We start tonight with Kelly preparing for her breast reduction. How does one prepare for a breast reduction if one is an OC housewife? Well first, one’s husband stands you outside topless and makes a plaster of Paris mold of your soon to be former boobs. Because, memories. Then, one throws a “Boob Voyage Party” and invites one’s friends to come bid your boobs adieu. I mean who doesn’t know that?
I almost like Lydia when she isn’t advertising her magazine and is doing her job this season. Every season needs a bone carrier who can move back and forth between warring factions to stir the pot. That’s Lydia’s job. So she sits down with Tamra to tell her about Vicki’s birthday party where Gretchen and that one gay guy arrived to talk about Eddie making out with a guy. Lydia makes it clear that she doesn’t like Shannon because she seems really high maintenance. As if on cue, Shannon calls Tamra for the 23rd time that day.
Someone, anyone needs to tell Diko how to wear sunglasses. And must we go to every single boob expander visit that Peggy has?
Is Shannon’s restaurant really called Real 4 Real? This tells us nothing.
Oh look, we are in another doctor’s office where Doug is reading that famous Ephesians passage about husbands and wives. As one does before meeting with a vasectomy surgeon. Doug says that he deserves some sort of snip gift from his wife for this procedure. Married people are weird.
It’s time for the Boob Voyage Party, since Meghan is not invited, we get a boring scene with Meghan and her cousin rehashing Meghan’s meltdown over Kelly telling her to stay home and watch her kid. Meghan’s filmed interactions with the baby always seem awkward to me. As hard as she worked to get this kid…it seems like she’s unhappy. The baby always seems to be crying with her. I saw the kid on IG today and her hair is simply not growing at all. But she is adorable and walking and playing with Girly Girl. Very cute.
What better way to say goodbye to your boobs than beach volleyball? One last painful jumping up and down sport that tests the limits of your jog bra. I am amazed that every single cast member is playing. Also, while they are not good players by any stretch, they seem to be giving it their all. Is beach volleyball the answer for this group?
Kelly has gone all out for this party with shrimp, salads, catered desserts and champagne. There is the requisite boob cake, cupcake boobs, and buttery nipples. Lydia has been tasked by production with pushing Vicki and Tamra into a conversation. Tamra starts crying at the thought of it. Shannon tells Tamra not to talk to Vicki. Shannon seems to be terrified of the thought of Vicki and Tamra making up.
I need to pause this shit show for a moment to talk about Vicki’s pants. Please see the photo above. This does not give you the full picture of how bad they are. Especially from the back. These women need to choose better wardrobes for these all cast scenes where they will be filming fights that are replayed forever. I have no words to express how bad the pants look.
Sorry, back to the fight. Kelly takes Vicki and Tamra into her bedroom for a one on one but she stays so as not to miss the show, and probably to make sure they don’t destroy her bedroom. Vicki tells Tamra in a loud voice that she has to stop calling her names and saying she is playing the victim. She also says she did not invite Ricki to her party, he just showed up. Not sure if I believe that or not but it sounds like something production would do.
Meanwhile, Shannon, the professional victim and reigning holder of the batshit crazy title, is railing on Lydia and Peggy about what a horrible person Vicki is and how she traumatized her and made her fat and caused her husband to have an affair and provided uranium to North Korea. Don’t they understand that Vicki ruined her entire life? No, no they do not. Shannon changes course and decides to barge into the bedroom where Vicki and Tamra are. She must be in there to support Tamra, by God, because Kelly is in there with Vicki. This should go well.
So all six ladies end up in the bedroom while the guys have a drink on the patio overlooking the Pacific. Except for David. Where is David for all of this? Oh and Eddie is not there either. Interesting.
Tamra says that Vicki lied about having cancer. Oh Lawdy here we go. Vicki says they better stop saying that or she will go nuclear. Shannon repeats the charge with a neck roll for good measure. Tamra walks out of the room. Vicki says that Shannon is lying about David’s domestic violence (Because she is) Shannon waddles over to Vicki and pointa her fat little sausage finger in her face. Then she backs off and says that Vicki doesn’t affect her anymore and drops her hand in front of her face in some sort of weird lowering the curtain way. Then she walks out of the room. Leaving Lydia and Peggy to point out to Vicki that the talk, indeed, did not go well.
Shannon practically has a stranglehold on Tamra as she is telling her that Vicki is evil and trying to keep her from talking to her. When Lydia shows up, she tells Lydia for the second or third time at this event that she cried herself to sleep every night and gained 35 pounds because of Vicki. She’s talking in a low whispery voice that accentuates her crazy. She completely forgets she is trying to brainwash and comfort Tamra long enough to tell Lydia how proud she is of herself for walking away from Vicki. It’s a terrifying scene. She whispers, “It doesn’t matter anymore” with another curtain dropping hand wave over her face. She has once again made everything that happens all about her. Lydia points out about how everything is always all about Shannon. Vicki skeedaddles in her weird pants.
Peggy has been becoming increasingly aggressive despite being a nonmutherfuckingfactor in this equation. She tried to physically block Shannon from going into the bedroom. Now she is lecturing Tamra about the entire situation. And when Shannon whispers something to Kelly about just keeping her head down, Peggy seems highly offended. The tension is thick, until Kelly returns with the plaster cast of her boobs for everyone to sign. Tamra immediately wants to see the real thing and Kelly grabs Shannon’s boobs, as grown straight women do on any given afternoon. Tamra grabs Lydia’s boob and finds out they are fake. She had them done after kid number three. She doesn’t want to discuss it with all the guys in the room. Then there is an altercation between Lydia and Shannon because when Lydia told Tamra about her boob job, Shannon squeezed Tamra’s leg and gave her a look that Lydia took to be mocking her. Lydia really cannot stand Shannon. Lydia keeps repeating Shannon’s usual line, “I’m done. I’m done. I’m Done.”
It’s boob cake time and Shannon is flipping her lid. She screams at Tamra to “Come Here” and when she dares to finish swallowing the piece of cake in her mouth, she screams, “NOW!” in the same tone I use when Banjo is getting perilously close to having a small Mexican toddler for a tasty snack. Then she calls her for a THIRD time! I hope Tamra gets the switch on the back of her legs for not coming after the first command. Before she can even fill Tamra in, Doug and Lydia say their goodbyes. This doesn’t work well for Shannon’s final dramatic scene so the two engage as she is walking out the door. Shannon starts to cry, because, menopause, and now Lydia feels obligated to stand there and let Shannon have her scene. When Lydia left, Shannon went straight for Tamra to yell at her for not coming when she is called. Shannon goes to the bar and orders a drink, and then tells the bartender her entire story.
Next week, Peggy begins her quest to snatch the batshit crazy crown from Shannon. That would be quite the feat at this point.
Great episode tonight it really picked up after the first couple of episodes. To be honest I get Dl vibes from David and Eddie, have they been together? Idk I’m just saying what I observe from both of them.
Lol and Shannon is addicted and obsessed with everything Vicki it’s crazy, she literally needed to be in her presence to feel better. After all Vicki is the reason for Shannon’s weight gain and the reason Shannon can even breathe ?
Nothing would make me happier than David announcing to the World that he is now full on flaming out of the closet GAY and that he and EDDIE are moving in together in a little bungalow in Malibu. They don’t even have to be telling the truth, I just think they could relax, do guy things, and be the hell away from those crazy bitches!
I would TOTALLY watch that show. And let the guys raise the kids together.
Aw! Like “My Two Dads”but gayer!
After tonight’s ep, I’d like to make an announcement…
I. ADORE. LYDIA
She may come off as flighty, but she is not intimidated by any of these chicks and speaks her own mind. They could all learn something from her.
I’ve been liking Lydia too the last couple episodes.
I know Shannon is crazy but I think it was wrong of Lydia to accuse her of something she didn’t do and then try to shut her down when Shannon was trying to explain herself. I have been on the receiving end of someone totally misinterpreting something I said and it is quite frustrating.
There’s a history here. I can see Lydia giving most people the benefit of the doubt but Shannon has been too crazy and erratic to have earned that pass. For what it’s worth, Shannon was probably sub-consciously grateful for yet another diversion; anything to keep her from thinking about what it really bothering her/hurting her deep down.
I sort of agree with your post….Lydia is trying to be the Boot leg knock off Heather Dubrow this season ….it didn’t work for Heather it ain’t going to work for Lydia. Shannon is an emotional bag of crazy….but if Lydia don’t like her wtf does she care what Shannon does or thinks about her. Why high light her behavior then try to minimize it …knowing how bat shit Shannon is that whole scene said a lot more about Lydia than it did about Shannon.
Tamra does not fake cry very well. Her buddy, Shannon, is a huge buzz kill.
I screeched put loud when I saw Vicki’s pants because I spent a desperate half hour about 6 months ago in a store talking a friend out of buying a pair just like them for herself. There is no one in the world those would look good on. They are hideous. WHY were these even designed and manufactured?! Shannon is so shrill and transparent. She has made Vicki into both boogeyman and scapegoat for everything wrong in her life and I’m so sick of hearing that Vicki caused her to gain 40 pounds. Does she really think anyone believes that?
Tonight it was 35 pounds, so maybe she is taking responsibility for the other five? #Babysteps
OMG, you are right! She did say 35 instead of 40 last night. So, 5 was her and 35 was Vicki? I’m going to start that kind of blame breakdown with the 50 pounds I need to lose. Being only responsible for 5 pounds of this chub will be a relief. It will be everyone else’s fault for the other 45, and I mean EVERYONE, including my creepy shitbag neighbor who now mows his grass every single day (not joking, and there’s nothing left to mow) and my asshole in-laws.
Oh yes, THE IN-LAWS! ?? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL…….
Yep, a good portion of my fat behind will now be their direct fault. Maybe Shannon is on to something here…
Shannon is terrified tha Vickie and Tamra will be friends again, simply terrified. Shannon really needs to check herself in somewhere to get her crazy straightened out, I am sure it’s just menopause but damn she is off her rocker. Still not sure what the hell to think of Peggy, I kind of like her most of the time by then others I think she brings nothing to the table. I love Lydia, I really do, she is silly and looks like a ding bat. It I think that is all an act.
Sadly it is menopause and there are few good options and doctors don’t really get it. The spend like ten minutes on menopause in medical school and that is when people sneak out to pee or get more coffee.
^^^THIS^^^
I don’t think it is menopause. I think Shannon has been volatile for years. She is getting worse because she cannot face the disintegration of her marriage. That is why Shannon blames all of her problems on Vicki.
I think Shannon has always been spoiled/immature and a high drama queen but the affair was incredibly painful (his family betrayed her too) and before she really got over it, she went into menopause. That’s quite a one-two wallop. Unfortunately, it’s hard to feel sorry for her because she’s so God damn annoying.
I really don’t know how he lives with her this year- and before anyone jumps I am not dismissing or forgiving his reported attacks, cause I believe they happened and he made huge mistakes- but as the show starts with him questioning,- and her becoming immediately overly sensitive to his questions- about her restaurant venture- she is quick to dismiss him, the question, and sounded so superior to him that it was amazingly offensive in front of their children. It is always about her- she is victim, know it all, wisest, richest, best mother on the block. But let anyone disagree/seriously doubt or question that and she is utterly destroyed and pure victim.
They don’t have a relationship and I don’t know why he stays- except for Dad’s money and career opps- but how would that work? Won’t she inherit? Not sure I get it now. And, of course, his daughters- who both of them have damaged immensely.
The selfish self-indulgence these two “enjoy” is destroying their children, and what little state of mind/balance she has left. .
Lol!!!!
I love Tamra’s hair and shoes on WWHL!!! Shannon at the end of the episode reminded me of the Stapler guy in the movie Office Space the way she was muttering to herself over by the bar. She’s taking a running leap off the deep end tonight! I used to find her funny and just a little off-beat. This is sad to see. I would die if someone was calling me 23 times a day! I don’t even want my friends calling me more than once a month.
The Lydia and Doug scene at the doctor seemed so staged. No Christian couple as committed as they are would need that passage read to them. I appreciate that they don’t want to talk in code that people won’t understand, but when it seems fake, it doesn’t work. And every scene with them seems fake. I grew up in the church and I love going to church, but the way they are constantly explaining it turns me off.
I agree. Also, when Lydia and Doug talk about “their faith” they often seem to me like two 13 year olds at Bible Camp. Did you hear him last night? “Christ KIND OF died for our sins, so…” and then he started trailing off and Lydia got this startruck look on her face like he was spiking a touchdown at the big junior high football game. It all just makes me cringe.
I agree- and it is offensive. The language she uses about “his balls ” and “his junk is also anathema to everything else she says about their life and faith.
It is stupid subject mater and doesn’t belong here any more than the rejuvenations do. It feels strained, unnecessary and completely fake between them when they are in their Christina role moments. And that is the problem – it feels forced and unreal. Every time she uses the fly away hands to signify her happiness at something, I think she is so thin that she’s going to fly away.
Lydia is so insincere. I just cannot find one thing to like about her, from her strange appearance to the goofball schtick. I recently watched the first season she was on and found that she still has a strong undercurrent of mean and manipulative. I feel like a person with any self proclaimed “strong faith” would not even participate in these phony, detrimental shows, even for the pseudo-publicity of their (i.e. her daddy’s) doomed magazine. She brings nothing to the table. I wish Peggy would get over her awkwardness and just be real when the cameras are on. She’d probably be much more interesting if she let a little authenticity show.
All she needed to tell the bartender, “David Lyn hagen is cheating with my wife”
I don’t understand.
Forgot to say this above, but thank you TT for mentioning that about Meghan. I thought it was just me. She just seems really awkward and uncomfortable around the baby. Not even sure what to make of it.
I haven’t observed it on the show, but I remember when I took my son to Gymboree and we were supposed to say things like, “Oh, you’re going UP the stairs. Do you want to go DOWN the slide?”, I felt like the biggest idiot. I think I would feel the same way talking with a baby on camera. My solution was to never talk baby talk with my kid. And I couldn’t stand it when other people did it. Like Meghan, my expectations of life with a baby and the reality of it were very far apart. It left me shell-shocked. I suspect she may be in the same situation.
Maybe you are right and she just feels awkward being filmed with the baby. I do think it’s sad that Jim isn’t there a lot.
How do you not talk baby talk to a cute little roly poly baby? I can’t help myself!
As a retired kg. teacher, those are words and concepts we need your child to know on day one. Opposites and rhyming words are the first steps to reading.
I also want to make a distinction between baby talk and talking that is referred to as “pre-speech.” When a baby begins to vocalize, they are trying to mimic your words to them. I encourage you to make those exact sounds back to them and watch that baby smile. It will speed up language development. Baby talk is calling a train a choo choo at 5 years old, imo.
Meghan loves Girly Girl more than Aspen. Well, if not loving the dog more, she certainly seems more happy with the dog. Aspen responds to Jim in a .much more loving way than to Meghan in the few interactions I’ve seen
I probably didn’t say it correctly. I probably did speak baby talk with my baby when he was little, but he’s really gifted with language and had taught himself to read by age 3, so saying UP and DOWN in an exaggerated manner would have been fake with him at that point. He completely knew the concepts. I guess it was more when he was a little older that I would get frustrated when people spoke down to him in that high pitched voice. He was an only child, so he was used to conversing with adults in an older way. I completely agree with your suggestions about talking with babies and mimicking sounds and reading to them at every opportunity to help develop language.
I’m sure we’ll find out later that Meghan had post pardom depression. I can just see Meghan saying she had it and dealt with it privately. Then she’ll use it as an excuse at the reunion for why she was such a shit stirrer the whole season. Then she’ll write a book about it, and tell us all how she “overcame” the problem.
I hated Meghan last season and I hate her even more this season. She IS mean and she IS a shit stirrer. The way she flipped out at Lydia for disagreeing with her was psycho. She implied that since she left her baby at home to go on a walk with Lydia, Lydia should agree with her. I know people like this and I don’t think it’s PPD.
Oh yeah and my fave, about her opinion, “IT’S FACTS”. No, Meghan, it’s your opinion.
And I totally agree with you, TAFKAY, I hate when Meghan is stating an opinion and SAYING it’s fact.
Toward the end of last season I started liking Meghan. Then this season started, and now I’m back to disliking her. When she’s out because she WANTS to be out, she declares it’s her right and has nothing to do with being a mom, then when she’s out and things aren’t going her way, she yells that she’s made this big sacrifice to be out without her daughter, so everything SHOULD be going her way. No mom should be made to feel guilty about having alone time or out of the house time or me time, we’re still people for fuck’s sake, but I find it disingenuous that Meghan wants to use her motherhood as an excuse in every single situation only to her own advantage.
I do not think Meghan or her husband are very caring, or giving people. They have shown themselves to be pretty cold hearted in my opinion.
Im wondering if she might be having post pardom depression without realizing it.
Aren’t there fat farms that also offer counseling services? She should get herself to one immediately if not sooner.
I adored her during her 1st season. Even Tamra can hardly be around her or make excuses for her at this point. We’re back to the premiere when she blamed Vicki for, well, everything but especially her weight gain. She said she wasn’t going to do that again. She lied. She is in the deep end and drowning. I don’t think anyone cares enough to toss her a floatie.
Well said!
When you have the crazy, you can’t get to the fat farm. Don’t ask me how I know this.
You know I understand the menopause crazies, and there are legion. I’m going to my 50th class reunion next month and I still have at least one hot flash a day. It’s like Mother Nature reminding me what she could still be doing to me. Funny but not funny.
I was just hoping Shannon could get a twofer. She has so many, many issues. Did y’all hear her say they don’t have wifi in their home because, well, because she’s crazy. I think she believes wifi will interrupt the crystals.
Lolololololololololol that’s all.
Absolutely the best review I’ve ever read. Going to go watch the show now.
I bet Heather Dubrow is glad she isn’t part of this shit show, omg ?
IMO Peggy is looking at this as a slightly objective viewer and her attitude about it is “get over it already”. No she & Lydia weren’t privy to all the down and dirty, but they have had to stand witness to the constant rehashing.
Vickies boyfriend even acknowledged how obsessed she is with the whole Tamra/Shannon issue – although I don’t know why she continues to lie about the cancer scam. She’s had enough time to consult a PR person to give her the “words” to explain herself. Leave it to production to roll the scene at the reunion where she admitted to lying.
Tamra – tears – fake
Lydia using the infamous line “I’m done” on Shannon and Shannons reaction was my favorite part of the episode.
I feel like the Vicki situation is being constantly “rehashed” because Peggy and Lydia keep meddling and trying to get everyone to reconcile. If they just accepted that Shannon and Tamra hate vicki and want no part of her lying, scheming ass, they would not have to constantly deal with said rehashing lol
Something about Meghan and baby was uncomfortable. It didn’t help when she causally walks out of room leaving baby “sleeping” close enough to the edge that my heat skipped a beat. I get it. She was in a little sleeper thing and baby is only a month or two? Still didn’t make me feel better though.
I just edited because it is PEGGY not Lydia that is going to hop aboard the batshit crazy train with Shannon for the rest of the season.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CAN WE JUST GET THESE BITCHES TO ICELAND?
Peggy storyline is so fake. Production had her talking head scenes superimposed on a fake background. Please get her off my television.
I’m waiting for Vicki to ask Shannon has her husband stop beating you yet.
These women are so worried about everbody liking them and being with the cool girls. I wish after high school that type of thinking would stop.
I agree Peggy is so take!
As much as I dislike Shannon right now she still right about Vicki…. she was in on a cancer scam, she did lie to everyone, she then admitted she lied and now she’s back to saying she didn’t lie…! Arrrg! I wouldn’t want her in my life either.
During the S10 reunion, I believe Vicki admitted to “fabricating”. There was then discussion amongst the Housewives at that reunion, my interpretation of that discussion was that Vicki covered up Brook’s cancer lie after she found out about it (at some point during filming of S10).
I bring this up to say that there is no proof that Vicki took part in the trickery e.g. falsifying medical records. Vicki was a fuckwitt for condoning his behaviour, pure and simple. Given the lack of proof, Shannon and Tamra need to stop perpetuating that Vicki was in on the “cancer scam” muck like anyone else.
She said she attended chemo and hospital appointments with him, she said that she called Dr Dubrow for him to come and set uo and iv, she said she had a big binder with allt he medical stuff and tabbed pages…. that is participating in the trickery and being part of a scam and lying her face off!
And then there was the kill all cancer scam tied to coto insurance. She lied and manufacturered the storyline for a sympathy and a fucking casserole!
She said she kept and maintained an entire “binder” of his materials related to cancer and that she attended all his treatments, later saying she didn’t, and he maintained the binder. Changing her story umpteen million times. The binder was bs, the call to terry was bs, and she “fabricated” the information for sympathy and fking casseroles lol
I’m going to have to rewatch those episodes, but I was under the impression she waited in the waiting room. She didn’t actually go into the treatments. He was keeping the binder up to keep her aware of his treatments because she couldn’t be there all the time due to her busy business. She admitted to lying about Dr. Dubrow coming over to give him an IV due to excessive vomiting. She asked Dubrow said no. Brooks was the liar about the cancer scam and fake records and admitted to that when interviewed. He said she did not know and he kept the scam going so they would feel sorry for him and leave him alone. Knowing the way they attack, it made sense to me.
They keep saying she was in on it and I don’t believe that is quite accurate. They will screech about that as long as it takes the pressure off Tamra, Eddie drama and Shannon, David drama.
I agree with the person who saw a correlation between this a political name calling. Everyone lies about the other and screeches to shut the other side down and cover their own BS. jmo
I agree. Also Vicki is claiming spousal abuse as a recent incident, not what happened years ago. Why doesn’t she show the proof she has? That’s why Shannon is upset and rightfully so. Shannon should realize no one believes a word known-liar Vicki says. Glad Kelly stuck up for Shannon on ridiculous Lydia claim about her boob job.
Shannon is the one who will not stop talking about David abusing her. That is Shannon’s passive aggressive way of punishing David over and over again.
Shannon blames Vicki for all of her problems, from her weight gain to her marital problems. All of Shannon’s problems are caused by the evil Vicki. I wonder if it is Vicki’s fault that every one in David’s family is estranged from Shannon.
David’s family are assholes as evidenced by l ast season. good riddance.
According to Vicki she received a strange call from Shannon who was hiding in a closet, I believe..
Vicki had people over that night and claims they heard her on the call. I think this was supposed to be around the time that Shannon found out about the affair.
I believe it’s been established that he WAS arrested for domestic violence. I don’t think anyone would be talking about the domestic violence, “allegations” this season if Shannon didn’t bring it up EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
Also re’ Lydia-Shannon has acted like an erratic loon all season, especially to Lydia, so why would she automatically believe anything she has to say? From the moment they met, Shannon went off on her.
Ok, but Vicky was just stupid. Nothing there I see as PURE EVIL. And thats how Shannon describes it all the time. Has she heard about the Hitler?
I think that this season is totally f*d, and I BLAME IT ON SHANNON!
Vicky, you get a pass on that from me! But i blame you for crappy weather!
I find it strange that Lydia feels uncomfortable talking about her boob job with other men around while she enjoys eating boob cake at a boob party. Plus every show is about her husband’s vasectomy. Every show I find her to be a walking contradiction.
That’s literally the duty of prosperity gospel, mega church attendees – to be a walking contradiction and throw rotting vegetables at the rabble peasants – every time they hit one above the shoulders, white-Jesus gives them a Lexus.
Just figured out why your comments were hanging up. You should be good now.
Kelly’s house has been on the market for some time now.
“provided uranium to North Korea….” You SLAY me. Still laughing….
I loved that line. Brilliant.
Your recap is flipping hilarious. The part on Shannon eating the cake. Shannon seems she is solely relying on Tamara’s friendship which is sad. She needs therapy and possible medications.
Goddam, her boobs are huge.
Shannon expects people to heel, like a pet. Get thee to a nunnery, crazypants.
The vehement arguments about Vicki’s cancer scam remind me of politics nowadays. You’ll never get anyone to hear something they don’t agree with. This is a TV show, right?
Tamara I cannot stand as she starts a lot of stuff and cannot let go of things. Her daughter is correct in saying she has to have the spotlight. She needs to move on with this cancer thing with Vicki that is her cross to bear. Shannon is in deep need of counseling as her problem is she has not gotten over her husband’s affair and that is why she is eating he is probably having another one. Plus Tamara comes over at times making sexual comments that do not go over well with Shannon and David. Tamara has to be the center of attention and the victim. They need to get rid of her and Shannon off the show. I use to like Shannon now she is just a crazy person that yells a lot.
Just re-watched this while on my cheapo exercise bike. (best time to watch this show!)
Tamara was worried what her kids would think about the media gossip that Eddie is (allegedly!) gay. She’s not worried about the effect HER behavior on the show has had on her kids or the fact that Sydney doesn’t speak to her because she’s been embarrassed and used her as a storyline. Na, why think about that? It’s all about that paycheck and the air time.
I just can’t with the fake tears. She tried 3 times this episode. She’s straining so hard I fear she’ll get a hemorrhoid. She needs to tone the plastic surgery-she’s evil but pretty. Has anyone noticed she’s beginning to look Asian?
The constant screaming, shrieking, yelling, conniving, whining, crying on this Show (and all the other Housewives franchises for that matter) is not entertainment – it’s insanity, and yet, we watch it. But, no more. I’m willing to bet money that each year Vicki and Tamra meet over gallons of adult beverages and plot out the season – to fight, to make up, to scream at each other, to love each other, who can stay, who has to go, who are we going to make our enemy this year, who are we going to make our friend? and in the end it’s “we’re best buds again” I actually believe they have their own private confabs and are in cahoots as to how they’re going to play it out. First, they are horrendous actresses – Secondly, they lack the imagination it takes to develop a storyline as it’s the same vapid crap each and every season.
This Show is trash. BRAVO is trash for keeping it on – a cancer scam didn’t take it down, what will? – what’s next? Most of the participants don’t have a brain cell in their heads. These are not ‘strong’, successful, intelligent, opinionated women (according to Andy that’s what it takes to be a housewife). These are shallow, self-indulgent, vain, stupid broads that got lucky landing on the Show. Our brain cells are dying out watching this shizz show. Time to walk away for good.
I disagree with all those who think this last episode will lead to an interesting season. Yes, I do see Iceland ahead…but for what.
Vickie is awful. Lydia very uninformed; Tamra trying to hold on : Shannon Loosing weight and Meghan complaining. Kelly… enough said… no story other than her boobs.
Ricky Santana twitter account is quite interesting. He’s posted screenshots of his email invitation from Vicki to her birthday and text messages telling him to come…..
Yet again Vicki ‘I’m on an ethics committee’ being discredited.
Well I’m sure Vicki didn’t push the send button on the evite therefore, she isn’t responsible for inviting Ricky.
I think Tamra is about to throw Shannon under the bus. She’s been giving her enough rope to hang herself, letting her look like a controlling abusive weirdo, and she’s going to do a 180, become friends with Vicki again, and blame the rift on Shannon. She’ll let Shannon take the fall for the “cancer scam” accusations.
Spot on assessment, I think. I think when the cameras are off they are normal BFF’s…who doesn’t talk to theirs a ton? To throw that comment to Lydia, who already said she doesn’t like Shannon was telling…and shitty. I think Shannon is being set up….although, according to IG, she and Tamra are still besties….
Is filming done? I think Tamra and Heather only ever became “friends” with Shannon because the fans loved her. The tide is turning (has turned?) on Shannon. If filming’s still happening, I see Tamra turning things around soon or at the reunion.
Great point!!! I truly don’t know…but, I think it is…all except the reunion and some confessionals, maybe? I will be holding my breath at the reunion….I think Tamra will toss Shannon, sadly…and that girl is a really loyal friend to her…and Eddie.
Tamra is not nor will she ever be a friend to anyone. It takes a very vile, evil and despicable person who thinks it’s funny/ok to set-up a woman to possibly be raped and send her own SON to prison for the crime. Tamra needs to open her Bible and read it instead of just toting it around. She loves to bash Vicki then in next breath claims to be a Christian. If she actually read her Bible she would know there is no hierarchy when it comes to sins. Any parent that puts fame and fortune above their children lacks morality. All the time and effort she puts into training would be better served regaining a relationship with her daughter. She’s already turning on Shannon. When Shannon realizes Tamra is no true friend to her she will really go off the deep end,Shannon will windup in a mental institution cutting oranges and putting crystals in them all day while chanting NO WIFI!!
Okay, so…I disagree with most….I think Shannon assumes Tamra is the best friend she pretends to be, and comes off as crazy because she is animated and such. Shannon has had Tamra’s back at all times…and when Shanon needed her, Tamra was more interested in tittle cake than her upset friend. Shitty. Very shitty. Tamra and fucking horrid ugly pants deserve one another…I get Shannon, she knew the (true) accusation was going to hit way back last St. Patrick’s Day, and then had all of that time to worry about it. I do not think David was a repeat offender, so to bring that up was typical of Vicki…if she had texts, she would’ve shown them.
Lydia strums every nerve I ever thought of having….she is sticking her nose in places it doesn’t belong, period. She accused, falsely, Shannon, then quit listening and got all dramatic…I would’ve lost my shit, too.
Peggy. That is a bitch. Nothing redeemable. I do get a kick out of an English Major, here since she was a year old acting and talking like she is FOB, though….not gonna lie, it cracks me up when she goes from heavy accent to normal, in one convo. Did I mention she is a complete asshole? Complete. Lydia brought her on, I think, which is doubly confusing…….I almost want Heather back and those two banished. Almost.
Vicki. I realize she is the OG, but…I’m ready for her and her insurance company to be gone..that is one thirsty lady and I died when she called Tamra and Shanon the mean girls when she and Kelly were reveling in that role on the first episode. On Wednedays they wear tragic pants, apparently.
Who am I forgetting? Uhhhhhh…Meghan!! She is forgettable…I feel sorry for her. Something isn’t right.
I like Vicki, she is entertaining. Shannon yelling at Tamra to come here now was not something a friend does unless they are in grave danger and trying to get them to safety. I would think it did not sit well with Tamra, it wouldn’t with me.
Agreed, 3M. If a friend screeched at me to come, sit and heel like that I would tell them to take three seats in the WAY back and shut their damn mouth asap.
No friend of mine would talk to me like that. Order .e to come here….like a dog? Watch out Shannon..Tamra didn’t like that at all either.
Shannon really needs to chill or she’ll lose everyone.
I don’t understand, does Vicki honestly forget that she copped to fabricating and lying re: Brooks? Why is this animal screeching about how she didn’t lie and everyone needs to drop it? Psychopath, you did, you admitted you did, you then pretended to apologize to everyone for doing so, and now you think everyone has forgotten?
I haven’t, Tamra hasn’t, neither has Shannon. She is psycho, period. I can’t stomach her or Lydia at this point. Shannon thinks Vicki is the lowest form of life, Lydia comes around and states how Tamra and Shannon are behaving just “like Vicki” upon meeting Shannon, and Lydia is mystified as to why Shannon reacts. I think Lydia gaslights Shannon. Shannon is emotional, and quirky but she is not crazy and the fact Lydia keeps pretending to have NO IDEA why Shannon gets upset when she is often directly involved, is bs.
I would be upset too if someone was accusing me of reacting to or speaking about them and I wasn’t- then told me they’re “done with me” when I tried to address it. Or if they dismissed me as simply attention seeking or dramatic. I don’t find Lydia sweet or charming, I think she needs to stop meddling and just let Shannon/Tamra and Vicki call it a fking day. You do NOT NEED to like or be friends with someone who perpetrated a cancer scam. Period. She has no clue. Just shut up already.
I realize it is wrong. But I just can’t stop liking Vicki. I consider this a character flaw, and have learned to accept it.
We all have them lol
I like Shannon no matter how batty she can be, and Bethenny no matter how bitchy lol
I like Vicki as well.
Me too.
I am in 100% agreement Shaw, I was starting to think I was the only one who felt this way!
*Shae (damn autocorrect)
I agree completely, Shae and Vickie80. Shannon is entitled, immature, and annoying, but I still like her. Lydia’s supposed to be love and light, but I don’t see it. I see gaslighting, too.
And why the heck is Lydia so insecure about her body? She flipped out on Slade when he made the cheeseburger comment, and she misread and overreacted to Shannon’s actions during her boob job admission. As much as I detest Lydia, I have to admit she looks great. If I had her body, pre- or post-boob job, I’d thank my lucky stars.
I was thinking Lydis has a great body too, nice hips butt and legs. Its her face that looks anorexic. Shes all eyes and hair, with no chin and no flesh on her cheecks. I dont like her, and I detest flying monkeys and minions. Shes emotionally cruel. What Shannon needs to learn how to do is, dont care and just be strong in who she is. Stop caring about approval. I felt sorry for her when Tamra ignored her pleas. I wouldnt have handeled it that way by saying NOW, but it still bothered me how detached Tamra was. It reminded me of a friendship I had at one time, where I found out she had been underming me and laughing behind my back the entire time she claimed to care about me so much. Tamra heard her, she was gaslighting her as well.
For some reason people who would never dare tell someone they’re fat, knowing it’s rude, feel it’s perfectly acceptable to tell someone they’re too thin. I think both are equally rude. It sucks when people comment negatively on your body-period.
I don’t buy this gas-lighting business. I don’t think Lydia is emotionally cruel. I think that’s kinda funny actually. Shannon is crazy as all get out on her own. I don’t think people are gas-lighting her. She’s responsible for how she reacts in a situation. Lydia was entitled to her own feelings; she was annoyed. She’s entitled-but she’s supposed to walk on egg shells around Shannon because, why? Shannon has made a terrible impression so far; shrieking in her face at their first meeting, making a huge embarrassing scene in the restaurant etc So give me a break. I hear even Christians can get annoyed. It’s allowed. Shannon is an adult who over-reacts and creates a drama out of the tiniest situations and can’t deal when someone has a different opinion-it’s a bore. She’s screamed for years at David to, “Come!” So now Tamra’s gas lighting because she didn’t come running immediately like a trained dog when Shannon bellowed (in the middle of a party at the top of her lungs-who does that, btw??) for her to come? Wtf? She needs to get a grip, get help instead of opening a restaurant which is just another diversion instead of dealing with reality.
Ok, hopping off my soapbox! Cheers.
Shae and Vickie80-
Thank goodness I am not the only one! I thought I might be..there is so much gaslighting going on…I can’t stand Lydia, although I do envy her figure, of course! Vicki completely gags me, as I have personally had cancer and what she participated in, for FUCKING CASSEROLES and sympathy is, possibly, the worst thing on reality tv, ever. Can we take a minute to recall Shannon is far from normal..she admits it and also has a pretty great sense of humor about it, considering…I don’t think she is threatened by Vicki, for one second, or the friendship Vicki and Tamra once had..I think she is stuck looking looney because she is a really great friend to Tamra, and we all know that person is incapable of being a friend. She did bark at her at Kelly’s house..that was weird, for sure, but how long did all of that really go on? None of us know. I do know, of all of the OC ladies, her kids seem the most well-adjusted..and that is no small feat. I wish Bravo would remove the OG, Vicki, as she tarnishes anything she touches..except Brooks’ teeth…she pimped those right up…too bad she couldn’t do a makeover on his soul.
You are helping me believe as women we don’t always have to denigrate those less fortunate, like Shannon, who’s had a seriously awful couple of years not all her own making. Vicki on the other hand is solely responsible for her lesser role in this Housewives franchise, But she never learns, and I find her old tricks of accepting none of the blame that her selfish motives cost others is too much for this avid OC fan to take. So much so if she is a part of next year’s shenanigans I won’t be back. Shannon’s weight gain has nothing to do with Vicki, and she should stop blaming her for that. But any more of Vicki and her lack of geniunine care for anyone but herself (much like her old flame Brooks) is like force feeding myself spam, when so many other great options lie at my TV table.
Okay, let me address the David Beador domestic violence incident and lay this to rest, once and for all. I am a criminal defense attorney in Orange County, and can access what happened on any criminal case. I have looked up his case, and indeed, in 2003, he pled guilty to a charge of Battery on Spouse, which is domestic violence. He was placed on probation, had to do some cal trans in lieu of jail, and take a mandatory 52 weeks class, which includes anger management. So yes, he was very much arrested and convicted of domestic violence. He has also since then, had the charge dismissed, pursuant to a penal code that allows for the original guilty plea to be withdrawn and the conviction overturned. So if Shannon tries to claim that he was never convicted, legally, she is correct. Factually, he was convicted in 2003.
Because this is an old case, I cannot see the filing documents to see if Shannon was the named “victim” of this charge. I am pretty sure she is, since she has since explained that it was a misunderstanding, but didn’t deny that he was arrested.
There, it’s settled, and we can all agree that Vicki is correct in stating David was arrested for domestic violence. For Shannon to try to deny this is pathetic. She knows damn well he went through all this, she is a maniacal, pathological liar. Crazy as Vicki is, she is not being crazy about this.
Welcome to 2015 where this was discussed ad nauseum. We’ve moved on, unfortunately Shannon has not.
Thank you
Sadly, what makes it currently relevant is Vicki insinuating that it happened, recently, and that she has ‘proof’. Vicki makes it sounds as if it occurred back in 2015, not 2003…that seems to be why it keeps being ramped up. I understand Shannon’s response..it didn’t happen, not like Vicki is making it sound, at least. Then again, Vicki denies inviting Ricky to her party, and he produced the invite, so…’ethics board member’, or not, she is a huge liar.
I totally and literally LOVE your rendition of events. You are so perfectly spot on with every event and scene. Thank you for making my day. This show is beyond nuts.
I did watch the show again last evening…. thought maybe I could change some of my opinions about the show. Second watching’s did not influence me. When I saw Steve and Vickie together…It makes no sense.. Vickie says four of five times a day filling her “love tank”? SO when is she working? So insane. I thought I would find better, instead it is worse.
Loving Lydia! Love Lydia showing she isn’t a pushover
Shannon is a nutjob .. she also is a liar .. we saw her talking behind her hand .. which Peggy called her out on saying she was “something else” .. I would be super pissed if that was done to me too! And yes shannon is something else!
shannon lies and makes up a bs excuse for the leg squeezing .. Lydia was totally onto it ! Shannon always fabricates an excuse for her behaviour when she is caught out
I’m absolutely sick to death of shannon beador .. what was the crappy name for her restaurant ? Good grief .. no need to get a feng shui expert in .. this won’t be a success .. shannon was so lovable when she started on this show but she has completely changed to someone who is quite unlovable. We were all on her side in her first season but now she has this stupid affected way of speaking and is now a mean girl .. I really didn’t like the way she referred to Peggy as “that one” and Peggy was right calling her .. something else .. when Shannon was talking behind her hand at the table .. who does that? Only a teenage girl who doesn’t know better
Second thoughts .. maybe it’s production that’s making shannon look bad
i think if something feels wrong .. it pretty much is
Lydia caught out shannon …
The biggest thing that bugs me about Vicki is the whole “I’m a self made woman, I don’t need a man” but in the next breathe for however long we suffered through the “love-tank” phase. She is never single. She can’t be alone, by her own admission. She can’t stand her own company it seems. Any man will do, good bad or otherwise, and this is not an opinion on any of her choices. I never could stand Brooks but I liked Don and have no opinion on Steve yet. Vicki grow up. Learn to like yourself enough to actually be a woman who doesn’t need a man. It’s nice! Trust me, I’m that woman. I been alone by choice most of my adult life raising my sons, who are now both men and have families and lives of their own. I’m good and happy on my own. I make my own money and do as I please. Vicki you’re a whiny little girl who needs constant male validation.