're just given. Uh oh, now this season's Jenn is commenting on this season's Ryan being shirtless. And there may be storms on the horizon for this season's Jenn and Ryan. If we find out this season's Ryan has a small dog...

Schadenfreude aside, it is unfortunate that a probable result of this is that WB and DC decide to shelve The Flash indefinitely while they recast the rest of the Justice League, like they've done with Green Lantern ever since the infamous flop. There should have been a really great Flash movie made, had they considered if it might be a bit early in the game for the Flashpoint storyline, reassessed the Ezra situation, took it easy on the marketing hyperbole, and not made just about every poor CGI decision imaginable. But instead Gunn and co. will probably conclude that audiences don't want to see Barry Allen. Rather, we'll just get 2 or 3 Batman and Superman universes (each) simultaneously. And Weasel. Plenty of Weasel.

The only surprising thing is that they added 22 theaters last week. I'm sure that drew in at least a dozen people that wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Those new screenings are probably what kept it from falling to #4.

Wow, Jeana looks great. Taylor looks like Madame Puppet.

Ha, the Dubrows' annual "see aren't we a happy relatable family... who could buy and sell yours in a second" dinner with forced laughter, like they're all auditioning for a sitcom. I may have to take back what I said a week or so ago about the twins seeming impressively well adjusted despite having their dorms fully custom furnished out of a warehouse. Nicky might be alright, but Max is definitely pampered. Reminds me of a few seasons back when Meghan said of Peggy and Diko "we're rich, we're rich we're so fucking rich fuck you."

Kevin Feige: "Why are they so upset? We just killed her, at least we didn't reveal that she was a bad guy all along!" I was thinking Skrull too at first (I can't remember how long the shot on her lingered... maybe she's still bleeding out and hasn't truly died yet and thus didn't shapeshift back?) but then very first credit was "Guest Star: Cobie Smulders" followed by "Guest Star: Martin Freeman" so doesn't look like she'll be back unless it's at the very end of the series (same for the whereabouts of the real Everett Ross). Quite a surprise that they took two of the highest billed actors in the promos, reveal them to actually just be special guests and write them off in the first 50 minutes of the series. Another reason I think Hill might really be dead is that I'm not sure the show will be bold enough to reveal any actual superheroes as Skrulls so they'll need other ways for the show to affect the MCU going forward. Convenient that Skrulls happen to be immune to nuclear radiation, so that they can just arrange a few terrorist attacks to piss the nuclear superpowers off and then let the humans exterminate each other.

Apparently Emily's storyline this season is Food. Food food food food. Food food. I'm not sure if the producers encouraged her to play it up, or if they're just editing her this way. But it kinda bugs me, like the show is saying "Just look at her! Of course she eats!" And I'm NOT saying there's anything the slightest bit wrong with how she looks, but she definitely has a different body type than the women who are typically on these shows. So it's weird that they keep showing her call attention to every drive through window that she passes by, and drink water from dog bowls, and eat cake that's been thrown across the room, and give her a tagline that's about feeding her tacos. John is water and Shannon is fire, and the woman in the store is eyeing them suspiciously. Huh, strange, where'd this anvil on the floor come from? The show just swapped out one Jenn with a boytoy named Ryan with a new Jenn and boytoy named Ryan. At least this Ryan hasn't changed the spelling of his name and doesn't walk the kids to school wearing a dog instead of a shirt. And they appear to still tolerate each others' presence. I think. For Gina to say she's triggered by Jenn's backstory seems to be putting it mildly. I feel a bit bad for Jenn. She thinks she's friends with Tamra and with Gina, but unbeknownst to her they apparently consider her more of a frenemy. And then there's the other Ryan. Who is a cowboy now, because sure why not. So far this season the feuds and friendships seem to be forming and shifting at a more rapid pace than usual.

Less than two months from release and I've seen zero ads recently for Blue Beetle and a movie trailer once. Sure seems like the execs blew their marketing budget for the year on tons of ads for The Flash and getting Stephen King, Tom Cruise, and the media to rave about the greatest superhero movie ever starring a once-in-a-generation talent. It would be amazing to see Blue Beetle beat it in the box office, but a little-known character with a modest cast (do people even know that George Lopez and Susan Sarandon are in this movie?) and no promotion coming from a studio that audiences are rightly getting exhausted with... it's got a lot stacked against it. Meanwhile rather than promote this year's remaining releases, James Gunn would rather tweet about how great auditions are going for the next Superman that nobody wanted recast. If it weren't so fiscally irresponsible I'd almost think the execs would like to see Blue Beetle and Aquaman 2 perform worse than The Flash just so that they don't feel like fools for having put all their eggs in Ezra Miller's basket and they can blame audience fatigue rather than their own failures.

She and her husband are shady as hell. Every season there's a new legal issue. She's contributed nothing to the show since Puppygate, and even then she wound up as a bit player in her own drama. The burglary still seems suspicious. I have no idea why Bravo's kept her employed for so long.

Funny how now that the audience has spoken, the media has pulled a 180 and suddenly the plot, acting and PR disasters are being scrutinized. So much for this being the movie that saves the genre. Tom Cruise and Stephen King couldn’t convince the general public, maybe Gunn, Safran, and Zaslav should have tried recruiting Pedro Pascal, Meryl Streep and Taylor Swift to tweet their praises. The ones I feel bad for in this mess are Kiersey Clemons — who had nothing to do in this movie and is certainly getting the boot along with Ezra — and the cast of Blue Beetle which the studio seems to be leaving to fend for itself while Gunn tweets how excited he is about the new Superman candidates.

That Gunn went with the worst ending of the three tells me he isn’t the DC savior the press is making him out to be. I’m half surprised it wasn’t Weasel who stepped out of the limo. I’ll also be really annoyed if the last we ever see of Gal’s Wonder Woman is her standing awkwardly while Barry blurts out that he’s never gotten laid.

Maybe I just couldn't get past the Ezra of it all, but I was mostly underwhelmed. I thought the CGI in this was shockingly bad in the opening action scene as well as the cameos. (And I must be the only person on the planet who didn't give a shit about the Superman movie that never was, because that cameo got the biggest applause of the whole movie while all I could think was "why does he look so much faker than de-aged Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy over a decade ago?"). Barry's going to time travel again right? That last twist can't possibly stick. That or James Gunn will just decree that all future movies will be taking place on a different Earth. It was fine and the acting was all good but this was nowhere near the best comic movie ever and I've lost respect for Stephen King and everyone else that WB paid off to overhype this. Especially the ones who applauded the action scenes here while scoffing at Quantumania. Seriously, that baby rescue scene was so poorly done that it makes me more pissed off than ever that Batgirl was deemed unsalvageable. Did they blow their whole budget on lightning effects and paying Tom Cruise to promote, or did they just rush this through post-production, or what? Those babies looked barely more realistic than Ally Mcbeal.

At this rate they should probably be focusing their eventual X-Men casting searches on middle schoolers since they'll be age appropriate by the time those movies start filming

Maybe they'll do a twist and it'll be a villain origin story for the Hunter. I'm only mostly kidding.

Careful, if we don't all get on board the Ezra train I'm sure Gunn will tweet something condescending to us next week while being coy and dismissive to anyone who dares question why everyone else involved in Justice League has allegedly already been let go from their roles (something along the lines of "oh and you know that for a fact?").

That was at least the second time she interrupted the two of them having a heart to heart. I don't think she likes the idea of those two developing a friendship, especially while she's questioning her friendship with Gina and still on shaky terms with Shannon. That and she was either messy drunk or acting messy drunk since that's how every housewife seems to act when they're hammered. I hope the boat captain and the servers/"bartenders" got hazard pay.

That tagline was embarrassing. Is this stemming from the sub she brought into the sauna last season? A lot of the taglines were clunkers. Shannon’s was delusional (you call the shots, really?) and Tamra’s just pissed me off because “on pause” is the same way Andy Cohen describes Lisa Rinna on BH, so clearly that means she’ll be back to pollute that show sooner than later. Gina’s tag was the only remotely clever one. It’s impressive how relatively grounded Heather’s twins seem to be considering how insanely spoiled their parents treat them. They’re privileged but I’ve never seen them act bratty or lazy. i chuckled after Heather interrupted with her “there’s a penthouse right?” comment and Tamra just sat and stared at her like “seriously bitch?” Heather’s quite the messy drunk too. And she does not seem to like the idea of Tamra and Emily growing closer. I was on Tamra’s side during most of the episode until she unleashed her inner Tamra on the boat. So now Shannon gets to act like the better person. She tried to play that game with Kelly Dodd as well, much as I despise Kelly. Shannon’s so self absorbed that it almost seems like parody at this point. Interrupting Jen once to point out someone that may have been her boyfriend’s son, then after being called out on it, trying to grab Heather’s attention over something stupid like the size of the waves the second time Jen tried to talk. i think some of the drama on the boat could have been avoided if Eddie had taken off his shirt like he promised them, they were getting pretty cranky about that. But i gotta respect the guy for assessing the crowd he was stuck with in a confined space and realizing nope, if he did that he was probably about to get groped by a gang of hyenas. I guess “Fuck a duck” is too déclassé for Ms. Dubrow to recognize.

Dropping every character of color is... a choice. Agree the Kents are probably moving back to Metropolis.

Technically I thought she said wouldn't return unless Lisa and Erika were gone, so maybe 1 for 2 wasn't enough. But considering Lisa played a heavy role in driving off no fewer than three women from the show (LVP, Denise, Camille) I won't be outraged on her behalf. But now that Kathy's told off Rinna I'm good, and don't particularly care whether I ever see her clueless diva character again. Andy still wants Lisa back and always refers to her as "on pause", so I'm not getting my hopes up that her absence is permanent unless she goes scorched earth on Bravo. And even if she did, Vicki Gunvalson from OC tried to sue the network and now she's worming her way back onto that show. So my guess is that unless next season's ratings go through the roof, Rinna will be back after next season.

One of the magazine covers while Ted was browsing in the airport showed that Shandy had launched the app. Another showed that Zava had decided to unretire and was joining the Los Angeles Football Club.

"Recently arrested." Heh. A type indeed. Though, yikes, she looks almost as frail as he does.

Thank goodness Roy got the manager job and not Nate. It was bad enough that Nate only apologized to Ted about the sign (which the entire team already forgave without an apology), and not for leaking the panic attacks to the press and his subsequent public mocking any chance he got. And Nate never did find out the truth about the photograph. But whatever. The writers say he is fully redeemed, so that’s that. Shame on me for not getting on board an month ago. At least Dani finally apologized to Van Damme Zorro, instead of continuing to grin and pretend nothing ever happened. But apparently the old mask had better mojo. Well we got a throuple in the end, just not the one some were hoping for, lol. That was so very very dumb of Roy and Jamie. “Oh, you mean I get to decide who to be with?” They deserved the door slammed in their face. But at least Roy’s finally getting into therapy (with Dr. Sharon, back at Richmond!) so there’s still hope for the Roy/Keeley fans. Even though it was telegraphed a mile away once we saw the return of his boyfriend picking up tickets, I’m glad Colin got his kiss. So much for the human side of Rupert that was teased a couple weeks ago. Basically trying to put a hit out on a player, assaulting your new coach, sporting an evil cape/coat. Not sure I buy that the relationship scandal would do him in at West Ham, but he sure did dig his own grave. Not sure why Apple+ had been so coy about whether this was indeed a series finale. Everyone besides Ted staying put at AFC Richmond with a happy ending seems to confirm this being it for the show, as opposed to continuing the show slightly retooled. If they do decide on a spinoff, it’d probably be centered around the new AFC RIchmond Women’s Team.