Kathryn wakes up on a girlfriend’s couch after partying hard at Shep’s birthday party. Thank God for mamas and nannies to take care of your kid when you don’t want to. Kathryn is pissed that Amy, Thomas’ campaign manager gets in between her and her kid’s dad and she is not allowed to speak to him directly. If this scene had really been filmed the next morning during a hangover Kathryn would not have perfect makeup and hair and she would have drunk the water.
Shep takes his mom to his new house he is building. She is going to do all the decorating. Shep was not planning on getting a stove until mama insisted. His mom is ready for him to settle down and get married.
Landon and Cameran meet for lunch. Landon needs a date for an upcoming ball. Cameran says she is taking one of her gay friends. Apparently, her husband would rather stab his eyeball with a fork than be on this show. Smart guy. The two discuss whether or not it is okay for a 22-year-old to ditch the baby for the night and go out and slam tequila shots. I am mesmerized by Cameran’s diamonds and not really following the conversation.
Thomas actually comes home for the evening to eat food from Styrofoam containers and drink tea out of Styrofoam cups. Kathryn allows this egregious breach of etiquette and endures Thomas’ talking with his mouth full. Subtitles were added to translate from Neanderthal to English. This is unacceptable. Someone needs to run both of them across the Mason-Dixon line for this display. But leave that baby. Maybe with Cameran.
Patricia is having an elegant dinner party for all men. It involves plastic toy gators all over the table and chocolate gators with the guests’ name written on them. Because, tacky. Equally as ridiculous as the plastic toys on an adult dinner table is Patricia’s use of the French word “placement” to refer to the seating arrangements. She seems to think that the word means the same in English as it does in French. In French, placement refers to investments. Apparently, Whitney hears this ridiculousness while waiting for his cue to enter the scene and asks about the “placement” as well. It really is hysterical. Patricia basically says that it is all men so that she doesn’t have to be overshadowed by a 22-year-old. The thirst, y’all, the thirst of it all.
Sadly, her lack of pedigree becomes glaringly evident as the Charlestontonians in the group begin discussing their grandpappies and when their families settled in the area. Jesus Christ I am going to have to pause for a moment. I have a bit of the vapors. Did she of eleventy billion butlers plonk down some sort of sweet potato looking thing (sans pecans! a horror of its own) in a disposable aluminum pan???? I can’t believe I just saw that on the table amongst the plastic children’s toys. Okay, I rewound the tape. We can all breathe easy. It was a silver serving dish. It just sort of looks like an aluminum pan from the top.
Thomas and Whitney have a lovers quarrel over dinner. It seems that Whitney and Kathryn are both pissed with Thomas’ campaign manager interfering in their relationship.
There is a lot of discussion about Cooper’s ball. Women are required to have an escort. This has been mentioned in three scenes now with a dramatic set up for when Thomas stands Kathryn up at the ball. Thomas does show up at the ball, he just doesn’t go pick up Kathryn first. Because, scumbag. After an hour or two of campaigning at the ball Thomas leaves. I assume to go get Kathryn who is in a stunning white gown, pacing and waiting for her man. Of course this is the talk of the ball. Whitney of course escorts his mommy to the ball. Shep is on a first date with someone who he seems interested in. Whitney makes some vulgar inquiries about her.
Hours late, Thomas and Kathryn arrive at the ball. Whitney is all over Thomas like white on rice. Thomas pretends he did nothing wrong. Kathryn is hurt. Allegedly. You can tell by the editing that this was scripted well beforehand.
Since the role of convicted felon is taken by Thomas, Craig is left to take on the role of addict. Although others on the show *cough* Shep *cough* have similar proclivities, Craig, bless his heart has no story other than his partying. He continues not to go to work. His boss calls him to his house and fires him.
Next Week: Whitney and Shep go to Craig’s parents house in Delaware. Whitney can’t wait to announce to Craig’s parents that he lost his job by partying all the time.
Catherine should always wear bangs. She looked great decked out for the ball.
She did look great with the bangs! It accentuates her pretty eyes. She has the most gorgeous hair, too. Loved the white dress.
I can’t figure out guys like Thomas. Why would you do something like that to a woman? It borders on emotional abuse. No matter she is such a sourpuss all the time. She thought she’d bring that bad boy to heel only to find out that dog won’t hunt. Young and naive.
What I can’t figure out is why Catherine puts up with it. I know she’s in love but that was a dick move by T-Rav.
It was a STORY LINE.
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
So is Whiney’s and Thomas’s relationship a story line or are we actually getting a sneaky peak of reality? LOL
I know that Katherine is no prize but it’s pretty surprising the way he speaks to (and about) her. I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. He’s definitely not a gentleman.
Why is Patricia wearing pup tents this season? Has she gained a lot of weight? I really thought she looked quite good for her age last season. I’m just thinking a woman doesn’t a usually go that drastic unless she gained some poundage.
Is poundage a word? Well it is for now.
I was wondering the same thing – why all the caftans? Her face still looks slim, and what was up with the sunglasses on her face in the house the whole time Larissa was visiting? (sorry if am mixing up episodes I binge watched last night)
She’s old. We. errrrr I mean old people enjoy their caftans.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
Any cultured person would use Chinet plates and the shiny, silver plastic forks. The red solo cup completes the tablescape.
Further proof she is s Yankee, uses real china and crystal.
Is it opposite day where you live?
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
It doesn’t matter what type of table settings Yankees use, because what’s most important is what goes ON or IN them. And most Yankees I ever met couldn’t cook worth crap. They don’t season the vegetables with meat or meat flavorings and they’re bland.
When I lived in the Detroit suburbs and we had neighborhood potlucks, I was the only Southerner. I was constantly derided for my accent and “country ways” but there was never a scrap of potato salad, peach cobbler, or banana pudding nor a piece of fried chicken left if it came from my kitchen. One time I realized I’d forgotten a serving spoon when I took a giant pan of peach cobbler to a function three doors down so I set the food down to run back to the house. By the time I got back, not five minutes later, the pan was empty. Someone had a serving spoon and they demolished that thing and I and my family never got one bite.
All the women’s husbands asked me for the recipes to give to their wives but not a one of the wives ever tried one of them.
Nancy, I bet you are a great cook. I was not a naturally great cook so I took years of cooking classes. French, Americam and Chinese mostly. I loved to entertain and make my food look and taste wonderful. My menu’s always had something no one else in the group had done, such as chocolate art. I single handedly fed from 4 to 120 at my house. I never set a table the same way twice
These days, I eat a lot of Marie Calendar and other yuck. I still like my vegetables to taste natural and fresh. I don’t want pig and other meats as “seasoning”. Maybe some fresh herbs and butter. That is usually enough for me. You are right, it is what you are used to. I have about every Southern Living Cookbook the magazine put out, up to 1996. They have the best pictures. 🙂
Nancy – “They don’t season the vegetables with meat or meat flavorings and they’re bland.”
Silly us, we prefer that our vegetables actually TASTE like a vegetable, rather than pig fat!
Thanks just crazy talk.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
With the butler, the maid and the servantry…
I love this show!
I love this show too!
Cameron sure did make fun of the Founders Ball though. And when she and her escort entered the ballroom and when their names were announced, she had her lower arm going around and around and around in circular motion. I had to laugh at that one! She definitely didn’t make an entrance as one of the “Manor Born” types! I think she was actually quite nervous and trying to blow it off by acting silly while trying to look sophisticated as well. 😉
Patti R., Cameron did a move that I like to call the ” Whoop de Do” which means this is such a frigging joke. She knows these people and they are being introduce like they are royalty. Although some of them have old, prominent names in Charleston and others want to pretend they do, Cameron knows their history, secrets and current behavior and know they are totally full of it.
As exciting as a box of Lucky Charms, emptied.
I don’t know what that Godawful brownish mess was that Patricia served, but it sure wasn’t macaroni and cheese. Unless it was cooked two weeks ago.
Oh, and Tamara, yes, better late than never! I’ve been waiting for your recap. You always catch a lot of things that I missed, so please keep on recapping this show. I have to admit, I watch one time with the sound on, but then later I watch re-runs with the sound turned off so that I can focus on the gorgeous scenery – watching for glimpses of Battery Park, St Michael’s, Rainbow Row, etc. I’m getting to where I have to turn my head when that little troll, Whitney, is on, because he’s so repulsive. Those crude hand gestures… his mama must be proud.
Of course Mama is proud…she of the copulating alligators on the table!
Yep! Mama was proud of the copulating alligators! Crazy lady! I couldn’t help but laugh though. I could just see her man servant “placing” that alligator on the backside of the other ‘gator. Hope her servant wasn’t embarassed! I assume he knows she’s raunchy. Hmmm…
My son-in-law’s grandmama used hog jowl to season her foods. Yuck. Hate Charleston cooking.
Hog jowl is one that I must say I’ve never used. My mom taught me to dry pork chops out in the oven a little bit after they’ve been fried in the skillet. When they dry out for a few minutes, take them out and the oil they give off is enough, about half a teaspoon, to season beans or tomato-based dishes. Gives it a whole different flavor. For something like collard greens or cabbage, I use small bits of cooked chopped ham.
Jesus Christ are you guys trying to make me all stabby? Because it’s working.
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
I have never seen meat as a seasoning… This is a novel idea to me! I thought seasonings were things like herbs and spices, garlic and so on?
Ham hocks in green beans and greens is the way I grew up eating my veggies lol! Now I use bacon just for simplicity’s sake. But my personal favorite way to make green beans is to cook them in chicken stock with lots of onions and diced tomatoes! I’m from KY so I like to think cooking is in my blood!
Bourdain insists jowl is the best part of the hog.
Call it guanciale and pay through the nose for it in an Italian deli or gourmet food store.
Growing up in the south, we use ham hock to season green beans, collard/turnip/mustard greens, fried fatback to make creamed corn and put a ham hock or bone in when making pinto beans, blacked peas, speckled butter beans, ect. It adds a great flavor. We eat like the generations before us…but with some changes. Healthier now in other areas. Adding more fresh fruits and veggies, while saving the traditional dishes for more special occasions. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
With the butlers, the “placement” & the rest of the accoutrements on the fine dining experience that was so meticulously planned by the yankee mother, it was the boy’s toy gators as table decorations & pat sqeaking one when annoncing it was time to retire to the other room that got me. Seriously, WTF?
I did love those little silver alligator pieces on the table – I think they were silver gumbo spoons, maybe. Pork jowl is like bacon, only it’s cut from the fatty cheek portion of the pig.
My grandma cooked green beans (fresh from the garden) with a piece of salt pork, and we ate them with cornbread, tomatoes and cucumbers.
Yes Sandra! My favorite dinner to sit down to was a veggie plate straight from my grannies garden!!!! Fried corn, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and onions soaking in Italian dressing and skitter cornbread! Oh but the fried corn is the best! You take fresh sweet corn,slice it off the cob (try to save some of the “juice”) and put it in a skillet with bacon grease and fry til it gets slightly browned then season it with lots of black pepper!! You will NEVER want corn any other way!
And we ate all of that garden goodness off fine china and perfectly set tables every single meal!
Apparently, Thomas doesn’t care for how the story line portrayed him as making Katherine wait while he politicked at the ball. He’s tweeted that there is no reality in this reality show and he won’t be back next season. He must be pissed at exec producer Whitney for more than those ads.
Wow. Thx for the tea^^! I dont have twitter
I don’t know if I predict this show coming back. They seem to be reaching for story lines this season.
When the topic of the ball in reference to Kathryn and Thomas comes up in five conversations before the ball, Thomas had been given the script way in advance, just like everyone else except Kathryn
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
Didn’t Thomas say the same thing last season? Yet he came back for more. He’s a fame whore. And the show is a good scapegoat for why he lost the election.
I wonder how much of Craig’s storyline is real and how much is contrivance.
He is clearly in the throes of a major problem with alcohol. (and clearly gay – perhaps the former has something to do with the latter?) I mean, if your boss’s assistant has to call you to ask whether you are coming to work that day, you should see red flags waving all over the place…and when you lose that job as a consequence of your drinking, time to pack it in.
I hope for his sake that it is all fake, but I also wonder why he would allow himself to be portrayed that way if it is. Get on TV at any cost?
When I saw that Craig supposedly worked for “Extreme Akim”, I thought, “Oh, for Pete’s sake! It’s just another farce!” “Extreme Akim” is known for his theatrics and craziness. He’s participated in ridiculously phoney shows before. I suspect Craig has never worked for Akim at all. Just more fakery.
I do think these people want to get on TV at any cost! I think a lot of them do it because they would like to become real “actors”. I’ve watched interviews with Thomas Ravenel in which he said he wanted to start a second career in show business. I presume he wants to be an actor or a talk show host, or something like that. They’re all in this upside-down schizophrenic swamp, where they have to talk out of both sides of their mouth.
I’m really glad that Patti has a bigger role this season but I just can’t stomach her man-child. I got overly excited when Thomas started yelling at him about those moronic ads.
Where was that picture of Mama and Whitney taken? Get a load of the dent in that scratch and dent refrigerator!
That picture was taken last season, Whitney was buying a house through Cameran and he showed him mom his new house.
Every time that pic of the group pops up on my screen, I get the heebie Jeebies from whitneys face. In fact, all the men look pretty busted in that pic, even shep! And what’s up with Thomas? He looks like a puffer fish.
Love Cameran and Shep. I am new this season to the show so I’m wondering why Kathryn picked Thomas in the first place. To me he is no looker and has little charm. She is so gorg. she could of picked so many of the hot young guys of charleston. But maybe I’m missing something from previous seasons.
THANKS for this recap TT, love this show but the way my eyes roll every time Whitney shows up in a scene makes me believe it has become a sort of Pavlovian response. The way he makes it so obvious that in his world there is no room for other women in his and Thomas’s relationship. Although that campaign manager is quite the pill to Kathryn, Whitney is so obvious about his territorial feelings towards Thomas. You can look at him and see that he wants her gone, Kathryn gone so who is next? Baby Kensington?? He is so creepy! This Manchild reminds me of a middle-aged, closeted fraternity member (the geekiest member who was accepted because he is a legacy), Just come out already, it will be ok… The relationship w/his Mama is plain weird. Like he was breast fed (most likely by Pat’s hired wet nurse) for far too long….Whitney will forever make me think twice about ever dating an only child. I feel for his eh hem, “girlfriend??” I’ve wondered if she really knows how her eh hem,”boyfriend” has been received here in the U.S. Poor thing has to be frightened when thinking about “Mother Patricia” as a future Mother-in-Law. Does anyone else think of Whitney and Patricia as the South’s version of future Grey Gardens?
I’m assuming Craig did not take the bar in February. Of course, getting drunk and being filmed for a reality show is a lot easier than practicing law so I can’t really blame him.
there are times when whitney appears almost human, then others that is an almost cartoonish figure. his other cracks me up, like she is trying to be the cool and fit in with the group, you remember that mom in school who would buy the booze and shit, that is patricia. poor kathryn, she deserves a bit better treatment as the mother of his child, but she is also young ad feels like she should eb the center of his world. the campaign manager is a snatch, she is also doing ehr job of trying to get a felon eleceted tot he senate which depending on where you are from can be either a huge issue or a giant plus.. the ads whitney did were very california and not at all old south and the one thing you need to do in know your constituants. i love cameran, she is a hoot and she is possibly the most real person of the group. shep, love his never grow up thing, she is a man/boy and for whatever reason i love him for it. he has money, charm and manners. he is a playboy but a loveable one who also at times has a brain. poor craig, trying to run with the big dogs and he never quite makes it. and i ahve also been waiting days for this recap. love you tt
Kathryn should take the child support checks and move on. Thomas was hammered on WWHL (two weeks ago?). Hammered, nasty, and messy. He’s a big drinker and she better think twice IF he proposes.
Thomas would make a great Don Draper on Mad Men!!!
I see where you’re going with that, BUT
1. Don is a self-made man
2. Don is better looking
3. Don (Hamm) has a ginormous something for sure 🙂
Disagree. He is a drunk loser. That mad man is sexy.
Whitney reminds me too much of Norman Bates…creepy, pretentious, mother obsessed and he worries more about his weight than an underwear model.
Two yankee snaps for that recap! The fake dinner party was tacky. Patti not inviting the ladies was weird in a Mrs. Robinson kind of way. Katheryn is such a beauty and I believe will move on to bigger and better things. I believe she is a good mom dispite going out drinking one night acting her age. It must be nice to have a nanny though. Id be a suberb mother if I had a nanny. Craig looks like a total loser. Its a shame. This reality shiw fame he is so thirsty for might ruin the future of a career For him. Or I guess he could just be an “entertainment” attorney maybe in a Georgia town that begins with an “A”; they can take anyone, allegedly. I have a girl crush on cameron. She is just cute as a button. T Rav is a loser and Whitney is just so creepy.
Ps grown men with nick names such as T Rav that appear to have been made by his frat brothers one drunken night and the man holds on to in aattempt to cling to his youth need to be nipped in the bud.
My husband had one. That shit is long gone. I even made his best man leave it out of his toast at our wedding.
I believe bachelor type men can be reformed. My husband was but I never chased him and made him chase me. I also never put up with shit and still don’t thats why he is an amazing family man now. He was ready to change at 40 though. I am actually a bit younger but I was just about out of my twenties so smart enough to get it right or take a hike and be perfectly happy moving on if I had to at the time and he knew it.
Thomas will never change and Katheryn might be to young to run yet. He thinks she will stick around but I think she will move on very soon. I know she is smart enough to see the light.
I cringed when mommy dearest gave Whitney that beautiful dog. When the trainer was leaving, the poor pup wanted to go with her. You could tell the doggy was scared of him. And what dog poops and pees on a mantle? When Whitney said that, I about fell off my couch. lol
It was announced a few months ago that Kathryn and Thomas broke up. I hope he signs over the city house to her and she gets a substantial child support in writing. Thomas wanted this child, he was not trapped.
Patricia must have Tweeted her mint julip recipe, and thank yous for a magazine story on her and her southern entertainment expertise, 100 times over the last few days.
She certainly seems like a fame whore. Apparently, the thirst is real in old ladies. Whitney is no longer a produces, she said, so she isn’t doing it for that reason.
Katheryn and Thomas make up and break up like teenagers.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
>
I am new here and have enjoyed reading all of you post Tamara, great job. Kathryn and that white cardigan she has worn it in every episode, with all the house works she says she is doing I would think it would have a multitude of stains on it, at least a lot of baby puke.