S05.E13: Sister Act

[SoCal4Us]

A bit of what is to come.  http://www.inquisitr.com/1829868/real-housewives-star-kyle-richards-brandi-doesnt-care-about-hurting-my-marriage/

 

Who is the imposter pretending to be?

 

It sounds like someone is pretending to be Kyle.

[PhilMarlowe2]

Has anyone checked Jill Zarin aka Susan Saunders' phone records? Sounds like something she might do.

[thewhiteowl]

When Lisa R is going on about Kim's addiction to Eileen and Lisa V, and she says everyone is covering it up (or whatever she says like that) - it's so funny to me that Lisa V immediately is like WHO'S EVERYONE?!?  Clearly trying to exclude herself from the list.  It seems like she has done stuff like that before although I'm drawing a blank on specifics.  She gets so defensive so fast, and is always trying to make the conversation about her.  I find it amusing when she does stuff like that.  Little cracks in her supposedly cool exterior.

 

 Well, LisaV called out Kim being drugged up in Paris so I do see her point here.

[DebbieM4]

 Well, LisaV called out Kim being drugged up in Paris so I do see her point here.

 

Yes, I do too.

 

I think LisaV is sometimes quick to speak up because what she's hearing is not accurate and she wants to set the record straight immediately.  That's her style.  If I were on a show like this, I would do that too.  Communication and clarifying is really important in a world so full of drama and she said/she said.

 

 Not that communication and clarifying are guaranteed to  make a huge difference or any difference at all, but - like Lisa - I would certainly be in there trying!

[RedheadZombie]

 And by the way, where are Kim's adult, grown-up children? Aren't they concerned about their mother? Aren't they what should be there for her, supporting her or confronting her if she's fallen off the wagon of sobriety?

 

It's possible that Kim does a better job of feigning sobriety in front of her children.  It's also possible that her children have been empowered through therapy and deliberately choose not to enable her.  Maybe the girls are focusing on their brother.

[jonesingjay]

Maybe the girls are focusing on their brother.

 

Does Kim have a son? Is he sick? 

[WireWrap]

Does Kim have a son? Is he sick? 

Yes, Kim has an adult son Chad, he is her third child. Chad had an "incident" when they were filming last season, no one knows if it was an emotional breakdown or if it was a "reaction" to something her took. The family has been very quiet about it, as they should IMO, even though he is on the show.

[snowblossom2]

I am thinking these are Vulture fans. The fabulous Brian Moylan, who recaps the show for Vulture, proclaimed at the beginning of the season that we would refer to Lisa R as Lisar to keep the two Lisa's straight. It looks like it has moved over to this site as well. 

 

Anyone who is not reading Vulture (NY Magazine) recaps of this show is truly missing out. The commentary is outstanding, and he interacts with the folks posting comments for the first couple of days. A true delight each week. 

 

I always misread "Lisar" as "liar" which is disappointing since I like Lisa R!

[zoeysmom]

Yes, Kim has an adult son Chad, he is her third child. Chad had an "incident" when they were filming last season, no one knows if it was an emotional breakdown or if it was a "reaction" to something her took. The family has been very quiet about it, as they should IMO, even though he is on the show.

One of the things that gives these shows a little bit of reality is they do show, a minor children after a DUI, an adult child who has spent time in a psych ward under a 5150 hold, a relapsing addict/alcoholic, a wife who was subjected to spousal abuse, suicide.  It is like ever day life.   Most of us know of someone who as a mentally ill family member or have one ourselves, or have a family member who is addicted or may have been addicted personally, or have had a family or friend commit suicide, have a DUI.  Just because it is uncomfortable does not mean those that have these conditions should be shielded from the cameras, IMO.  It is real life.  On RHONJ there is an autistic child and the journey with that family is their reality. A prodigal son who flunked out of law school and his life's course afterwards. Granted most of us don't hang with Grammy winners, know child actors, or have daughters make it big in modeling overnight.  I do think it is a fair portrayal which is why Kim insisting and Brandi enabling Kim's relapses ring false. 

[quinn]

I thought Lisa V. was awful in Paris.  I get not looking the other way or covering when Kim acts cracked out crazy like she was on Game Night or Poker Night, but in Paris Lisa was crap-stirring and not even bothering to apply her usual finesse. 

Edited February 11, 2015 by quinn

[WireWrap]

One of the things that gives these shows a little bit of reality is they do show, a minor children after a DUI, an adult child who has spent time in a psych ward under a 5150 hold, a relapsing addict/alcoholic, a wife who was subjected to spousal abuse, suicide.  It is like ever day life.   Most of us know of someone who as a mentally ill family member or have one ourselves, or have a family member who is addicted or may have been addicted personally, or have had a family or friend commit suicide, have a DUI.  Just because it is uncomfortable does not mean those that have these conditions should be shielded from the cameras, IMO.  It is real life.  On RHONJ there is an autistic child and the journey with that family is their reality. A prodigal son who flunked out of law school and his life's course afterwards. Granted most of us don't hang with Grammy winners, know child actors, or have daughters make it big in modeling overnight.  I do think it is a fair portrayal which is why Kim insisting and Brandi enabling Kim's relapses ring false. 

Kim has never addressed what happened with Chad on the show or anywhere else that I know of. I can understand it and yet he does appear on the show with Kim and the incident was reported. Yolanda surprised me in addressing Bella's DUI head on, not ducking tail and hiding but head on (kind of) and I give her props for that. Of course, Kim can not admit she is still using/abusing and has never addressed the pain she has caused others on the show, so I guess her talking about Chad's melt down would be a bit much.  (He could have said no to any discussion on the show as well)

I thought Lisa V. was awful in Paris.  I get not looking the other way or covering when Kim acts cracked out crazy like she was on Game Night or Poker Night, but in Paris Lisa was crap-stirring and not even bothering to apply her usual finesse. 

I did not think Lisa V was awful in Paris. She was concerned about Kim's off the wall behavior on the bus and upset that Kim tried to use her in a lie to excuse/explain her erratic/high as a kite behavior. She also tried to give a heads up to Mauricio at the dinner late that night, he is Kim's BIL and needed to know.

[dizzyd]

From Brandi's mouth to the producer's ears "Get a new subject", put us all out of our misery and fire her.  So she wants to be Chelsea Handler and be able to get away with all the crap that comes out of her mouth?  You're not funny.

 

I know we only saw a small clip, but was Eileen really proud enough of that movie to invite the Hos to the viewing?

 

Lisa R's daughter clearly did not want to be part of a storyline, she couldn't leave fast enough.

[cooksdelight]

I couldn't stop laughing at the women's reaction to Eileen's scene in her space film, at the Burbank International Film Festival. Kyle was a little snooty/bitchy about the whole thing. I think it might have been a fun thing, and the lighthearted music helped me get over the overuse of Brandi in this episode.

Oh, and Lisa R. worrying she's on Brandi's hit list. And if she dies, and needs a body bag, make it Louis Vuitton with a diamond zipper. :)

Will everyone tell Brandi not to drink more? And no, I don't believe Kyle was full-on drunk, she wasn't slurring her words. Her coughy scratchy voice was in full mode. But, when Lisa tried to console Kyle and she started with the finger wagging and pointing "It's not about you, Lisa, it's about MEEEEEEEE!" Please.

"Everything i do is for my children. I don't care what anyone thinks." Can Brandi not see that craziness in that statement to Yolonda? Still harping about her son being an asshole and saying what he did was a dick move. He's a freakin' kid!!!

Mark your calendars that Brandi said she's never, ever, ever going to apologize to Kyle.

Max does indeed look Scandinavian and Irish, to me. Why does he have a British accent, something he just picked up from his parents? Pandora doesn't, that I've heard.

Good for Eileen trying to get Kyle and Kim together, but Kim just doesn't realize things that have been said and done all around her. She can't remember. And Kyle can't let it NOT be about her. Both are in denial about so many things.

Brandi's the perfect person to say it's cool to live a lie when she's with Kim. Since her own life is a lie, right?

[Rhetorica]

I'm so tired of the sisters' saga. Kyle and Kim make Ladies Edith and Mary Crawley look like loving siblings.

[Mozelle]

So, I'm setting aside all the drama for a moment to talk about something very important--that fine ass yoga instructor. I'd like to thank his momma and his daddy for creating such a fine specimen. That is all. Amen.

[Pickles]

Brandi's face looked so plastic-y during her podcast. Then again, so did Heather McDonald's. Pandora does have a british accent at least to my ears.

[mbaywife123]

Brandi WTH! I will make no other comments about this person and suggest that everyone else does the same. Stop feeding the beast!

[Umbelina]

Kyle and Kim are both such a mess.  I'm bored with this dynamic.  Both bitches.  Both still childish, and they are nearing middle age.

 

Eileen was trying to herd cats there. 

 

Lisa, Pandy, and Max's scenes were nice, and, I feel they captured some of the emotions they were feeling, even with the cameras there. 

 

Lipsa saying that about the little bitches in Hollywood was kind of shocking, but I liked it.

 

Brandi seemed sincere with Lipsa.  I think Kim threatened to kill herself that night she called Brandi and Brandi called Kyle.  Brandi saying something like "you don't know what she would do if people start talking about her (not beating) her addictions" just made me think that.

[autumnh]

Really? Kim is an addict? is this a revelation? I was married to an addict. He took his own life at age 28 back in 1989....I don't get the whole speculation that Kin is an addict....it is very apparent. Also? I fought to keep my husband alive for two years....unless an addict  can realize their addiction and want to get well....it is not going to happen.

 

Just saying.

 

I buried him September 6, 1989. 

 

I never felt guilty because I exhausted all options. 

 

I strongly dislike how Bravo handles Kims addiction. For those of us who have dealt with it...we see it...we have lived or are living it. Quit the BS speculation...Kim is no doubt, an addict. I hope she can find and keep her sobriety.

Edited February 11, 2015 by autumnh

[motorcitymom65]

I am actually beginning to get a little uncomfortable with Lisa R and her interest in Kim's issues. She is 100% correct, yet I cannot get past a strange feeling I got when she was going on and on about it. Am I crazy?

If I heard right, Brandi pretty much confirmed that she knows Kim is not sober. It is strange how she has spent so much time over the last few months talking about how Kyle wanted to out her again, when it seems as though Brandi is the one who has done this.

[Morbs]

I thought Max used to have red hair, and he currently dyes it blonde.  He definitely looks Irish though so I don't know how he didn't see that one coming, it would have been my first guess.

 

"Why is everyone scared of Kim Richards?"  Because they've met Kim Richards!  When she is sober she is extremely anxious and unreliable, and when she is using she is erratic, frightening, and a terrible, terribly liar.  I don't know why Lisa Rinna thinks she can do that the other people in Kim's life haven't been able to do for her.  Maybe Lisa R. knows it is guaranteed screen time?  At this point in filming she has probably noticed her home life isn't exactly thrilling.

 

I think about Kim Richards whenever I fake tan.  I really need to stop.

Edited February 11, 2015 by Morbs

[Llama]

Some friend Brandi is! She didn't ask for this my ass! I bought not a thing out her mouth of supposed concern to LisaR.

Kim - you don't like people talking about those you love?!? In defense of Brandi? Oh chick I am going to enjoy the burn you get from this. Your best friend outed your call not your sister! Give her some damn credit. Enjoy that hill you rolling down, your buddy won't be there to help you.

Edited February 11, 2015 by Llama

[bagger]

Kim is repugnant! She can’t stand, “people talking about people she loves?” but she’s ok with Brandi trash talking her sister?

 

And if Brandi was the “Mama Bear”  that she claims to be then she must be the kind of Mama Bear that eats her young. Brandi does more to out Kim’s drug use than anyone else. Her conversation with LisaR, that’s all she did was OUT Kim. Earlier in the season I was fast forwarding through all her scenes but they've mixed her in with the more likeable housewives in the last couple of episodes and I've forced myself to watch to see what LisaR was talking about for example and I"m full of self loathing for those moments I wont ever get back.

[LotusFlower]

The scene with Lisa and Pandora was weird...I couldn't really figure it out. Did Pandora ask her mother if she was worried that someone would be joining the family? (then Lisa said stop, don't say that.). Did they think that Max was maybe inquiring about his ancestry because he's interested in marrying his girlfriend? Sorry if I got it all wrong and am completely off the mark....I just couldn't understand that exchange.

[Straycat80]

I'm so over the Richard sisters and their fighting and cry talking. Move on, nothing more to see here!

I thought Eileen's movie premiere was funny. It was nice to see everything in La-La Land is not perfect. The interview guy got the name of her show wrong, there was

regular food like hot dogs and chicken tenders there, and that movie clip was a hoot as were the HW's reaction to it.

I can't believe Yo didn't go off on Brandi for saying her daughter was an alcoholic . But she couldn't let a little thing like Lisa not inviting her to Palm Springs go.

And yes, Max does look Scandinavian and Irish.

[Umbelina]

Everyone presently on the show has outed Kim.  Also, several from past seasons have as well.

 

The thing is, I can see Kim killing herself.  This is no longer my little popcorn escape show, it's reaching Taylor's husband is hung levels.  Me no like-y.

[Leroux]

Brandi, stop smoking whatever you are, you are and never will be Chelsea Handler.

I do hope that stupid Kim was watching tonight's episode, oh I hope it so much.

Here it is your BFF Brandi telling another castmate whom she is not even close to you that you basically have relapsed, telling her that if your friendship is a heavy weight over her shoulders, that if anybody ever talks about your addictions you will kill yourself, yet you are so focused on your hate for your sister that you are incapable of understand that you have invited to a wolf with sheep clothes into your house.

Under any other circumstance I would feel bad for Kim, she basically bet on the wrong horse , but in this case and as nasty and unloyal Kim has been, I do think that she has it well deserved.

Brandi whispering her words "I have your back, nobody gets you like I get you," and of it BS, Brandi only wanted to be close to you to extract information and she is now the one asking LisaR to host an intervention for you. What a joke! Couldn't have happened to a better person

[hypnotoad]

 

Brandi saying something like "you don't know what she would do if people start talking about her (not beating) her addictions" just made me think that.

 

But she's talking out of both sides of her mouth as usual. With Kim she's blabbing about protecting her, telling her over (and over) that she is the only one helping, she'll protect her, she won't hurt her and then she meets Lisa R and bam she's talking about Kim's addictions. She says she can't say anything and then tells Lisa R anyway. Just give me a break with tiresome 'woman.'

 

 

Still harping about her son being an asshole and saying what he did was a dick move. He's a freakin' kid!!!

 

I had never heard that before. Ridiculous.

 

I really cannot believe I watched this live. Anyway during the podcast, I think Brandi's guest was trying to say (paraphrasing here) that sure as the host of your show you can say anything you want, but you have to be ready to deal with people who might disagree. Naturally, Brandi's only response to people who don't share her world view is 'fuck you.' Ugggh.

 

Eileen's movie looked pretty bad, but then again it was probably a very small indie type production - so I will give it a pass. I still think she's a good actress.

 

Eileen was also taking on a fools errand trying to help the Richards sisters.

 

I liked the stuff with Lisa V and her kids.

 

Kim is just awful.

[bagger]

 

I strongly dislike how Bravo handles Kims addiction. For those of us who have dealt with it...we see it...we have lived or are living it. Quit the BS speculation...Kim is no doubt, an addict. I hope she can find and keep her sobriety.

I dislike how purportedly Bravo has allowed Kyle to extort them into keeping her sister on the show. I don't know if LisaR is genuinely concerned (I really do like her quite a bit) or if her insistence on calling Kim out is in reality the producers trying to force the Richards sisters' hand and "force" Kim to quit in an attempt to stop speculation. She seems to be miserable more so now that it seems her addiction is front and center.

[Llama]

The scene with Lisa and Pandora was weird...I couldn't really figure it out. Did Pandora ask her mother if she was worried that someone would be joining the family? (then Lisa said stop, don't say that.). Did they think that Max was maybe inquiring about his ancestry because he's interested in marrying his girlfriend? Sorry if I got it all wrong and am completely off the mark....I just couldn't understand that exchange.

I think Pandora started crying thinking he wanted to know his parents who gave him up. She just never turned back to the camera. Lisa was telling her to stop crying and not think that is what I got from that

[cooksdelight]

Her conversation with LisaR, that’s all she did was OUT Kim.

Shades of the dinner table conversation when Brandi let everyone know about Adrienne's kids. The way she worded it, like one of those "Hypothetically speaking....." scenarios. I really despise her underhanded way of letting things slip so that the world knows someone's secrets. Especially since Kim has obviously confided in her.

[motorcitymom65]

Everyone presently on the show has outed Kim.  Also, several from past seasons have as well.

 

The thing is, I can see Kim killing herself.  This is no longer my little popcorn escape show, it's reaching Taylor's husband is hung levels.  Me no like-y.

I don't think that they have. They have speculated. They have talked about it. Wondering about something is not the same as confirming it, which is what you do when you "out" someone. Brandi, the taker-of-middle-of-the-night-calls and supposed best friend, just told someone that she hardly knows that Kim has indeed relapsed. The same Brandi that wanted to get her out of Eileen's house pronto because she claimed Kyle was going to make a "thing" out of Kim's behavior on camera.  I do hope that when Kim watches what has actually transpired that she admits - finally - that she was wrong and does some apologizing. 

[imjagain]

Heather McDonald's face scares the life out of me! I'm sorry, I know it's mean but damn!

[Morbs]

I would have expected Lisa and Pandora to be more enlightened and realize Max's interest in his birth family has nothing to do with them, it's not like he has taken out a Want Ad for a new mother and sister.  You'd think Lisa would have had read a self help book or encountered other people in a similar situation and would understand Max's interest in his back story by now.  Lisa's over-dramatic aversion to Max wanting to know his real last name is inexplicable to me, unless she kidnapped Max when he was a baby.

[bagger]

Shades of the dinner table conversation when Brandi let everyone know about Adrienne's kids. The way she worded it, like one of those "Hypothetically speaking....." scenarios. I really despise her underhanded way of letting things slip so that the world knows someone's secrets. Especially since Kim has obviously confided in her.

Whatever Brandi does to Kim she brought on herself just like all of them. Lisa accepted and celebrated Brandi's brand of bullshit, Kyle saw it and still took up with Brandi. What did Brandi do? she's turned on both of them in turn. I don't feel sorry for the lot of them for allowing Brandi in to their lives especially Kim.

[cooksdelight]

I would have expected Lisa and Pandora to be more enlightened and realize Max's interest in his birth family has nothing to do with them, it's not like he has taken out a Want Ad for a new mother and sister.  You'd think Lisa would have had read a self help book or encountered other people in a similar situation and would understand Max's interest in his back story by now.  Lisa's over-dramatic aversion to Max wanting to know his real last name is inexplicable to me, unless she kidnapped Max when he was a baby.

Adoptive parents I've known all my life are terrified their kids will want to leave them and go back to their birth parents. Knowing the last name allows them to track them down online. I'd be scared, too.

[LotusFlower]

I think Pandora started crying thinking he wanted to know his parents who gave him up. She just never turned back to the camera. Lisa was telling her to stop crying and not think that is what I got from that

I get that, but there was something more. I just watched the scene again, and Pandora first asks: "why now?" So timing is an issue. Then she asks: "Do you really want another family coming into the picture?" Huh? What is she talking about? Max's birth mother? A sibling? A new daughter-in-law? Then Lisa says: "I don't think they will, so don't even say that." Do what? Say what? I think they were talking about something else. Plus, they were acting kind of hush-hush and secretive with each other, and deliberately fussing with the flowers instead of the conversation.

[WireWrap]

Kyle and Kim are both such a mess.  I'm bored with this dynamic.  Both bitches.  Both still childish, and they are nearing middle age.

 

Eileen was trying to herd cats there. 

 

Lisa, Pandy, and Max's scenes were nice, and, I feel they captured some of the emotions they were feeling, even with the cameras there. 

 

Lipsa saying that about the little bitches in Hollywood was kind of shocking, but I liked it.

 

Brandi seemed sincere with Lipsa.  I think Kim threatened to kill herself that night she called Brandi and Brandi called Kyle.  Brandi saying something like "you don't know what she would do if people start talking about her (not beating) her addictions" just made me think that.

It is possible that Kim did talk about killing herself but I don't think Brandi told Kyle this or she did, then said Kim was fine now and swore her to secrecy.  Now she is using that to bash Kyle over the head about it because she knows that Kyle will not talk about it no matter how hard Brandi tries to trip her up!

 

Really? Kim is an addict? is this a revelation? I was married to an addict. He took his own life at age 28 back in 1989....I don't get the whole speculation that Kin is an addict....it is very apparent. Also? I fought to keep my husband alive for two years....unless an addict  can realize their addiction and want to get well....it is not going to happen.

 

Just saying.

 

I buried him September 6, 1989. 

 

I never felt guilty because I exhausted all options. 

 

I strongly dislike how Bravo handles Kims addiction. For those of us who have dealt with it...we see it...we have lived or are living it. Quit the BS speculation...Kim is no doubt, an addict. I hope she can find and keep her sobriety.

I am sorry for your loss. Yes, Kim is an addict and she does not want to get clean.

 

I am actually beginning to get a little uncomfortable with Lisa R and her interest in Kim's issues. She is 100% correct, yet I cannot get past a strange feeling I got when she was going on and on about it. Am I crazy?

If I heard right, Brandi pretty much confirmed that she knows Kim is not sober. It is strange how she has spent so much time over the last few months talking about how Kyle wanted to out her again, when it seems as though Brandi is the one who has done this.

I think Lisa knows enough to realize that Kyle will never say any of this on the show and has decided to do it for her, with or without her blessing.

 

I wonder how Kim felt hearing Brandi out that she is using a pain "patch" for her ??hernia??! Even Brandi hesitated when she said that she is using it for her hernia. Pain patches are not given for hernias unless that person is in a hospital. I think Kim is using Monty's pain patch, not 1 that she was prescribed. I do not see any good/ethically sound DR willingly prescribing a pain patch for an addict, none! Maybe Kim is going to  "Dr. Feel Good"!

[cooksdelight]

I don't feel sorry for the lot of them for allowing Brandi in to their lives especially Kim.

I don't think Kim's equipped to know what's going on around her to understand what Brandi is doing.

[bagger]

  I do hope that when Kim watches what has actually transpired that she admits - finally - that she was wrong and does some apologizing. 

Kim wont finally understand anything because we saw Kyle explain to her what she was trying to do at the party by asking Brandi what the 2am conversation was about and Kim still didnt get it. Kim doesn't "get" anything that doesn't fit her storyboard.

 

On another note, Kyle telling Lisa that she warned her about Brandi and that LisaV didn't listen is a joke. Kyle warned LisaV then proceeded to not heed her own warning and befriend Brandi so Kyle can stuff it with her recriminations of LisaV's friendship with Brandi.

[SwordQueen]

OMG I totally blanked on watching this tonight!  lol  What's wrong with me?

 

Your comments are better than the show anyway, so I'll just read them and wear out my like button. 

 

 

eta:  Ugh I think Kim really needs to get off this show.  I don't like to watch someone this ill suffer and she clearly is.  And so am I for having to watch her and Brandi.  lol

Edited February 11, 2015 by SwordQueen

[Llama]

I get that, but there was something more. I just watched the scene again, and Pandora first asks: "why now?" So timing is an issue. Then she asks: "Do you really want another family coming into the picture?" Huh? What is she talking about? Max's birth mother? A sibling? A new daughter-in-law? Then Lisa says: "I don't think they will, so don't even say that." Do what? Say what? I think they were talking about something else. Plus, they were acting kind of hush-hush and secretive with each other, and deliberately fussing with the flowers instead of the conversation.

I still kind of take it the same so it may be going over me. Lisa may know the family wouldn't bother wanting contact or reaching back out (or know something of them she doesn't want Max to know) and was trying to not say it? It is definitely loaded situation and somewhat out the blue to me how much focus it is getting now.

[Umbelina]

Yeah, I do think Lipsa is being Kyle's mouthpiece, since Kyle doesn't want the kind of backlash she had after verbally and physically attacking Kim in the limo.  I think she'd LOVE to, but wants to be popular more.

 

I think Lipsa drew Brandi out though.  She did say she's never seen Kim slip, or take a pill, but Lipsa kept pushing, and I think Brandi IS scared for Kim, and knows she's in over her head, as she said. 

[BogoGog24]

I really couldn't when Brandi got pissed because they wouldn't stop talking about her own drinking problems and she's all "Stop talking about me!" when literally 10 minutes before that she was saying how she didn't care what people were saying as long as they were talking about her.

Sigh. Eileen had good intentions but I think she should have just stayed out of that whole situation. It is too big, too deep, and too complicated for anyone but a therapist to deal with. But I'm sort of thinking it may have been set up by production anyway.

Can't believe I'm defending Brandi but to be fair, her show is called Unfiltered, so it's to be expected she'll make offensive comments. If you don't want to hear offensive comments, don't listen to the show. I can't understand why people would even complain about it when they're fully aware of what kind of show it is.

[motorcitymom65]

The extended version of a conversation between Brandi and Kim after the mixer. The way that Brandi tries to manipulate Kim (at least IMO) is sickening to me.  Check out the end where she asks Kim if Kathy would ever treat her like this. 

 

FYI...the place where Brandi says that Kyle is a 45 year old woman and should be embarrassed for acting that way reminded me - for some reason - of a gal stumbling down a sidewalk with her tampon string hanging out. She is right in that Kyle should probably be embarrassed, but it is stunning that Brandi would ever call attention to someone else's shame. 

 

http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/season-5/videos/the-extended-scenes-of-beverly-hills?clip=3000039

[Mozelle]

Kim is repugnant! She can’t stand, “people talking about people she loves?” but she’s ok with Brandi trash talking her sister?

 

And if Brandi was the “Mama Bear”  that she claims to be then she must be the kind of Mama Bear that eats her young. Brandi does more to out Kim’s drug use than anyone else. Her conversation with LisaR, that’s all she did was OUT Kim. Earlier in the season I was fast forwarding through all her scenes but they've mixed her in with the more likeable housewives in the last couple of episodes and I've forced myself to watch to see what LisaR was talking about for example and I"m full of self loathing for those moments I wont ever get back.

 

This was me at the beginning of the season as well. The editors got smart, though, and started including more Brandi plus [other housewife] scenes in the broadcast.

 

I dislike how purportedly Bravo has allowed Kyle to extort them into keeping her sister on the show. I don't know if LisaR is genuinely concerned (I really do like her quite a bit) or if her insistence on calling Kim out is in reality the producers trying to force the Richards sisters' hand and "force" Kim to quit in an attempt to stop speculation. She seems to be miserable more so now that it seems her addiction is front and center.

 

This gets repeated fairly often, but I don't believe that there's any truth to it. Honestly, what kind of pull could Kyle possibly have to have Kim stay on the show?

[WireWrap]

The scene with Lisa and Pandora was weird...I couldn't really figure it out. Did Pandora ask her mother if she was worried that someone would be joining the family? (then Lisa said stop, don't say that.). Did they think that Max was maybe inquiring about his ancestry because he's interested in marrying his girlfriend? Sorry if I got it all wrong and am completely off the mark....I just couldn't understand that exchange.

I think Pandora is afraid that Max will invite his birth parents into their lives. I think she is afraid that she and her parents will be pushed aside for the birth family.

 

 

I'm so over the Richard sisters and their fighting and cry talking. Move on, nothing more to see here!

I thought Eileen's movie premiere was funny. It was nice to see everything in La-La Land is not perfect. The interview guy got the name of her show wrong, there was

regular food like hot dogs and chicken tenders there, and that movie clip was a hoot as were the HW's reaction to it.

I can't believe Yo didn't go off on Brandi for saying her daughter was an alcoholic . But she couldn't let a little thing like Lisa not inviting her to Palm Springs go.

And yes, Max does look Scandinavian and Irish.

I loved seeing the faces of both of the Lisa's! The looks were hysterical IMO!

 

 

I would have expected Lisa and Pandora to be more enlightened and realize Max's interest in his birth family has nothing to do with them, it's not like he has taken out a Want Ad for a new mother and sister.  You'd think Lisa would have had read a self help book or encountered other people in a similar situation and would understand Max's interest in his back story by now.  Lisa's over-dramatic aversion to Max wanting to know his real last name is inexplicable to me, unless she kidnapped Max when he was a baby.

 The fear of losing a loved child to the birth parent is a very real fear no matter how much you try and prepare yourself. Obviously Lisa told Max his birth name, not his "real" name BTW, off camera! 

[njbchlover]

Say what you will about Yolanda - she's boring, etc., but she always cracks me up with her mixed up comments....

I loved "stabbing me below the belt"....mixing up "stabbing me in the back" and "hitting below the belt". 

I also think that her conversation with Brandi really closed the door on that friendship. 

Did anyone else think that Brandi was trying to intimate that the other housewives were calling Bella an alcoholic?  I don't think Yolanda believed that for one second....and, neither do I!! 

Edited February 11, 2015 by njbchlover

[Umbelina]

I dislike how purportedly Bravo has allowed Kyle to extort them into keeping her sister on the show. I don't know if LisaR is genuinely concerned (I really do like her quite a bit) or if her insistence on calling Kim out is in reality the producers trying to force the Richards sisters' hand and "force" Kim to quit in an attempt to stop speculation. She seems to be miserable more so now that it seems her addiction is front and center.

 

 

 

This gets repeated fairly often, but I don't believe that there's any truth to it. Honestly, what kind of pull could Kyle possibly have to have Kim stay on the show?

 

I don't believe it either.  It DOES give Kyle a storyline as the martyr and the "GOOD" sister, and I wouldn't put it past Kyle to use that.  Actually, I put nothing past Kyle.  I'm so tired of her rages.

[cooksdelight]

Brandi was definitely throwing all the other HWs in the fire with Yo, saying "well, you know, everyone...."