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Bet he’s planning on stitching those phrases onto a few pillows for good measure.

THANK YOU and I completely 100% agree!!! That entire scene with her and Venita really bothered me and immediately turned me against Olivia. She was so aggressively defensive and condescending to Venita and the way Olivia completely gaslighted her was rather inappropriate given the delicate nature of the topic. She refused to simply hear Venita out and listen respectfully—I know Venita came on very strong and it obviously took Olivia aback, but there was a rather dismissive undertone behind Olivia’s behavior that came off as more than just typical mean girl basic bitch vibes. Refusing to even own up to one’s white privileged behavior to the show’s only black female cast member while befriending someone on the show who had a rather public racist moment is NOT a good look. And yes, it doesn’t help that not only is Olivia boring AF and obviously only “dated” Austen to get on this show’s main cast, but she’s every bit as blandly basic as every other skinny, spray-tanned blonde beige-loving influencer/reality tv Gen Z’er. Speaking of boring, it’s time to cut Kathryn loose already if they even bring back this crapfest for yet another awful season. All she does is sit around in her apartment sulking while moping in her loungewear. Her kids aren’t on the show anymore, no one in the group really enjoys hanging out with her((Olivia only films with her for necessary screen time, let’s be honest)) and she has nothing going on otherwise but whining about her non-existent relationship. And Cheleb with his constant negging sucks too. They can both kindly remove themselves from my television screen and this show’s fake storylines for good, for all I care. Whitney has always reminded me of an upscale and more snobby/pretentious version of Quentin Tarantino, for some reason. Both strike me as very interesting, intelligent, worldly, and oddly creative dudes at heart, but their naturally skeevy vibes make them less than desirable overall. Somehow I seriously doubt Naomi would ever give Whit the time of day if he didn’t have his family money and connections. And why was she so hellbent on getting back on this show anyway? Seems like her online clothing shop is still doing well((weird how she hasn’t even brought it up onscreen at all this season though)) and she has family money/the business to keep her afloat, so I can’t imagine what would compel her to embarrass herself onscreen like this. And I’m certainly no Metul fan but he’s coming off looking better than Naomi post-breakup now, unfortunately.

I cannot to this day tell Nena and Sara apart!! Drives me nuts..I could at least tell the difference between SLC’s own brunette lookalikes Lisa Barlow and Meredith Marks after several episodes, but even halfway through this season I *still* can’t differentiate Nena and Sara! It probably doesn’t help that they’re both equally as beautiful yet boring.

I think she thought it’d be SO chic to cosplay like she’d just won a drag queen pageant, although even a drag queen would be horrified by that gaudyassed Elsa costume masquerading as an appropriate Real Housewife reunion look.

AGREE so much on all this—I’ve followed Caroline on IG ever since her LoL days and I used to think she and Sergio were so sweet together, but having watched them on the show together really changed my mind about those two…Sergio comes off as so weirdly clingy, obsessive, and dumb while Caroline treats him like he’s an annoying little lap dog she only tolerates because he’s so cute and pathetically loyal. And I’m not gonna lie: sometimes I wonder if her daughter ever feels weird that he’s her stepdad now… Also, I can’t get over how dull Caroline has been so far this season! Her dynamic is so flat and blah within this particular group. I just don’t think she can hide the fact that she doesn’t really care much for any of these other women.

I admittedly love her still and will *always* have a soft spot for Ramona because she’s such reality television gold: her complete lack of self-awareness and having zero filter is still as hilarious as always to me. She doesn’t even have to try to be funny, she’s just so naturally amusing in all her awfulness! ((that’s my only complaint about Camille: I wish she was as genuinely funny as Ramona))

I had to unfollow her on IG a few years ago too—she posted a few too many stories of her bugging her poor driver and/or singing along to the radio in the car and I finally couldn’t take it anymore. Self-editing is definitely not her strong suit.

Bethenny really has been throwing anything at the wall in recent years to see if it sticks. How many chances will she have before she realizes her “brand” just doesn’t have the appeal it used to once have? Isn’t she still keeping the Skinnygirl brand rolling at all or does she still just serve as an ongoing advisor/promoter for its products?? ((Speaking of which, I’m surprised she hasn’t pulled a RHoA Kandi by now and started a line of Skinnygirl sex products)) I’m afraid Bethenny might go the way of bitter current day NeNe, biting the Bravo hand that fed her so well, if she’s not careful. RHoNY was such easy money and only helped her name/branding stay afloat, so I can’t imagine why she refuses to ever consider an eventual return to the channel that made her a millionaire and *still* continues to chase her.

I’ll never understand why she and other natural redheads insist on ditching their beautiful red hair for harsh blonde hair: it is SO aging and washes them out! Why Kathryn insists on ditching the very color that makes her stand out in a sea of other bland blondes is insane. Hope she keeps this look…minus the fake tan, the drag queen eyelashes, hoochie wardrobe…

I can’t say that I blame Caroline for not missing her London lifestyle—I remember back when she was on “Ladies of London” and she didn’t actually live in the heart of London, but way off in a huge estate in Surrey(nearly an hour outside of London). Surrey’s lovely but not nearly as bustling and exciting as London, plus with a lifetime of typically dreary, rainy UK weather I can see why Caroline was so ready to move somewhere completely different and more cosmopolitan like Dubai. Her kids seem much happier in Dubai too, and it’s interesting how Caroline so easily moved on from her boring Middle Eastern husband to a shinier newer Dubai boy-toy((although I really hope for her sake he’s not nearly as dumb in real life as he appears on this show)). On the flip side, she seems far less self-assured and amusingly snooty like she did on LoL. Either she’s mellowed with age or she’s out of her former element, but I do miss her sharp-tongued boss bitch schtick she served up so effortlessly on LoL versus her current mellow yet guarded vibe on Dubai.

Funny you mention that, because I also sense a very similar outcome for this show—not a huge Bravo show but known enough for a few of its “stars” to perhaps land the rest of them a spin-off when the show is finally cancelled a’la Reza, Mercedes, and GG((I could see the network doing the same for Shep, Craig, and Austen; or perhaps Patricia getting her own little show even)).

This happened to me once with an UberEats pizza order! I was sooo pissed because it was after 9pm and that specific place was closing their kitchen as soon as my pizza was en route. After well over an hour I finally called to ask where the Hell my pizza was, only be told some female delivery person showed up 30 minutes earlier and took it with her. How convenient that her phone was turned off and she was off the UberEats radar after that. I did end up getting refunded(and fortunately found another nearby pizza place still delivering at that hour), but it made me wonder just how many scammers are out there ruthlessly stealing people’s dinners!

I’m still wondering what happened to that family house she was supposedly ‘given’ that she was fixing up several seasons ago(wasn’t it her late mom’s place, or something?); wonder what happened with that??

Admittedly, I got wind of some racial gaslighting on Olivia’s part. But then again, practically *everyone* in this cast is guilty of gaslighting in general, so she’s just going with the flow on that, I guess.

I nearly wept tears of joy when Lyft first came to my city after yearssss of dealing with hideous cab drivers! My ongoing pet-peeves with taxi drivers include: -Rudeness/zero customer service; I know many taxi drivers are foreign and don’t speak great English, but courtesy is multilingual! -Stinky and/or dirty cars/drivers…never fails to amaze me how gross some people allow themselves/their cars to get. -Refusal to use air conditioning, as though the barely cracked windows will miraculously cool things down in a hot car and distract me from the often overwhelming stench of body odor courtesy of the driver baking in his nasty hot car. -Credit card machines that are always mysteriously “broken;” makes me think back to all the times my drunken 20-something self was forcibly driven by many a taxi driver to a sketchy ATM during late night hours to get cash because their credit card machines were always “broken.” -Showing up late and/or never. I can remember literally being stranded for hours sometimes when I called for a taxi outside of the metro city area. I’d often end up taking chances and admittedly driving my own drunk ass home after a night out just to avoid being stranded somewhere by non-existent taxi drivers. -Misogynistic/pervy male drivers…I can’t tell you how many times as a young solitary female I’d feel immediately scared and/or judged by inappropriate cabbies. Never mind all the women over the decades who have been attacked/kidnapped by their taxi drivers. I could go on and on, but I won’t! That being said, Lyft/Uber is absolutely wonderful and so much safer and easier for solo female riders in so many ways. I cannot recommend rideshares enough and have only had maybe one or two troubling incidents as far as credit abuse in the nearly 10 years I’ve used Lyft/Uber, and even then my payment is quickly returned. As far as taxis go, they can go extinct for all I care; there’s good reason why that field is dying a bit more around the US and I’m fine with that!

So if we were able to meme this pic here, I’d label Sophia as Patricia and Kathryn as Jayne—I’m sure Patricia has similarly side-eyed a Kathryn party outfit or twelve. Someone online once referred to Kathryn’s style as “Southern bordello t*****” and I’ve never been able to forget the accuracy. I’m still a bit leery of Olivia; not only because she’s yet another basic little blonde dating muppet mouth Austen, but because she was *extremely* defensive to Venita—just aggressively defensive in both her tone and body language. Venita obviously came on a little too strong herself and that put Olivia on edge, but Olivia offered some borderline micro-aggressions to Venita that really didn’t sit well with me. The way she so rudely shushed her at Naomi’s party and later on completely dismissed Venita’s feelings when she was trying to have an open chat with her just came off as more than just textbook bitchiness. No one was trying to “cancel” her and I think Olivia certainly could’ve been a bit more naturally courteous and welcoming of a different perspective in that moment.

I’m so bummed as a longtime former Dorinda fan/apologist that she screwed up her big chance to win over viewers and use this as her triumphant comeback to get back onto RHoNY. How could she go so wrong?! At first I had thought maybe Dorinda was going through some serious shit at the time that set her off enough to be so especially mean to Tinsley and thus foreshadowed her “pause,” but this series proved that she’s really dug her heels into the false belief that her mean drunk antics will continue to win over viewers. Like Brandi said, she needs to go find that lovable Dorinda of her first several seasons again and just ditch this overbearing and angry drunk persona already. Still shocked that I somehow found trashyassed Brandi oddly endearing after seeing her on this series. Even Vicki in all her icky, Debbie Downer miserable glory came off better on this show than Dorinda did. Although I’m very sorry that we never got the Screeching Vicki vs. Angry Slurinda showdown I’d hoped for—their online feud post-show has been rather disappointing in comparison. Also, Jill and Taylor both proved to be every bit as lame as I expected them to be. Hope we never have to endure them onscreen again.

Brandi appears to be what I refer to as drunkorexic: she obviously drinks most of her calories, hence the slight booze pouch. Ramona has a noticeable booze pouch as well. So do I, therefore no judgement here! ((After a certain age, unless you work out/train like crazy a’la Tamara, it really is damned well *impossible* to keep from forming a booze pouch if you like to frequently hit the sauce hard)) I remember on her last season of RHoNY Dorinda tearfully discussing her many issues having to keep things financially afloat with BSM all on her own and all the pricy repairs it was needing at the time…I can’t even fathom how expensive the upkeep on that place must be, not to mention renting a nice NYC apartment on top of those expenses. If Dorinda’s hurting for extra cash though, there’s plenty of opportunities out there for her given her huge fanbase alone: if she’s not on Cameo already, she needs to get on there STAT; it’s crazy how much extra dough reality stars can fetch on there just filming personal paid greetings for fans. Hopefully she has a manager who gets her paid appearances. She’d make a killing if she were to offer possible AirB&B weekend specials to BSM or even if she privately hosted fans there for a certain cost. And if she hasn’t started one yet, I can’t imagine why she doesn’t have a Podcast; she’d be a natural and of course it could incorporate “Make it Nice” in its name. She could even do a special drunken Friday episode; I’d pay good money to listen to her angrily slurring with random callers over random bullshit.

Wasn’t it basically because she wanted to keep her shady romance with the shifty husband she stole from another woman on the DL? That’s the vibe I got via “word on the street”…although maybe being offered her crappy Bravo spin-off show helped sweeten the deal.

You hit the nail on the head as to why I don’t care if I *ever* see Bethenny on any RH show ever again: while I’ve always enjoyed her and her quick wit, she also sucks up all the attention in the room with either her angry screeching, melodramatic crying fits, or sarcastic wisecracks. The other RH’s desperately play up to her and desperately try to curry her favor because she’s the rich network “star” and Andy’s little darling. It gets gross watching how they simper up to her, although I always respected how LuAnne, Ramona, and even Carole all refused to back down to Bethenny at her loudest/meanest. Speaking of mean, I was rewatching a few RHONY seasons and Bethenny said something on one episode that struck me with its casual cruelty: the cast was in Miami on vacay and they all went to some art gallery where an exhibiting artist gave all the gals art pieces as presents. He gave Tinsley the coolest one of the art pieces and Bethenny was bitching about it to one of the other gals as they left, saying off-camera, “Must be nice to get the BEST present. Oh well, she doesn’t have a daughter and I do, so that’s MY present.” Just felt icky and unnecessary to make such a petty comment, especially in light of the fact that Tinsley desperately wants to be a mother herself. Or how about the time she basically told Erika Jane to her face that her music video sucked. Or her numerous little slights at Jules and Kristen. But that’s Bethenny for you.

Yes indeed!! And if you’re talking truly cheap and “neutral” area, they could’ve shipped these ladies to a random non-RH location like somewhere in the Midwest. Maybe even having the ladies stay on a dude ranch in Wyoming or Kansas or something like an “America’s Heartland” statewide road trip via them traveling on a huge tour/charter bus would’ve been a bit more interesting for everyone and spiced things up. My biggest annoyance with watching Dorinda as a hostess, beyond the mean drunk outbursts and the ridiculous rules, was after every single activity and/or excursion hearing her constant overdone exclamations like “Wasn’t that FUN?!” Or “This was SO AMAZING!” Or “Isn’t this THE BEST?!” Although seeing the other women practically grimace with a fake smile/forced reactions in return to these exclamations was almost worth the endless overdone enthusiasm of Dorinda. There was a slight undercurrent of Stockholm Syndrome with these gals versus their demanding hostess.

From what I gathered from the cast’s bits of their social media during filming, I believe it’s a dog wedding of some sort. Either Little Craig gets hitched with another doggie, it maybe one of Patricia’s dogs ends up trotting down the aisle..can’t remember.

I’m liking Pringle better this season too! Maybe he’s better off in short doses. His every-dude normality is oddly endearing when paired with these other 3 fuck-boys. I honestly don’t get why he and Madison aren’t even cast-members this season yet we’re forced to endure Shep’s boring pregnant cousin(or niece?) and Austen’s boring blonde girlfriend, but whatever.

The minute it was brought up that Taylor snagged “her own condo” in downtown Charleston, I knew that relationship was toast. Couples who foresee a real future together just don’t do that. She probably got the condo subconsciously realizing that she’d need a quick landing place if/when she finally got tired of being treated like ol’ Peter Pan’s long-suffering Tinkerbell. We forget how young Taylor is too—Shep was probably her first serious relationship and she hung in there longer than any ex’es of his. I’m sure she also made the typical youthful mistake of thinking she was that magical unicorn who could somehow “change” a commitment-phobe like Shep and make him want to settle down for good. She was even willing to even have an oopsie baby if it meant locking him down with marital commitment! Never fails to surprise me how many young gals out there are *still* willing to have accidental babies with older men just to lock down what they see as prosperous marital/lifetime providers((ahem, Kathryn)). I’m still convinced that Taylor already had one foot out the door as soon as this season began though. She probably hung in there to keep her place on the show/for the storyline and any extra perks with Shep along the way, but likely planned her exit strategy to coincide with these more embarrassing episodes showing how fragile their status really was by then. I wish her well—I was in Taylor’s spot with a similarly older/rich commitment-phobe ex when I was her age too. It took me wasting about three years with him before I wised up and was fortunate enough to meet my future husband shortly after I ditched that loser. 15 years later I’m just as happy as ever with my husband, and my older commitment-phobe ex is still out there desperately partying/prowling around for younger women like always. It’s a pathetic fate that I definitely see Shep facing as he ages on into Charleston nightlife.

I didn’t love her, didn’t hate her; but at least Landon stood out somewhat among the usual Charleston sea of tan, skinny little boring beachy blondes(even Cameron, Chelsea, and Naomi look similar, but at least Cameron and Chelsea had fun, boisterous personalities). Landon was awkward AF and had her own stealth-bitch moments, but I did love to watch her ongoing feud with Kathryn. Too bad she turned out to be as nutty as a fruitcake(given that she’s still friendly with Ashley AND Thomas). I stand by my affirmation that this show *completely* jumped the shark after Thomas split(I know he had to go, but that cretin was still reality gold). It’s just such a different show now that I basically hate-watch at this point. I don’t even really enjoy the Patricia scenes anymore now that it’s just her bossing around disinterested/pissy Whitney.