I can hardly wait to go bowling with our national treasure Juliet on tonight’s Ladies of London. I swear this show coming on right after Real Housewives of Orange County is just too much. Juilet wants to have a bowling party with burgers, drinks and wigs. Because, Juliet.
Marissa meets Annabelle for a chat. Annabelle gives Marissa some feedback on the ballcaps she wants to sell in her hot dog shop. And then they talk about Juliet’s habit of tossing aside all of her friends to placate Caroline.
Caroline S. is preparing to pare down her business substantially. She is still pretending there is going to be a next year. There is a big board meeting about to happen. After the meeting Caroline and one of her advisors get into the car and it’s clear the meeting was a disaster. He assistant calls to ask, “Are We Fired?” And the answer is a resounding yes. Caroline would like to be concerned about this but Michael Sams and his boyfriend Vito are about to arrive for a stay at her house so she simply must take them out. In case you are not a football fan, Michael Sams is the first NFL player to come out as gay while still playing for the major leagues. She eventually takes them on a Duck Tour. That looked like fun.
Annabelle is still working on her children’s book. She has signed a deal. I love the illustrations that the graffiti artist did for her. And we have the requisite Alexander McQueen montage for no reason at all. 
Julie, Annabelle and Caroline Fleming head off to Beaulieu Estate which is run by Julie’s husband’s cousin or something. That estate is stunningly beautiful and apparently they are able to keep up with the place financially. The plan is to seek advice from them on how to keep Mapperton from going under. The cousin basically just gives them a brief tour, Caroline Fleming says what I have been saying but she uses words like “high tea in the orangerie” and say sell fucking sandwiches. Because, Earl of Sandwich. For some reason, these three seem to want to help Juliet not be such a bitch. Well, mainly Caroline Fleming. The other two are skeptical.
So Juliet stops by Caroline Fleming’s to be Eliza Doolitte to Caroline’s Professor Higgins. First lesson? Making homemade pesto. Caroline says she uses coconut oil as a moisturizer. I thought I was the only one who did that. Caroline is a cougar who is dating a 30 year old. She is also full of sexual innuendo.
It’s time to bowl! Juliet has ordered everyone bowling outfits and neon wigs. Annabelle wisely managed to beg off. Due to my facial recognition skills. I have no idea who anyone is with their wigs on. Everyone has a nickname on their shirts and Carloline F’s is “Cougar.” Marissa said something about “Lock up your children!” and then later Marissa says that she likes small children. Fleming is BEYOND pissed at Marissa. So we can expect a throw down next week.
Juliet and Julie try to talk out their differences and start over. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Next Week: Pheasant hunting and cougar baiting.
I think that the whole world knows that Marissa was NOT insinuating that Caroline F likes under age boys. Marissa was using the standard lame cougar jokes. Whatever.
I couldn’t understand how Juliet flew under the radar for starting the whole cougar meme…. after all, she called Caroline F. a cougar during the cooking lesson and then selected the Cougar bowling shirt for Caroline F.
But, then again, Juliet is driving me nuts this season. The camera keeps catching her in fibs, but no one ever calls her on it.
Is this show getting high ratings? M
Watching Caroline S. out playing with her friends while her staff was barely hanging on still uncertain of their employment status really pissed me off. I really think she is self-centered. Fun, probably. But not someone I would want to be friends with.
I’m still on the fence about Caroline F. She is a bit flaky and eccentric, which I do love, but I think there is something lurking under there.
Also it annoys me when Annabelle is speaking and Bravo dubs in “My close friend Alexander McQueen”. You can tell that isn’t fresh. It’s from last season, yet they do it constantly. Why do they do that?
To a question above, I have heard the ratings have dropped on this show. That’s a drag because I do love it. I hope it comes back for a third season.
If you’re sharp enough to pick up the dubbing, how come you are unaware of the editing? Caroline S probably had that meeting with investors days, weeks, months before her two gay friends showed up. The production team will edit all kinds of things, put events in different order, delete people and things, add things, dub conversations; i.e., the sequence of events is only in your mind, and to think for one moment that there is any reality to reality TV, is just pure foolishness.
I couldn’t tell the women apart either with the wigs on. I like Caroline F a lot less this week than last week. She was really condescending toward Juliet. Of course, Juliet acting like a chihuahua puppy doesn’t help. Then all that rage about Marissa’s cougar quips. What happened to living in the moment and not letting little things like that bother you. My favorite moment was when Caroline S went with her assistant to the board meeting and there was only one umbrella which the man-servant held over Caroline while assistant got soaked. I hope the people in her company find better jobs. Caroline S is coming across as a real moron. thought she was intelligent, but now, not so much. Does Juliet have a job? She needs one. I still want to fly to London and eat at Top Dog. If Julie pulls it off, high tea at the castle will be nice too. Thanks for the recap, TT.
Caroline S.’s “assistant” was the Gift Library’s Chief Financial Officer….the person who had to deal with all of Caroline’s angry creditors. Undoubtably there was another umbrella in the car — this is London after all. However the single umbrella held gingerly only over Caroline’s head was a sad metaphor for where the company’s priorities were: making Caroline look good while the staff got soaked.
@TT~ Great recap! I use coconut oil on my face…and hair too. Want a great scrub? A bit of coconut oil and a tiny bit of sugar and your face will feel amazing. I also put it into my coffee and use it in dog food too.
Julie’s husband and his family have already licensed their name to a chain of sandwich shops in the US. They are all over including Disney world and are making bank from that. So not sure where the whole Mapperton is struggling story line is coming from. It seems so odd.
Caroline S best bud multi billionaire Goga could have saved the Gift Library if she wanted to bc she was one of her initial backers.
yes i said something similarly a while back. Or hubby and daddy could have just floated her the money if nothing else just to keep her out of their hair.
I’m in love with your screen name, lol.
I agree … it’s strange that someone isn’t bailing her out. Public business failure on tv doesn’t seem to be in her wheelhouse. I do hope that ratings for the show aren’t too low. I still like watching this one.
I wondered the same thing, unless there is a specific negative feeling about Caroline or the business being worthy of support. I felt especially bad that her employees were out of jobs when it seemed that they were very loyal.
I just got my morning giggle from Tamara’s My Fair Lady reference – SO fitting for that scene.
What confuses me though is that I don’t understand how on earth Juliet has lived in the EU as long as she has never made pesto??? It’s only 3-5 ingredients (depending on the variation) in a blender for 5 minutes. All that fawning over leaves, cheese, and olive oil was a bit much.
Annabelle’s really onto something with her children’s book series; my girlfriend (another Brit) has “Angry Me” for her absolutely gorgeous albeit quasi-terroristic kindergartener, it’s very well done.