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Good grief wasn't that sad? I mean I never expect the three clowns without a car to be much but when a Koch Whore comes on and spouts her lies, er talking points and not a single one can point out the House's own highway bill? Really? You know, TWO WEEKS AGO? So Roger Ailes Sock Puppet pulls up in the Fox Magical Thinking Tour Bus and either flat out lies or proves her ignorance is just as rampant and more self-serving than the dumbass panel's? Made of win all around huh? If this show was a horse some kid in day care would be eating it. And everyone knows Vampires can have all the sex they want. As long as they first ride a unicorn under a full moon during solstice and get a handy-j from the Lucky Charms Lepruchan. It's why they're magically delicious dontcha know.

Wait a minute. Granted I don't pay too much attention to the sew room coverage because it seems like it spends more time with talking heads sneering dismissively at what others are doing. Plus during teams challenges the last thing I want to do for an hour is listen to children who can't play well together. It is why I avoid playgrounds. Well that and because I am a just in his thirties single white male and I'm not sick. In that regards at least. I could have sworn as I struggled though the last bits of California by Edan Lepucki I heard Amanda drone about the judges dinging anyone who used anything even remotely looking like a conventional material. Then I saw a mini montage of various contestants making their own base material out of tickets and film etc. So Amanda just draped her stuff over muslin? I take back my ok'ness with her win. Take away the "conventional material" and all you have is Farah Abraham at Mardi Gras.

And that my friends was the grubby shit stained smelly mitts of Jonathan Murray at tonight's helm. Make no mistake. Heidi calls out Angela. Yet Heidi has no idea how the dynamics of the team worked up to this point *wink* *wink*. So she doesn't know if Angela might have caved to demands. Plus this call out takes place in a way that gives no insight as to why the dress was ranked so low. So calling her out is meaningless. unless of course you care calling out the Prime Weeper. And you worry you might have the other scapegoat gone in another week what with the colored ribbon collection being on the bottom. This way Angela gets labeled as weak and problematic and with more team challenges likely more sew room drama. Then lo and behold Nina is stunned. Stunned I tell you, to find out that the losing team had one member dominate and dictate. And of course he is kept and never called to account. Instead he is kept on with the immune limping gazelle that they send back to a den of lions. For likely future team challenges. Korina's dress really stuck out as the weak link on her team. Enough that I think it should have dragged down the whole team (Heidi ®). i did like Amanda's and had no trouble with her winning individually. I'm having trouble with the (false) idea that Angela's team might have won without her dragging them down. Because those two were more wtf for me than the winning design from last week. Overall I thought there was a very limited approach to the challenge. Lots of dresses that begged for Deney Terrio's Motion to sashay to going into commercial break. Overly sparkly cocktail dresses to the point it was like shopping in a Paris Hilton Pinata store.

I think for me Monet's contributions to the problem is more due to traits. Vaughn it seems is more behavior. I don't think Monet is deliberately refusing to be the bigger person. I do think Vaughn has the realization he could if he wanted to. I'm not sure if part of it is entrenched chauvinism or just his immaturity. But where Jamie I think is deluded, Monet is mostly oblivious and I do think Jason and Courtney are trying (Doug is a bit of an enigma I think he might be overly self-aware and playing a role or he is just blandly and perhaps earnest to the point of boring). My problem with Vaughn is he seems completely aware of where the divide lies and he seems to think he can't even stir himself to point out to Monet where that point is even if he isn't willing to reach across it. I also get a really really big whiff of overwheening ego. I tend to think both he and Jamie agreed to do the show with the endgame in sight and the "marriage" being the work they have to suffer through. And where Jamie came on hoping for some bland Ken Doll with washboard abs and a twinkle in his eye because that would validate her own aspirations to her desirability, I think Vaughn came on wanting to be the pretty one in the relationship. Also with someone who magnified his own desirability. However I also think he wanted to see whoever they matched him with swoon a bit in gratitude. I think Vaughn wanted someone to spend weeks basically considering herself on camera to be lucky to have him. Overall Vaughn strikes me as rather overly aware of the whole set up and yet he is so self centered he does not even realize he could come off so much better if he looked like he tried and failed. Again I find his attitude in terms of it being a matter of weeks he signed on for to be wearing when it comes to what I find to be pouting when all is said and done. Loud pouting but pouting.

Who the hell are the production runners for this mess? First they let this cretin get by. Then they totally drop the ball by editing the show in the normal weepy maudlin redemption arc manner. Yet there was no redemption. Even on camera despite him drunkenly leering about "getting help" Did they really think his barely articulated "realization" concerning the chef as his future sponsor held any credibility with a nose that was ready to guide Santa's sleigh that night? Not to mention the gin sweat? But no. Instead of having some awareness, out comes the five fake stages of Reality show makeovers. Delusion, Anger, Grander Delusion, Tears and Joy (at beneficial product placement). Cue the music and hand said douche the keys to his newer grander shinier kingdom. It was so sappy that I kept waiting for them to go stand outside and a golden retriever to run towards the owner in slow motion with a sunset behind him causing every hair to gleam and glisten and Ramsay to declare, we found Skippy at that farm your parents took him to and he decided he has had enough of playing with all his animal friends and having so much room to run and roam.

I'm sorry Vaughn but if one Sunday brunch seems like it ruins your life to the point you can't tell the woman you married to be on the TEEVEE what makes you uncomfortable about the specifics of the situation and offer alternatives, you my friend are resting in the trashcan nestled in an otherwise empty box labeled Massengill. i can see maybe being unsure about meeting all her friends at once. But if you can prance and preen in front of a camera you can do so with a bunch of women. Grow the fuck up and let those balls drop already. At least to the point that if it does indeed go beyond all levels of personal comfort, be more than just the famewhore I suspect you are and tell her you are not up to meeting them and offer an alternative. Even if it is just because you are pretending to be married for fame (little to none) and fortune (ditto). If missing one Sunday of pressing your buttocks into the couch instead of meeting a half dozen women or so over bland waffles, and over hollandaised eggs benedict threatens to undermine your entire life's routine and state of contentment. Yeah that box in the trashcan.

I'm sorry but Lynne being an attorney is not the stick out in that above statement. It is that the leader of the Mole Men is an Ophthalmologist!!!!!!!!! Gawd. Physician Heal Thyself.

If true? Means Bill's agent told him not only is Food Network not picking up his show for a second run but all his other calls to get Bill a STAR gig have been unreturned and the agent wants Bill to stop calling him. The only thing I do get from this is that Bill has a property he wants attention drawn to. Which seems odd because if you are wanting to move to Chicago to raise your child because you think it is a better environment than L.A. why on earth would a good parent even consider pointing out where you are living? How about a Craigslist ad while you are at it famewhore telling all windowless vans to pull up at the rear. These two are both so phony that I find the more they declare they are moving to Chicago the more I believe they will live and die in L.A. My guess is that 1. someone crunched some local numbers vis-a-vis their presence in Chicago as "local celebs" and figured they had to make their presence known in the press -- maybe their restaurant needs a boost? 2.Bill wants to sell the house before next year -- press release garners attention and hopefully an offer he can retcon into being something he could not refuse because it was for 'Duke's Ultimate Future financially'. Considering how hard they are pimping themselves as front people for things that have no bearing on their public personas (seriously, a furniture hires two vapid twits who have based pretty much all their televised careers on not being able to find a home they can commit to-- why they didn't make it a slight joke about always moving and people buying their homes and loving the decor so much they buy it, leaving Blip and Blop constantly in need of home furnishing). And now Chase? Really? Because even with Rancic's Apprentice 'Win' I don't see him anywhere even remotely deemed as someone who I would trust to lend me a nickel let alone where to store it.

And I remember now how much joy I got from that comment as well. Luann I still loathe. Sure I'm not sorry to see her go after the rest as they are also loathsome. But for me she will always be the still overly pretentious stick up her ass phony who couldn't be bothered to google even the slightest bit of true manners or matters concerning aristocracy let alone her own married-into family's not that far in the past history. Even in regards to Sonja at the lodge, her ridiculous over the top fury that anyone dared mention her name was risible. For me she is the lazy ill tempered dog down the street. Sure I laugh when it chases away the toy poodle across the way that takes shits all over our private park (paralleling Ramona), I'm glad to see the smelly farting beast scare the crap out of the three ladies who think walking on a Sunday morning means talking loudly to each other because the fools won't take their earphones off (Sonja). But in the end it is also the dog that barks all hours at nothing. It also shits in the park and it has tried to get in my fenced yard after my own dogs that try to ignore it and has nipped its own owner enough times to suggest it will bite someone sometime before it finally dies. I guess I'm trying to say that while Luann might be putting off all kinds of sparks at the reunion, I still and howling with delight every time someone mentions her purported pay cut. I'd love it if her checks got cut in half. And I hope she still has to sit by the phone until the last possible moment to find out if she gets asked back for another season. I certainly won't shed a tear if I never hear her braying caustic voice again. Same can be said for all of them. Keep the caustic and substitute the descriptive of your choice for the others; shrill, barking, sneering, whining, vapid are among those that will be accepted.

Not that the hosting tool with a shorter attention span than the average time it takes to take a leak doesn't have a point vis-a-vis Ramona suddenly wanting privacy in regards to her marriage that she never afforded anyone else. But I have suffered through enough of his asinine clusterfuck of a talk show to think bumblefuck Cohen puts enough of his own life out there that it might be apples and oranges but he and Ramona are both fruit in the glass produce dept. Let alone his donkey toothed pudwanking mug is on tv in good part to all the women like Ramona. She doesn't want to talk, then fire her. But for Cohen Our Douchebag in BRAVO to act sanctimonious about Ramona wanting certain things to stay private is just as hypocritical as she is being. So Lose. Then again lose is pretty much Cohen in a nutshell as far as I am concerned. Sonja. Damn. That babbling brook of determined lies and nonsense was actually painful. What is a lifestyle expert Sonja? "Sauerkraut" How are you a lifestyle expert ? "Burkina Faso" What yacht? "Crumbly bottomed molasses pie" Well that is pretty much what I remember without going to the footage for a transcript. I think she has the whole bit down pat. She just digs her heels in and makes the most bizarre and downright stupid stance that no one can really truly refute. Because there is no path of logic. No real association between her assertions and her "facts" to back those up. And so people throw their hands up in the air and Sonja considers she has won because the other person just refuses to join her in flinging feces at the wall. I do wish someone would sit her down on camera and just hammer away one on one. In fact if they are dragging out these reunions to several parts year after year I think it would be great to lead in by having just two wives on at time to go over specific items of note so the rest don't immediately jump ion shrieking. Sonja really benefits from having everyone else jumping in at the the same time. But questions a host smarter than dryer lint would ask Sonja: If you claim you made money with your investments didn't continue doing so? if people are paying you tens of thousands of dollars for branding advice why are you broke? Why don't you have hot water since buildings far older than yours in NYC have no problem with such? What is "flipping" in terms of a property. Because its not just selling a property. How many years was said "flipped" property a residence of yours before you "flipped" it? What is a judge? How much do you pay said person to consider him on your staff? Have you ever heard the saying a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush? You do know that refers to wealth guaranteed is better than wealth that just might be? Not you Harry and an male intern sleeping in on a Sunday morning? So how do you reconcile projects that supposedly pay you in the tens of thousands versus projects that have never happened? All I can say is if Porscha had stormed out and yanked Sonja and Aviva by the wigs...well I wouldn't have been sad.

To be fair to those who feel there might be an issue though? That rule has to apply to every other thing we discuss then. In which case we call go buh-bye. I don't find it ridiculous on a show that has dug as deep as it can in every other trite overblown stereotype to have Rosie being one of the guys as its way to "the more you know" matters of homosexuality. Nor do I think people who see this have more issues than the possible issue the show is trying to portray. That would be like saying every racist or homophobic or bigoted matter one sees or suspects comes more from within than without. Like Rodney King getting beaten was my own racist views coming forth and mistaking what was actually the advent of MMA. As for Rosie? She's the last person I'd trust as a witness to her own foolishness. One way or the other. That Gorga intellect shows itself in her in all its glory.

What the hell was that?! He comes in and basically did nothing but provide a bizarre narcissist the camera attention he craved so much he surrendered even the slightest bit of dignity. Then Ramsay waves his magic wand renovates four more rooms (really eight rooms in that building?) and adds room service and suddenly everything is great? And the wacko owner gets wrapped into AA happy ending complete with the chef as his sponsor? WTF? There was nothing about how the staff cleaned the rooms or how if the kitchen actually had the skills to carry out the new menu and room service. Not to mention where the pay structure was for payroll to make these new programs succeed. It might as well be on Disney complete with cartoon animals singing as they remake the place. That owner was just plain creepy. To be that desperate for attention speaks at deeper issues than just drinking. Drinking is a symptom of a greater sickness imo. I also have a problem with the staff. Sure they might have been the best people on earth. But there was a huge disconnect. First how can you be so emotionally invested in someone that treats you and the place you work like crap. Second, if you are emotionally invested in the man and his good health, why would you then gossip on camera to Ramsay who you supposedly just met? A good employee realizes the problems she has with the work place don't get better by airing them with the clientele. As fake as the show is, surely Ramsay has enough clout to have better opening credits. Then again maybe the opening is basically the warning label of what you about to see.

"Show Mommy where the creepy fake eye-bugging head-tossing nostril -flaring line dancing sequined host touched you using this potato ricer Billy"

I think Melissa smiled at JoeGorga's "investment news" because she knows there were never any millions to gamble with in the first place. More and more I think they are living off of the show's paycheck. I agree about Melissa and that damn contour makeup she slathers on. She looks like some Kabuki actress doing a one woman show of of all Jennifer Lopez's movie roles. Again though I suspect it is money. she started out getting her face tweaked to have more sculpted features and left the expensive rhinoplasty to the end. And now there is no money for the nose that was meant to pull the whole look off. So its what looks like a piece of charcoal and lots of smudged foundation to carry the day. Theresa needs someone to remind her that using her kids for sympathy is an epic fail when pretty much any amount of time just reminds us what a poor parent both of the apes are. Though there wasn't much of Gia forcing the tears this week thank goodness. I find Lexi odd looking in the face. Maybe she is one of those who still have a bit of growing to do. She at least escaped the Laurita genes for the most part though. Damn that family is one homogenous group of beaks brows and not-enough-sleep-bug-eyes. I had to laugh that even that famewhore "psychic" couldn't be bothered to put much effort into caring about Theresa to put out a half decent cold reading. i wondered if Dina promised him a bit on the show and didn't tell him who with until he agreed past the point of backing out. Though really. By the time it was filming wasn't it well known only Melissa and Theresa were carrying over from the previous season? He had to know the crook would likely be involved. He really should have put more effort into it. He could have had a ball with that. If there is nothing more honorable than a first responder? Doesn't the very idea of "dressing up as one" for such a party smack of dishonor? The twins. Wow hi def is not just not their friend? Hi def is Germany under Hitler to their Poland. Why do people do that? I think anyone looking to get anything permanent done to their face should drag their asses to Best Buy if they don't have a hi def tv in their home and watch some Real Housewives shows. I guarantee at least every franchise has one "eek!" moment if not one always eek cast member. Maybe they just always looked like old baseball gloves, but the weird half stroke elements of their face speak of over injected approaches to not aging at the very least. The one with the lighter hair looks like her blood vessels let a clot through and then at the last minute guffawed to her brain "psych". The silly rush to create drama followed by the realization they needed gas and the actualization they didn't have a big enough audience to pull off their hair pulling screeching debut. Was it me or were the salespeople finally so embarrassed by the silly drama ratcheting by the twins they were hiding behind the counter? Amber continues to have had cancer.

I'm really disappointed there isn't a reunion, though I would hate to have to sit through Wonk-Eyed Cohen's idiocy for another hour of my life. However there are so many unanswered questions. First was why so many of the women had no family on the show in many ways. Julie's husband was non existent except in title. Caroline has siblings I believe. The Hermers are a healthy sized clan. I guess for a short one off show it makes sense to keep it simple. But still it was a bit odd compared to some of the first seasons of the Housewives shows with extended family being introduced to ground the characters as it were. I'm interested in who took care of Marissa's son. Did we see either of the help that Marissa or Juliet possibly employ for child care? Marissa might have eager Hermer grandparents and maybe Gregor and Matt both took up some slack. But unlike Caroline we never really saw much of the inner workings in the US women's houses. Heck we saw very very little of Marissa's little boy. I want to know the timing of the events. Because there is all kinds of odd events versus the dates known. Caprice claiming that her surrogate could go any day seems at odds with her own attempts to make press in LA where she talks as if it was a scheduled induced labor. Which makes all kinds of sense since the famewhore had to straddle her broom to get six times zones west for the birth. Plus I think production would want as much control over an otherwise natural event since they had a camera crew along. When I followed the one wiki link, I find people who had a British reality presence on TWOP vis-a-vis UK Big Brother and the Get Me Out of Here shows, seem to think Caprice jumped the gun declaring both pregnancies. If the surrogate gave birth in August, why did Caprice tweet and then remove an announcement SHE was pregnant in the end of Oct. 2012. Then apparently was dropping hints in December again that SHE was pregnant? I wonder if the carefully fed to the tabloids story was not just her milking attention but her trying to recraft the narrative. Especially the whole "no no, I'm pregnant NOW it was always the surrogate who was pregnant...for almost eleven months it seems. Phoney. It was also odd that there were scenes of what looked like the Audi International with Charles and his British Bulldog but that was the end of July I believe. Not the end of August. And yet they talked about Caprice as if she had her own baby by that time. Though Beaufort Polo Club is pretty much a social gathering spot so maybe it was the end of year event which is held in Sept. Still I think Caprice was full of shit about the surrogate being dilated and ready to go. I think she knew damn well she was scheduled to fly to LA by such and such a date and that she was just trying to use more babies as shield in her march of the Fecund Martyr. She figured Caroline wouldn't go after her because of all the stress and how her spermed eggs were just too sacred of a concern to not let her get the last word. And the next to the last word. And pretty much every word before that. If we had to suffer Annabelle I wish we could hear more about what she is up to in the fashion world no matter how contrived rather than watch her piss herself on her horse before The Fall and watch her grind her "broken pelvis" (i.e. THE SECOND WORST KIND OF RIDING ACCIDENT" by drooping her frame into crutches I have to believe she borrowed from someone who actually needed them. The amount of sinews and nerve damage such usage of that type of support with the injury she claimed (I'm guessing she bruised her tailbone and maybe cracked something in her one foot) was almost laughable. But Annabelle's one value as associate of the haute toity set with faded supermodels, drugs and rock and roll periphery and the tawdry yacht set could launch several seasons all on its own and we got none of that. I'd like to know when Marissa was pregnant and during what events (again it seems odd in timing as I'm almost positive she was pregnant when she had it out with Juliet at the inn. Not because of the emotions but simply due to the fact that she was always wearing dresses that draped flowed or even when fitted hid the belly and because it looks like she was drinking ginger ale when the rest were drinking champage and rose). If she gave birth at the start of the year then she had to be three months pregnant there abouts? By the end of the show she would be far enough along for the rest to know I suspect. I wonder if it was considered a non topic because it either threatened Caprice's oh so dramatic storyline or because Marissa just didn't want to become an ancillary element to Caprice having the most salacious and everyone must know every detail whelping. I'd also like to know how many champagne flutes Marissa and the cute waiter sent to the grass. ETA: The reason I think it was Charles at the Audi international was because Boujis held a big after party event that my sister went to and I still have a pic or two of her with someone famous I'm suppose to know and still don't.

I think Caprice inserted herself into the casting process or at least pretended to as it seems she was the first of the Americans cast (how that must have burned her to see her be labeled one of the Americans every time she was identified). As awkward as she was (which probably had something to do with her being demoted to friend on the show -- plus her husband seeming to avoid cameras like they would steal his soul), Julie came off rather quickly as someone just as eager to be on television. I strongly suspect that part of the allure for Julie, Caroline and Annabelle was that the show is a US one. Even if it does air in the UK it then is a "foreign" show. Which has the oddest connotation it seems at least among some watching Brits I've found. Somehow US reality trash is both more puerile and yet more detached for those involved in a slightly more positive way. I think a huge part of Caprice's attitude stemmed from Juliet and Caroline, and to a lesser degree Marissa, refusing to let Caprice play the Middle around which everyone was suppose to revolve and go through. It was interesting seeing how relaxed Julie was when she was around everyone else compared to playing Hecuba's handmaid to Annabelle and Caprice's little lapdog.

Heather i would agree with just by what we know. But she is also in the business of selling women fixes for their bodies. So mixed messages there in my opinion. Carole on the other hand hasn't had so many short term different looks like say Patti Stanger or the RHOOC's Tamra Barney but she clearly is choosing to do something and has done more than one something since previous season ended. Now maybe that is actually a sign of being comfortable in your own skin to the point of having it professionally sloughed off for you. Maybe the ultimate self confidence is caring so little about your looks you waltz into the Cosmetic Surgery school as tell a first year student "do whatever you like". Okay that is an exaggeration since I don't want fellow posters thinking how horrible I am for suggesting she is grotesque. I want you to find me a horrible person for far more important matters. But I find it sad since i think she looks worse than she did naturally. Which as pointed out was how she was born (I presume -- maybe this is but a recent step in a long long journey of letting someone play with her face) I do though find Carole puts on an over the stereotype persona for the show that might be rooted in her own but is strongly based on the exaggerated tropes pop media has melded. From her silly contrived sexy single woman overdone bit last season to now her reminding us over and over again she is an author this season, truths can still be wrapped in determined imagery. And she takes it as far as she can in some ways and wraps herself in a slicker smoother yet swollen face that does not fit her. Or any other woman. Or man. Maybe a Cabbage Patch Kid Doll. Nothing else I can think of off the top of my head. She hasn't reached "frightened cat" stage yet (Almost Royal). But it is still rather obvious she went to someone and paid to have that done to herself. More than once. If that is being comfortable in her own skin, I'll take my own insecurities any day.

If anything this show was Annabelle's first real attempt at pubic attention that wasn't gauche. Though it would be nice for those that like her to send her a link to being called a lovely young woman. Claws and crows feet is more how I see her but different perspectives is what makes the world go round. I suspect if Annabelle didn't come back in a hypothetical second season it would be either she was found too dull or if it was by her choice and going by her attitude from the start, it would be due to her being miffed the show didn't revolve around her pancake ass and pudding face. She can do all the soft voiced talking heads and looks into the distance but her own past and present are pretty much out there as someone who would mount a camera and ride like a horse. And never fall off. Not the pro Caprice is but her amateur card is pretty full. The fun bit with Annabelle was anyone having a clue to her life up to this was the wonderful back and forth between *McQueen* and her aristocratic upbringing back to *McQueen* and then back to whispy post modern Sloane Ranger. It was so silly and bizarre in so many ways. I think Annabelle with a gun glomming on to the likes of the Montagus was the closest thing to the little greedy grabby arriviste she was when she snagged Nat. That was actually an interesting Annabelle, not the terrified crash test dummy approach to riding competitively or her over maudlin attempts at being tragically interesting. Annabelle has climbed her share of social ladders and it would have been nice to see that side of what is still a grimly but hysterically funny aspect of British society. It's funny that Marissa as a club owner is the only one that truly seems to see that. And is still the most gleefully unabashed fan of the overly British tropes Americans suck up like a Dyson and yet then stupidly think George III was a tyrant who we rebelled against and wave our flags in even weirder anti-British angst. Heck I'm dying to know if she is still stretching out her marriage settlement or if she really did cozy up to Khaddafi's sons with Nat even after the marriage ended. There were all kinds of rumblings about Libyan money in the scrambling aspirational set in the last decade or so. And I know just through the feeble lines of information during an internship that money was flowing out of the N. African dictatorships post 9/11 like it was candy out of the back of a stranger's van. Actually that might be Annabelle's best quality on a show like this. Her own self-awareness on how limited the fake little legend of Annabelle Neilson is when all is said and done. *McQueen* I think I'm going to start to do that. During a conversation just get a little misty eyed look off to the side to some imaginary horizon and whisper "McQueen" into the slightest of pauses.

If Sonja had any friends in her previous circle her Morgan marriage afforded her, I suspect we would have seen them by now. Even Ramona and Luann who are more from her post-divorce days of affluence than they are from her as Mrs. Morgan (by this I mean they might have known her but they got to know her better I think from the way they all talk). The fact that a bunch of people who "work" for Sonja are the ones getting served up pigs in a blanket for Sonja's seasonal social event is rather telling. Any women worth the show's time that Sonja claims to be able to corral I suspect exist only in Sonja's blatant make believe world. My guess is if there are any real cocktail crowd society women in the NYC area who seek attention via reality tv they don't want to come burdened with Sonja Morgan as their entry ticket. Sonja should be very careful. She doesn't offer that much really. I think viewers tend to get more miffed at the idea there isn't the money there the cast member pretends to have more than they do the various antics the women get up to on camera. I think it is why Alex wore viewers out. And her stay. I think it is clearly why the Curtins got the heave from the OC. i think even the Bellinos on the OC were helped off the set the first time by the obvious smoke and mirrors behind Jim's "wealth". And problably helped Alexis get the call back because they had a real business to profile. Even Gretchen and Slade I suspect got heaved in part because the show got tired of having to do everything when it came to presenting their lifestyle. Whereas the other women have the homes and even the cars that provide the background of the aspirational lifestyle the show is selling.. Sonja has none of that left. Compare the social albeit contrived, whirl we saw her present when she first came. Compare it to last night. And if she adds into her bizarrely entitled behavior the notion she has real pull and say on the show? I think that could be the kiss of death for this woman. and about time I say. I don't care if it is her only paycheck. She needs to be made to live in the real world. Just because I'm mean. I do wonder if maybe she sold tickets to her "team" to make this work? Maybe she said if they paid her a certain amount of money she could get them into a filmed event? I could see her doing that. Telling everyone she deals with if they wanted to be on a real housewives show she could get them on but only for fifty bucks. And then when it becomes clear it is a party Sonja is throwing, for Sonja, it explains why the show didn't have any trouble getting dozens of perplexed looks from the crowd on camera. Plus she probably knew Aviva was coming to create a scene so that might have been the added lure.

While you can't help the looks you were born with, saying a person can't help how they look is tragically advice Carole Radziwill should have heeded about four slams to her face with a hammer followed by a sander if her talking heads are any indication. Aging muppet worked for her in a way. Now she looks like angry bees just finished with her. Very very angry bees.

i definitely think Caroline handled Caprice masterfully. Caprice was trying to play reality show victim and was throwing out all kinds of dubious vague but damning accusations about Caroline. And Caroline could see how Caprice was trying to match up the narrative of her sad martyred Madonna to be just trying to make evil Caroline see how wrong she was with the completely predictable talking heads that Caprice still went ahead with as a rewrite of actual events. I think Caroline can be a real piece of work. And while I think she would make a great friend, I think you have to put in a lot of work to get to that point. I also suspect it is shaky ground even when you are in good with her. I suspect she is easily offended and you put work in the relationship than she ever does. But the payoffs probably are good. Still, that all said, I loved watching her play Caprice. Caprice thought she was creating the narrative and Caroline just kept her in play. And so we saw Caprice running back and forth insisting she was leaving over and over again, desperate to reach a point her later talking heads could support. And it never happened. Caroline was not going for what is proper. She was playing on Caprice's level. And most of the times I'd find even a tiny bit of fault in that. But not in this case. It was rather glorious in a subtle nuanced way. Caroline brilliantly figured out Caprice's reality show game and trumped her no doubt plastic ass. And a huge supporting role award goes to Marissa who saw the exact same thing and raised the stakes in the right way and right moment and blindsided Caprice in a way that gross pig couldn't even think past let alone answer directly. To the point that even her little lackey Julie just stood back and let Caprice take the hit. It is ironic that this quiet little show had one of the most contrived women in BRAVO history go to incredible levels to create tension and conflict that didn't even exist. And gets the most complete and utter shut downs ever. Caroline had every step figured out and was one step ahead and Marissa goes all smiling stealth. I actually want Noelle to come back simply because she provides a wonderful punching bag for Caroline. Just enough sharp digs to someone that deserves all that and more. And desperate enough to grit her teeth and bare it for the most part.

Oh Aviva. All those hours practicing that stumbling stilted speech. No doubt you and your dad and a cowed Reid even went through multiple wardrobe changes to make sure you didn't flip your skirt over you head. The finale, the grand season ending event. And not once did you stop and think it out. You did it as Sonja's Freak show and Lackey slurp and grub gather. you thought you brought drama? These people deal with Sonja Morgan on a daily basis. Most of them might have stopped to take in the floor show that came with dinner, but I saw an awful lot keep chewing. and more than one is seen getting their drink refilled. Not just people used to batshit but most I suspect trying to eat and drink their way through bills past due Sonja will never see good.

So the real question is which is sadder? Aviva's horrifically bad acting? Or Aviva's obvious self satisfaction at what she thought...was incredibly good acting. The best part of the night was that it seemed clear to me that Heather, Carole and Luann all saw right through the dramatic "reveal" as overly contrived and pre-planned and it was their horror that Aviva would go to such effort for that. Not stunned shock at Aviva's bold "impromptu" moment of honesty. I really hope someone at the reunion reminds Aviva that if reflux is the cause she can burp her way to breathlessness pretty much anywhere if she is full of gas. The problem with Aviva is she is so incredibly determined to build herself a cross she and hang herself from it, I wouldn't even be surprised that since she knew there would be a season capping gathering she would drop weight to look frail and more victim-like. Someone needs to tell that insane harpy she ain't Spartacus. Sonja is just such a fool. I don't see her as being deluded anymore as I just think she figures if she lies enough someone will eventually give in and make it happen. I think she knows exactly how far from the truth her comments are. I think she is incredibly lazy and remarkably self-entitled and selfish beyond belief. She just flops herself down emotionally in every relationship like some passive protestor and forces everyone around her to do her heavy lifting. Then compounds her heinous behavior by acting as if she is still some grande dame of society. Kristin and josh are just vile. She is so happy he validates her.. by finding her pretty. But professionally!! Yeah. wonder how much he paid her. He really is a piece of human jerky. Incredibly unattractive physically. If the show comes back I hope those two are a one and done.

We discuss the View. Pure hysterical speculation is this show's purview after all. oh wait. We didn't put it on blue cards! Our bad.

I'm wondering if the show was considered a dud though going in. It had that really weird preview show that was basically a bunch of "first looks" smashed together in a jittery mess. Julie was promoted as one of the Ladies and yet had a nebulous odd friend type status. I wonder if some or most bailed on doing anything even remotely like a second season once it was filmed and before it was given its final edit and the network knew they were going to have to bled the show off. I can definitely see Marissa, Caroline, Julie and even Juliet signing on for chance to expand their public images and have some fun. And at the end have no regrets but no wishes to let cameras get in any further. There was definitely an oddness to the show from the start. And I noted that it did not get the real push other new shows do. According to an adspot quote about another show on TWOP before it closed LoL was the lowest promo'd show apparently. I'm guessing your average BRAVO viewing slut (shamefully raises hand) probably thought the show was promo'd in the normal manner. But it was not pushed on other associate networks like other shows Below the Deck for instance. So I think it was a fail fail. It didn't garner enough grass roots viewing to cause any type of swell which easily could have been the result of just not grabbing people and holding them. But I also think it never generated enough interest from the start. I liked it just fine and wish it would come back. But since this is BRAVO and I are in a co-dependent abusive relationship where BRAVO beats me up and I rail against it and say I'll leave and then never do? (in this case this show was like BRAVO coming home saying how sorry it was and giving me flowers then tenderly stroking the black eye that was Southern Charm and saying it will never happen again) I know I'm going to get battered again by the likes of pieces of shit Shahs, and Thomas the Turd Ravenal and all the other shows that feel they have to create drama that doesn't exist. Meanwhile I'll imagine slash fiction that involves Caroline and Marissa going around all the other Reality Shows and shutting down their shrill contrived toxicity. Nest week Caroline goes to the OC and verbally guts Heather Dubrow and then with a clipped riposte tears her head off and pours "champs" down her throat. While Marissa steps in front of Heather's husband Terry and snips off his growingly shrill manic delight at DRAMA.