S13.E18: Femme Finale

[KungFuBunny]

Season Finale

Emily plans a Femme Fatale party for the ladies, as her mother, Susan, visits Orange County for the first time in five years; Shannon has a very adult conversation with her 16-year-old daughter, Sophie; Tamra and Gina try to hash out their issues.  

Airs 11/19/18 at 9:00 PM Eastern

Note: Next week, Reunion Part 1 will air on Sunday, 11/25/18 – check your TV schedules

Edited November 20, 2018 by KungFuBunny

[Martinigirl]

Finale??????? I'm still waiting for it to start....

[Straycat80]

Yeah, this season once again was really lackluster. It didn’t help that the two newbies were not interesting or likeable. 

[mbaywife123]

Vicki was spot on with her changing a tire compared to changing her face. She went from off road tires to racing "slicks"

What a total rubberface!

[Martinigirl]

So, they're all dressing like hookers for Mother's Day?

[Gem 10]

“Are you going to sleep in your little house, mom.”  HEARTBREAKING.

[nexxie]

Gina to Vicki: “You got rid of your gobble wobble.”

omg - she’s a sniper from the side (at least)!

[mbaywife123]

7 minutes ago, Martinigirl said:

So, they're all dressing like hookers for Mother's Day?

Why break tradition ?

[whydoievencare]

Emily doesn't really seem to grasp that her mother suffers from mental health issues.  She didn't just lose the past year to be a bitch or to inconvenience  Emily.  I get that mental illness affects the entire family, (I really do), but she needs to cut her mother some slack.   She could start by making her mother feel less judged when she's just arrived at the house.  

Edited November 20, 2018 by whydoievencare

[ezzy4]

ZERO chemistry between Shane and Emily.  ZERO.

[Emmeline]

I’m fairly certain that Shannon didn’t formulate the ingredients for her products.  As with some of the Bethenny Frankel products, someone came to her with the opportunity and she’s partnered with them and she is the front person.

Overall I like Emily and I understand how hard it was for her growing up.  However, she stated her mother has a mental illness.  The things she is saying and the way her and her husband are acting makes me very sad for her mother.  It was not her choice to be ill.  There is still such a social stigma toward mental illness in 2018, as we’ve seen on this show.  I can understand why some people are apprehensive about seeking treatment and that’s sad.  

Edited November 20, 2018 by Emmeline

[Martinigirl]

Bring back Heather!!! I'd rather see Heather's house not Gina's room in the garage.

[mbaywife123]

These idiots have no idea what a femme fatale is. Try Google you morons!

[Gem 10]

Geeze.  I don’t get Emily’s relationship with her Mother.  She wasn’t warm to her when she came into the house.  I don’t know the story but you would think Emily would have gone to see her Mother at least once in Ohio.  She seems to have time to go on vacation with the girls tho.  Some day Emily will be old and will see how it feels.  I wish I had my mom back.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Gem 10

[Martinigirl]

Hookers and church lady Shannon

Did Emily's mom ask Tamra if Eddie was her son?!? hahahahahahaha!!!

[queenjen]

Where did Vicki drive the fun bus this season?

[mwell345]

In the annals of Housewife Finales, this will surely go down as one of the dullest.

[Straycat80]

PHD. Why does Kelly always talk like a whore? I guess she’s desperate for airtime. 

[chewycandy]

Just waiting for that guitar music. 

[Irritable]

I seriously dislike everything about the way Emily “deals” with her mother’s very serious mental illness.  I seriously dislike everything about Emily. I don’t even feel bad for her that her husband has zero interest in her whatsoever.

The femme fatale theme is lame and awkward.

shannon looked GORGEOUS and so classy.

Kelly’s crass humor used to annoy me and now I find it almost charming. I blame the new women for forcing me have to find entertainment in Kelly’s dirty dad jokes.

[whydoievencare]

If Shannon didn't react in such an over the top way almost all the time, perhaps people wouldn't go after her so much. OTOH, Gina is shit stirring so hard in the three way conversation with Tamra, Shannon and Gina, I kind of don't blame Shannon for taking her to task. Perhaps Shannon could quit with all the hand movement though - it kind of does make her look like a loon.  Gina tells Person A something and then turns around and denies it with Person B - all the time.  All the while telling us how truthful she is.  

Edited November 20, 2018 by whydoievencare

[Martinigirl]

Ummm...it may be some major meds but Emily's Mom seems like the  normal one. IMO

[dosodog]

Brett Shannon!?!?!  Can it be?

I thought I saw a glimpse during a preview.....

[mbaywife123]

Loved Shannon calling people out on gaslighting her.

Hope at the reunion she also calls out the ulimate gaslighter Tamra. 

[Gem 10]

Vikie and Tamra look like shit with all that makeup plastered all over their faces.  They belong in a wax museum.

[Straycat80]

Shannon just doesn't like Gina. End of story.  There is nothing Gina can say or do to make Shannon like her and be her friend.  And I think it’s hysterical Shannon is going to ditch Emily’s party to go to a Poison concert. 

[Caseysgirl]

I have lost a lot of respect for Emily for shaming her mother on national television for her mental illness. Yes, maybe you felt neglected as a child but you have a wonderful life now and you can’t get off your ass and go to see your mother when she can’t even get out of the house. Instead of being empathetic, you are treating her like shit. Her grandsons are 3 and this is the first time their seeing her? Hey you  had time to audition for this show and go to WWHL and all the various trips but have no time for your mother? Selfish.

[bosawks]

24 minutes ago, ezzy4 said:

ZERO chemistry between Shane and Emily.  ZERO.

They make Vicki and Brooks look like Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy.

[Martinigirl]

The church lady upped her game for Bret!

[queenjen]

Gina's filter 'you got rid of your gobble wobble' to Vicki? A little earlier, they'd flashed back to Vicki earlier in the season and she had a very pronounced double chin/wattle, whatever, 'gobble wobble' works. It looked like one.  I remember thinking 'how the hell, with so much plastic surgery, does Vicki still manage to grow this?'. I bet there's a painting in an anteroom behind the grotto that is ageing on the daily

[enchantingmonkey]

That was one helluva finale!  *burp*

[whydoievencare]

Oh Emily - saying about her mother - "I'm so proud of you for making a complete 360".  Christ, what a dummy.

Edited November 20, 2018 by whydoievencare

[bosawks]

“Complete 360”, oh Emily, sigh....

[Gem 10]

1 minute ago, Caseysgirl said:

I have lost a lot of respect for Emily for shaming her mother on national television for her mental illness. Yes, maybe you felt neglected as a child but you have a wonderful life now and you can’t get off your ass and go to see your mother when she can’t even get out of the house. Instead of being empathetic, you are treating her like shit. Her grandsons are 3 and this is the first time their seeing her? Hey you  had time to audition for this show and go to WWHL and all the various trips but have no time for your mother? Selfish.

Couldn’t have said it better.  When a grandparent sees their grandchildren, they light up.  Maybe the Mother is lonely.  Emily treats her mother in law like gold.

[queenjen]

3 minutes ago, mbaywife123 said:

Loved Shannon calling people out on gaslighting her.

Hope at the reunion she also calls out the ulimate gaslighter Tamra

Much as I live for finally seeing Tamra and her beady rat eyes get called on her life long pot stirring, it's been KELLY that a. first said 'abuse' and b. told Shannon that Tamra was constantly bringing up the 'mental health' issue. There was a montage early in the piece and Kelly, who is swinging between the abuelos and sequins, is always the one receiving some tidbit from one ho or the other. I dont think she asks for this role, but she's certainly running with it this season. 

[Straycat80]

That was a boring finale. No usual big screaming fight. I think production told Emily and Gina to jump in the pool at the end for some excitement. It didn’t work, it was still boring. 

[ezzy4]

Oh.Dear.LORD...let's retire the "Vicki wants to get married" storyline.  It is the most boring thing EVER!

[Mindthinkr]

5 minutes ago, Gem 10 said:

Emily treats her mother in law like gold.

Well then she “wouldn’t be living in that house and she’d be driving a Jetta”

she knows where her bread is buttered. 

[AnnA]

That was boring!

STFU Gina!

[Mindthinkr]

Best part of the show is hearing that Archie is still the man of the house. (As if anyone could take his place) 

[bosawks]

I do think my favorite scene this season was the look of abject horror on Gina’s mom’s face when she was invited to the “femme fatale” party.

[mbaywife123]

I would have been out the door with Shannon to go see Poison/Bret. 

[Rosiejuliemom]

Do none of these women know what femme fatale actually means?

I was expecting to see more Mr. & Mrs. Smith Angelina Jolie and less screwing around in a sex store.

Emily and Kelly came closest. Gina kinda looked like Erika Jayne and Vicki looked like she just came from a business meeting.

[nexxie]

Emily saying she’d be in a condo driving a car so nondescript I can’t recall the name if her mil wasn’t happy with her was pretty telling. I no longer think Shane’s mom is his redeeming feature.

[Mu Shu]

1 hour ago, Martinigirl said:

So, they're all dressing like hookers for Mother's Day?

Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, and Katherine Hepburn.  All femme fatales.  No whips, all class.  I think they confused Dominatrix with femme fatale.  It’s not an absolute either way, but they are dumbasses.

shannon as Brett will always steal the show.

oh my The hopped up on goofballs Icki.  Just how tight did they pull her face?  She was more frozen than Pary.

fuck this casita dweller.  She’s an idiot with awful makeup.  And she lives in a damn garage.

id like Emily’s life if rock bottom is a condo and a mid priced Volkswagen.  Beats living in a glorified garage. 

Edited November 20, 2018 by Mu Shu

[Gem 10]

A whole new cast is needed, with real faces .. well, Kelly should stay and maybe Shannon.  That’s it.

[msblossom]

1 hour ago, whydoievencare said:

Emily doesn't really seem to grasp that her mother suffers from mental health issues.  She didn't just lose the past year to be a bitch or to inconvenience  Emily.  I get that mental illness affects the entire family, (I really do), but she needs to cut her mother some slack.   She could start by making her mother feel less judged when she's just arrived at the house.  

 

I agree. Also, It actually pissed me off the way she threw her mother under the bus on national television. The woman is obviously in a fragile state trying to get back to “living” and her daughter puts her on the defensive right from jump. She also neglected to say that her mother was there at her twins birth and made seem like she was going to be meeting them for the first time. Not cool, Emily. 

Edited November 20, 2018 by msblossom
Emily not Gina!

[CrinkleCutCat]

Poor Emily.... she deserved a WOW for her outfit too. Shane is such a little shit.

[AttackTurtle]

It’s Gina’s smugness that I just can’t take.  She’s incredibly passive aggressive and I just can’t stand her or her blue eyeshadow.

Emily is lousy.  I felt so bad for her mother.

Shannon is crazy, but Shannon does not stir the pot and I love that she confronts things head on.

This season was awful.  Dallas has been much better.  I’m leaning towards only watching Dallas and NY from now on.  

[Martinigirl]

Can someone explain the white SUV Emily picked her Mom up in? It's a Volvo on the outside but inside it has a Mercedes steering wheel??????????