S12.E12: Eat, Drink, and Be Scary

[OnceSane]

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Looking for love again, Ramona meets with a matchmaker; Dorinda and her daughter Hannah discuss Dorinda's recent life struggles; Luann hosts a voo-doo themed dinner party where Ramona becomes the subject of everyone's witchy ire.

Airs July 2, 2020.

[Keywestclubkid]

blah blah blah blah blah omg 

[Mar]

Reading the summary above, are the producers now going to expect the viewers to feel sorry for Dorinda? Nope, nope, nope, never, not after a season of watching her be a vicious nasty drunk.

[Kiki777]

Whoa.  These self-filmed talking head shots are a little jarring.  The sound and look just doesn’t flow with the footage they’ve already shot.

[LibertarianSlut]

I can’t believe they’re still in Halloween.  They’re usually at least on Christmas at this point in the season.  I hate old footage.

I can put up with coronavirus reunions—in fact, I like them—but I don’t like corona talking heads.  The audio is awful and it’s jarring.  I don’t know why they couldn’t film these talking heads about Halloween between November 2019 and February 2020.  Unprepared much?

I commented last episode that Ramona’s party planners were tacky as shit for pushing Sonja and Dorinda into doing social media marketing for them.  That feels like 100 years ago, and I am over it and not interested in Dorinda talking about it now.  It’s not her fault that this was edited so wonky, but Bravo did this show a huge disservice to go on this hiatus.  Everything seems stale.  

Serious question:  Does Elyse have a speech impediment, or does she just have a very specific Brooklyn accent that was fashionable circa 1935?

“Upsurped“, really Sonja?  Is that how they pronounce “usurped” in all of those upper crust circles in which you travel in St Tropez?  No wonder the old man dumped you.  

Hannah gets weirder and weirder every time she is on.  There’s something very...avian about her.  Is she trying to become British now?  Because that didn’t go over well on the other franchise...

[Keywestclubkid]

Ugh Dorinda the martyr...stop she is not a fucking martyr 

[Kiki777]

Just now, Keywestclubkid said:

Ugh Dorinda the martyr...stop she is not a fucking martyr 

And she’s delusional comparing herself to a tiger.  She’s more like a hippo, aggressively biting.  And fanning her own shit around in circles with her tail.

[Keywestclubkid]

Lol yes for her daughter calling her out on her bullshit. You were 19 lol

[QQQQ]

Could Leah be anymore desperate or obvious in trying to make Rob state that she's his true soul mate? That dinner with their daughter was cringeworthy. She has all the subtle moves of a 6th grader.

[Thumper]

I’m so tired of Sonja ragging on Ramona.  She comes across as very jealous.

[Keywestclubkid]

Ramona trying to start someone else’s party early so she can ditch. 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Keywestclubkid

[Thumper]

Ack!  Not Jill ZARIN!!!!! Nooooooooooooooooo

[LibertarianSlut]

Leah on her own is not cut out for this show.  That Chinese restaurant scene looked like something that would barely have made Lost Footage a few seasons ago.  It’s so obvious that she wants to get back with Rob, dropping hints that her parents would not accept a guy who is not Rob, and him not really responding.  So she hasn’t had a boyfriend in 10 years?  No wonder she was so hung up on Pita Chip.  I love how Kiki handled Leah though.  Leah:  “I was kicked out when I was 17.”  Kier:  “Weren’t you 19?” Leah:  “Seventeen, nineteen, what’s the difference?”  Kier:  “Shouldn’t you be in college at 19?”  Leah:  “If I went to college, I...well, never mind.”  Exactly, bitch.  Your own kid is pointing out the discrepancies in your stories.  There is a tremendous difference between being “kicked out” at 17 and 19.

 I knew something was up with Leah’s version of the facts earlier this season when she insisted she was born and raised in Manhattan, and never mentioned the fact that she moved to Connecticut when she was 13, because it didn’t fit her narrative.  Now that she fudged the truth aka lied twice about her story, I believe nothing she says.

Leah doesn’t dress up for Halloween, but she happened to have a see-through mesh outfit lying around, so why not?  Why do I get the impression that that was just going to be Leah’s normal Saturday night outfit and this was a happy accident?

Luann looks ridiculously thin, especially in her talking heads.  I am really losing my patience at her calling a bunch of women in their fifties “the girls,” especially in her baritone.  It sounds creepy and lecherous.  Sometimes Luann reminds me of a dirty old man, even more so than Sonja, in subtle ways.  

Just like every single other year, I think Dorinda looks significantly better in costume than street clothes.  Ramona looked very pretty and young in her costume too, but I am really tired of her ducking out of filming events early so that she can go live her real life and date after filming.  If Ramona doesn’t want the cameras to be privy to what she does off the show, she should get the hell off the show, like Tinsley.  

Sonja was wasted in that car with Dorinda and Elyse.  Call me surprised to see how much slimmer her face looks in her more recent talking heads.  I...cannot say the same about Jill.  What happened there??

[Rhetorica]

Loved the waiter waiting patiently with champagne for Romona and Dorinda to stop bickering.

[RedDelicious]

I’m confused. The party is supposed to start at 8:30 in October and it’s broad daylight outside.

[Rhetorica]

9 minutes ago, Thumper said:

Ack!  Not Jill ZARIN!!!!! Nooooooooooooooooo

I hate Jill Zarin!

[heatherchandler]

“He definitely fit everything into my box” 

Did you hear the very quiet rim-shot after she said that?  🤣 
 

Im not liking the homemade talking heads.  It’s all off.  Also they are not needed, they are not adding anything to the story.

[pieinmyeye]

Jill Zarin? That is definitely a trick, not a treat.

[TexasGal]

What does Ramona’s costume have to do with voodoo?  She looks like a Disney villain.  And OF COURSE she has another party to go to.  She’s the living breathing embodiment of FOMO.  Or, MOFO as I think she called it.

[Axie]

Sonja, Dorinda, and, Leah being shitfaced every week is tiresome.

[Kiki777]

😂🤣😂 at Luann telling the make up artist she didn’t want to do a white face.

[Thumper]

Aaaaaaaaaand here goes Dorinda!  😫😫 Who does that at a party???  (I know, TV, screen time, earn your apple.)   It’s just so awful.

At Lu’s party.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Thumper

[LibertarianSlut]

Wow, we made it more than halfway through the episode without drunken debauchery, might be a record for the season.  What were Sonja and Elyse drinking in that car??  Drunk and slurring at 8:30 pm?  I don’t get how that’s entertaining.  This never happened in old seasons.  

Speaking of older seasons, this is the second time this season that someone has come for Ramona’s drinking, which is so circa seasons four and five.  Earlier this season, when they were in Rhode Island, when Ramona was trying to hold Leah accountable for her behavior the night before, Luann started this ridiculous narrative that Ramona was the one who had been blacked out.  Now Dorinda is getting in Ramona’s face and asking her to swear on Avery’s life that she’s paying for her party, and when Ramona rightfully asks Dorinda if she’s drunk, Dorinda says Ramona is drunk, when Ramona is standing there stone cold sober?  This is all getting very stupid and old.  Come for Ramona’s lying, her insensitivity, her inability to pronounce words that are in common English parlance.  Don’t come for her drinking.  The woman has held her liquor since the late aughts, when these other ladies were revolving in and out of jail houses and sputtering with crumbs on their lips.  Try something new. 

Does “drunken Sonja language” remind anyone of a slightly less coherent version of Sonja’s disgusting cabralesque from season six?

Who cares that Ramona invited Missy?  Luann called him an ex-girlfriend of her “husband” before correcting it to her “ex-husband.”  Luann was married to the guy for seven months three years ago, and she’s still hung up on his exes, when she married him after he’d cheated on her?  Luann needs a life.  And a storyline.  

I 100% applaud Ramona for ignoring Dorinda.  Ignoring Dorinda is like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West.  

[Keywestclubkid]

Dorinda grow the fuck up

[TexasGal]

Ok, drunk Sonja is embarrassing but drunk Sonja just drunkenly agreeing with Dorinda while eating and then serving herself more food is pretty funny to me.

Avery walking in and telling Ramona to be quiet just made the horrible at home talking heads worth it.

[Ms Blue Jay]

Jill's boyfriend Gary looks like Dennis 😐

What should Ramona have done besides apologizing?  They talk shit to her face for apologizing.  Okay, should she have slapped them instead?  Screw them.

I don't think it's fair to say that the talking heads in isolation are bad.  They're doing the responsible thing by having the housewives do their talking heads sheltered in place.  I think that it's great; what choice do they have?

Dorinda would be so beautiful and sexy if she wasn't such an awful person.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[gatopretoNYC]

Damn, Sonja is TRASHED! 😲

[Keywestclubkid]

Sonja girl you are to old to be that messy 

[Hangin Out]

Tinsley is gone, so Ramona is the new target.  Halloween fillers as they are running out of new ideas.  I just can’t look at Dorinda anymore, nor will I no matter how much she cries.  Done with her.  Something is missing as it’s hard to watch this episode.  It’s all over the place.  Jill Zarin?  What a lousy episode.

[Keywestclubkid]

I would have left to go to another party Good God 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Keywestclubkid

[LibertarianSlut]

Why did Luann allow this attack on Ramona at her party?  Why was Jill, of all people, the only one to say that this was bizarre?  Because they would never act like this when Jill was on the show.  Why didn’t Luann say, “this is not the Plaza, this is my party?”

Why does Leah get so aggressive around seafood?  Seafood and tiki torches?  Please tell me they’re not going to Samoa on the group vacation this year!

These women are getting so drunken and rough and bawdy.  Something really terrible has happened to them.  Next week looks horrifying, not in a good way.  

As much of an ass as Ramona can be, I was super proud of her for ignoring the attacks that kept coming against her like a wave.  I could tell she was struggling, especially by the time Elyse thought it was appropriate to have her second go at Ramona, and she just sat there quietly guzzling water instead of dragging this show even further in the gutter.

Avery for the win for chastising her mom to stop wasting time and energy on Elyse.  Let her get her apple by barking up someone else’s tree.

They are so thirsty and it’s nasty.   

[Stats Queen]

16 minutes ago, heatherchandler said:

“He definitely fit everything into my box” 

Did you hear the very quiet rim-shot after she said that?  🤣 
 

Im not liking the homemade talking heads.  It’s all off.  Also they are not needed, they are not adding anything to the story.

There’s a story?

Man, this is beyond boring - we waited weeks for this new episode.

Ramona is now the most reasonable, considerate, empathetic housewife on the show - just yikes.

I just finished rewatching Seasons 1-4. The show was so organic and entertaining back then. 
 

Sonja was such a mess.

 

[Hangin Out]

Too much Dorinda.  She does bad and Bravo rewards her.  WTF?

[Stats Queen]

1 minute ago, Silver Bells said:

Too much Dorinda.  She does bad and Bravo rewards her.  WTF?

They keep rewarding Teresa “felon” Giudice and Nene “assaulted” Leakes also.

[RedDelicious]

5 minutes ago, Keywestclubkid said:

I would have left to go to another party Good God 

That was a supremely lame party with gross-out food items and a vague theme that had absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. And it appeared to be in the middle of the afternoon. Ramona may have had another party to go to but not for about 6 hours.

[Ms Blue Jay]

23 minutes ago, gatopretoNYC said:

Damn, Sonja is TRASHED! 😲

She said she only had "3 vodka sodas"?  YEAH RIGHT!!!!!!!

Edited July 3, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[heatherchandler]

3 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

I love how Kiki handled Leah though.  Leah:  “I was kicked out when I was 17.”  Kier:  “Weren’t you 19?” Leah:  “Seventeen, nineteen, what’s the difference?”  Kier:  “Shouldn’t you be in college at 19?”  Leah:  “If I went to college, I...well, never mind.”  Exactly, bitch.  Your own kid is pointing out the discrepancies in your stories.  There is a tremendous difference between being “kicked out” at 17 and 19.

Ha!  Kier says, “did you not get into college or something?” Then Leah says, “no I would have gotten into... please Keir”  

I love Kier!  I also like when (in the flashback), Leah’s mom asks if Leah was at the gym when she said she was running around and doing cartwheels.

Please no more Hannah!  And NOOOOOOOO JILL ZARIN!!

HELLOOOOOOAAAAAAWWWW! 🤮

Edited July 3, 2020 by heatherchandler

[Rhetorica]

35 minutes ago, Thumper said:

I think they look better in their talking heads than at the parties...

[65mickey]

I'll take Jill any day over watching Sonja, Dorinda and Leah shitfaced again. It's not entertaining.  I was eagerly waiting for Sonja to faceplant in that bowl of slop that she was dipping out. She really is disgusting. Looks like Rob has had it with Leah. They can't have one party or dinner without the 3 drunks ruining everything. 

[Kiki777]

I actually don’t mind Jill Zarin as much.  This show needs at least one person not to be a sloppy drunk.

Speaking of which, I feel like Sonja has severely pickled her own brain.  She is a ranting rambling mess.

[Hangin Out]

What a shit episode.  So forced.  Dorinda, sit down and shut up.  Who are you to preach?  Get off the show.

[Marley]

Sonja is so fucking annoying when she is drunk. I think she thinks she’s so much fun but I would find it unbearable to be around her.

[Pondlass1]

How does Sonja hold down all that food she eats while shitfaced drunk? It’s quite the accomplishment. 

[nexxie]

I don’t get why anyone would want to be friends with Ramona - or Dorinda - or Sonja - or Lu - or Leah. Is that everybody? I miss Tinsley.

[mostlylurking]

Dorinda is really a piece of work. So she accuses Ramona of not paying for the birthday party but yet Ramona is in the wrong for asking if she’s drunk?  I mean that’s a logical conclusion since she’s drunk 90% of the time. And I get it Ramona can be a monster but why the fuck should she share her birthday party with Sonja of all people?!

I’m totally on the Rob bandwagon. “All small and shit”. Heh. Leahs a train wreck so I see why they aren’t together, but I’m glad they can stay friends for their child. 

Still liking Elyse. It seems she can get pissed off at a friend yet not go completely scorched earth on them. What a concept!

[Axie]

What exactly is the deal with Hannah?  Why is she so damn strange?  Is she playing a character or is she just a genuine weirdo?  She should befriend Leah because she’s pretty damn strange, too.

 

 

[goofygirl]

Well, THAT was a snoozefest!  And yikes! JILL ZARIN???  Puleez Jeebus, NO. Just. NO.  That it all. Bored with them all.  The RHONY vacation place looks like Mexico to me.  Or somewhere in the Caribbean?

[Ms Blue Jay]

1 minute ago, Axie said:

What exactly is the deal with Hannah?  Why is she so damn strange?  Is she playing a character or is she just a genuine weirdo?  She should befriend Leah because she’s pretty damn strange, too.

Seriously??   Dorinda is her mother!  I like Hannah to be honest, just because I think she's statuesque and gorgeous and reminds me of models like Linda Vojtova and Ana Mihajlović.

[Thumper]

I didn’t think Hannah seemed strange.  She was trying to make her mother feel better.  You could see how bad Dorinda feels about herself in that scene.  Then she turns around and becomes mean and evil to Ramona at the party.

[Hangin Out]

6 minutes ago, Marley said:

Sonja is so fucking annoying when she is drunk. I think she thinks she’s so much fun but I would find it unbearable to be around her.

The woman must be poor.  She drinks and stuffs everything down her throat to oblivion because it’s free.  Probably stuffs her pocketbook for tomorrow too.  What a slob.