It’s time for a new season of Couples Therapy. Let’s meet the new couples!
Big Ang and Neil Murphy
Big Ang is one of only two people I know this season. If you don’t know her, she’s from Mob Wives. She and Neil are the first to arrive. Big Ang is not thrilled to be there even before she gets in the house. They’ve been married for six years. Ang seems upset that her husband is a garbage man, he’s lazy and he lies. Their story seems to be that Big Ang is an abusive wife and Neil is the victim in the relationship
Scott and Jaclyn Stapp
Scott is the lead singer of CREED. Jaclyn is his wife. Scott has had a very serious issues with drugs. He had a drug relapse last year and had a total break from reality. Jaclyn filed for divorce. Scott was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He is really trying to stay sober.
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Carmen Carrera and Adrian Torres
Carmen Carrera is transgender. Because transgender is the new black. Adrian has two daughters from a previous relationship. They are married. She did not start to transition until after the marriage. Prior to that she was living as a man by day and her female self at night. Adrian is apparently freaked out that she is transitioning and growing breasts. Wait, I thought he was a straight guy. What straight guy doesn’t like breasts? He cheated when she began transitioning. I think Carmen was on RuPaul’s Drag Race. That may mean I can get Lady Cocotte to do these reaps. Carmen is nervous that people will find out she is transgender and judge her.
Janice Dickinson and Rocky Gerner
Next we have Janice and Rocky. Call me crazy but, I’m going to guess the problem in this relationship is Janice. They are currently engaged. Rocky says the first issue with their relationship is that he discovered Janice is bankrupt. He wants a prenup (DUH!) and she is having a fit about it. Janice sits down with the others flosses her teeth. The she makes a lot of inappropriate comments about Scott’s sobriety. Janice is actually nice to Carmen and she admits she is trans. Janice advises her not to tell the others. Janice says the trans issue is just between them. I don’t trust Janice for a second.
First Group Therapy: Rock Bottom Moments
Nothing says introductions like having everyone share their rock bottom moments. Big Ang and Neil say their rock bottom was when they built a house. Ang keeps cutting Neil off. Scott talks about his drug binge in 2014. He thought someone was coming in the hotel to get him so he hung of the 16th floor balcony and fell off landing head first and fracturing his skull and broke his hip. He later got a doctor to prescribe him some serious painkiller and they interacted badly with his anti-depressants sending him into a psychotic episode where he thought he was part of a governmental program called MK-Ultra. He thought his car was rigged with explosives and called 911 who sent the men in white to lock him up. Jackie had filed for divorce and he lost custody of his kids Jackie was not prepared for the public humiliation. Dr. Jenn has already started cussing. I forgot how much she does that.
Carmen says that her rock bottom was finding out that Adrian had cheated. Dr. Mike causally says that “I’m sure that being transgender, that feeling of not being good enough ran pretty deep.” Janice calls Mike out for outing Carmen rather than letting her tell people when she was ready. Mike didn’t know that she had not told anyone. Carmen says that Adrian is pansexual. Mike’s rock bottom was when Carmen cheated on him first. Carmen also mentioned that she allowed Adrian to go out and experience “the world” and she is mad at him for doing it.
Janice’s lowest point was giving Rocky money she made from an appearance and he put it into his safe. She said her rock bottom was the first time she saw Rocky really lose his temper. None of this makes sense. Why is Janice’s lowest point something that doesn’t seem to be about her and not any of THESE THINGS? Rocky whispers, they don’t know why. She screeches at him. Janice appears to be on something. When Dr. Jenn says that Janice was disrespectful to Rocky, Janice screams at Dr. Jenn. She is either very crazy or very drugged up. Jackie says to Janice that she interrupts a lot and says mean things to people. Janice is a financial liability and should not be on this show. Jackie seems terrified of her. Scott and Jackie think it is all an act. I think she is seriously mentally ill. Janice cries and apologies (sort of) to Rocky and they snuggle.
In the second hour, Dr. Jenn talked to Carmen about being transgender. She talks about feeling female from a very young age. She would put on makeup in the middle of the night. When she was 12 she put on her mother’s clothes and showed her grandmother and she freaked out. She didn’t date until twenty. For two years she dated gay men who found her too feminine. Then she met Adrian and he accepted her. Adrian was not prepared at all for her transitioning. Why are all the transgender women we see on TV so ultra feminine and ubersexual? I’m curious if there are transgender women who wear yoga pants and t-shirts and are less glamorous 24/7.
Joe Budden and Kaylin Garcia
In the second episode we get a new couple. Apparently, he is a rapper for Love and Hip Hop and she is sometimes his girlfriend. When Janice came up the big hill to the house Rocky was rolling two huge suitcases, his and Janice’s. This dude seems to have brought almost nothing and has two free hands and a backpack and is not helping her pull her giant suitcase up the hill at all. That says pretty much everything. She’s a twerker and apparently is on Love and Hip Hop as well. He talks about doing drugs and the two of them having sex all the time and having sex together with other women. She said all of that was great until the show started and he was back around his ex Tahiry. Apparently, he proposed to Tahiry and she said no on national TV. Joe is stringing her along. Carmen is a Love and Hip Hop fan. They ask Carmen what show she was on, and she doesn’t answer. Carmen says she likes Kaylin for Joe and Joe says very defensively that they don’t know anything about them. Joe starts asking Carmen and Adrian what their problems are. Joe seems abusive.
Joe and Kaylin Meet with Dr Jenn
Kaylin was stripping and living out of her car until Love and Hip Hop. Kaylin told Joe he needed to finish things with Tahiry and find out if that is what he wants. Kaylin stayed living in his house. When he was working out of town, Kaylin came over to see if she was still living there and they compared notes. A male friend of his who was at the house texted him and told him what was going on. He called Tahiry to get out of the house immediately or he would call the cops. Dr. Jenn probes about what sticking around with the jerk says about how she values herself. She can’t answer but Joe has no problem laying it out there for her quite clearly.
Scott and Jackie Meet with Dr Jenn
Jackie mentions all of Scott’s drinking issues He was arrested on the way to their honeymoon destination. Dr. Jenn wants to know why she stayed with Scott. Scott says that Jackie was trying to save him. Dr Jenn talks about what it is about her that made her pick him. This line of discussion makes her uncomfortable. I think that Dr. Jenn is off to one of the best starts of the season. Usually, I feel like she misses the mark a lot. Jackie doesn’t want to talk about herself. She also doesn’t want to talk about Scott’s addiction. She glares at Dr. Jenn.
Jackie decides to vent to Janice of all people. Janice who she has already said is mean. Janice says she would have slapped the bitch silly and fucked her up if she had said that to her. And by “that” she means saying that there is something in Jackie that needs to be fixed because she chooses broken people. I don’t think Dr. Jenn will say that to Janice, but she should pose that question to Rocky. Then Janice goes and tattles to one of the therapists.
Janice Meets with Dr. Jenn
Dr. Jenn starts by saying that she understands that Janice would like to slap her and fuck her up. Janice says she thinks Dr. Jenn is really hard on Jackie. Janice says that if that hurt her feelings she’s sorry. Dr. Jenn says it’s fine, but what she can’t do is sabotage other couple’s treatment plan. Jenn tries to teach Janice basic manners and common decency. Good luck that Dr. Jenn.
Late, Kaylin tells Adrian that on the house CVS list someone wrote “tampons” under her name. That’s mean. I suspect Joe. But Joe and Kaylin supposedly do not know that she is transgendered. I bet Joe watches RuPaul’s Drag Race.
NEXT WEEK: It looks like Joe gets arresting on an outstanding domestic violence warrant. Dr. Jenn tries to out the tampon culprit.
I know you only recap reality shows, but I would love your take on The Walking Dead. The new season starts this week. I watch it for the survival/moral dilemmas. I’m so over the sound effects but love how the show is a precursor of what’s coming when society breaks down because of current events.
I remember Carmen from Drag Race. She was a name dropping stuck up bitch, and all the Queens hated her.
and she relied on her body for fashion..the judges hated it..
I watched that season too. I definitely was not a Carmen fan.
Hey TT remember that Below Deck episode that got pulled off air? It’s the episode where one of the yacht guests brought a trans-sexual on the boat, and the word tranny was used in the episode? Well that trans-sexual was Carmen.
I don’t remember!!! Did it ever air?
It aired at least once & maybe twice with the repeat showing the same night, but immediately there was growing controversy from the trans community and it was pulled. It never repeated after the 1st night it aired.
I remember 100% you talking about it. I think I recall you saying in comments that your DVR fucked up & that you missed the episode since it got removed from Bravo. DAMN woman you have swiss cheese instead of memory cells.
I remember when Carmen was on Drag Race & in a casual conversation dropped the names “Jennifer & Mark” hinting that she was on a first name basis with Jennifer Lopez & husband Mark Anthony. Then one of the queens kept questioning her, and I think all it was is that she met them once backstage at a concert or something trivial like that. It was hilarious when she got called out. All the queens just roll their eyes at her when she talks.
@ jejune um read history books,
we will be fine.
I am a history freak. Thank you very much. Those who know history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
No offense but I can’t recall a point in history when we had a pathogen floating around that turned people into zombies. I’m an ancient history major too, so I do know a thing or two about history. Believe me, whatever turmoil is happening now is absolutely cyclic but doesn’t signify the end of the world. I did love the Walking Dead the first few seasons, then it got hokie. Sorry for being off topic, TT!
What the hell does this have to do with Couples Therapy?
I’ve never watched this program but now I’m intrigued. I loved Carmen on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and of course I love Big Ang on Mob Wives. Am going to have to watch it now!
Love Big Ang but I hope this show doesn’t make me dislike her .
I was such a fan of Big Ang, she seemed like she didn’t want to fight anyone. Well that’s because she treats her poor husband like shit. After two episodes, I am no longer a fan. She was so mean to him.
Is it crazy that I think this show is beneath Ang? What happened to her own show? Ugh I can’t watch as I think it will make me dislike her.
scott stapp is actually an interesting guy if you can get past his recent shortcomings
Scott Stapp has an autobiography. It’s not a recent publication, but I did enjoy it. On my nook, I received it for free.
Scott who had the most problems, seemed the most sane on the show. I loved Creed.
I find Joe to be absolutely THE WORST when it comes to the way he talks to the women in the house. I think everyone should get equal respect, male and female, but he’s so self assured and over confident (of what, I know not) that he looks down on his housemates. Not sure I am going to watch this season..especially since AHS comes on the same night.
Janice is an enigma, to me. I think the problem lies in NOT being medicated. Did anyone else watch her on Celebrity Big Brother UK? She was so out of it and fragile all the time and even JENNA JAMESON talked about how many pills she was popping (probably jealous). I am not sure which Janice is real and which is her on screen persona..I can’t help but to believe that heavily medicated Janice is the IRL version and the mean, venom spitting one on CT is an act. Perhaps even somewhere in the middle. Did you watch CBBUK, TT?
I did that was crazy and according to Farrah a lot of cannabilstic violence… it is a very disgusting Satanic thing to do. Who knew it went all Donner Party in the CBBUK house. In addition the guys were weirded out because Bobby was always looking at their asses and packages. Janice was the gracious and most sane American woman in the house. I can not imagine being Janice husband, unless you were a masochist.
Cannibalistic violence? satanism? I watched CBBUK … don’t know what you were watching…As for Farrah , she
definitely tells a one-sided “edited” story to the media about her behaviour
Yeah, I don’t recall cannibalistic violence or satanism (satomism, if you’re Vicki) on CBBUK. I also don’t remember Bobby looking at anyone’s ‘packages’. Is this your humour or did I watch a completely different show? As far as Janice being the sanest female from the US.. The odds were in her favor. That’s also like saying David and Shannon (RHOOC) have a beautiful marriage BC they haven’t become a divorce statistic. Janice is just out there..or a broken and heavily medicated woman. I just haven’t figured out which.
I was surprised how MEAN Big Ang was too, and how sweet Rocky was to Janice no matter how mean she was to him.
I think this Janice is reality TV Janice and he is willing to play, as long as she is happy.
Big Ang went through a serious medical situation in the last 6-12 months, didn’t she? I half remember people speculating that she might die. If my brain hasn’t turned to mush and that did happen, was there any mention of it on this show? Like, my rock bottom moment was when I almost died ;-).
Yes Beth, she talked about her cancer but in group, for her rock bottom, it wasn’t even on her radar. It was more about Neil being “poor.”
Yes, I read Big Ang had a cancerous tumor in here throat.
I’d like to see Dr Jenn get to “WHY” Big Ang is so mean to Neil. She is likely angry that she loves Neil and has stayed with him despite his lying and I’m going to guess some cheating. Don’t give up on Big Ange just yet…she needs help navigating her love for the man versus her disdain for his actions. In this day & age we have no compassion for one another, if a man cheats & the woman stays it becomes her fault and she is stupid. She gets what she deserves if he lies or cheats again. You can’t talk to your friends about it, you stuff it all inside.
I love Big Ange & I REALLY hope Dr. Jenn will help her instead of just putting on a show a la Farrah Abrahams. Janice is simply reality TV gold. Unbalanced, conniving, over opinionated and delusional. Her man is trying to save her…he should jump that sinking ship.
Joe Budden. Yikes, his bit of success has allowed him (in his head) to treat women any way he chooses. If you want to have threesomes, get “permission” to explore other relationships, treat women badly, be so callous as to put your hands on a woman (which he did on television) etc. you HAVE to date chicks who will take it. He is rumored to have beaten an ex until she miscarried. He often ignored Tahiry’s wishes and publicly put her & their relationship on display…warts & all. He threatened to call the cops because he was about to be busted? He’s a brat, a Mitch, a man child who has been given too much. He should be alone, but he won’t be. As long as he provides a roof over the head of a young girl who was homeless before meeting him…she doesn’t have to humiliate herself with different men night after night…she only has to humiliate herself with him… There is no help for him.
Janice was so rude to Rocky. She was asking him to speak to her like he does at home. He just looked at her like he had no clue what she was referring to. Then, she started telling him he’s “f–ing busted now”. That was odd and very disrespectful. She is definitely on something. There is no way she can be like that sober. I hope.
Janice was insane on Celebrity Big Brother. She said she is the queen of reality shows, so of course she is on another one.
I loved Janice on America’s Top Model (about 15 years ago), but even then she was out of control, loud and rude- but striking! Now she seems a caricature of her former self. She was on Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab a few years ago, trying to get off “benzos”. But on CT, she said to Rocky as they came in the door, “I need a Ritalin”. Maybe she’s reverted to meds to manage her feelings. It is painful to watch her- she looks so unhappy, like a kid in a tantrum who doesn’t know how to stop.
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I loved Janice on America’s Top Model (about 15 years ago), but even then she was out of control, loud and rude- but striking! Now she seems a caricature of her former self. She was on Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab a few years ago, trying to get off “benzos”. But on CT, she said to Rocky as they came in the door, “I need a Ritalin”. Maybe she’s reverted to meds to manage her feelings. It is painful to watch her- she looks so unhappy, like a kid in a tantrum who doesn’t know how to stop.
There are some super wacky characters on the show this season, especially the drugged out crazed Janice Dickenson, whoa lol! And Carmen’ s husband, what is the deal with him???? Is he into chicks or dudes? He seems very very confused! He met Carman before the transition, and seems mad that he did the transition, but also seems to now like it. Cuckoo! :-\ And I don’t agree with that ” pan sexual” mess. Every time you look around, they are coming up with some new crazy term to call people!
Oh, and that Carman really looks and sounds like a woman! Could fool a lot of guys for real. And that’s a real problem today because all transexuals aren’t honest and don’t tell straight guys what they are. And as unfortunate as it is, they are murdered because of that. I recently heard about a case like that in the news.The guy found out that his partner was a male, and he went ballistic.
I decided to watch this tonight. I honestly think that Janice might be brain damaged from all the previous drug use.
But… she was right about the doctor bringing up that Carmen is trans. He should have apologized immediately.