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This show is miles better than the Best Baker in America or Spring/Halloween/Holiday Baking competitions on Food Network. I was so happy to see this last night. However we didn't see all the cakes at the end. They left out.... what? The middle of the pack?

Well, shoot, shows how much I'm paying attention. FWIW, I am usually knitting while watching tv and I have seven cats so I can be easily distracted. I'll look for them next time.

I didn't see the shoes until just before Angel was unwrapping it and i realized it was a shoebox. I fell for it and teared up. I am okay with the cheesiness or schmaltz because RM is also giving us the really ugly part of the 80s and you need a counterbalance for that. I really love the show but small things are distracting me. Mainly, the trophies. What's the deal? Are they recycled? When we see the inside of the houses (apartments) I don't see a stack of trophies, ala Toddlers and Tiaras. And the balls don't seem sponsored or require a fee, so do they recycle or give them back before the next ball?

You are right. This is my constant complaint. We don't get a linear story. I don't understand why they even bother airing the story. It's not like it's a whodunit. The police and a majority of the family feels like it is a suicide.

Regarding the most recent episode - the 18-year old Martin, his disappearance on its face appears to be deliberate. But here's where I get frustrated with this show. Is this show about just letting the family members pontificate about how much their loved one is missed, or is it about locating these people? In the instances of adults missing, why doesn't this show take a more practical approach and really lay out facts and evidence to actually help locate someone? I'm going on about this because of the choice not to release the note that Martin left his family (I realize that it's the family's decision). And maybe I missed something, but why was there a discussion about his gender identity/sexuality, only to have the family state that there was no issue? You need help to find him, but you don't want to release the contents of the single biggest clue to help that? Even if the note contains sensitive information, wouldn't that be outweighed by the help that a nationwide audience could offer? Martin was going through something because he was keeping the truth of his work/school a secret. All I could think about was what did that note actually say? It was distracting. I came away from this episode thinking that someone in production should have said, "look this could be good case for our show, but you have got to give us more or it just won't work". Otherwise, it's just a show of parents saying that they can't believe they missed all the clues (and I'm not judging them, hindsight is bitch) and being sad on camera. It feels very exploitative.

I don't have children but the thing I just can't ever get past with this show and the stories, is how do these parents carry on. If my cat were missing I would be devastated but your 13, 15, 16- year old? I honestly don't know how they have the strength. Watching Tabitha's story and hearing the date 2003, my god 15 years ago, she just never came home. I still watch but it's so hard to sleep afterwards.

Good Lord, could Jason's neckwear have been more fussy and over the top? It actually distracted from his extra bejeweled jacket. They are speeding through the challenges and barely focusing on anything. Also how do those judges actually see the details on the master challenge entries when they are sitting 50 feet away?

The update at the end scared me.....a la Unsolved Mysteries. I don't understand why the police didn't process her truck or get purse, instead releasing both back to the husband. Also if holly was spending most afternoons with Cody why would he be okay with this lunch thing. It seemed like that was unusual but we never heard if Cody was alarmed by that. I definitely lean toward Corfu knowing more than he lets on.

Thank you so much for this recommendation. I am on the last episode. This was not that long ago (2003) and somehow i don't remember this. This doc is so well done.

Please tell me that Kim is fired from RHOA and Andy is cancelling DBT. I am ashamed to even call her a human being; she's a discredit to personkind everywhere.

Kim misses the "good ol' days" when there was no social media and you could freely spout your racist bullshit without repercussions.

Why did the two ladies appear at the end and say something about they need the fans more than ever?

Woah. I didn't think they would go there. Why????

Teddi's man hands are distracting me from LVP's boobage!

I came here just to say that. My job is to have babies? No, fuck you Teddi that's your job. My job is hate women like you.

Sorry, I didn't buy one minute of the restaurant scene at the end. The glass throwing? Completely staged. Couldn't you just see Teresa waiting for her cue and concentrating on hitting her mark? The only scene that felt authentic was one of the opening montages, with Melissa of all people, when she was pulling Joey her son off the kitchen counter and he was back talking and then the other two kids were fighting and Melissa and Joe were yelling like exasperated parents. (Sorry for that incredibly wordy run-on sentence.) Anyway, THAT felt real. Is it me or are all of the RH shows so incredibly fake or boring this year?

I turned this shit show off after Sheree showed up to Kandie's house for what? The big abuse reveal? Or the rehearsal of?? Whatever. This show lost me at the Cynthia's totally unnatural bathtub sequence. I hear how ridiculous this sounds because this show is either producer-scripted or driven by the actors, I mean, housewives, but how fake was that shit? I mean, I got a more real vibe from Kenya's fake crying to the producer about a divorce because her husband can't handle all the press ("blogs all over the world")

Vicki's dress was just so unflattering. That stupid cutout in the back with the compression hose illusion netting. Just tragic. I hate this show. I really want to quit it.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. My god, your summation is gold! Still laughing.

My husband was in the room with me and I told him, "just watch, watch" and then she fell. Good Times.

I just turned this shit off. I am done. What a bunch of bullshit. The whole Kelly and her mom at the senior center and then to Vicki talking to her son about "nupts". WTF. This show officially sucks.

Oh my god. I got up and cleaned out the litter boxes and then swept and then vacuumed. I never ever do this on a weeknight because I am too lazy after working all day. This show made cleaning my cats' piss and shit something fun. FU RHOC!

I finally figured it out, and I am really showing my age/dating myself but Jaymes Mansfield makes me think of Radar O'Reilly (M*A*S*H) in drag.

Daughter in-law crying with no tears, younger son recounting events as if he were auditioning for a soap opera, and holier-than-thou husband cheating with a woman named Spring. If the narrator had not been the same guy, I would have thought it was a put-on. I wasn't angry until I got here and read about dead mom shooting her cats. I hope she rots in hell.

Ireland is so beautiful. And these women are so ugly. LOLing that Heather was in the bathroom and the store clerk was banging on the bathroom, "Is there an American woman in there??" I want Kelly's blue slouch beanie (wearing while she was packing). I'm off to Ravelry to see if I can find a pattern so I can knit one.