Sun-Bun

Literally...she had to buy a new face before they’d even let her on our TV screens!

Agreed on all accounts!!! And I don’t often completely turn off a RH episode midway through a season I’d so faithfully watched, but I finally realized midway through this episode that I am officially too bored/apathetic to care about any of these lame broads and their equally lame antics anymore, Heather included. In the semi-memorable words of Mrs. Marks: I’m disengaging. It’s a shame too because this show had such promise, but watching Jen act like a psycho bitch EVERY EPISODE over completely stupid shit while the other women sit around placating her is just frustratingly bad television. None of them are really interesting and/or beautiful/fashionable enough for me to remain interested. All of them annoy me on varying levels. And their “wealth” isn’t all that either. There aren’t even any cute/funny pet moments and too many annoying kids moments. And making Las Vegas seem boring is a reality show cardinal *sin* in my book. When there’s a Sin City getaway, I wanna see stupidly funny drunken group behavior and shopping/dining excess, not a one woman production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Jen gives me shades of RH of Dallas’s former psycho hosebeast Leanne Locken, therefore I’m thinking her shelf life will be cut similarly short; a little of that madness goes a long way and audiences tire of that. Not to mention this current Dallas season is soooo much better and lighter without her former dark energy. I feel like Jen ruined this series’ potential with her thirst monster antics and we’d be watching a completely more balanced and engaging cast without her chewing up every damned scene.

YES!!! That chilling scene right there was the exact moment when my former ongoing annoyance with Kathryn for being such a self-centered shrew turned to full on hatred. And all because she was SO pissed off that Jennifer and Thomas had a close ongoing friendship and he had politely offered her a hanky?! Meanwhile Jennifer was tearfully sitting there telling her all about how her baby nearly died, and yet that bitch Kathryn just sat there coldly seething at her and refused to offer *any* kind of comforting or sympathetic words! Anyone who couldn’t see at that point that Kathryn is a narcissistic sociopath is blind. And I still refuse to buy that attempted redemption arc they gave Kathryn in Season 5; Ashley might’ve been an evil nutbag, but pitting one awful character onscreen against yet another awful character doesn’t make either of them any less awful! To me she’s just as loathsome as her babydaddy Thomas.

And the irony is, she’s said that her fiancé wants a child and that she’s willing to try for one, even at her age(early 40’s)...talk about accessory kiddos.

As a dim-sum lover and frequent flyer at my local fave dim-sum joint, I’ve had my fun with chicken feet. They’re a tasty delicacy, but yes, messy AF to eat; that said, I’d sure hate to be seen on national television spitting out little chicken feet bones, so I don’t blame some of the women for being leery about eating those in this situation. Dim-sum has soooo many other delicious dishes that even those picky women would enjoy, so I think Tiffany tossed in the chicken feet purely for shock value. I don’t blame her for being a little frustrated with these gals’ refusal to eat certain things though. Adult picky eaters admittedly annoy the shit out of me too, and to see someone as rich and well-traveled as Kam have the eating palate of an 8-year-old feels like such a waste. Surprising to see Stephanie dissing Tiffany’s gorgeous home tour though! Was that a smidge of misplaced envy and/or competitiveness? I just LOVE to watch these women show off their homes and closets, so I had no beef with her at all over that. Tiffany deserves to enjoy all the beautiful things her career path has afforded her; most Real Housewives were either born into or married into their wealth, so it’s refreshing to see an honest hardworking professional on here. Go figure that the cast member who suffered with a bad bout of Covid was the one getting shit blown directly into her nostril from some so-called “shaman.” I continually agree with everyone about how much better this show is without Me-Anne hijacking every scene! And we all know she would’ve gone apeshit on Tiffany, so it likely would’ve been a repeat of all her uncomfortable scenes with Kary from last season too, so I’m eternally grateful that her nasty ass was tossed out like the trash she is.

Leva reminds me of a few “Friends Of” Real Housewives who seem so cool and fun onscreen until they’re eventually brought on as actual Real Housewives and you quickly realize that they’re only likable in small doses. I’m guessing she got bumped up to main character status after the mass exodus of Cameron/Naomi/Chelsea, hence the sudden onslaught of screen time for this otherwise somewhat unlikable newbie. Damned shame, because I really enjoyed Leva at first, and I’ve NEVER been a Kathryn fan, but she’s truly worn out her welcome for me with the constant preachy virtue-signaling.

RIGHT?! I think Kathryn is and always has been dumb as a bag of hair. Like it used to crack me up on the first season how Thomas would drunkenly drool at her, “Yurrrr so wise beyond yurrr years...” And she’d just nod at him smugly because she knew she had that ol’ coot already wrapped around her finger. Too bad she seems to have fried her young brain cells on so many various substances over the years; she just seems so mentally stunted and too self-absorbed to even understand anything beyond what benefits her own vapid little existence.

Your teeth are not tools, Kathryn. And that’s about all I remember about this super lame SC episode featuring all these super lame folks. Shep acts about as over everything and mentally checked out of the onscreen antics as Cameron was during her last season; I think even he’s had enough of pretending to enjoy these tedious events and may rethink returning, IF this show is even picked up after this dumpster fire of a season. Danny does seem really unwell and it’s become extra uncomfortable to watch her onscreen...whoever here said that she acts like she’s on the verge of a breakdown hit the nail on the head! Hope she gets some help soon. Pringle seems nice, but I really don’t give a shit about him and his self-imposed single dad struggles. Every time he gets his own scene, I have to ask myself why he’s even onscreen. This episode was sorely missing Patricia, even though I’ve officially grown bored with her and Michael. I really wanted to like Madison better this season, but damned if she makes it almost impossible. Ditto Leva; I admired her drive, political views, and work ethic, but she needs to curb her constant preachy attacks on Kathryn already. It’s like she and Madison are both awfully damned full of themselves in similarly smug, ruthless ways. Congratulations then, ladies: you both helped ruin a once delightfully fun show.

Caroline just announced on her IG that she got Covid. She and her new boy-toy fiancé have been traveling around the world needlessly for months now, so I’m not surprised.

Right?! Working from home thanks to Covid has helped me realize just how much I don’t miss the constant scrutiny of others, especially when it comes to eating habits. Like just this past year or so at work, I’ve opted to do intermittent fasting from 7am-3pm. Not only has it helped me keep my weight down, but it’s helped me be more productive and do work tasks/pleasure scrolling at my desk when I would normally be shoving down lukewarm leftovers in the lounge with gossipy coworkers. Yet you wouldn’t believe all the “How can you just SKIP lunch?” “Is that even healthy?” or “That sounds like disordered eating to me..” comments I’ve gotten from people. And those comments are usually from people who could stand to engage in some intermittent fasting, quite frankly. But if I don’t make comments about your constant snacking/bigassed lunches, please kindly refrain from discussing my own fasting habits...and considering how many of my frequently snacking coworkers have gotten infected with Covid at my workplace in the past year, I feel vindicated and much better off just saving eating *anything* for when I’m safely at home.

Loved the first episode and LOVING the lack of random crazed mania courtesy of Leanne: *such* a healthier and lighter dynamic among these women without her sucking all the energy out of the room! And despite how lackadaisical the ladies seem so far about Covid protocol, it was still far more refreshing to watch their production’s take on the pandemic’s effects versus the OC’s production dealing with its effects. And THANK GOODNESS we don’t have yet another couple of annoyingly blatant deniers on this cast, a’la OC’s Kelly & Elizabeth. Loved seeing Kary comforting Brandi and explaining her take on Brandi’s tasteless joke. Honestly, I felt the same as she did about the situation: Brandi was just trying to be goofy on SM with an ignorant joke, whereas Leanne’s ongoing racist remarks against a fellow cast-member were coming from a place of hate and bigotry...there’s a difference. Still, it’ll be nice to see Tiffany take Brandi to task about it and help her understand how personally upsetting jokes like that are to people of her race/background. I’m normally not a big Kameron fan and I find her Elle Woods/Barbi routine often annoyingly fake, but damned if she didn’t charm me this entire episode. Spastic dogs, vapid ambitions and gaudy rich person garage sales aside, I genuinely enjoyed all her scenes this episode. It’ll be interesting to see if she ends up as the low-key star of this series after the past few seasons have been the Leanne versus Brandi show. D’Andra and her mom finally seem to be in a really good place...I guess a generous gift of 100k will do that to a relationship, eh? Tiffany seems pretty quietly confident, self-assured and not too self-impressed a’la Potomac’s Dr. Wendy...hopefully she maintains that vibe. Damned if I still love the genuine Stephanie/Brandi friendship; it’s always cute to witness their goofy family play dates. I’ve low-key missed these broads!

I’ve seen Kristen in person: she is so short, shockingly skinny and petite that from behind she almost looks like a child, no joke. Her legs looked like matchsticks. I certainly don’t mean to looks shame and/or wrongfully accuse anyone of an eating disorder, but she didn’t look naturally or healthily skinny to me...she looks like a gal who just doesn’t eat period. And after she’s had multiple children and released a cookbook, it’s just an odd look—-must be a California thing.

Given the fact that before the pandemic struck Craig was traveling all around the Southeast to various boutiques doing his Sewing Down South “pillow parties,” I’m willing to bet he’s hustled far more pillows overall than Patricia. He also appeared on HSN promoting them before she was on there peddling her own home goods line, and he’s actually had a few other Bravolebs promoting his pillows as well(RHONY’s Ramona, for instance). It’s kinda funny to me that people compare Craig and Patricia’s side hustles though; he’s strictly about selling pillows and Sewing Down South swag, whereas she has a myriad of assorted products she peddles under her name(items for home entertaining, caftans, smaller decorative pillows, etc). His pillows are a bit more high quality than her pillows since that’s obviously his main focus. Craig’s pillows do look cute and very well made, but all the patterns a bit too ‘coastal chic’ for my liking so far. I wish he’d try out more opulent/assorted pillow looks with more unique varieties, but I can understand if he wants to keep his focus less broad and simply design pillows that fit his ‘brand’/coastal Southern lifestyle.

Right?! As if he’s not annoying enough in general, he affects that idiotic lazy Kardashian vocal fry. I wonder if he realizes just how much small dick energy he projects when he whines about his daddy issues, almond milk, and juice cleanses.

I hate to looks-shame, but yeah, bad styling/fugly eyebrows aside, those poor kiddos look exactly like their creepy Count Daddy...I’ll bet Lu never dreamed his genes were THAT strong.

Oh yes, I know people like that too. They get off on people thinking they are sooooooo busy. Ditto...back in my early 20’s I had a musician ex-boyfriend like this. SO MUCH BUSIER than anyone else in the world, oh so very busy! Everyone should’ve been so impressed by how insanely busy he was!! He’d call/email me maybe 1-2x a week and we’d get together for dates maybe a handful of times...I eventually found out that he was just super “busy” getting busy with several other women, of course. So I’ve been naturally dubious about any of those “so busy” types ever since: sorry Lisa, I’m still not impressed and don’t believe you’re nearly as “busy” as you’d like to rasp to the rest of us seemingly lazy peons otherwise. Gosh, how dare Meredith’s husband miss his adult son’s 10 second black prison jumpsuit fashion show! What an unsupportive parent he truly is to not leave work and fly across the country to watch such a grand debut!! Now I’m officially rooting for him to run away to Ohio forever and leave BOTH of those weirdos behind. Heather, go out and get your freak on, girl. Be a slut and have fun; you don’t need permission from anyone, especially not your kids. Being an older single mom has gotta be rough dating-wise, especially if you’re a successful business owner stuck in boring SLC... Jen might soon become my fave if she just spent the rest of the season trashing Brooks like he deserves. More scenes of her taunting him with “her vagina” too, please!!

But yet to folks like me, the ultimate gift card lover/gifter, it says, “I want you to pick out exactly what YOU want from this place because I don’t trust myself to do it right.” And I am *so* cool with that. Better to just let me pick out my own gift versus someone getting me something completely lame and me having to go back to said store and swap it out later(which I often end up doing after every Christmas/birthday). Gift cards work well for online shopping too!

Amen to that! I’m actually RELIEVED when people give me gift cards, especially to the grocery: groceries have wine/beer, so that’s how I usually use mine. I know some people hate Starbucks/Wal-Mart/other random gift cards, but they’re perfect for regifting; and even if you don’t drink coffee or tea, Starbucks also has good breakfast/lunch food and other assorted beverages there to drink. I’m admittedly picky about gifts and have been disappointed far more than pleased with the “thoughtful” gifts people try to surprise me with as an adult...my husband included. Being a teacher, it’s also kinda funny to discuss with other teachers the “gifts” we receive from parents annually(although I don’t really get them anymore). Note to parents: your kids’ teachers ALL just want gift cards for Christmas gifts and we will sometimes even secretly trade them out between our fellow teachers later. Please don’t give us mugs, ornaments, candy, scarves, jewelry or baked goods(admittedly, I’ve tossed out baked goods because I didn’t trust the cleanliness of the kitchen in which it was made). And I know it’s “the thought that counts” and I’m always grateful, but I can’t help it if I often receive gifts as an adult and think to myself that I’d rather have just gotten the money actually spent for said gift. I’m otherwise easy to buy for because I make sure to tell everyone I like three things for gifts: fancy/bougie candles, gift cards and booze.

Random Bravo TV-related pet-peeve here, but WTF is *up* with the endless “Below Deck” marathons on there every other day?! Of all the endless old “Real Housewives” shows/seasons they could show, all their other random shows they could play, or even playing marathons of cancelled former Bravo shows, why must they insist on otherwise constantly playing this particular random show non-stop?! And I can watch “Below Deck” on occasion(aka if I’m bored enough), but I never really could get into the show anyway, so I just don’t understand why Bravo constantly uses it as filler during the day otherwise. It’s not even their most popular show on there. Like this has gone on for YEARSSSS too; I suppose maybe it’s just cheaper/easier for the network to play that particular series, but good lord is Bravo ever overloading us with that blandassed show.

THANK YOU. I was so uncomfortable during that entire apology scene with them because I just kept wondering what the hell he was apologizing for? Sorry your clingy ass wanted me to stay home and get infected by you so you didn’t have to be sick alone?! HUH?! She was the one leaving him nasty text messages and practically breaking up with him over him staying safely away like a raging thundercunt, so I didn’t get that scene either. If I had a partner pull that selfishly weird shit on me, we’d be *immediate* ex’es.

She claims to this day that she meant for the emoji to mean “monkey business.” Which was completely tone deaf and ridiculous on her part, especially knowingly dealing with an AA person. I’m sure she’s somehow convinced herself that it was an innocent mistake but she had to know even subconsciously how that would be perceived. So yes, not only is Kathryn an idiot, but she’s also a white privileged racist on the DL. She just doesn’t realize this yet, because self-awareness has never been her strength.

Wow, was this episode ever eye-opening...never thought I’d see the day where I genuinely felt *over* my girl Patricia, but here we are; I’m over her, and she looks really sad and old having to hang out with all these younger folks and entertain them. Shame on Austen for pointing out the obvious with his “bored old lady” talk though; so trashy of him to disrespect his hostess like that. No wonder she won’t drink his beer! That being said, I’m *always* down with the Kathryn-bashing because she sucks. Loved that Leva mentioned her tired out baby-voiced damsel in distress routine that all the guys coddle her over. She’s never been a girl’s girl and she never will be. I’m sure Patricia was thrilled to not pretend to like her anymore. The “bro-code” thing is every bit as stupid as the “girl code” thing people were giving Landon such Hell over a few seasons ago though. Once you’re done with someone, who gives a shit who they end up with later?! That’s such kid’s stuff, so no wonder Austen buys into that childish bullshit.

What the hell was wrong with Jen last night on WWHL? Drunk, trying way too hard, pilled up or All of the Above?! Even Andy was cringing at her awkward attempts at humor and outlandishness; like it was painful to watch. Jen needs to turn *everything* down a few notches already; like I’ve never seen a new RH believe her own early hype so soon and then crash and burn because of it so spectacularly.

Such an immature stunt and it’s been all over the reality gossip boards today; the thirst is REAL and all parties involved are so dehydrated. Beyond just the grossness of them all obviously sharing spittle, drinks and other assorted substances(sniff-sniff) together in the middle of a damned pandemic(TN is currently the #1 Covid hotspot in the nation, btw), it’s the bunch of pathetic 30-somethings acting like wasted teenagers while singing Taylor Swift on Instagram live for me. Kristen is sitting on Austen’s shoulders while barely wearing a thing, Craig is hanging all over Kristen’s gay hairdresser between stroking a poor dog while topless, and obviously it’s a desperate way of Kristen/Austen trying to stick it to their ex’es in a very public way. That said, I hope we see Madison release a video soon whilst humping Jay Cutler.

Ditto all this!!! As much as a part of me slightly sided with the folks wondering why Monique even bothered making a big binder of “receipts” and that it seemed a bit pathetically extra and thirsty, the bigger part of me was applauding her impressive effort. Like that was ballsy AF and kinda funny in the context of these shows; we mostly just see folded up paper copies of emails/texts snuck in from a few gals on these reunions, but to lug in a big fancy binder that was organized into tabs?! It was such a randomly brilliant idea and so perfectly executed that I have to give Monique props for having the foresight to compile her very own RH burn book! I’m guessing she approached this like an extra credit work project. If you look at it that way, Monique actually was being very driven, and was taking her “job”(this show) very seriously. So I can’t really fault her there; living up to that “Not Lazy Mom” title, obviously! And it was just so priceless to watch her eviscerating smug princess Gizelle; can’t wait to see more of that. On the flipside, Candiace looked so stupid with that big feathery fan. Nice attempt at a prop, but Kenya did the fan effect soooo much better and had the idea first on her RHoA reunions, so Candiace just looked silly. And she was extra mouthy and rude to Andy—-like barking at him that they would discuss her new house when SHE wanted to later??? She seriously needs to get over herself; she IS mean online and needs to calm down with the cruel and nasty Twitter clapbacks. I had to chuckle at Karen so innocently asking Gizelle, “Is Lamar going to be here?...of course not.” Loved it; she was so ready to pounce. Ashley can’t attack someone for saying her baby looks like his daddy unless she thinks his daddy is butt-ugly...which she quickly proved; that was not a smooth move and it disappointed me to see her lose her usual cool over that one. Wendy was really trying with that whole “aggressive” word discussion. And yes, there IS obvious colorism among this cast, but using descriptive words like those aren’t part of the issue; although it annoyed me that Monique jumped in to argue otherwise.