S10.E18: There's No Place Like Home

[Chicosan]

Does Bethenny no longer have her original driver? I think his name was Kevin? Tonight she had a young guy driving her and Sonja to the jean place. Anyone know if Kevin is still with her or is he out?

[UsernameFatigue]

While I didn't particularly care for Ramona's renos (though an update certainly was needed) I couldn't help think when Lu was making her snide remarks that at least Ramona didn't steal from her child(ren) to finance her home/renos. 

I really hope this is the last season that we have to hear Lu sing (badly) that horrible song, "Money Can't Buy You Class". It can't buy you the ability to sing, either. 

Geez, Carole can't even wear a tracksuit without looking ridiculous. I can't remember if I have noticed before how little chemistry there is between Carole and Adam. None. Nada. They look like and relate like they are an aunt and nephew. One thing that I did find interesting though. Several episodes back Carole mentioned (can't remember to who) that she would be hurt if Adam went out with someone else, even though they were no longer together. I think she called it disrespectful. That made no sense to me since they were not together. Then someone mentioned that Adam was dating someone that he had created 'sexy salads' with. There are lots of pictures on his instagram of this woman. They have also made some sophomoric videos together. So it all made sense when Carole made a reference to sexy salads when talking to Adam in this epi. It was a rather snide remark, so I took from that that the sexy salad lady is the one Adam was dating, and Carole was upset as Adam was working with her when he was dating Carole. Just a guess but it seems to fit. 

[Jel]

1 minute ago, ShawnaLanne said:

I don't think so, it's been commented on both times that Heather doesn't even get first and last name billing when she comes on, she is simply Heather, Carole's friend.

I didn't find her that interesting the first time around, so I'm unsure what she'd bring to the show. Well, there was common sense, which most don't have.

I think Carole brought Heather in in order to bash B with a new person on camera, as a kind if backup, and because it appears she gets off on bashing B since every single scene is about B, except Adam, which looked like a carefully crafted scene by Carole to make it appear she is over Adam and the ending was her choice.

Personally, I wouldn't like to see her back, but the two appearances, plus her apparent willingness to return as far back as 2016 had me wondering. 

[breezy424]

Yeah, like Beth's fairytale with her cold cut line with Smithfield?  Beth isn't supportive of other women especially when it comes to business endeavors.  How many pretend parties has Beth have?

[RedDelicious]

I can't believe Sonja was wearing an adult diaper and not those leakage protection undergarments that look like real underwear. Does she really poo in them or just tinkle? I'm so, so horrified right now. The odor that must emanate from her. I can't. 

[ShawnaLanne]

2 minutes ago, Jel said:

Personally, I wouldn't like to see her back, but the two appearances, plus her apparent willingness to return as far back as 2016 had me wondering. 

It didn't sound like it. I understand where you are coming from though. Thinking about it though, I did like how Heather held her in against drunken Slurinda. I would have loved to see her rebutt Dorinda on kind of everything this season.

I will say, Carole looked genuinely happy to see her, but I think it was because everyone else is so tired of listening to her talk about B.

[KungFuBunny]

8 minutes ago, UsernameFatigue said:

While I didn't particularly care for Ramona's renos (though an update certainly was needed) I couldn't help think when Lu was making her snide remarks that at least Ramona didn't steal from her child(ren) to finance her home/renos. 

I really hope this is the last season that we have to hear Lu sing (badly) that horrible song, "Money Can't Buy You Class". It can't buy you the ability to sing, either. 

Geez, Carole can't even wear a tracksuit without looking ridiculous. I can't remember if I have noticed before how little chemistry there is between Carole and Adam. None. Nada. They look like and relate like they are an aunt and nephew. One thing that I did find interesting though. Several episodes back Carole mentioned (can't remember to who) that she would be hurt if Adam went out with someone else, even though they were no longer together. I think she called it disrespectful. That made no sense to me since they were not together. Then someone mentioned that Adam was dating someone that he had created 'sexy salads' with. There are lots of pictures on his instagram of this woman. They have also made some sophomoric videos together. So it all made sense when Carole made a reference to sexy salads when talking to Adam in this epi. It was a rather snide remark, so I took from that that the sexy salad lady is the one Adam was dating, and Carole was upset as Adam was working with her when he was dating Carole. Just a guess but it seems to fit. 

Bingo!

[Thumper]

15 minutes ago, QuinnM said:

Someone actually asked her that on twitter.  Saying, you could at least have called with regrets.  And this is what Bethenny responded:

It doesn’t exist. And as a business woman, I am done allowing people to pretend business is easy or have pretend parties to launch products that are fairytales. Watch cartoons if you want fantasy.

Harsh.

[KungFuBunny]

3 minutes ago, ShawnaLanne said:

It didn't sound like it. I understand where you are coming from though. Thinking about it though, I did like how Heather held her in against drunken Slurinda. I would have loved to see her rebutt Dorinda on kind of everything this season.

I will say, Carole looked genuinely happy to see her, but I think it was because everyone else is so tired of listening to her talk about B.

I question the veracity of their friendship off-show.

Carole didn't even know Heather was running the marathon - Heather who when she was on the show did everything athletic inclusive of that Spartan race with her husband.

[Neeners]

11 minutes ago, Jel said:

Also, and unrelated to Heather... anyone remember the blind item about a reality show star who was only pretending to date men, but actually had a serious girlfriend? People speculated it was Radzi. And then tonight, when Adam asked Carole if they could get together for coffee sometime, Carole said she doesn't drink coffee anymore, she only drinks tea now, I thought I saw a "wink and a nod" kind of non verbal exchange between Carole and Adam.

Holy adult diapers, I think you might be on to something. Verrrrrry interesting!

[bagger]

55 minutes ago, KungFuBunny said:

I love my Ramona but I have to agree with this and give it to Bethenny.

Earlier in the season, Ramona was walking Coco and on the phone with Bethenny.

Ramona already said those exact words to her - you know what Bethenny, you don't believe in women supporting women, You don't support woman!..Click

So she shouldn't have been surprised that Bethenny didn't attend her event.

The thing with Ramona is that she got great feedback for putting Bethenny in her place earlier in the season and she’s going to stick to that theme. The problem is that now it doesn’t sound spontaneous, it sounds rehearsed and no one gives a crap. 

Edited August 9, 2018 by bagger

[KungFuBunny]

Sneak peak

Dorinda is mad...and it's not about John. It's about Sonja - Luann invites Sonja to perform with her not Dorinda "the loyal" one

[queenjen]

Wow, this episode is packed. Compared to this week's Potomac and OC, again the NY hos show how it's done. Is this the first time we've seen John so far this season? Because it looks to me like Dorinda has pumped the brakes and is screening him for famewhoreitis. At the whole lunch with John scene, he keeps asking 'how am I doing so far', and I wonder if she's said he's not going to be on camera like he has been in the past and if he behaves, she might throw him a bone or bring him back in at the end of the season. 

I could handle Heather back, I really could. 

Lu going in on Ramona's house, that was some vitriol. But if anyone has earned it, Ramona has. Lu's places always look warm and cosesy. Her description of Ramona's as 'cold' literally represents the other end of the spectrum personal choice wise. I'm kind of with her though. Lu lives/lived in the Hamptons, Ramona visits. All that white and high ceilings in winter would be nightmarish. Ramona described it as a 'transitional' look made me snort my tea. Oh lord, this woman. She's heard that somewhere along the line and she thinks it is a thing. 'Transitional': like a doctor's waiting room? Like a bullet train stop? Nailed it Ramona. You're truly a maven of the Transitional School of Interior Design. 

The adult diaper thing, no, Sonja. I don't know anyone who shucks their knickers before transit and gets into some Depends because they don't do the facilities. No. It's not 'a thing'. And it's gross. I don't want to know how bad all this smelled, there was way too much poo talk in this episode. Don't need to see yet another clip of Ramona's dog hunching over Dorinda's carpet either. Don't want to hear how the room towels smelled on the balcony between Ramona and Sonja either. Those poor room attendants. I really hope they got tipped well.

[SCS]

1 hour ago, Thumper said:

Harsh.

 

ITA, it was but, as much as Bethenny hasn't impressed me this season, I understand her point. This is the THIRD skin care line Ramona has shilled: First Tru Renewal because "these are the best products ever and I look so young and everyone asks me what I use!" Then she became a distributor for Rodan & Fields because, "these are the best products ever and I look so young and everyone asks me what I use!" Now this newest venture with the same party line. It's just tired.

[UsernameFatigue]

8 minutes ago, KungFuBunny said:

Sneak peak

Dorinda is mad...and it's not about John. It's about Sonja - Luann invites Sonja to perform with her not Dorinda "the loyal" one

 

I couldn't understand from the preview - did Dorinda say John wasn't there because he wasn't invited? I felt sorry for John in his scene with Dorinda - he does go out of his way to make her happy, and I don't see that reciprocated. Never have, actually. And Dorinda had me shaking my head when she said John has become a better man over the last 6 years because of her. For the most part I have always thought John deserved someone better than Dorinda, or at least someone who treats him like more than a doormat. 

[ShawnaLanne]

17 minutes ago, KungFuBunny said:

I question the veracity of their friendship off-show.

Carole didn't even know Heather was running the marathon - Heather who when she was on the show did everything athletic inclusive of that Spartan race with her husband.

Oh me too. That's why I think she was just happy to have another person to bitch to/at about B. 

When it comes down to it what do Heather and Carole have in common? Heather is married, has a couple of kids, and works her ass off. While Carole talks about how busy she is, but can't come up with productive things she does but likes to say how busy she is, is single, and is so seldom at home she shares her pet with two other people, pet responsibility is too much for her.

[KungFuBunny]

2 minutes ago, SCS said:

 

ITA, it was but, as much as Bethenny hasn't impressed me this season, I understand her point. This is the THIRD skin care line Ramona has shilled: First Tru Renewal because "these are the best products ever and I look so young and everyone asks me what I use!" Then she became a distributor for Rodan & Fields because, "these are the best products ever and I look so young and everyone asks me what I use!" Now this newest venture with the same party line. It's just tired.

I love my Ramona!

She loves her floaty tube noodles.

KFB business venture suggestion: I think she should launch a line and call them Tru Ranoodles

[hoodooznoodooz]

Is it normal for a 47-year-old woman to get such a thrill, talking about penises? 

[SCS]

1 hour ago, KungFuBunny said:

I love my Ramona!

She loves her floaty tube noodles.

KFB business venture suggestion: I think she should launch a line and call them Tru Ranoodles

[ShawnaLanne]

15 minutes ago, KungFuBunny said:

Sneak peak

Dorinda is mad...and it's not about John. It's about Sonja - Luann invites Sonja to perform with her not Dorinda "the loyal" one

Oh, the jealousy, and when has Dorinda ever shown any interest on being on stage? It's not as if you could count on her to be sober. Also, what does Dorinda want for her introductions to people, bone marrow?

[KungFuBunny]

2 minutes ago, ShawnaLanne said:

Oh me too. That's why I think she was just happy to have another person to bitch to/at about B. 

When it comes down to it what do Heather and Carole have in common? Heather is married, has a couple of kids, and works her ass off. While Carole talks about how busy she is, but can't come up with productive things she does but likes to say how busy she is, is single, and is so seldom at home she shares her pet with two other people, pet responsibility is too much for her.

Yes, they are Show Friends Only.

[UsernameFatigue]

1 minute ago, ShawnaLanne said:

Oh me too. That's why I think she was just happy to have another person to bitch to/at about B. 

When it comes down to it what do Heather and Carole have in common? Heather is married, has a couple of kids, and works her ass off. While Carole talks about how busy she is, but can't come up with productive things she does but likes to say how busy she is, is single, and is so seldom at home she shares her pet with two other people, pet responsibility is too much for her.

You reminded me of the only thing I enjoyed during the scene at Carole's shoe box  apartment. Seeing her cat and dog hanging out. They are all that I will miss when Carole leaves. 

I hope they don't bring Heather back. I didn't care for her the first time around, and doubt that I would feel any differently if she were to return. UO I know, but I would rather have Jill back if they were to recycle a Howife. 

[KungFuBunny]

5 minutes ago, SCS said:

[hoodooznoodooz]

Lu laughed at her cop joke like Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. 

[athousandclowns]

I'm just starting to watch and in carols apartment with Tinsly the cat was sitting very still in between the vases that used to have the tulips in them then would disappear. Then back it would pop up and Tinsly would be crying. 

[Pop Tart]

“Congratulations on the ummm...that’s quite an accomplishment...” Adam is having a hard time remembering his lines of Carole praise. He kind of stumbled then mumbled something about the marathon and then threw in a mention of the article?

And really? You’re having a big party to celebrate your getting an article published? I think Carole decided since no one threw her a party for her marathon run, she would throw one for herself for this new, fantabulous achievement.

With regards to Ramona’s home makeover, I thought it looked like she’d prepped it to rent out on AirBnb. It not only looked bland and beige, it looked cheap. What I don’t get is why you’d think white would be a good choice for something that’s going to be rented. Renters - even if they’re paying big bucks, perhaps especially since they’re paying big bucks - aren’t known for taking the best care of things. Look how the ladies left the house in Cartagena, and that was a place rented with a full household staff.

As harsh as B’s tweet is about why she didn’t go to Ramona’s pre-launch party, its also totally true. I don’t know which excuse for a ‘hey, look at me’ party was worse. Carole’s Cosmo article or Ramona’s to announce that at some point she’d have an actual product to announce? I guess since Carole had actually completed her thing, I have to give the worst title to Ramona.

[queenjen]

1 hour ago, Jel said:

2 hours ago, LilaFowler said:

All I remember from Heather's time on the show was when Bethenny couldn't eat her dinner because there was fish in it and Heather freaked out and started bawling. I've never thought about her since she left and I don't miss her. Yawn.

that, plus something about meatballs. My most vivid memory of Heather was her storming in to someone's room, angrily pulling open the curtains while yelling at the women to get up.

we've seen her twice this year, and I did come across an article from 2016 in which she said she'd be open to returning to the show. Maybe she will be carole's replacement next year.

ah but this then led to the infamous 'don't be all..uncool' scene, and was 'eggs a la francaise' from this trip also?, so Heather contributed to that, plus Ramona throwing a glass at Kristen and all the women playing in the dirt at Heather's property.

 

Dorinda and John: Dorinda said she'd been seeing John now for as long as she was married to Richard... wow. Dorinda sanctifies that marriage, I thought it went on a lot longer than 6 years. John does NOT seem in the same league through Dorinda's eyes.

[ButterQueen]

1 hour ago, scoobie1 said:

what was she supposed to say to her though? I'm so sorry I didn't call? 

I doubt B calls her for anything these days after the last phone call to Ramona ended with her Screaming at her about her lack of support of other women.  

Yes, she should have apologized for not even acknowledging the invitation.

[maggiemae]

OMG - the little bites they do that are 1/8 by 1/8th - Who does that?

[ButterQueen]

1 hour ago, QuinnM said:

Someone actually asked her that on twitter.  Saying, you could at least have called with regrets.  And this is what Bethenny responded:

It doesn’t exist. And as a business woman, I am done allowing people to pretend business is easy or have pretend parties to launch products that are fairytales. Watch cartoons if you want fantasy.

Yep, B is still a bitch.  

[Rahul]

What a shit show this has become.

Some men should never wear baseball caps. Adam is one of those men. <shudder>

[ButterQueen]

I liked Ramona’s original kitchen much better than her updated one.  It looked horrible.  I’m so tired of her on this show.

[DelicateDee]

3 hours ago, Neurochick said:

I still don't get why they're ALL STILL sick.  I've been on ships that have hit rogue waves where I was seasick as anything (the last time was very notably the night of the Ohio Caucus in 2008), but I was fine the next day.  So they all probably got food poisoning. 

The one and only time I got seasick (haven't been on a boat since), it was horrible and I had vertigo with slight nausea for 3 days.  Fortunately, I was able to hold my bowels till we got on land, but I was like Carole with the puking on the boat, except I didn't have a big pail, just hung over the side of the boat.  But I've always been prone to motion sickness.  But if they had bad diarrhea, it could last a few days.  

[Pop Tart]

10 minutes ago, DelicateDee said:

The one and only time I got seasick (haven't been on a boat since), it was horrible and I had vertigo with slight nausea for 3 days.  Fortunately, I was able to hold my bowels till we got on land, but I was like Carole with the puking on the boat, except I didn't have a big pail, just hung over the side of the boat.  But I've always been prone to motion sickness.  But if they had bad diarrhea, it could last a few days.  

I think they were all sick from something they ate or drank. The morning after the boat ride, when they all said they’d been running to the bathroom all night, they had a discussion about what they’d eaten for lunch the day before. They were comparing notes to see if they all ate the same thing, which to me sounds like they thought they had food poisoning and the effects of that can last for days.

[Lemons]

2 hours ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

I can't find anything on line about it, but if SG jeans aren't made offshore, I'll eat my hat.  They're actually made or distributed by a company that has several clothing brands under their umbrella.  Never know what kind of deal she cut, but it almost sounds like a licensing deal more than anything.

I would bet her cheap Jeans are made in china.  I wonder if that was 3x1 Jeans in SoHo.  They make their Jeans right there on Mercer Street.  

[RedheadZombie]

4 hours ago, KungFuBunny said:

Poor Heather...again only gets the Heather, Carole's Friend shout out.

Does Bravo not like her?

Bethenny doesn't like her.  Enough said.

[SuprSuprElevated]

2 minutes ago, Lemons said:

her cheap Jeans

$100 bux from what I've seen.  I've never spent $100 bux on jeans.  I realize that people spend far more than that, but if her claim is that they're for all women, she might want to work on the price point.

[biakbiak]

7 minutes ago, Lemons said:

wonder if that was 3x1 Jeans in SoHo.  They make their Jeans right there on Mercer Street

No when they showed them going into the building it was clearly not in Manhattan. 

Etb: It was BPD Washhouse in Jersey City.

Edited August 9, 2018 by biakbiak

[escatefromny]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I’m only 20 mins in at we’re at Bethenny’s apt and I can’t focus on anything but the fire door that is right in her entry??!?!  I assume she has the full floor and the fire door is required by law but there has to be a way to camaflogue it.  She spent all that money and it looks like is living in a factory.

Edited August 9, 2018 by escatefromny

[biakbiak]

1 hour ago, escatefromny said:

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I’m only 20 mins in at we’re at Bethenny’s apt and I can’t focus on anything but the fire door that is right in her entry way?!?!  I assume she has the full floor and the fire door is required by law but there has to be a way to camaflogue it.  She spent all that money and it looks like is living in a factory.

Yeah I found the entry way too wide and empty for my tastes. Also, is the A required or was it just used for the initial space.

I absolutely hate the trend of having a huge island with seating and then right behind it having a large dining table, it’s way too many chairs to close to each other for me and it bugs the hell out of me. I realize because it’s now a common trend I might be alone in hating this layout.

Edited August 9, 2018 by biakbiak

[bref]

The Cosmo party was not hosted by Carol. It was the magazine's monthly issue-release gig. As someone who had a column in the issue, she was invited as an honoree. I didn't see it as being in the same category as Ramona's "pre-launch" nonsense myself. But that exchange between her and Adam was definitely awkward and weird. 

I thought Ramona's house looked staged for sale too. Just completely bland and cold, without a hint of personality. I understand that if it's going to be rented, but she was so proud of her design hand! And whoever said white furniture in a rental home is a nightmare waiting to happen was absolutely correct.

Edited August 9, 2018 by bref

[ScoobieDoobs]

57 minutes ago, Lemons said:

I would bet her cheap Jeans are made in china.  I wonder if that was 3x1 Jeans in SoHo.  They make their Jeans right there on Mercer Street.  

OK, soooo WTH was that scene for?  Showing B with her new bestie Sonja -- who she clearly thinks is a nut & an idiot?  Why was Bethenny screeching at the mention of "package"?  I didn't get any of it. 

Watching B trying desperately hard to find a replacement for bestie/follower Carole was pretty painful.  So she's trying out Sonja, Lu & Dorinda for the job of her bestie/follower?  Uh, no.  And now she's gonna be palsy-walsy with Lu?  Please, B hasn't changed her opinion of Lu from 10 years ago -- that she's a snake.  Dorinda?  She'll talk shit about anyone behind their back, eh?  Yeesh, she sucks.

Idk, Moaner's place looked an ad for Wayfair or Overstock.  Uh, not exactly high-end there, Moaner.  The odd thing was everything in the before shots looked so much better than the after.  Hint to you, Moaner:  Use a fucking decorator -- any decorator!

I hated Bethenny's place.  Too magazine layout for me.  So if someone drops some chocolate or wine, will she re-decorate -- or screech at 'em like she did about the package in the jeans scene?  Idk, the Bethenny we see here still has such intensity, she scares the shit outta me.  The coldness of her joint soooo reflects her personality.  Cold, cold, cold, cold, icicle cold.  Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

Lu, you're making jokey references about cops?  Really?  Still say that woman shoulda gotten jail time.  She so deserved it!

Did Sonja say she went to FIT?  Was that when she was dancing with John-John on a yacht?

Ah, Carole, so none of your relationships "crash & burn", eh?  Well, one just did . . .

Is there a more dull man on the planet than Adam?  If there is, I don't wanna know.

Is John getting plugs?  Maybe to get Dorinda back?  Hey, just why does a drunky mess like Dorinda hold all the cards in that relationship?

[film noire]

WTF Luann? The happy lush is now a mean-spirited dry drunk; she's not the first one to go down that route but I hope she goes to real rehab next time (because there will be a third time) and doesn't skip steps 1 - 12. (And for the record, Light-Fingered Lu, over the last eighteen months -- during the same time period Ramona did the renovation you mocked --  you kicked the shit out of a cop, stole shit from your own children, and left shit in your bed for another woman to clean up.  You have no right to talk crap about how anybody else spent their time, or how shitty their achievements were. I know that in your wannabe M'lady world, ordering everything online is somehow worse than stealing from your kids --  I’m just stealing for me (I broke the Mom code!) --  but as crazy as Moaner is, I know one thing: she would never steal from Avery. Which I don't know about you, anymore. And that makes you shit under Crazy Eye's shoes, dahling (regardless of her reno looking like the home in which Heaven's Gate cult members offed themselves, back in the late nineties,  to catch the UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp comet).

Lady Morgan: Of a summer day, when the sky is bright blue and a hush lies over the island of Manhattan --the city so empty, and so quiet you can hear the leaves in Central Park rustle in the hot wind  -- on such a day,  Sonja sits on the jitney to the Hamptons and pees into a diaper. This truth has not been leaked (no pun intended) by a vindictive intern, nor is it unfortunate gossip overheard at the  Regency Bar and blasted across on Page Six. No, this is something Lady Morgan admitted -- openly,  freely --  something she revealed without shame: rather than use the bathroom on the bus,  she pisses into a Lisa Rinna special, and settles back, nice and comfy, as the urea-ridden fumes rise around her like the stinky lines off Pig Pen.  Lady Morgan's New York City: fabulous as ever.

Doris, Doris, Doris; you're close to what the French call "belle laids" (beautiful ugly) and it's why I can't quit your evil ass. Your face -- like your personality  -- is chameleon-like; one minute you're the kind of vicious drunk that makes my skin crawl (red-faced, thick-tongued,  eyes popping, bits of food clinging to your moist meaty lip) and the next, you're all lovely eyes, squared off shoulders and bare, elegant arms.  I can't keep disliking you and then be mesmerized by your looks when you turn in a certain way; it's creepy. Stop torturing me and pick a lane. 

Carole and Tinsley:  Carole playing therapist and dragging in Tinsley's abusive relationship was so fucked up.  (And -- just a thought, Radziwill! -- perhaps you overreacted because your loved ones died at sea. Does it feel good to hear that? Didn't think so.) Maybe Tinsley -- the silly debutante -- is just made of sterner stuff than you are, Ms War Zone journalist; or maybe having visited Columbia so often, Tinsley had more of a sense of the place. Whatever the reason for your differing reactions, citing her past physical abuse was beyond insensitive. You don't get to rummage through somebody's pscyhe like you're rummaging through your underwear drawer for Poshmark items.

 

On 8/8/2018 at 11:25 PM, Bronzedog said:

If I were a woman in need, I'd rather have Bethenny on my side than Ramona.

Not me -- Bethenny couldn't even find a vet to spare her dog untold misery (never mind get help for a fellow human). Ramona went to Jill and Bobby's side in the hospital, and visited Bethenny several times, and raised a happy healthy daughter along the way -- Ramona turns up.

Edited August 11, 2018 by film noire

[biakbiak]

47 minutes ago, film noire said:

Carole and Tinsley:  Carole playing therapist and dragging in Tinsley's abusive relationship was so fucked up. 

That was seriously messed up. It’s like she was pissed that Tinsley wasn’t freaked out and had to take her down a peg. It was not a good look at all.

Did Ramona say the rugs in her boring ass living room were from Jill Zarin?

Edited August 9, 2018 by biakbiak

[ScoobieDoobs]

Btw, does Columbia have a night school?  Or maybe an online version?  OK, so Kelly & Tinz BOTH went to "Columbia"?  Or maybe Topper went there & she got the t-shirt in the divorce settlement?  Something doesn't seem right here.

[biakbiak]

1 minute ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

Btw, does Columbia have a night school?  Or maybe an online version?  OK, so Kelly & Tinz BOTH went to "Columbia"?  Or maybe Topper went there & she got the t-shirt in the divorce settlement?  Something doesn't seem right here.

She went to Columbia undergrad and graduated with a degree in art history. Topper went to NYU. 

[ichbin]

3 hours ago, UsernameFatigue said:

While I didn't particularly care for Ramona's renos (though an update certainly was needed) I couldn't help think when Lu was making her snide remarks that at least Ramona didn't steal from her child(ren) to finance her home/renos. 

I'm pretty sure I've read that Ramona bought the Hamptons house on her own and before she was ever married. It was really petty and low of Luanne to take potshots at her the way she did in this episode. I'm from Connecticut too and I am familiar with the the town where The Countess spent her formative years. The airs she puts on are really laughable.  There is a lot which can be said about Ramona, but she has every right to be proud of her accomplishments as well as the way she has dealt with a humiliating divorce while in the public eye.  Can the same be said of Luanne?  

2 hours ago, ButterQueen said:

3 hours ago, QuinnM said:

Someone actually asked her that on twitter.  Saying, you could at least have called with regrets.  And this is what Bethenny responded:

It doesn’t exist. And as a business woman, I am done allowing people to pretend business is easy or have pretend parties to launch products that are fairytales. Watch cartoons if you want fantasy.

Yep, B is still a bitch.  

Ramona ran a business on her own years before Bethenny hit it big.  Is that the problem perhaps, that Bethenny is not the only one to have been successful and self-made?  Ramona may be an awkward weirdo, but for Bethenny to suggest that she doesn't know what is involved in running a business is ridiculous.  She had that Skinny Girl jeans launch months ago back in January, probably so it could be on the show, yet the last I heard the jeans won't be available to buy until September.  What's the difference?  

Ramona is a piece of work, for sure,  but I don't think I have ever seen her be as nasty and hateful toward the others as some have been about her.

[Feline Queen]

People paying $165K per month to rent a house want high end furnishings. I don't think Ramona's worried that a rock band is going to trash her house, so that's her reason for not spending a lot on the decor. As for Beth's place looking a lot better - not necessarily. I've seen much nicer closets on the other HW shows. And I thought the dining room table was way too close to the kitchen island. At the lipstick place I thought Lu put her foot in her mouth trashing Ramona's place which looks fairly similar to Beth's own color scheme. 

Doris did look her best at the tour-de-FrankelManor but her haircolor is still too white. The lunch with John was awkward as hell. Or should I say, as usual. She always comes across as if she can barely stand him. 

Maybe it isn't the construction zone next door that's causing potential renters to offer less for Sonja's townhouse, but the yard covered in dog poop that she can't be bothered to pick up. She said the poop was exposed because the snow had melted. I guess she was planning on leaving it there to be covered again by the next winter's snowstorm.  

Tinsley needs to be on a show about former sorority girls in their forties who never matured past freshman year in college.

While Ramona does look good, of course the photo for the skincare line was still photoshopped. They all are. Which is why so many women are disappointed when they can't achieve the same results as the celebs peddling the products. In some ways I can't blame Beth for saying she's no longer going to support vanity projects that will probably never actually materialize.  But then she shouldn't expect support for her never-ending Skinny Girl crap. 

If Carole believes Adam is still interested in her and wants to rekindle their relationship it's because he keeps showing up when the cameras are around. 

Next week is Sonja's 'big reveal' and apparently Dorinda's audition tape for admission to clown college. 

Edited August 9, 2018 by Feline Queen

[ivygirl]

16 minutes ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

OK, soooo WTH was that scene for?  Showing B with her new bestie Sonja -- who she clearly thinks is a nut & an idiot?  Why was Bethenny screeching at the mention of "package"?  I didn't get any of it. 

Watching B trying desperately hard to find a replacement for bestie/follower Carole was pretty painful.  So she's trying out Sonja, Lu & Dorinda for the job of her bestie/follower?  Uh, no. 

Carole wants a light friendship = she just can’t hang with deep people (like Bethenny)

Bethenny and Sonja like to laugh together and act like “morons” = it’s all good fun!

11 minutes ago, film noire said:

Carole and Tinsley:  Carole playing therapist and dragging in Tinsley's abusive relationship was so fucked up.  (And -- just a thought, Radziwill! -- perhaps you overreacted because your loved ones died at sea. Or maybe Tinsley -- the silly debutante -- is just made of sterner stuff than you are, Ms War Zone journalist.  Or maybe having visited Columbia so often, Tinsley had more of a sense of the place. But whatever the reason between your differing reactions, citing her past physical abuse was beyond insensitive -- you don't get to rummage through somebody's psyhe like you're rummaging through your underwear drawer for Poshmark items.)

I had first, fourth, and ninth-hand embarrassment during that scene. Super ballsy of Carole to make that pronouncement. What a horrifying thing to say to a friend, especially while the cameras are rolling. 

[biakbiak]

Didn’t Ramona previously insist that she only rents her house for a few weeks a year so she didn’t have to pay taxes on the rental income and bragged about how it showed she was such a great business woman?

Edited August 9, 2018 by biakbiak