Time for some Real Housewives of Atlanta. Everyone has a new tag line this season.
Nene: I live to be the star, and I am definitely in charge!
Kandi: Music may be my passion but family is forever.
Cynthia: My business is beauty, and I’m the boss.
Porsha: I am still standing and I’m making my own rules!
Phaedra: A true southern belle knows her own worth and I am priceless.
Kenya: People think they have me figured out, but I’m always the wild card.
And those six ladies are the only ones holding a peach! So we can finally squash all the rumors about getting a new housewife! I do think we may have a new friend or two, including Marlo.
Don’t keep reading if you want the first episode to be a surprise next Sunday. You can bookmark this post and come back later.
We start of with Nene and Gregg in a sea of wedding gifts. She makes a point to open her two Tiffany boxes (crystal vase, crystal ice bucket) and the Hermes box on camera (plate from Teresa and Joe bought with fraud money) and the cheese cutting board from Porsha. That sets up the next scene with Porsha.
Porsha and her sister Lauren head to the divorce attorney. The lawyer wants to know why Kordell didn’t tell her he was filing. She still claims she found out about the divorce on Twitter. Porsha is crying and hoping that they can reconcile. By the way, Porsha looks stunning.
Speaking of crying, Cynthia is teary-eyed moving out of the Bailey Agency. The editing is already miles better than it has been since Carlos King is back on the job. It is amazing the difference he makes to the show. Cynthia is moving into a warehouse across the street from Bar One. Apparently, Peter just took their money and bought the place without even informing Cynthia. She is not amused. She also has changed the name of her company to Industry Studios. Why? That seems highly peculiar to me.
Then out of nowhere in walks Kenya Moore. Cynthia hasn’t seen or heard from her in months. She heard she was prostituting herself in Dubai ALLEGEDLY in Africa. Cynthia is having an opening party for her new space and she invited Kenya. Then she asks about her eviction and Kenya is such a terrible liar. Kenya can’t figure out why no one reached out for her in her time of hardship. Cynthia is like, um… seriously? Porsha is getting a divorce, and Phaedra had her baby and we have all moved on, girl. Kenya makes sure to remind us she does not care for Porsha or Phaedra. Kenya is pissed at Nene because Walter was invited to her wedding. Kenya was not even at the wedding so how is that an issue for her?
Phaedra and Apollo have a new house in Buckhead! It’s about time she got out of that condo. She calls Buckhead the 90210 of the south. And that was certainly true twenty years ago. It’s still a great location though. They are apparently renovating the whole thing with a new baby in the house. Oh Lawd, Phaedra says that since her first son was her prince, she is calling this one Mr. President. Because all of Phaedra’s babies need titles.
Phaedra claims she had an emergency C-section when Dylan was born. But somehow, Bravo camera were right there in the operating room when he came out. We get to see the tiny little afterbirth coated kid before she did. Phaedra wore ginormous lashes during the delivery. She said the Dylan was tiny and as pale a Michael Jackson.
Kandi and Todd have some kitchen table talk to prove that she is not a sugar mama. Todd talks about his production work. Mama Joyce and Todd are not getting along. Todd says that the RHOA are to blame for Porsha and Kordell’s divorce. He’s probably right.
Nene and Porsha go to lunch at Southern Art. And I am jealous! That is Art Smith’s restaurant. It looked like they may have just had drinks. But they never show the RHOA eating. They usually eat after the filming for continuity reasons because of all the retakes.
Porsha’s mother has a big old McMansion and Porsha goes straight to it after her divorce deposition. Porsha was hoping for answers about why Kordell filed for divorce. Her mother says that she was upset when Porsha had a miscarriage and was in the hospital for a week and Kordell only showed up once. Porsha brings up the gay rumors.
It’s time for a forced attendance party by Bravo. The guise is Cynthia Bailey’s opening of Industry Studios. It seems that Industry Studios will be the umbrella company for The Bailey Agency and the Bailey Agency still exists. It’s a white party. Have these girls learned NOTHING from Kyle Richards? Let the brawling begin. And I will leave you hanging right here so that everything won’t be spoiled. 🙂
Overall in the preview reel, it looks like Nene tries to be supportive of Porsha but they have a falling out where Nene calls her a bad friend. Porsha ends up in the hospital for some reason. Of course Kenya got evicted. Mama Joyce and Todd have major issues with each other. She is NOT happy with him. There is an ambulance scene which is probably for Porsha but could be for someone else. Porsha’s sister Lauren looks like she will essentially be a friend of the housewives. She was in several of Porsha’s scenes. The girls go to Savannah and experience the haunted houses. Nobody likes Kenya.
It’s not hard to believe Phaedra had an emergency c-section while the cameras were there. She probably went into labor, told production, planned to have Dylan the natural way, and was told at the hospital that she had to have one for whatever reason. Not as far-fetched as you seem to imply.
I expanded on this below; glad to see someone had already brought it up. Some women have been in labor at the hospital for many, MANY hours before an emergency c-section is deemed necessary for the baby’s health.
I was one of them. Went in at 7 am on monday, six days before my due date. And my daughter would not come out. And worse part is I stay at 2cm after the nurse have suck her hand in me to open me up and she still didn’t come out. My Dr. induce me for medical reasons. And after 12 hours they decided it was best to have an emergency c section. My son was natura and less then 3 hours. But the funny thing, I found that my body bounce back quicker with the c- section then natural. And I have healthy petite babies. My sister who had my niece a year later natural (no drugs not illegal stuff), god bless her because I couldn’t do it. We t full term and her baby only weight an ounce more then mine. I’m thankful for that. Cause both my friends have over nine pound babies. And one rip my friend in half to point they had to do a c-section, and she argue against it. Took two months just to get the feeling back in her legs she told me. I know I’m giving tmi just want to say it happen. I was totally against it and at the time we thought she was bigger then what she was. And finally I have to do what was best for her, being that they already pop my water and my body was going through labor. But she wasnt helping.
Am I the only one who didn’t realize Phaedra was living in a condo? I thought she was living in a house.
Also, have read somewhere that momma Joyce’s issue with Todd is him cheating. Has it been confirmed he has cheated? Can’t picture Candi putting up with cheating.
Typo on name…OOPs…should be Mrs Smith
I thought it was a house also. It looked like a house from the outside.
Just watch an old rerun and it looks like an single family home.
Phaedra was living in a house in prior seasons. I heard they were moving. Maybe the condo is temporary housing.
Why are Todd and Mama Joyce fighting do you know Tamara
Mama Joyce reads all the gossip sites where people talk about Kandi supporting Todd. (She doesn’t) also she thinks that Kandi’s friend Karmen is seeing Todd behind Kandi’s back. Karmen is at a bride shop with Kandi and her mother and her mother throws Karmen out of the store! Lots of Mama Joyce drama this season.
Oh boy ! sounds like a lot of drama going on. I remember reading something about that and figured that if he worked for Bravo (I thought he did) a camera man or something he had his own money. I sure hope that is not true I like them together.
Thanks for providing the scoop…
I hadn’t read anything about that. I must be slipping in my old age….lol
remember mama joyce lost her son/kandi’s brother patrick in a car accident. that may be why she is overprotective of her only remaining child. plus she knows of how russell [riley’d dad] did kandi wrong so she just wants to protect her.
Yuck, yuck, and more yuck. So not interested.
Mama Joyce also had major issues with Kandi’s now deceased ex-fiance, AJ. Maybe Mama Joyce is one of those mamas that never likes their child’s significant other. Todd seems decent and has a good job, at least. Let Kandi be happy, Mama!
I love your recaps TT, and I’m still going to look at It next Sun. But seriously Mama Joyce really needs to get her own life and let Kandi be happy with whoever she chooses for herself. I can understand her (Mama J) wanting to be protective of her “baby” if her baby makes wrong choices like we all do sometimes… but her baby is not Rileys’ age, she is a grown-ass woman, a business woman at that! One would almost think Mama J was jealous of Kandi or something……but nah (?)
I actually thought it was about the money. That kandy would be given else where and not to her. I just watch a rerun with the late A.J. and when they went to counseling. All she talked about was the money that he would be giving to his kids that candy would have to pay if his baby mamas came after her. That all they would see is that she has the deeper pockets. Now I understand want to protect your child, and not putting herself in a situation that they can’t handle. But all her argument keep going back to money. And that was the only thing she seems to have against him was the fact he had 6 kids and his baby mamas will go after candy money. But yet she believed she was supposed to be living with candy and she seems to be living off candy. I just don’t get the hypocrisy. That it is okay for candy to spend money on her but if candy spend money on someone else there’s a problem. But yet you never saw her getting attitude with Kim after that whole tardy for the party song. I mean if she was mad about somebody taking advantage of her daughter, then why isn’t she also mad at Kim?
For some reason, Mama Joyce thinks Todd is cheating. My opinion: The reason Kandi has all that money is because her mother was in control of it when she was young. Mama Joyce also takes care of Riley, while she goes on business trips and works late. Mama Joyce is Kandi’s support system!
Why did Carlos King take a season off from producing RHOA? What brought him back? Any tea on that?
Carlos left to produce Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. So glad he’s back!! He does excellent work on both shows.
He moved to Love and Hip Hop Atlanta. Not sure if he is still doing that but I think they both filmed at the same time or something.
I was aware he did Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, but why would he leave a successful show like RHOA to do a brand new show for a completely different network? It just seems strange to me. Is he juggling both of them now? Seems like there’s more to the story, but maybe I’m just searching
I was hoping the reason they seldom show them eating is because not many of them can chew with their mouths closed! I know Nene doesn’t and thank goodness Phaedra puts her hand in front of her mouth when she talks through a mouthfull of food. Sorry if that sound picky but I really hate seeing that.
So hilarious but so true!!!!!!!
I’m wondering, about the Bailey Agency move…didn’t Peter’s bar just close? And Cynthia seems to be doing well with her modeling school. Maybe Peter decided to get in on that, bought the building, got rid of the “Bailey” (which made it solely Cynthia’s baby) and gave it a more generic name of Industry so it would include him too.
Something is definitely up with the name and location change of the Bailey Agency.
TT thanks for the preview it was GOOD. Now my one and only issue is gonna be Mama Joyce. It’s time for the lady to cut the apron string and let Kandi make her choices and mistakes. This woman seems to have issue w/all of Kandi’s significant other choices. I hope though Mama Joyce only has scenes w/Kandi and is not tryin’ to be attending parties w/the ladies like she had previously. I find it creepy for “your mom” to be part of your “girlfriend” world – just inappropriate. I did not watch Nene’s wedding spinoff – just not in to her like that nor any of the spinoffs from Bravo. Porsha wanna see how she comes through this divorce, Phaedra take her with a grain of salt her southern belle ish is wore out. Kenya – after her big ole lies from last season I could do without her. Cynthia want to see how the dynamics between she and her husband play out, especially where the money is involved. I’m lookin’ forward to the new season. Done with family drama on RHoNJ, on the fence w/RHoNY, RHoM I just live for the Lea Black necklace fashion show, RHoBH dyin’ to see the power sift, RHoOC needs a new cast.
Andy really likes Mama Joyce, so that is why she attended filming with Kandi in previous seasons, just like Mama Elsa from Real Housewives of Miami filmed at parties and events with her daughter Marysol.
Strange to me that Kenya wasn’t invited to or attended the wedding, since she was invited to all Nene’s other stuff. I remember the posts here about it and the following discussions. We all said it was proof that the Nene/Kenya drama was faked for the show (I still believe that to be true).
Changing Cynthia’s business name is strange. She spent that last couple of seasons building the brand and now it’s changing to something generic.
Kenya was invited. The evites came just a couple of weeks before the wedding. A lot of people like Andy Cohen already had plans it was summer. I believe Kenya was in Dubai um… working.
Interesting. I’d have thought that at least Andy would have known the date in advance.
Oh and uh, go Kenya?! 😀
These taglines are horrible…but I can understand Phaedra’s lashes. I was induced with both of my children (for medical reasons) and I put on my makeup before heading to the hospital! As soon as the baby is born people are snapping away with cameras.
See, I wouldn’t bother. Labor is so sweaty and all that, I cannot imagine my make-up still looking good afterwards. I looked an insane mess after I had my son.
Reminds me of Rachel Zoe on the episode she goes into labor with her son. Rodger was in the bathroom filming away with a camcorder while she put on her makeup before heading to L & D.
Kylie did a good job of explaining it, but yes – the cameras being there for an emergency c-section is not too hard to believe. An emergency c-section doesn’t mean she was sitting at home doing nothing, then had to be rushed to the hospital for the c-section. Some women are in labor for over 24 hours before they end up having an emergency c-section. They are performed when the baby appears to be in distress, which does happen especially when interventions such as epidurals or inductions take place. Baby’s heart beat slows down, something goes wrong with the contractions, it’s been too long since the water broke (which significantly increases risk of infection to the baby), etc., etc.
I cannot imagine having a miscarriage, and having to stay in a hospital for a WEEK and my husband only coming to visit once. Excuse me?!? I’d have to kill a man for that trifling ish. Seriously.
I haven’t read this whole post yet, as I’m waiting to watch it on Sunday, but those are some lame ass tag lines! The only one I even remotely like is Porshe’s, and that’s just because for her, that is very powerful. I hate when they barely even make sense, like Kandi’s.
just b/c they don’t make sense to u doesn’t mean they don’t make sense to the person who said it. hence why it’s THEIR tagline
Tamara darling… are the tag lines in order of appearance in the opening sequence?
I think so, yes.
It’s the same order as season 5.
Wendy Wms mentioned that this should be the last season. I disagree. If she can have a successful show bashing & praising people back & forth, then these women should ride RHOA until the wheels fall off. As long as people are watching and the ratings are good, why not? The one thing Wendy was right about was Marlo being an opportunist.
Their tag lines are theirs, I see nothing wrong with them. Where’s Kandi? I hope she doesn’t get a wedding spin-off not because no one would watch but because I’d expect her to be different & less extravagant.
please don’t hate on kandi loser
NeNe’s tag line was different… wonder why they switched it last minute
How is it that Kenya does not get bitched slapped on a daily basis.? Everything out of her mouth is such shaded bullshit….
Kenya is so obsessed with Walter. He’s the guy that does not want her. I also think that is why she keeps going after Phaedra. She wants Apollo so bad, she can’t stand it. I think Kenya is a stalker! I really hope that she is being overly dramatic!
Cynthia, please hold on to the deeds to your house, if it is bought and paid for because, If Peter gets his hands on the deeds to your house he will surely take a loan out on your house as collaterel. Uptown is gone, the Bailey Agency is in another building where Peter is the landlord. Is he asking you to pay him rent? Bar One is a Bar None. What else is Peter doing to take advantage of you. Stop being played! Stop letting him keep you BROKE!