S12.E20: No Party Like a Mob Party

[OnceSane]

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Leah hosts a party for the 15th anniversary of her brand, Married to the Mob. Luann meets with a ghostwriter for her new memoir and Dorinda celebrates her birthday out on the town with the ladies and John.

Airs August 27, 2020.

[Steph J]

"The flowers are dead but I thought I'd keep them because from a distance they look like they're not dead."

Sonja's life in a nutshell.

[Straycat80]

I actually like Dorinda’s pink Christmas tree and pink is not really my favorite color. 

[Keywestclubkid]

Sonja you can’t afford your townhouse any longer admit it we understand 

[QQQQ]

Sarah Cooper is Sonja's intern? Busy girl!

[Keywestclubkid]

Ramona you are not 14 stop acting like a teenage mean girl it’s not cute 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Keywestclubkid

[jaybird2]

2 minutes ago, QQQQ said:

Sarah Cooper is Sonja's intern? Busy girl!

ok i give, who's sarah cooper

[Emmeline]

I miss Sonja in the townhouse dressing in her old designer clothes.  The new apt and always dressing in her Ali Express duds is just sad.  If she wouldn’t have made that mess with the movie deal at the end of her marriage she would be much better off.

[Keywestclubkid]

Dorinda is such a snob 

[SuprSuprElevated]

Leah dresses like a high low moderate hooker.

[chewycandy]

Look at that. Some actual people of color at a RHONY party. 

[Bronzedog]

It's sad that now when I watch this show I watch for Dorinda to go nuts and for Ramona to shit her pants.

[SuprSuprElevated]

If Dorinda doesn't understand that this party wasn't going to be populated with 50-somethings dressed like Leona Helmsley, then well, she should be fired.  

Wait - 

[Keywestclubkid]

I’m at the stage in my life .......lol

[chewycandy]

Whoa, Elyse!

[Straycat80]

The up town snobs are sticking out at this party like sore thumbs. Well, maybe not Sonja who doesn’t care as long as men are there. 
I don’t care about Elise, she brings nothing to this show. I’m glad Ramona walked out, I’m tired of all the bullying and gang ups on these HW shows. 

[SuprSuprElevated]

I have to believe that Dorinda is watching this episode while curled up

...with a bottle of Mylanta.

[chewycandy]

Just now, SuprSuprElevated said:

I have to believe that Dorinda is watching this episode while curled up

...with a bottle of Mylanta.

😆 

[eleanorofaquitaine]

I can't with Dorinda's delusions of toughness and confidence. And could you stop insulting Leah's guests?

[Vanderboom]

Lol @ Sonja immediately yelling "HOT GUYS!" and hugging a random partier then second she enters.  Then she lost me because she wouldn't stop babbling about their hotness and youth. I feel like this is a metaphor for Sonja in general: a funny, charming beginning that quickly becomes stale and creepy because of the desperate and repetitive attention-seeking. 

[chewycandy]

Ramona hightailed it out of there like Kyle in Amsterdam.

No, Dorinda, it’s called Sookie Stackhouse syndrome. 

[LibertarianSlut]

It’s interesting that they never show Luann at home.  All of their apartments are cute, none are aspirational to me.  Ramona’s comes the closest.

Luann is such a stirrer that it’s nuts.  She tries to bait Ramona into talking about Elyse, so that she can report back to Elyse and cause drama and keep her apple whilst keeping her hands clean.  This has been her MO from the beginning, and it’s really not an attractive quality.  Luann has really never been her own person and it’s getting worse as she gets older.  I think she’s like the hidden lost soul on the show, whereas the four other women are overt lost souls, but some of them (Ramona) may have their shit together more than Luann does.

I love high/low fashion, so I wasn’t really feeling sympathy for Dorinda for being dressed up.  I thought it was so cool juxtaposed against the hip hop clothes.  “Karen from Human Resources”. Lol!

Dorinda is so far up Leah’s ass.  How many times is she going to mention that their moms are alike?  Does she think that makes Dorinda and Leah the same age?

Sonja was funny with the “hot guys” because they weren’t staff, so they could get away from her, and she laughed when the guy said she was like a grandmother to him.  True story.  

Wow, Elyse, just wow.  Trying to get an apple much?  Stupid bitch.  What is her name for her alcoholic alter ego?  Because that bitch came out tonight and it was gross.  She looked so old grabbing Ramona’s arm and trying to create fake drama at an otherwise chill event.  Looks like Leah maybe should have given a shit about inviting Elyse if she wanted Ramona to stay at the party, which apparently she did. 

Dorinda and “stockhouse disease” should stick to what she knows—schadenfreude.  

 

 

 

[jaybird2]

1 minute ago, Straycat80 said:

The up town snobs are sticking out at this party like sore thumbs. Well, maybe not Sonja who doesn’t care as long as men are there. 
I don’t care about Elise, she brings nothing to this show. I’m glad Ramona walked out, I’m tired of all the bullying and gang ups on these HW shows. 

me too! this is where any other hw would have thrown a fit

[eleanorofaquitaine]

I mean, Ramona's obnoxious but I don’t blame her for getting out of there since Elyse was clearly aiming for a confrontation. 

On another note, Leah is just so obviously still in love with Rob. It's nice they can co-parent, though. 

Edited August 28, 2020 by eleanorofaquitaine

[Straycat80]

Every time I hear Married to the Mob I think of that reality show or that movie with Ray Liotta. Same with Sonja’s Century 21, I think of real estate. Couldn’t they think of some original names for their clothing brands? 

[chewycandy]

1 minute ago, eleanorofaquitaine said:

I mean, Ramona's obnoxious but I don’t blame her for getting out of there since Elyse was clearly aiming for a confrontation. 

She looked like a coward for leaving. 

[SuprSuprElevated]

I sort of enjoyed Elise in the early episodes, but yeah, coming to this party to stir up trouble with Ramona isn't cool, even if it is what production wanted her to do.  Ramona was not having it, again.  She always runs away from trouble, especially if she bears some responsibility for it.

1 minute ago, Straycat80 said:

Couldn’t they think of some original names for their clothing brands? 

Maybe if they were original clothing brands.

[SuprSuprElevated]

I have never, ever, in my 60 years on this marble, met a single person let alone several in a group that were so entirely self-obsessed about their own birthdays.  Very unappealing to me.

[Emmeline]

Finally LuAnn is writing a book that might sell.  She has been great this year and I’m glad she’s changed.  I never knew that her dad had these issues.  

[Mr. Miner]

Talking to the ghostwriter you can really see how much Luann loves talking about herself.

[eleanorofaquitaine]

8 minutes ago, chewycandy said:

She looked like a coward for leaving. 

Staying to be berated by Elyse and drawing attention away from Leah at her party doesn't seem like some great act of courage to me but YMMV.

[chewycandy]

1 minute ago, Mr. Miner said:

Talking to the ghostwriter you can really see how much Luann loves talking about herself.

And how much she loved her dad, I felt. Definitely resembles him. 

[LibertarianSlut]

I’m not a big fan of Leah’s mom.  She seems like a know it all who raised two trashy daughters.  I wish she would cut her hair too, and the color sucks.  My mom would never take the mic at my event like that.  Leah’s mom loves the camera a little too much and I’m not sure it’s endearing.  

As soon as Leah said she is giving her sister fifteen percent of the company, I said “tax write-off” and then as soon as Leah exited the stage, she said her lawyer said it wasn’t binding and I thought, bingo!  How do you announce that and not intend to follow through?  Phony.  I enjoyed her dress at her party a lot though.  She looked better than all of the other women.  

Luann can stop being the interloper anytime now.  Elyse isn’t a member of the cast, so no one has to interact with her or discuss her.  I’ve been pretty ride or die for Luann in past seasons, and this season she was a real disappointment for me.  She’s just a shell of a person who seems like she’s acting.

I’m so tired of Luann using the passive voice regarding what she’s “been through.”  Luann, you committed assault and battery!  You put someone else through something, dumbass.

Luann is doing another book?  About her dad?  She never had shit to say about her dad!  Season five, Heather came on the show and asked Luann to tell her about her dad, Luann hemmed and hawed and then gave an interview that this wasn’t proper cocktail conversation.  Luann is so cheap and always running a game.  She makes Sawnya look demure in comparison.  I think Sonja is more fucked up than Luann, but I think she’s smarter and, if sober, would be ten times the conversationalist as Luann.  Luann is still that country bumpkin with nine people sharing a bathroom and trying to claw her way out as soon as one scratches the surface.  Also, holding a big elegant hand to her chest doesn’t negate the fact that Luann says “you know” about twice a sentence because she has nothing of substance to say.  

I guess I kept thinking Luann was going to put something cool out of her hat at some point in this season and she didn’t.  She was completely unoriginal this season—couldn’t even be bothered with a Sophia Vergara wig—and I think this franchise should move on without her.  

[chewycandy]

1 minute ago, eleanorofaquitaine said:

Staying to be berated by Elyse and drawing attention away from Leah at her party doesn't seem like some great act of courage to me but YMMV.

That’s not what it would have meant; why does she need to run at the first sign of confrontation? Just deal with the issue in a way that doesn’t create a scene. 

[pieinmyeye]

33 minutes ago, jaybird2 said:

ok i give, who's sarah cooper

That’s what I’d like to know.

[SuprSuprElevated]

Holy hell!  Hannah with the matching jacket!  Eeks!

 

[TexasGal]

OMG Hannah wearing the sequined granny square jacket to go with last week’s pants!

[Straycat80]

Interesting, Dorinda’s daughter doesn’t drink, maybe she’s afraid she’ll turn into an alcoholic like her mom. What is it with the granny square Afghan clothes? Hideous, and they have to be so heavy and hot. 

[TexasGal]

43 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

I actually like Dorinda’s pink Christmas tree and pink is not really my favorite color. 

One of my neighbors had a pink and silver Christmas tree in their front window last year and it sounds so tacky but somehow it was lovely.  

[Thumper]

Dorinda’s daughter is wearing a sparkly version of the afghans my grandma used to make!  The creator must have used mismatched scraps of yarn, just like Grandma did!  
 

Whoa, holy cleavage, Dorinda.  Looks like the fake one she wore for Sonja’s party.

[Steph J]

"You have laughed with me, you have cried with because of me..."

Fixed it for you, Dor.

[ichbin]

For anyone who wondered if there was anything worse than Dorinda's granny square pants.....

[eleanorofaquitaine]

7 minutes ago, chewycandy said:

That’s not what it would have meant; why does she need to run at the first sign of confrontation? Just deal with the issue in a way that doesn’t create a scene. 

Elyse grabbed her arm, started yelling at her, insulting her, and called her a bitch. Elyse provided the scene. She's already made it clear she isn't interested in having a relationship so I am not sure what staying would have proved beyond being entertaining, I guess.

Like I said, I'm not sure how she's a coward for removing herself from that.

[TexasGal]

Dorinda is proud of John for having enough confidence to give a toast?  I don’t think John has ever seemed to lack confidence.  Tact,  yes he’s lacked that.

[Mr. Miner]

Man! If only Ramona could’ve wrestled that mic away from Luann. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[SuprSuprElevated]

Will someone please inform Luann that she in no way, shape, or form, resembles Marilyn Monroe.

Also, stop singing.

[QQQQ]

Speaking as a 50 year old woman, I cannot believe Dorinda is only 55 years old! I would have guessed at least 60. In fact, I laughed when she told Leah that their moms were similar bc I was thinking, "Um, you're probably pretty close in age, lady." Huh. There's just something hard about Dorinda that makes her seem like an old school broad. Maybe it's her voice.

[Axie]

Now Dorinda was funny when talking about Luann and her damn off key singing.  

John looks like he gained another 50 pounds.

 

[eleanorofaquitaine]

Oh, Lu, honey. No. Put the mic down. 

[Straycat80]

1 minute ago, Axie said:

Now Dorinda was funny when talking about Luann and her damn off key singing.  

John looks like he gained another 50 pounds.

 

I actually laughed out loud at Dorinda’s commentary too. And Ramona’s snarky remarks. And whoever said that Lu always finds a mic. Also loved the bored looks, and people eating and drink during Lu’s long winded speech.