Sun-Bun

I really liked Leeanne’s brand of humorously unhinged crazy from the first several seasons, but this last season she seemed super bipolar and borderline manic depressive...like every time there was something fun going on she had to somehow bring it all back to her own sob-story childhood. Her insane mood swings got really old really quickly and made me wonder if she was going through menopause at the time of filming. Couple that with her aggressively racial attacks against the new Latina cast member, and I was completely *over her* midway through last season. It’s a shame, because she was awesome TV before then!

Acknowledging BLM and its victims/activists on their SM and/or IG stories would’ve been refreshing to see from them; simply posting a black square during the SM blackout day would’ve been appropriate and showed solidarity. Posting a meme, giving some props, pointing out some local black-owned businesses for fans to visit and support in/around Charleston, for starters. Openly acknowledging their white privilege and trying to help spread awareness for themselves and their followers. Shep and to a lesser extent Cameron have done an *excellent* job about occasionally speaking up on their Twitter and Instagram and/or offering their random thoughts via their IG stories on today’s more pressing issues, for instance. These are just nice little socially aware gestures that would look far better for the cast to actively offer than complete silence/complicity.

I’ll never forget that scene with Danni and Kathryn last season, when they were all in Denver, and Madison had just blurted out the rumor about Shep supposedly giving Danni chlamydia. Danni was weeping to Kathryn in distress and was obviously very hurt and embarrassed about it...Kathryn just stood there dopily staring at her in confusion, kinda grunting at her, “wow...oh...okay.” Her supposed friend is obviously very visibly upset by such a vicious rumor, yet Kathryn couldn’t even muster up the energy to simply hug her or offer a supportive comment, like “Wow, what a bitch! That sucks, Danni!!”??? That scene among others eventually proved to me just what a shitty friend Kathryn truly is. Danni honestly should’ve kicked her ass to the curb years ago.

I think the reason that some folks and myself find their silence in particular a bit troubling is because these reality stars have thousands of online followers and have such a huge PUBLIC PLATFORM to offer not only valid opinions, but the option to educate and rally a variety of efforts among their fans/followers for worthwhile causes. I feel like it’s almost a responsibility at some point as a “public figure” and with that many SM followers to at least post something now and then about the world at large. If they’re willing to use these same platforms to desperately shill everything from diet shakes to FabFitFun boxes to their followers, why shouldn’t they also offer a simple post or two acknowledging current events or offering respect to activism/events of this climate? And honestly, their silence points to the fact that they must’ve been a bit embarrassed by their own political beliefs. Or maybe it just further highlights they’re indeed just THAT vapid/self-centered to not even acknowledge anything in their worlds outside of themselves and their own vain interests(ahem, Kathryn). Some SC cast members particularly continue to keep quiet on such matters via SM because they obviously don’t want to lose fans or potential sponsors. Sure, it’s definitely their business to do so, but I certainly can’t respect them for it.

I’m shockingly really liking Leva so far; she obviously works hard and has a good head on her shoulders. She might be a bit of a virtue-signaler and gets preachy at times, but I do like that she sees through Kathryn’s bullshit and isn’t afraid to call her on it. Plus, it was so refreshing to see someone actually wake up Doormat Danni already. Speaking of Danni, is she okay?! Damn, she looked frailer/shakier than ever on this episode...her voice was super crackling, her bones looked brittle, her eye/eyebrow was wonky...for someone who supposedly tested negative for Covid, she sure looked sickly AF otherwise. Too bad it took her dumb ass this long to figure out that Kathryn is an ungrateful bitch though. And Kathryn truly is a soul-sucking bitch, for sure...she was so snotty and rude to Danni, but just before then she sure was doing some Oscar-level performing for Leva, acting so contrite and clueless, desperately trying to gain her approval and act like it was all just a big misunderstanding; I loved that Leva shut her down immediately after that. I saw those nasty messages she sent too; Kathryn is nothing but a self-serving bully and she’s *always* been way too self-absorbed to know how to be a friend to other women. Props to Madison for finally ditching Peter Pan Austen as well. I dunno where she’s going to find this supposed knight in shining armor to wife her up within five years, but Pringle sure ain’t it. She’s going to have trouble in a small city like Charleston and being an over 30 single-mom, so maybe she’s hoping this show will somehow help her find that someone? Ugh...enough is enough with the negative Covid-19 test-bragging from Shep; it’s not a good look. But neither is his younger girlfriend sending him nasty texts because he refused to get infected alongside her own Covid-stricken self(?!)...I knew she’d eventually crack and reveal her typical 20-something immaturity. Speaking of which, I can barely tell Shep and Craig’s girlfriends apart...these guys all seem to have a type, and it’s obviously tan, skinny basic blondes with boobs. Good for Craig and his pillows! I’m still in shock that it’s gone so well for him so far; he really does owe his team and this show for getting him to this point. They’re definitely meant for more beach-style homes, but they’re cute and look decently made. Patricia’s new home goods line gaining steam just as Craig’s pillows are selling is an interesting flex, but she’s been hinting for the home goods side-hustle ever since her pet caftans took off. Damned if I didn’t think Whitney looked oddly attractive on that Skype call with the other guys...he’s aging rather nicely, I hate to admit. Otherwise, boring show...it’s gone SO downhill.

I really want to like Robyn better because she has so many redeeming qualities(her partygirl dancing this season has won me over), but homegirl strikes me as every bit as lazy/unmotivated as she is completely dickmatized by Juan. This whole cap business of hers is likely very fleeting(just like her bright idea to go onto the house-flipping business), but I hope I’m wrong.

This is all I’m going to see whenever Mary’s onscreen now. Only ET’s wig looked slightly less dusty.

My husband sat there watching Lisa and kept saying, “She looks just like the other stringy long-haired brunette one...but this one has a face that would look so much nicer with a layered bob or a shorter haircut.” Actually, between us sitting there wondering why Lisa still insists on wearing that dated stringy hair a’la her twin Meredith, grimacing at Mary’s pitiful head mops, and laughing hysterically at Whitney’s dad in his Ric Ocasek/Ron Wood fright wig, we decided that this show features the worst hair on Bravo! Whitney was all kinds of cringey last night...the way she kept joyfully humping her brother, the new plastic face/boobs she flashes in her talking heads, her baby-talking her half-comatose dad in his gross pickup truck and his Party City wig while not even wearing a seatbelt..that was just a whole lot of WTF to unpack. Yes Meredith, please help your blandassed hubs to ride off into the sunset towards his Ohio dreams forever and tell him to take his asswipe son Brooks with him. Speaking of which, I really don’t care to see that entitled twink anywhere near a fashion runway. I felt like retching a bit when I saw him clomping around on a stage with models in the previews. Ugh. Mary remains especially unhinged, which is a rare feat with a group this inherently odd; Jen may need to turn down her racial outrage a few notches(along with her makeup gun), but I could see where Mary and her cruelly dismissive and clueless behavior would get under your skin after a while. Go figure, Heather is the only one who isn’t making me wince yet; I’m sure that will change in time, but kadooze to her for being the most likable one among these lumps.

Yeah. I’d read them via the public library but I refuse to spend money on that shit.

Yuck. Overpriced/overgrown McMansion that’s obviously stuck way out in the boonies; I’d expect no less from Little Miss Trustfund and BrownDick. Talking about trying to keep up with the Samuels!

I almost wondered midway through this episode why Craig didn’t include this in his pre-show narration: “And now for a ‘Very Special Episode’ of Southern Charm...” Ugh...I get that this show is trying desperately to seem “woke” and finally with it politically, but it felt really disjointed and desperate having a newer cast member like Leva taking over a long main scene of the show via hanging out with the likes of Danni, Gwenn’s Madison, and a couple of other super attractive young black women we’ve never before met, just to discuss/shame Kathryn’s lack of awareness for her ancestors and Charleston’s tougher history/racial tensions. This show is REALLY grasping for political relevance when none of the main cast members even bothered to comment upon or offer up a talking head to discuss such things. Kathryn couldn’t even be bothered to say a thing or show up for filming, so I had no problem whatsoever with those women bashing her obvious racial insensitivity/white privilege onscreen, especially when she so proudly tosses around that extra Calhoun title. Also, I’m firmly Team Madison; Austen is such a manbaby that it doesn’t surprise me in the least that he caught the Rona first. I’d heard via a few gossip pages that half the cast/crew had an outbreak, so this wasn’t news to me. Charleston was one of the hardest pandemic-stricken cities in the US this past summer(didn’t they have the 2nd or 3rd worst outbreak in the country thanks to the clueless tourists/beach crowds?), so watching Craig flippantly blow off its growing intensity at that point is sobering yet not surprising, especially if you saw how raging drunk/messed up he and Austen would get together on their Instagram Live’s they often filmed last summer. I’m sure he caught the RoRo from Austen, or vise-versa. I didn’t notice ANY masks this episode, but that’s par for the course as far as the more Southern cities go, unfortunately. Doormat Danni getting all choked up about Kathryn being chummier with Leva was creepy and pathetic as Hell. Anyone with half a brain knows that Kathryn is NO ONE’s girlfriend and she was obviously only playing up to Leva because she’s a fellow main cast member, that’s it. She never has given two shits about Danni, yet that poor girl has always desperately clung to her for whatever reason. Now I’m legit starting to wonder if Danni has an unrequited longtime crush on Kathryn. Speaking of Kathryn, can we please be spared yet more footage of her pathetically attempting to unpack/build furniture in her umpteenth new residence? That gal has lived in a new residence almost every single season of this show. All I can think about is that between her and the nearly as nomadic Thomas, those poor children of hers have never had a truly stable, steady home to enjoy over the years.

It never fails to baffle me how the Real Housewives who get so popular like Bethenny, NeNe and LVP, always become so convinced that their own fame will somehow transcend the reality show that made them such stars. Wonder if Ericka Jane is starting to see the writing on the wall too, or is she destined to be another Brandi Glanville? Is Bethenny doomed to the same fate of desperately begging to get her once secure spot on the show back a’la OC’s Vicki/Tamara?? Is she suddenly going to be relegated to schilling vibrator necklaces on Instagram like her old frienemy Carole Radziwill if things really go financially South for her??? Like I said here earlier, I’m wondering if Bethenny totally misfired with torching the Bravo bridge the way she and NeNe both have. Even LVP is starting to backtrack a bit now that she knows “Vanderpump Rules” isn’t a sure thing anymore(see her recent interview bites about being “open” to a reconciliation with Kyle) and her restaurants hurting thanks to the pandemic’s effects. The old tip of never biting the hand that feeds you nor the machine that created you really seems to be lost on these broads.

Right?! That was just so trashy, low-class and uncalled for, especially from the party’s own hostess. Everyone there was staring at her like the fool she was being at that moment. You can take the “Grand Dame” out of the farm....(once again showing those roots a’la “blacked out” Monique)

Seriously, I’m constantly astonished that such a physically beautiful and charming woman as Gizelle can’t seem to find a decent guy. She’s a total loser-magnet!! And it’s really quite pathetic that she’s had to play up this fake “reconciliation” storyline with Jamal just to have something going on in her life otherwise. (Has she even had a storyline this season??) Beyond her naturally catty nature, I just want to know what the Hell is wrong with Giz that she can’t seem to find a good man...I used to think maybe her standards were just way too high, but after watching her fawn over losers like Sherman and now Jamal, maybe the pickings are really that damned slim for women of her age looking for rich men in that area. Or maybe she just has horrible judgement/projects clingy desperation when it comes to finding a suitable life partner... Speaking of desperation, Monique showing up early to Karen’s cheesy little soirée just to get so quickly ushered out was the height of awkward. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by anything Monique does anymore, but I just couldn’t fathom why she even felt the need to show up to Karen’s event at that point, especially when Karen lied right in front of her and Ashley about the invite. Maybe the producers forced Mo to show up and/or Mo felt it was important to show up to any onscreen events by then for necessary camera time, but either way it was not a good look for her or Karen. Whenever I try to like and understand Karen more, she gets all flustered, refuses to acknowledge her messy lies, and flounces out of events as opposed to simply standing up for herself and “owning it” a’la Lisa Rinna. Ashley really isn’t loyal to anyone but herself, is she? And to Monique for self-serving reasons, of course.

Yes!!! Every time I’ve ever seen Kim on camera since her TV debut, the only genuine happiness I’ve ever seen her openly express is whenever Big Papa would buy her expensive things. Or maybe when she’s guzzling down some good wine/bad food and bragging about how awesome and/or hot and/or talented she somehow thinks she is. Maybe even when she’s playing up how horny she supposedly is. Otherwise, she’s like this worthless plastic bag of sour grapes and complaints; how her constantly complaining dour self managed to get as far as she has in her life with these various opportunities and fawning men is just BEYOND my comprehension. I don’t even think she acts like she enjoys being a mother to her kids...dare I say that her entire Kroy-spawned brood strikes me as living embodiments of the slang term “fuck trophies.”

I go back and forth on the blame game here, especially since Candiace is the kind of yappy chihuahua type who’s practically begging to be stomped. But ultimately it was beyond comprehension that Monique so aggressively snapped on her the way she did. She has way too much to lose just to have wasted nearly everything on that twit; now she likely lost her once secure spot on this show, not to mention likely put unnecessary strain on her marriage. Makes me wonder just how much wine she’d been guzzling before she suddenly decided to go ham and death grip Candiace’s wig. Either way, it was in super poor taste and such an extremely idiotic move on Mo’s part. Yeah, great job giving her supposed nemesis a sympathetic new storyline!

Amen to that. I have ZERO desire to see any of these overpaid/overrated chucklefucks attempting to be parents/functioning adults. We all started watching this show just to see LVP’s restaurant staff acting stupidly sloppy while barely getting by in shitty LA apartments, partying on cheesy beach vacays and cavorting in sleazy photo shoots/recording studios. Plus, I’m tired of seeing the likes of Jax Taylor, Katie/Bubba and Kentucky-Fried Britney consistently getting paid to do nothing.

THANK YOU for this: moley, moley, moley!!! Karen’s a beautiful lady, but that big ol’ scabby-looking mole is such a distraction that it’s all I see when I look at her. Well, that and her latest fright wig. Moles only work as beauty marks when they’re small and dainty, not large and nipple-like.

That’s so stupid!! But that sounds like the usual idiocy of a charter school. I taught at a charter school for three years—in those three years I learned that I HATE the concept of charter schools period. They’re essentially wannabe private schools that suck up extra money necessary from state public school funding. I felt like the biggest political traitor working there, but I needed the job until I could find something better. They also work their teachers extra hours for the same(or less) rate of pay as public school teachers. The PD time required of charter teachers is also ridiculous; like we had to go back to work two weeks earlier in the summer than other public school teachers in my area so we could attend the charter’s “Teacher University”, which was basically a bunch of bullshit speeches, community volunteer hours and other random idiocy expected of us for the same rate of pay as other public school teachers still enjoying their summer vacays. The worst part is that the charter HS’s expect *every* student to go to college upon graduation: 100% acceptance or nothing, and our students couldn’t graduate along with their class at the main graduation otherwise. I found that very ludicrous and harmful to student morale, especially since I was a SPED teacher there and my particular students would all ask me why they weren’t allowed to go to college like the other students. My class was smart enough to understand that they were being left out, yet they weren’t smart enough to understand why their specific degrees and IQ levels wouldn’t allow them to go to colleges like the other students/friends in other classes. I was SO tired of feeling like the dream killer just because my students’ parents wouldn’t explain the college stuff to them either. Sorry to go off on a tangent, @Growsonwalls! But yeah, “scholars” or not, most charter schools are just the worst.

A bunch of the Bravo gossip pages are giggling at the cameras capturing certain powdery white crumbs all over Austen’s coffee table after one of his typical house parties. Like it’s a big secret that half these folks love the smell of coke as much as T-Rav—you just can’t stay up non-stop partying while drunk until 4 or 5am like these guys all do without the help of a little something extra, and it ain’t just “Adderall”, Craig.

I guess what I’m *trying* to say is that I wish they didn’t feel the need to stage a cheesy dominatrix costume party in their hotel suite for dinner just to talk frankly about sex. It just felt gimmicky and desperate to me, not seductive and fun. If I wanna watch gimmicky and desperate I’ll watch Sonja piss in a cornfield and Ramona shit herself, not these lovely ladies.

I wouldn’t say I’m personally OFFENDED myself, so much as I’m disappointed. And kinda grossed out—-like I don’t *ever* need to hear about Karen’s vibrating pillow or Ray’s unthrobbed old knob ever again, thanks. We get it, Ashley: you’re a bisexual swinger who once preyed on fellow concert-going gals the way your gross predator hubs preys on cameramen’s bootyholes. And I’m all about women being open/proud and owning their sexuality, but this little “sexxxy” party just felt desperate and tacky; it was a rather trashy stunt meant for a thirst trap like Candiace to strut around with her tits out and wear a campy mask she could melodramatically cry into as usual. You know she sexted Chrissypoo pics of herself all tarted up in her hoochie bunny gear like it was the crowning moment of her post-pageant life. Hate to say it, but I’ve almost come to expect seeing this kind of low-class try-hard shit featured on Atlanta or even OC, but do you think the ladies of BH, NJ, Dallas or NYC would *ever* agree to debase themselves by dressing up like sex workers just to go eat dinner in their laps in a cheesy European hotel suite? Hell no!! Potomac ladies, you deserved better than that. You deserved swordfish and caviar at the finest restaurant in Portugal or a privately catered fine dining spread. But when someone(production?) dictates a lameassed S&M slumber party over room service bites instead, that means you obviously didn’t deliver enough fun/drama otherwise on that trip. Hell, at least the NYC ladies highlight their getaways in a sloppy/funny way: might as well just get stupid drunk, poop the floors and strip naked instead at that point. Whose lame idea was this and why even agree to film such bullshit? Dr. Wendy’s 4 degrees don't mean shit once when she’s sitting on national television looking like she’s on 3rd shift at the local brothel while eggplant emojis float onscreen around her. Or while looking as dumb as Gizelle did with her control top hosiery hanging out of her coochie cutters: First Lady of the Lamar Church of Crooks right there: she has a REPUTATION to uphold, after all.

THANK YOU!!! I’m also really loathing this smugly entitled little twat so far and it’s annoying the piss out of me that he’s getting fawned over online already and even getting his own talking heads. Should we expect any less of a kid who openly admitted to delaying going to college for a year just so he could “help around home”(aka shamelessly mug on his mommy’s new reality show like a pathetic leech)? I firmly agree that he’s neither cute nor funny/charming enough to be given this fame-whoring opportunity (that whole family acts weirdly semi-sedated on downers, quite frankly), so he can just take several seats behind his equally boring and vapid mother.

Yeah, it was weird how even though he’s older than her, Cameron almost treated him like he was her hopeless baby brother she was desperately grooming into a proper gentleman or something. And to profess to be such a “girl’s girl,” she mostly latched onto Shep and Whitney’s asses as the seasons wore on. Looking back now, I think Cam was way more calculated about herself than we viewers ever realized. She’s like a southern version of the main character from the Gone Girl novel, which perfectly describes Cameron: Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. Calculated “Cool Girl” schtick or not, I’d still take Cameron any day over the needy ball of suck that is Kathryn, with her caked-on makeup, drag queen wardrobe and droll medicated slur. Can’t believe we’re already 7 seasons into this mess and the “hillbilly femme fatale” is STILL moaning about her gross baby daddy Thomas and/or her latest bout of self-inflicted victimhood to poor Doormat Danni.

Amen to all that!! Although I think Bethenny really missed the boat on making her Skinny Girl brand somehow seamlessly fit into this adult toy-based narrative. Skinny Girl sex toys? Nahhh...Skinny Girl lubricant though?? Uh-huh!! Zero calorie edible lubricants and body lotions should’ve been her main focus here, if you ask me. Would’ve been far more “on brand” than her trying to get in on Kandi’s sex toys-based business mojo, although maybe she could come up with some nice Skinny Girl vibrator chicken recipes while she’s at it.