This is episode fifteen, y’all. FIFTEEN! Fifteen boring episodes robbing us of fifteen hours of your lives that we will never, ever get back. All season, even the housewives have been admitting that the show was “off to a slow start” and promised things would get good once they got to Iceland. Guess what? I doesn’t look like we actually get to Iceland until next week. Tonight we have packing and a dinner party with the requisite psychic at Meghan’s where the conflict for the trip can all be scripted out. Oh and for some reason the trip to Iceland was scripted as a Noblemen event. I am gonna say that was one of Lydia’s demands as part of her agreement to come on the show to play the BFF of Vicki.
So without further ado, welcome to episode fucking fifteen.
Shannon called Tamra to talk about Diko confronting her over David’s questions about Peggy’s cancer. Then Shannon starts screaming at Tamra when Tamra says to just not give any life to the situation. That is something she should also tell her about the David’s cheating and the abuse rumors. Shannon flips out on Tamra and accuses her of being the one who always brings it up. Shannon’s crazy is getting to be too much for Tamra who mutters fuck you after hanging up.
Vicki goes to get a checkup at her cardiologist. We get multiple montages of previous seasons of Vicki screaming and going nuts in stressful situations. The doctor tells her she has a blockage and her right upper chamber is slightly enlarged likely due to atrial fibrillation. So I guess the rumors that Vicki has a heart attack in Iceland are true.
Mystic Michaela is the first guest to arrive at Meghan’s dinner party. When Peggy arrives she wants no part of the aura reading. Vicki stayed home due to her heart problems, and because she was afraid of the psychic. Kelly didn’t want to do the psychic dinner either so she hangs out with Vicki.
Lydia shows up really late to the dinner party to invite everyone to Iceland. Peggy is nervous about traveling without her husband. She’s never been on a girls trip before. I’ve been on a couple. I strongly prefer solo travel.
Then Lydia jumps in to defend Peggy, because that is what it says in her contract. The editing is so bad for this fight that nothing is making sense to me. Peggy keeps trying to tell everyone to shut up so she can talk, and then she doesn’t say anything at all about the topic at hand. Instead she says something about the most important person in the room and how she is lucky not to be going through chemo right now. Shannon walks off forgetting to mutter her line of “I’m done!”
Tamra goes to the bathroom where Shannon is crying and having a meltdown. Lydia is pissed that they are hiding in the bathroom like seventh graders and tries to get Meghan to make them come back out to the table. When she refuses Lydia goes to knock on the door and tell them that she and Peggy are leaving. I suspect that production would not let Lydia and Peggy leave until Tamra and Shannon came out of the bathroom.
Peggy and Shannon got to talk one on one and Peggy just starts crying about the cancer she doesn’t have. Peggy leaves in tears and feeling like she is owed a casserole.
Shannon is pissed and crying now because she feels like Peggy made her look like the asshole. I sort of agree with Shannon on this one.
Peggy is crying in the Bravo car in the driveway. Lydia has joined her to console her. Do all of these women have menopause? Tamra screams at the crying Shannon and Meghan threatens to kill them all if they wake up the baby. Is there a Groupon for hormonal testing? Because I’d like to get in on it myself. Lydia is already wanting to disinvite Shannon from the Iceland trip.
We get lots of crying the next day when Shannon goes to visit Tamra. Tamra’s estranged daughter invited her to her high school graduation. Tamra can’t stop crying. She is so happy to be reuniting with her daughter. Of course they are estranged again now because despite specifically telling Tamra not to post photos from the graduation on her Instagram she did anyway. And here she is talking about her again on the show when she has begged her mom not to.
We get a flashback to Shannon three years earlier before the big crazy came she’s like fifty or sixty pounds lighter and looks ten years younger. Shannon told Tamra that things with her and David are really, really bad. There were so many montages from previous seasons on this episode. Why didn’t they just cut the number of episodes?
Finally, we get the packing for Iceland scene, right at the very end. Diko is so pissed that Bravo will not let him go.
OMG we’ve made it to LAX! Meghan is taking the baby and the nanny and they are all in matching Adidas outfits. Icelandair first class cabin looks very cramped.
Next week looks like the first interesting episode of the season.
Is it true that Vicki got demoted and will be a friend of next season?
nope.
Rats!!
Im glad. I was hoping you were going to do a post about that rumor. Vicki did make this show. I like Vicki, I think Shannon should get her plump butt booted.
I want Vicki to stay. I’d be ok with Shannon staying if she gets her life together. She’s a huge downer.
Vicki should get her own victim/martyr fat ass and mouth booted. Sick of her whining and “poor is me” bullshit all the time. Always the victim…
Well that is just so kind of you. I suppose you will not be sending her a casserole over her heart condition?
I’m actually in agreement. Shannon is totally responsible for her problems, and as for David, I’m surprised he’s hung in there this long. Shannon, engaged with his interests and get off your fat ass, oh drop the boozing.
Well , lol 15 episodes to get it going. That’s not good. This set up failed I think is accurate to say.
At least TT, we always had recaps to really make it worth it. As well as some really funny comments.
Appreciate your devotion, it was nice knowing something fun was going to come out of it. I can imagine times that probably the last thing you felt like doing was recapping a Real Housewives episode. So thank you.
So David was actually offering a cancer doctor to Diko? Did I hear Shannon say that?
No he was not. And yes you did hear that. Shannon just made that up in her head as some benevolent reason David would be asking about Peggy’s cancer. When Tamra questioned her on it, she said, “Probably” It’s just ludicrous for these two women to be arguing about a conversation neither one witnessed. The conversation with David was perfectly normal. Diko coming for Shannon was not.
I agree. It’s stupid just on premise because everyone involved has to speculate and relay hearsay because neither person was there for the convo, neither Shannon nor Peggy. Absurd. Shannon was right to say it’s not in David’s nature to “grill” someone over their wife’s illness, he was confused and concerned and perhaps Diko took it the wrong way, but Diko should’ve talked to David, not Shannon.
I call bullshit on Peggy’s poor me routine, if you’re holding a woman responsible for her husband’s words, which she did not hear or witness herself, you don’t reply nastily, “are you done???” when she’s finished speaking. That doesn’t convey that you’re trying to have a productive convo or that you’re trying to understand anything, you’re being a bitch. I don’t blame Shannon for being upset, Peggy does this all the time. Her humor is off, her communication is worse, her language is terrible, and she wonders why she gets these reactions. Bullshit, she knew exactly what she was implying about questioning David’s truthfulness. Breast cancer is emotional for her but alluding to david’s infidelities and dishonesty isn’t for Shannon? Then playing dumb about it? Spare me.
Lydia just needs to shut up already. I get it, Shannon is too intense for you, but stop being insulting and whining about it in dramatic fashion. Just go if you must.
Peggy was so far out of line when she asked Shannon if David had ever lied before. What a dirty beach. I kind of liked her up until then. And what is with the ‘just off the boat’ thing? I thought Diko said she’s been here since she’s one years old. I can see having strong Armanian upbringing but did she not leave the house?
I disagree that David’s conversation was perfectly normal – he was definitively being passive- aggressively confrontational.He was no doubt privy to the fact that Peggy had told one of the women she had the mastectomy for preventative purposes but did not have cancer, and then she told others she did have cancer. I think his questioning Diko was simply trying to imply that he did not think Peggy really had cancer. It was very inappropriate, IMFO
Peggy is a sly one saying “has David lied to you about anything else?” This act of just getting off the boat is tiring. If she had surgery why is she playing volleyball and lifting suitcases? Tamra’s house looks nicer and bigger than Peggy’s. What posers.
I don’t blame Shannon for being mad but she has to try to be less emotional so her point gets across better. Lydia is such a instigator about the mad dog comment.
Iceland looks like a punishment by Bravo trip. Not a winter place to go. The Potomac girls are in Canne, what a shock! What an awful season. Good or bad, Shannon is the only storyline.
Usually they have the random out front of the house picture, those can be deceiving at times. I think Peggy plays ignorant at times just to not have to deal with their shit, hell I would if I could. I took David talking to Diko to be kind of confrontational, maybe kind of passive aggressive. I highly doubt David had oncologists names and numbers in his pocket to share with Diko, and maybe Diko should not have said anything to David because it has been all turned around. It really is none of David’s business. Tamra thinks she has this high ground because she is a “Christian”, she is a terrible person and acts all arrogant and like she’s better than everyone. Tamra is so 2 faced. Meghan is a freaking moron. Shannon needs help, like really needs help.
Shannon is nuts! Tamara needs to learn the words to the Lord’s Prayer. Stop holding grudges. I like Vicki she’s funny. Brooks was an asshole so I’m glad she found a nice guy. Steve seems cool. The season has been a bit boring. Peggy is not too smart. Meghan is the biggest bore ever! Get over the baby thing already no one cares! I’m glad Lydia stopped saying her mans balls were getting cut off how dumb can u get? Although as a person I like Lydia. I’d rather have her as a friend than two faced Tamara. They are all kind of nuts. Lol
What does it mean to mad dog someone? I have never heard that expression before.
A dirty look, just a low down facial expression. I haven’t heard that term in twenty plus years.
LOL!!! You must have a degree from UCLA.
Peggy is a class A snake who desperately needs a brush for that hair. Here’s hoping there is a cross dressing gay pride psychic day parade that has somehow stolen her moms’ Hilton money that tags along with Lydia this trip just to annoy her. I was so happy for Tamra and the graduation. The behind the scenes drama is another thing but for a moment that was nice. Shannon, god bless, call the divorce attorney already and just put us all out of misery. Hey, at least we didn’t see any colonics, vagina’s and only a little boob this episode, what an improvement!
Shannon yelled “I’M DONE” after Peggy & Lydia left. While the baby is asleep. She didn’t let us down, LOL. Talk about crazy and predictable!
Yet she never stays “done”. Too bad ?
“She’s Undone!”
I like Peggy and Diko’s family style. Her two daughters are beautiful girls. I also think that Diko loves her and totally adores her, but he seems to like being on the show much more than she likes it. In a good positive way though, which I am sorry being positive on these Housewives shows never is good.
What was going on with Megan’s makeup, and that horrible shirt. She is a tall model though, but the lipstick was not right.
IMHO Doug and Lydiot are the worst actors creating the SL excuse for this research trip to Iceland for their lame men’s magazine Nobleman. Lydia’s pitch for going to Iceland sounded idiotic, because it’s a for a wealthy, male adventurer centric magazine, shouldn’t Doug be going. Not to defend Shannon being over the top emotional, Peggy and Lydia are totally condescending pot stirrers. I think Peggy and Diko enjoy finding ways to cause Shannon to lose her cool on tv and them the victims.
The thing that is awesome about Shannon is that her teen daughters are in a rock band. Her girls aren’t models. They’re drummers. The problem with Shannon is her arrogant, condescending husband who openly and casually belittles her in every way. I hate the way he treats her. He does it in camera and in front of the kids.
Naw, that isn’t Shannon “problem”. She has many but David is just one of them. The drumming daughters were a one-off episode so she could show that she was ‘done’ with David’s mother and sister. In that I will defend Shannon. His family liked the mistress and he took her there often.
Did you notice that Shannon only sees her own mother once or twice a year? She is always posting about her travels but never to dear old mom’s.
Shannon has great big ole snakes in her head. I’ve rarely seen a housewife so off-kilter. If Tamara is your best friend, you’re already up the creek without a paddle. She showed us why again last night. It was a sweet scene about her daughter but we already know that she had to make the graduation about her and not Sydney.
I’m with the Queen of Hearts, off with all their heads. Time to pull the plug on this dismal show.
Yep, we’re dealing with these piddly dumb issues because they have nothing to talk about, nothing interesting going on, period.
I take my read from TT on many things, but especially in key issues- she knows more than we do about each of these women, their state , and their story , for sure. I would not deliberately belittle someone’s medical situation, when I can only guess. In those situations , I take my lead from TT, who has the scoop. Hence, I gather Peggy’s
medical story, which she has horribly attempted to overdramatize , is BS beyond the biopsy and her choice to have the mastectomy. ( which is not to be minimized, but was not the story she was interested in, it appeared) It has appeared from day one that she was trying to create cancer drama where there was none, and doing it poorly. She is very poor at creating lies and then carrying the story out, she comes across as slow, dishonest, an unclear thinker, – any or all the above. Last night’s addition of the tear might have worked, had she displayed any evidence of kindness, warmth, compassion or communication skills to anyone but family before, but she has not. It just appeared that it is the end of a VERY LONG UNINTERESTING season and she is finally figuring out she needs to attempt to have SOME story line and some reason to remain present . So desperation created one tear-sorry, no success, Peggy, Youv’e squandered the season.
I would have dismissed Vicki’s new medical concerns as looking for a casserole, but now gather there is some truth to them, so will play along and watch for a bit, which is very hard to do when it is Vicki, after all these lies with her. But if she does have heart trouble, if she does not over dramatize it(close to impossible for her) Vicki would deserve some support. We shall see how she handles it.
Feels like death knell here. That production would allow another cancer story to be concocted and play to the audience , is disgusting to me. They should be fired for that alone. Beyond that, there is little or nothing of appeal, aspirational, or fun in this season, surely. I have not watched- how has the audience count been?
Belplieve me, when you find out that you have “half a pinky nail” of precancerous aggressive cells, you do panic, especially if your Mom had breast cancer in an age before mammograms. Her surgery was brutal. I totally understood both Peggy and Diko’s explanations as to why she underwent a bilateral mastectomy. I had three surgeries, one reconstruction and reduction, and radiation, because of this. I have been told since that it all should have been done in one surgery, no radiation. But one can not relive the past, or predict what treatments are around the corner. The debate over this is nonsense. Why would a woman, who did not fear for her life, have her breasts Amputated? Then go through the dangerous and very painful reconstruction. During reconstruction, there is a chance that dead tissue will occur around the nipple, rendering it nonviable. I have a breast that certainly does not look perfect, but it is that girl that saved my life.
I was thinking that it was a traumatic surgery and could easily have triggered a lot of memories and pain related to her mother’s cancer. Plus she may try to be tough and feel insecure. Living in Orange County looks competitive. Also Peggy seems uncomfortable being on the show at all. I think she’s agreed to do it to help her husband and his business. She is too introverted for this crazy show.
Pretty harsh commenting on Shannon’s mom. We don’t know anything about their relationship. In their brief scenes together they seemed to share a rapport. I don’t get where you’re going with the social media comment. It’s a different world -maybe I’m old. What is the required number of posts on SM to prove she has a decent relationship with her mom and loves her?? Is it a few a month, a year? Also, why would she post about her mother’s travels to all her followers? I can’t imagine being that aware of any “celebrity’s” SM that I’d notice posts about their parents.
I still think the rocker kids are cute.
I agree, David is the poster child for passive aggression. Shannon has stated that divorce is not option for her family. She needs to Buck up, realize that his behavior will never change, and plan accordingly. If th9se girls have been party to what what was going on in that household, I feel very sorry for them. Been there, decided to stay single and child free in my 20s.
TT, you didn’t mention what to me was the saddest/sorry to say funniest part of the episode and that is David passively aggressively eating chips in front of Shannon when she’s packing and bitching about nothing fits her PLUS a flashback of him eating chips again while she says she needs to eat less.
It made me laugh only because it is sad how those 2 really have no real relationship anymore and how he acts out against her crazy. I don’t understand why they don’t just get a divorce. Why doesn’t he just file? Maybe he can’t because he’d lose his business if he did because of Shannon’s dad’s support…..just my speculation. It is sad funny for him to eat chips in front of her as a protest if that is the case.
I get it that Shannon is going through the crazy and I have some sympathy. I’m just tired of watching her go off on everyone and not even slightly seeing some of it is on her. Not all but at least some……
David is a strange Dude. There is something completely off with him he has crazy eyes. I don’t think you can stand being around Shannon at all
He does maybe pass the frequency of things around or he puts her down and eating chips in front of her is nauseating and mean
She needs to pull her self together and realize that she doesn’t need the abuse that he dishes out to her and that her girls will be much better off with them being divorced They are doing more damage by staying together to pretend they are a family
OMG, Cynthia, my husband said the exact same thing last night (I still make him watch these with me). During the chip-munching he said, “That David is a WEIRD dude. What the hell is up with him?” David just seems dead behind the eyes all the time and drained of blood. I have never been able to fathom why Shannon iss so desperate to hold on to him. He’s like a zombie and the only emotion he seems to show is constant contempt (for her). It wasn’t Vicki that made her turn to overeating and drinking, it was THIS. Shannon needs to get out.
I can’t help but feel somewhat sorry for Shannon. Trying to get over an affair is no easy feat and the fact that the marriage is now in trouble again is a lot to deal with. The same thing happened to me, an affair, tried to make it work but he left 10 years later after 26 years of marriage. I felt so helpless and scared. Decisions were being made that effected my life and I couldn’t stop it. But at least I had a job, although my husband made a lot more than me. I suppose she can make it with alimony and child support so maybe that isn’t too much of a concern for Shannon. But you can’t help but think of the good times in the past and the future plans you had for growing old together. It is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. But Shannon does need to stop taking it out on everyone, because that wears thin real fast.
Sad to say.. but David needs to go.. Shannon will be a better person without the potato chip also spartan run guy…He’s already checked out. Seems like the daughters don’t want them together.
@JB: Shannon could walk away and be just fine. HER family has money, they funded his business and she has made it to the magical ten year mark in California.
Are you sure about the details of David’s business? From my understanding, David’s father funded the construction business.
I personally believe that selling the home was done to make it easier for them to divorce. One less thing to hammer out.
Peggy is a cold bitch. She had no reason to bring up anything regarding Diko’s conversation with David, other than to upset Shannon and stir up trouble. When she questioned Shannon as to whether David had always been truthful with her, it was the lowest of low blows. Then, to pretend she didn’t know anything about Shannon’s situation was completely unbelievable. Shannon predictably lost her cool, but I tell you what – I’m a very peaceful, generally calm person, but if someone had come at me like that, things would have become a lot uglier. Even more ridiculous was when Peggy said tearfully that she came on the show to get support from the new friends she would make, since she had been through such hell with her cancer. Oh, yes, Peggy, join the cast of RHOC, which is notorious for their in-fighting, screaming matches, back-stabbing, and often traitorous behavior – they’ll really make you feel better and enrich your life.
Peggy is a cunt.
Sure, deliberately be vague about whether you have cancer, then act offended when questioned, and more offended that you didn’t get a casserole for having cancer.
Her baiting Shannon (yes, baiting) with that line about trusting her husband was so low. Peggy is lucky she didn’t get dragged.
I feel for Shannon. She is a very open person and does wear her heart on her sleeve, and manipulative cunts like Peggy try to get up the pecking order to targeting her. It is such a nasty dynamic. I knew exactly what Shannon was talking about, when she complained about being painted as the asshole. We all know that production loves to set up these scenes, and contracts forbid the cast members to walk out in the middle of the bullshit like any normal person would do.
Yes, Shannon is a mess, but I would take her over Peggy a hundred times over.
Peggy’s treament of the psychic was plain rude. I swear her face alone pisses me off with that cunt expression. She has a cunt aura. I think she purposly acts dumb and that pisses me off too. You dont treat a guest in someones home like that for heavens sake, even if its not your thing. I dont see why theyre bugging someone (Shannon) about what their spouse (David) said anyway. Thats coming between a persons marriage. How nasty. I hate when people do that, and repeat stuff or critisize someone to their very own spouse, and think thats ok, and act like theyre doing you a big favor by running their big mouths
Its not, and theres things you dont do or lines you dont cross in someones marriage and family. Its also dumb. Ask the person who you actually spoke to, about what they meant. Poor Shannon should have ended the convo from the get go, by saying talk to David, leave me out as I wasnt even there. I can not speak for him. It would allways be something though, and you can tell its a planned attack on Shannon because shes not in a good place again in her marriage. Id be glad not to be invited to Iceland in that group. I want to see it, but not be there with those women from hell.
But her first season, before she realized how destroyed her marriage was, it was the other way around. I believe Shannon is reaping what she is sowing- or in this case, did sow. It appeared to me that she acted like the spoiled daughter of rich daddy who runs the company, her hubby works for and wants to be president of . She appeared to be endlessly superior, difficult and obnoxious with him in that season, ti she realized what her actions had caused. She had indulged in many of the California crazies, from crystals to fung shei ( sp?) , to every other Far Eastern “medicine”( involving colonics , herbs and cupping) , while making sure the girls were in cotillion and other obvious games of the ambitious wealthy. They spent money like it was candy on that first house we saw.
She came across as spoiled and self indulgent then-now it has evolved to neurotic, out of control emotionally, apparently depressed , and lost.
David has behaved very badly, but so has she. Her first mistake was deciding her marriage issues should be shared and made her storyline on the show she just joined. The show was more important, clearly, than saving the marriage.
This was meant to be somewhere else ; sorry.
What season was that, Sabrina? I need to go back and check it out, but I don’t want to needlessly suffer by going back at the wrong season.
I am sorry to make you suffer a bit; I’d have to go back, but it was the first few episodes of her first season on the show- three- four years ago, I think, when all those facts came out. She had a busy social life and agenda for the girls and their life, was very active on the charity beat and deeply relying on her ” Dr Moon” and his healing treatments, colonics so important that production made a bit of showing them discussing it.
Then she realized David was remote and probably having an affair- if I remember correctly, there were rumors mentioned by Heather and Tamara(?) but it was not made clear til the first episode of the following season.
Hope this helps.
What you said made alot of sense, and I do agree, even though I kinda like her. Shannon did have a spoiled entitled way of blowing thru her husbands money like it was just water. I think that is a form of disrespect in itself. Ive allways thought Shannon is a better friend, than a wife. Shes more likeable in that capacity, and not so much the spoiled pampered shrew. I dont agree with how shes handeled her marriage at all. If she went on the show to continue the extravagances David could no longer sustsain, then shes gonna pay the price. Thats on her. I dont consider Shannon to be a victim, because shes pretty mean and obstinute with David. Shes clearly not afraid of him, and shes the one saying divorce is not an option. He was pleading hes not happy, and she just refused to take account of that.
Just trying to insert a fact or two into these comments if anyone cares about such things. Shannon is the one with the money/ David is the one who married the money. Lots and Lots of money.
Peggy is a first class bitch and Lydia is a huge shit stirrer. Peggy deserved wine in her face for that low blow comment about trusting your husband! Cunt.
Vicki 80 and Janet…I am completely in agreement with you both. I’ve gotten to the point that even looking at Peggy makes me irrationally pissed. She is the ultimate asshole and Lydia with her shit stirring and constant gaslighting Shannon has made me sick. Nobleman can go fuck itself, with vegan jodphers in a Toyoate Corolla, in a Wal-Mart parking lot. I am revolted by both her and her ‘ball-less’ husband. So ludicrous to think Doug would send the village idiot, and her emotionally unstable friends, to secure the next issue..especially when they are so deeply invested..but, hey, grandpa died, PARIS HILTON MONEY..guess they aren’t worried if Nobleman works, or not, so sure, send in the clowns to woo the Scotsman. Diko is the thirstiest housewife since Simon Van Camp…and thirstier than Peter. Peggy and Diko need to go. I am only watching to see Tamra turn on Shannon, as I can feel it looming….poor Meghan…she seems out of it…depression, maybe?
I dread the enevitable, Tamra turning on Shannon. Thats gonna be brutal for Shannon, who is a true friend. Lydia turned me off by not being more respectful or mournful of losing those family members they inherited from. Not classy. Shes a shit stirer and unfair. Just like Peggy is. Theyve picked a team and thats it.
My 15th episode of wanting to throat punch Lydia. I think that if Lydia ever had a truly earth shaking event happen to her, then she would be a different person. As it is, she has lived a charmed life of rainbows and lollipops and no one ever saying NO to her. Just look at how she reacts when someone dares to disagree with her. Her family has more money than the Hilton’s and I am over her fakakta vanity project magazine that daddy gave her. She and Doug the ball-less wonder need to get real jobs and gain some perspective.
Peggy is just plain mean. She played the ice queen at the table, but when she tracks Shannon down for one less dig, all of a sudden she manages to squeeze a couple of drops of water from her frozen eyes and now everyone thinks that Shannon really went after her while they were out of sight.
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Totally agree about throat punching Lydia. She is beyond annoying, and a vacuous entitled little twit.
However I never understand people telling rich people to “get a real job.” Hell, if I had Hilton money I wouldn’t even be doing a vanity project. I’d be sipping margaritas while having my feet rubbed. Work is for money to live. If you’ve already got it do what you want. Do some charity to and go shopping FS.
ME TOO, Mark! If I had Hilton money it would be charity work, 3 hour daily massages and trips to my well-staffed estates in various locales. I’ve had jobs and I have jobs and they mostly suck.
@Mark: I say that because Lydia has never had to work for anything and does not have a grasp of the real world. I know lots of people that have money, but they have a true perspective on life and not all of this rainbows and glitter shit that Lydia constantly spews. The world needs to knock her down a notch or two.
Hell yeah! Fuck all that rainbow and glitter bullshit! She needs to be forced to work at Wal*Mart until every scintilla of happiness and joy is sucked out of her and she’s a joyless, jaded shell just like the rest of us. Why does she get to be rich and happy!
OMG, you gave me a belly laugh Tamara. You are marvelous !
Totally agree Jrleaguer. That Peggy is a vicious bitch. She sat there and mocked Shannon with the repeated, “Are you done?” over and over. And then do you trust your husband? Furthermore, we know that Diko stirred up this whole thing with Peggy by sharing and exaggerating his conversation with David and then they planned to go after Shannon at their anniversary party. Peggy was already annoyed with Shannon and this just gave them the excuse to go after her hard. Does Shannon need to cool it – God, yes. She’s her own worse enemy. Grow up Shannon and stop being so reactive. Stop and directly ask Peggy and title pixie-wanna-be Lydia, why they are mocking you. Tell the mot stop – it’s called bullying Shannon. Nail their asses.
David is a wife beater and gas lighter. He should be careful. Shannon might go Betty Broderick on his ass.
I mean, one potato chip crunched in her face to taunt her too many and….boom.
Lol but very true!! David is a scumbag and should just get a divorce. But he won’t……
He’d have to find a pulse on himself in order to get a divorce, and I just don’t think he has one.
Omg DYING LAUGHING at the Betty Broderick reference (I wonder how many people get it lol) and now I’m going to loose the next 4-5 hours of my life because I HAVE to watch the Lifetime movie (both parts) once again.
Haven’t watched this or many of the episodes this season, TT your recaps are better than the show and when I do happen to catch an episode I know what’s going on!
I hope Meredeth Baxter plays her in the movie!
It is odd you said that, a few weeks ago the name Betty Broderick ran though my mind while Shannon was screaming and throwing her arms around. I thought then that Shannon needs help and I hope she gets it for her sake and for her family’s sake.
I don’t believe she is a danger, just that she needs help.
I love how all the evil bitches didn’t show up for the psychic reading by being late or not coming at all.
Lydia is a horrible person. And the glee she had about disinviting Shannon to Iceland says it all.
Diko is one thirsty bitch. And what a little bitch he is, going after Shannon because of David. And then the wife going after Shannon because of David. Shannon is the weak, easy target.
If Lydia disinvited Shannon she should have pulled a Ramona and been like “Oh well, it’s a group trip so I’m still coming” ?
I’ve lost interest in watching the RHOC women at this point, your recaps tell me all there is to know (thank you TT!). This season could have easily fit into 10 eps and an hour-long reunion.
Peggy’s hair……….needs to be washed. It’s so horribly filthy, I can smell the rotten here in VA. She needs to invest in shampoo, not cars! So gross! YUCK!!
What happened to this show? It used to be great & now it’s been a mess for years. David and Eddie need to ride off into the sunset together, shannon needs hormone pills, & tamra needs to be left in Iceland. What a snooze fest. When Tamara pointed out that there has been 15 episodes already I was shocked. 15 monday nights ruined. You dont realize it until it’s gone.
Can we all sue Bravo for emotional let down?
Dildo and Peggy a couple of rocket scientists there…geez that conversation about slang really showcased their stupidity. Peggy needs a new hair stylist for real.
It really pissed me off to hear Diko tell Peggy that she had lived in the US since she was one. But she says, “I’m Armenian.” Jeez lady, most people consider themselves to be American. Pretty insulting that you’re too good to claim your own county. She could have said Armenian-American, but she just excused away the American part. Fuck her.
She’s not Armenian-American though? Her children, however, are. She wasn’t born in America, she was brought here and although shes lived in the US for the majority of her life she’s still proud of where she’s from and her culture. If you moved to a country in Africa would you consider yourself African-American? Not her biggest fan but that’s a pretty shitty point of contention.
How very American of you to think that everyone is some sort of hyphenated American. You are probably one of those people that thinks Nigeria is an African-American country.
I wondered when someone would call diko that!!!! We saw he and Peggy 2-3 weeks ago on balboa island and they just stood outside their car waiting for people to talk to them and ogle their wealth. It was pathetic.
And what’s up with Peggy’s nasty rats nest hair? Don’t Armenians usually have a lot of hair (everywhere according to lord disick) if it’s due to cancer I’m sorry but she didn’t under go chemo or radiation sonwhats up with the ratchet hair?
Peggy is my new favorite housewife. The way she turned it around on Shannon was fantastic. LOVED IT>
Thank you! I totally agree. Shannon has been passively aggressively questioning Peggy’s health situation behind her back for weeks. Dino tried to diffuse the situation by talking to Shannon, but she’s too crazy and irrational to even acknowledge or take responsibility for anything she does. She’s too busy being the victim. Ugh. I am sick of Shannon.
Team Lydia when it comes to Shannon. I always want to screm “shut the fuck up Shannon” and she never does. I get why Peggy kept asking ‘are you done”, Shannon is NEVER done.
I also don’t buy the whole go to the husband story line thing, If someone comes to me about something my husband did, I wouldn’t care. I’d be like, I didn’t know anything about it but I’ll find out. Expect the same thing from my husband when it comes to me. He’s my husband, I don’t mind getting involved.
I totally agree. If someone thought my husband did something offensive, I’d want to know. What’s the big deal? Just apologize and be done with it. shannon could have said, “oh, I’m sorry David didn’t mean to offend you, he was just confused”.
Why would you apologise for something that didn’t happen!?
Favorite part was Vicki at the doctor. SO rehearsed. So necessary for Vicki to show herself at a doctors office getting results.Sad!.
Peggy and Diko are insane about filming time.
Too scripted.
All true- especially Vicki. She is DESPERATE for the fans to FEEL SORRY FOR HER and think she is ill. She plays up every minor thing let alone big ones- that Flu type B was PITIFUL. The doctors cannot know what type of flu it is unless you go to for a special test to type it. I bet she would go that far, come to think of it, She is that low. And self-indulgent.
Most people believe their results, especially difficult ones, are private matters in a doctors office- not for public disclosure. NOT VICKI.
Sorry for yelling but this has become one of my pet peeves for her- Vicki has been blessed on so many levels in her life, yet goes around, since lying with Brooks, searching for illnesses /injuries that the fans will feel sorry for her about. It is truly disgusting and dishonest.
I do hope she does not have a heart attack in Iceland , for many reasons. And that she is as fine as she appears to be.
People who have lived with long term chronic illness and pain know very well just how blessed those without those problems are- and how much they should cherish every good day and celebrate it. When you fight very hard just to function through the day, or make it positive for someone you love, you know how precious good days are- and how rare for many.
I have little patience for those so self-absorbed that they fabricate or exaggerate their problems , when they can/should see that others are not so blessed.
I’m actually looking forward to the reunion and watching Peggy having to admit that her husband lied about the David conversation! I hope Andy drags her over for this shit storm that her thirsty husband manufactured.
Let’s get through Iceland before the reunion.. I love the previews with Tamra and SHannon wearing Viking Hats.. at least they have a sense of humor.
Next Vacay for these housewives? Antartica: Patagonia; Maybe Death Vallley?
What I don’t get is how major issues – like the fact that Peggy and diko aren’t married (at least according to county clerk legal documents) gets glossed over?
Wait, WHAT?!? Did you just say you think Peggy and Diko aren’t married?!?!?!
There has been drama circulating about their marriage since the homophobic allegations. In one version of the rumor one of them filed for divorce shortly after they were married but the ended up staying together and are not legally married. I don’t believe that, and it doesn’t matter. They have been living as a married couple for over twenty years.
Some people are obsessed with finding marriage certificates.
I somehow must have missed that there WAS ever any speculation at all. They just showed that wedding photo, plus, as you put it TT, it wouldn’t matter one way or another after more than 2 decades.
Eh, they’ll just say they married in a different county or even country.
I’ve spent more time with this bunch at the doctors than I’ve spent my whole life at one
Me too, and every time I go with them I think how nice it must be to be able to go to a doctor.
Shannon thinks she’s funny when she acts like a born loser. It’s not funny, it’s annoying.
Just trying to insert a fact or two into these comments if anyone cares about such things. Shannon is the one with the money/ David is the one who married the money. Lots and Lots of money.
I truly cannot fathom how ANYONE can stand to watch this show, this franchise in particular. Its so nasty and petty and even the recaps aren’t fun anymore.
The only thing good about this last episode is that we were not’ subjected to any of the 3 V’s ….vaginal rejuvenation, vasectomy or a boring ass vow renewal
I don’t have a problem with Peggy and Diko, their kids are cute and they have that abreviated way of talking that people who have been married a long time successfully have. I don’t think she is suited to this kind of show and probably came on to promote the husbands business. I understand the cancer explanation- they are not good at explaining it but it sounds reasonable. I thought that David was rude, in fact they are ALL rude in the way they pry, judge and snicker about each other’s health problems. Shannon is just so sad that it is painful to watch her coming apart. She needs to divorce David and make a new life for herself and her children- it is clear that there is nothing left of that marriage.
Didn’t see the episode but the recap says Vicki has a blockage in a coronary artery? Was the blockage not treated (by a stent)? And then she got on a plane and took the long flight(s) to Iceland? Not a great idea. Also, what is Vicki wearing for the group photo before the plane trip? It looks like she has no pants on, just a long sweater and high boots.