S13.E18: Femme Finale

[msblossom]

57 minutes ago, ezzy4 said:

ZERO chemistry between Shane and Emily.  ZERO.

Geez, no doubt. I can’t imagine anyone being attracted to that man and having chemistry. His personality is wooden, he’s got short man complex and he’s very unattractive. 

[Marley]

Emily and Gina need to go. They were complete duds. They both are so annoying too. I don’t care to see Gina in her dumb little garage room either. The show is supposed to have house porn not make me think my house is a mansion compared to hers lol.

Emilys party also kind of looked lame . Her husband is such a boring blob. I don’t want to see him anymore or their sham of a marriage business arrangement lol.

Kelly and Shannon are the only ones I’m still liking. Tamra is being such a sketchy bitch. Time to let that friendship go Shannon.

[queenjen]

8 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

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

 

Vicki looked AWFUL. What was that dress? She looked like she was going to a funeral (the concession to 'femme fatale', in Vicki's mind being the lace up down the side) and it was utterly unflattering black crepe material, by the looks. Get some spanks! Shannon looked really classy in her D&G outfit and it was very flattering to her figure. Vicki looked like an overstuffed smallgood and still managed to look tacky AF. And the face was immoveable and bloated. I'm kind of tired of seeing the results of plastic surgery she had done BEFORE the season started, now we are getting really big procedures that interfere with how she interacts with the cast during the season. I think Vicki is punking out because she's desperate to marry Steve. Steve will not put up with the shenanigans that make Vicki good ho material. The 'woo hoo'ing and 'whooping it up at Andales' Vicki. Now we've got Vicki in a sad sombrero driving the fun bus to nowhere. If cancer scamming wasn't enough, now she's going to bore us to death.

[Mu Shu]

Emily fears that she may become ill like her mother and can’t deal with it, so she transfers her fear on Shannon, who appears weak to her.   

Shannon will come back next year fit, lean, and ready to fuck these bitches up. 

Can Gina be deported back to NY?  She’s a useless shit stirrer who couldn’t even make one season as a “Housewife”.  She brings nothing

[Duke2801]

6 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

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.

Yessss—exactly! 

Blake Livelys character in A Simple Favor is also a great modern femme fatale. She wears those suits (and even carries a cane) like a total badass. 

Ugh this season finale really ended on a whimper, eh? But I suppose it’s a fitting end to an extremely lackluster season. Vicki trying to badger Steve into proposing is so lame and awkward. Just stop already. You’re embarrassing yourself—and I’m cringing in secondhand embarrassment for you.

Agree with what everyone is saying about Emily and her mom. I feel like she “introduced” this storyline thinking it would make her look sympathetic. But in reality, it made her look like an ass for acting like her moms depression was some kind of personal vendetta against her and her kids. That’s not how mental illness works, dummy.

Kelly’s date was a hottie. 🔥 

[Rosiejuliemom]

Is Eddie completely over everything Housewives-related at this point or does he just not give a shit about Shannon and her never-ending neuroses?

[Gem 10]

I think we’re all going to need earplugs for the reunion, which I think is this Sunday night?

[njbchlover]

42 minutes ago, Gem 10 said:

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.

Maybe because her mother-in-law has a lot more gold than her Mom?  Emily knows she needs to stay in Pari's good graces to stay in the will!  

[TexasGal]

1 hour ago, mwell345 said:

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

I fell asleep.  And not in a gee, I’m so tired I might fall asleep way.  Awake one minute then it’s almost over.  Oh well.

[Rosiejuliemom]

I forgot to be bitchy about Tamra and Shannon's outfits earlier!

Tamra forgot her pants and her eye makeup makes her look like a demon.

Shannon, darling, even Dolce & Gabbana make mistakes.*

 

*It isn't a bad outfit, but I think I'd like it more if either the jacket or dress were patterned. Not both. Her concert attire was great!

[Bronzedog]

Regarding Shannon, this whole season has seemed like a rerun of the first season she was on.  Everyone tried to make her seem crazy that year, too.  Especially Heather.

Tamra's entire persona has always been how sexy she thinks she is.  Being asked if Eddie is her son?  HAHAHAHA!

[mbaywife123]

10 minutes ago, Rosiejuliemom said:

Is Eddie completely over everything Housewives-related at this point or does he just not give a shit about Shannon and her never-ending neuroses?

We didn't even get any of Eddie off in the background enjoying a plate of food!

[endure]

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 could not agree more that just blew my mind - she showed NO compassion or understanding toward her Mother and made it into a pity party about herself.  Her Mother seemed genuinely sorry and appeared to have real feelings, a lot more than I can say for Emily.

[maggiemae]

I haven't seen it yet - but isn't the theme being a FF - seductive, intelligent, and maniputive - but classy and not slutty?

[endure]

1 hour ago, ezzy4 said:

ZERO chemistry between Shane and Emily.  ZERO.

They're both pretty narcissistic people though.

[chewycandy]

20 minutes ago, queenjen said:

Now we've got Vicki in a sad sombrero driving the fun bus to nowhere. 

Love. 

[nexxie]

Pretty good how Steve’s mom shut Vicki down about marriage. HA!

[Quita]

Vicki going on to Steve's mom about getting married was cringe worthy and mom didn't look like she was having it. It ain't happening, Vicki! I also don't understand why she felt the need to show off her ear scars to Steve's kids. Were those extension tracks I saw or just ratty hair?

I've been really enjoying Kelly this season, but can do without her vulgar "PhD" talk. It seems like that comes out mostly when she drinks.

[Juniebaby]

25 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

Can Gina be deported back to NY?  She’s a useless shit stirrer who couldn’t even make one season as a “Housewife”.  She brings nothing

We don’t want her back, you can keep her.  The way she moves her mouth when she talks and her bad posture really bug me.

[endure]

1 hour ago, Straycat80 said:

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

Right on, I think she does it for shock value, she kind of reminds me of how some of those old-time actresses talked - sort of tough broad lingo.

[Rosiejuliemom]

1 minute ago, Quita said:

Were those extension tracks I saw or just ratty hair?

It almost looked like they shaved part of her hairline when they did her facelift.

[PhilMarlowe2]

2 minutes ago, Juniebaby said:

We don’t want her back, you can keep her.  The way she moves her mouth when she talks and her bad posture really bug me.

Her posture drives me crazy!

[jaybird2]

1 hour ago, Straycat80 said:

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

satan andy loves when she talks like a whore.  otherwise she would have been gone after her 1st season.  i'm glad she staid because she and shannon are the only ones i like and even they are hard to take at times.

[Gem 10]

1 hour ago, Emmeline said:

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.  

BTW, I’ve been looking for Shannon on QVC.  When is she on?

[Gem 10]

48 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

Emily fears that she may become ill like her mother and can’t deal with it, so she transfers her fear on Shannon, who appears weak to her.   

Shannon will come back next year fit, lean, and ready to fuck these bitches up. 

Can Gina be deported back to NY?  She’s a useless shit stirrer who couldn’t even make one season as a “Housewife”.  She brings nothing

Gina belongs with the Jersey gang.

[mbaywife123]

1 hour ago, queenjen said:

Where did Vicki drive the fun bus this season?

To the service yard for new tires and to fill up her empty tank.

[UsernameFatigue]

I think they should scrap the Real Housewives of OC and feature the Real Househusbands of OC, with mandatory appearances by Archie. I much prefer Shane to Emily, Steve to Vicki, and Eddie to Tamra. Heck, I would be happy to see Michael over Kelly. I do like Shannon though, so Archie's mom can stay. 

I laughed out loud when Shane said that if Emily turns blue due to being unable to breathe in her corset, to apply more makeup. I know it is an UO, but I love his sense of humour. 

Like others, I was disgusted by Emily's treatment of her mother. Honestly, Emily needs as much if not more help in the mental health department than her mother, who showed a lot of courage to be filmed in this episode. She showed more depth and character in the time we saw her than Emily has shown the whole season. Emily only cares about kissing up to her MIL so she doesn't end up living in a condo and driving a cheap car. And she seems spectacularly clueless as to what her mother has had to deal with over the years. Shallow. Shallow. Shallow. 

Edited November 20, 2018 by UsernameFatigue

[Bronzedog]

5 minutes ago, Gem 10 said:

Gina belongs with the Jersey gang.

She really does.

Steve always looks like he's going to pass out from boredom.  Vicki, he's really not that into you!

For the record, I'd choose a condo and a Jetta over Shane any day of the week.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Bronzedog

[Pickles]

I was surprised at the end of the episode, when it said Tamra and Eddie had sold their home (the one they just bought) and had moved into vicki’s neighborhood.

[endure]

5 minutes ago, Pickles said:

I was surprised at the end of the episode, when it said Tamra and Eddie had sold their home (the one they just bought) and had moved into vicki’s neighborhood.

I was shocked too, it said they moved into a gated community and it does seem odd considering they are barely settled into their new place.  I am sure it will come up at the reunion.  I also thought Eddie didn't look that well.

[knitta please]

1 hour ago, whydoievencare said:

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

Coming here to post about this. Emily is an intelligent, well spoken woman, yet so profoundly dumb as a bag of rocks. 180 is a turnabout. 360 is right back to square one.

Also, I am really, really put off by Gina's makeup. She looks as if she used a beauty blender dipped in muck. The glaringly whitened teeth don't help. She is an attractive woman but she makes an effort to look so dated and trashy. I suppose it doesn't help that her castmates also cake their faces and Tamra appears to have 2 vacuous black holes where her eyes once were.

Vicki's face was orange, but she really did have some good surgery. I hope that she stops. There was a profile shot in her end credit where she looks remarkably like Gretchen, which takes me back to Slade's Miss Piggy comment and then the subsequent surgeries Vicki had. 

BTW, Emily, that would be called a 360.

[howiveaddict]

1 hour ago, nexxie said:

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.

I never did.  I think she is as hungry as the other women on this show.  She's just oh so cute with her teeny tiny body. I wouldn't doubt she fat shames Emily also.  Not that I like Emily either.

[Thumper]

2 hours 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.  

This. Was my first thought, too.   So sad.

[ivygirl]

1 hour ago, mbaywife123 said:

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

I don’t even like Poison/Bret* and I’d be right there with you.

 

*That is, as musicians. As the “star” of Rock of Love? Absolutely. Shannon even sorta kinda a little looks like S2 winner Ambre.

[Hagosaurus]

I really enjoyed Tamra & Gina's little talk in the tool shed.

Gina: Ya know, Tamra, if I really wanted to call you out as a shitty friend to Shannon,  I would have told her about all the times you called her fat and talked shit about her QVC food.

Tamra: (nodding like a bobble head with large oh-shit eyes) Yeah, yeah Gina. OK, I see where you're coming from now. Good talk. Let's talk about something else now.

Gina is one stealth bitch. She was able to spill all the dirt while keeping her hands clean. That was one of best manipulations I've seen in awhile. Tamra has underestimated Gina.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Hagosaurus

[mbaywife123]

30 minutes ago, ivygirl said:

I don’t even like Poison/Bret* and I’d be right there with you.

 

*That is, as musicians. As the “star” of Rock of Love? Absolutely. Shannon even sorta kinda a little looks like S2 winner Ambre.

Heather and Destiny from the show (Rock of Love)  are both really slim / tiny and really nice girls in person as is Bret.

Brets roadies asked if I wanted a stripper pole from the lobby from his show. Mr. Mbay voted yes, I voted no.

Brets personal band members are nice guys. Drummer is super cool and nice without being a creeper.

Some of the band members from Poison are jerks with attitude, one in particular.

Edited November 20, 2018 by mbaywife123
Name correction

[Jets4274]

The Femme Fatale party was so lame which doesn't give me much faith in Emily's party planning skills. A chick in a giant drink glass with a nice spread of food?   She should have come up with a better theme.  It did take a lot of courage for her mom to appear on the show.  Wonder if Emily gave her a heads up that she aired all of her dirty laundry regarding her mental illness, not only to the other Housewives but to the world.

Shane is so damn boring.  He and Emily make an interesting couple with no chemistry whatsoever.  He's the devout Mormon and she's going to sex shops to get a corset and props for her party.  Not understanding his appeal except that he's grounded, never becomes a drunken mess, wealthy and looks after the kids. 

Eddie is so obviously over Shannon and so am I.

How many times will Shannon repeat what Emily said about wanting to "kill" Kelly?  Get over it - it's a figure of speech. Find something new to harp about.  She acts older than my mom who's 76.

Kelly calling her date out on his dick size wasn't necessary.  Was she trying to make Michael jealous?  He looks nothing like JFK Jr.

Steve is boring, too.  Too tame for Vicki.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Jets4274

[langford peel]

He looks like JFK Jr looks now and he has been dead for what 10 years now?

[knitta please]

3 minutes ago, langford peel said:

He looks like JFK Jr looks now and he has been dead for what 10 years now?

19 years. I asked Carole.

[MVFrostsMyPie]

Shannon looked like she was wearing cowhide. 

Kelly's date reminded me (in looks, and hopefully not attitude) of Jeana's dickbucket son Shane. That was his name, right? 

[mbaywife123]

6 minutes ago, knitta please said:

19 years. I asked Carole.

Did Carole have her cheater glasses on?

[queenjen]

2 hours ago, Mu Shu said:

Shannon will come back next year fit, lean, and ready to fuck these bitches up.

Absolutely. I cannot wait for the Revenge (body) of Shannon Beadour. Inshallah. God Willing. Let it happen.

And preferably without Vicki CSC Gunvalson, Emily and I don't think anyone would notice if Gina stayed or went. Kelly should stay (CAN'T believe I'm saying this after last season) and Tamra? She's an evil rat eyed monster, but she plays the game. Shannon is the only one I really care about at this point. I love her connection to Jeff Lewis, maybe he'll appear here again, especially if Flipping Out gets canned as the rumours have it. 

[queenjen]

2 hours ago, Rosiejuliemom said:

*It isn't a bad outfit, but I think I'd like it more if either the jacket or dress were patterned. Not both. Her concert attire was great!

Shannon loves to double down on a patterned ensemble. Think poker night...

[ivygirl]

39 minutes ago, mbaywife123 said:

Heather and Destiny from the show (Rock of Love)  are both really slim / tiny and really nice girls in person as is Bret.

Brets roadies asked if I wanted a stripper pole from the lobby from his show. Mr. Mbay voted yes, I voted no.

Brets personal band members are nice guys. Drummer is super cool and nice without being a creeper.

Some of the band members from Poison are jerks with attitude, one in particular.

Fun story! 

Bret does seem like a people person. 

[queenjen]

2 hours ago, PhilMarlowe2 said:

Her posture drives me crazy!

I feel bad saying this. Her posture has bugged the fck out of me from the git. But is it her posture? Her body shape AND posture reminds me of a girl I went to school with who had cystic fibrosis. The barrel chest and stalky legs and there is some hunching going on too. She's also got a weird and unfortunate shaped satchel ass. None of this is helped by the casita full of tacky word art, the blue eye shadow and the constant babble about her husband that we are never going to see. Bye Gina.

[la patineuse]

2 hours ago, Marley said:

Emily and Gina need to go. They were complete duds. They both are so annoying too. I don’t care to see Gina in her dumb little garage room either. The show is supposed to have house porn not make me think my house is a mansion compared to hers lol.

Emilys party also kind of looked lame . Her husband is such a boring blob. I don’t want to see him anymore or their sham of a marriage business arrangement lol.

Kelly and Shannon are the only ones I’m still liking. Tamra is being such a sketchy bitch. Time to let that friendship go Shannon.

Gina's house isn't all that either.  It's only a little over 2,200 square feet, so it's not much larger than the average-sized tract home.  And, it's hilarious that the camera shot leading to her house zooms up over some coastal bluffs as if it were only a couple of miles inland, when in reality Coto de Caza is no where near the coast.

None of these women looked anywhere close to femme fatales.  Emily's MIL had a bit of a femme fatale look to her, although she needed an opera-length cigarette holder and opera-length satin gloves.

[queenjen]

1 hour ago, endure said:

1 hour ago, Pickles said:

I was surprised at the end of the episode, when it said Tamra and Eddie had sold their home (the one they just bought) and had moved into vicki’s neighborhood.

I was shocked too, it said they moved into a gated community and it does seem odd considering they are barely settled into their new place.  I am sure it will come up at the reunion.  I also thought Eddie didn't look that well.

I heard 2.1 million (Cut Fitness doing that well? I think not) and that it was because the neighbours weren't down with filming taking place there. Also, earlier this year, something about it being haunted and nothing but bad things happening since they moved in, like Eddie's health and some plumbing disaster that was very expensive and unexpected. 

[AntAnn]

3 hours ago, AnnA said:

STFU Gina!

^^^This can’t be said enough. 

[endure]

I Shannon’s eldest daughter broaching the subject of birth control pills supposedly for her menstrual cramps and she threw in her acne as well was quite funny, the younger girls were so amused but Shannon just wasn’t buying it lol.

Edited November 24, 2018 by endure

[MVFrostsMyPie]

Shannon's daughter should just go to PP, rather than even deal with her hysterical mother over BC.