I’m so glad they are giving us back to back half hour episodes. I hate half hour episodes they just mess up the schedule. If they go to half an hour with a rerun I will be doing this show on Wednesdays. Because I still have This Is Us to get to and I don’t want to wait on that and get spoiled. So let’s get going.
Fredrik has an entire design team meeting with him at an apartment he wants to flip. Fredrik wants over 100K of marble. He is not going to be a good flipper with this attitude. Bethenny shows up at Fredrik’s request. She is going to have to talk some sense into Fredrik.
OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! A new Impostors promo. I CAN NOT WAIT! They still don’t have a première date though. I just got so pumped up seeing that! If you have not seen season one of Impostors, do whatever you have to do to see it IMMEDIATELY IF NOT SOONER! It’s so good.
Bethenny tells Fredrik he is way over spending on furnishes and he needs to look at materials on sale. She’s trying to keep costs down. He just wants top of the line everything.
Later when Derek talked to Fredrik, he wants to know why Bethenny is needed and why Fredrik can’t do it himself. He admits he needs her to keep the budget down and keep things on schedule. Derek still thinks Bethenny is not needed.
Bethenny and Fredrik meet and argue over about whether or not she sent a response to him about getting into business together. Bethenny shows Fredrik the email. They are in business. Fredrik brings his accountant in to a meeting. Bethenny brings her friend Teri to the meeting. Bethenny wants to buy in at half of what Fredrik paid for the apartment. This sounds reasonable until we find out he bought the apartment four years ago and it has appreciated by around 750K in that time. Bethenny starts arguing at half the purchase price. Fredrik of course wants half the current value. They agree to basically meet in the middle. Bethenny also insists on a spending cap of $300K for the renovations. Bethenny is good at this.
Carole and Bethenny meet in Chinatown. Bethenny loves to take her there to eat because Carole hates trying new foods. She tells Carole that Fredrik is so emotionally available and wants to be besties and she just wants to be business partners. That’s not true, Bethenny and Fredrik are friends. She also tells Carole she is ready to date again. They argue about whether handjobs and blowjobs counts toward “your number.” Bethenny says no, Carole say blow jobs do. I am with Bethenny on this. My number is sky high enough without having to add more in. In my defense, I don’t plan on increasing my number at all in the future.
Bethenny’s design team is less than thrilled that Bethenny is now Fredrik’s partner. Right away she slashed the budget by more than a third. Then Bethenny brings in her own team to give a second opinion. Fredrik is pissed. So is his design team. But they get over it.
Bethenny takes Fredrik stone shopping. She sells him on the idea of using porcelain instead of marble. I was shocked at how much the porcelain looked like marble. Fredrik is shocked too. Bethenny also stops him from getting veins in the stone that looks like a vagina. She is so right about that too and Fredrik is the one human on the planet that doesn’t see a vagina in that situation. It’s particularly bad in a bathroom in my opinion. Sorry if I am offending my rich readers with vaginas in their bathrooms. I have broken tile in mine.
Fredrik has set Bethenny up on a date. The date is Kane. I don’t like him. He ordered a Skinny Girl margarita. He was a villain on the Guiding Light. It’s a no for me.
Fredrik brings a picnic for the three construction workers and Bethenny at the work site. It includes champagne (Canard Duchene) with the proper glasses (I think they are plastic) flutes not coupes, because he knows what’s up. No sooner do they don some party hats when he gets a call that the fancy guest bedroom shower needs a different sort of drain system than the original tub. Really? Is this true? A shower can’t use the same type of drain as a tub? According to my Google search, it is in fact true, “A shower drain has a 2-inch drain connection, while a tub drain has a 1 ½-inch drain connection.” You learn something new every day. I do not understand why this is a months long delay.
Next week, it looks like they are buying a second flip.
I like these two together. Bethany will be great at reigning him in. Can’t wait for the crazy to begin. Love seeing the fantastic properties in NYC.
I don’t understand what people see in her. How can people stand her! Bethenny and NeNe Leakes are absolutely viole and people worship this bad behavior as if it was cool and its not
yeah, really vile people often donate millions of dollars of their own money and vast quantities of their own time and effort trapsing around natural disaster sites bringing aid to people hardly anyone else seems to be caring about.
I’m sure the citizens of Mexico and Puerto Rico share your sentiment.
Seriously. How the hell can anyone put Nene Leakes and Bethenny Frankel in the same sentence? Please.
Did you watch Bethenny Ever After? Or RHNY when she ripped Sonja or LuAnn? Bethenny is vile. The show with Frederick was boring.
Very well said. Bethenny stepped up when no one else did
She only did it to make herself look better cause last season she really showed her ass. It’s not working though — we see her for the selfish person she is.
You think somebody would go through that much time, money, and effort because they thought they came off poorly on a reality show? Seriously? She’s been doing this how many years?? She doesn’t give two shits if she gets a bad edit or comes off poorly in a season, all the better for her shows. She knows the game. You think that would motivate her to PRETEND to care about suffering people across the globe by literally spend months in the muck, literal muck, trying to help them dig out of earthquakes and hurricane damage, spending millions of her cash, and fundraising millions from others?
You really think she would be so devastated by looking a little high strung on a tv show that she would embark on such an expensive and exhaustive “charity tour”?? lol
Sorry, I think that’s preposterous.
I don’t think these people really paid attention to the devastation in Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico or the Herculean relief efforts that Bethenny put forward or the planes and cargo ships she obtained or the hundreds of volunteers that she coordinated to load and unload the supplies, or her days and days of reporting live to give us the real story of how bad things were when she was right in the worst areas of Puerto Rico that the government aid was refusing/unable to go to.
I think they are just ignorant of what exactly happened. Because otherwise, they are simply cunts of the highest order with no regard the plight those affected and the impact of Bethenny’s multiple boots on the ground trips. I suppose there are people that vile in the world. I just like to think they don’t comment here and the ones trashing Bethenny about her work are just ignorant.
Thank you Shae! I wish i could copy & paste your comment on every Bethenny article “comment section”.
Is Bethenny abrasive and blunt? sure! I spent some time in NY and she is no different than most NY’ers ( Being from the West Coast.. I actually find it refreshing). Should all women be ‘cute & polite’?? What I feel people don’t bother to see is that she is very caring, ultra-sensitive and has a big heart.
Most women on these shows married wealthy men. Not only was this not her path…she surpassed the wealth of any ‘husband’ in a VERY short amount of time.
You don’t have to love Bethenny and everything about her. But, let’s give some respect where respect is due. 😉
I don’t think you understand the difference between manufactured do-gooder public relations, versus doing it for real.
You haven’t paid attention to how many times she went back and forth on those planes, or the number of planes she sent down (supplies) and back (sick passengers) at a time. And not only the hurricane efforts, but in the middle of all that the Mexican earthquakes happened and she was literally there in the rubble helping out.
Well said! I think it will be a fun show. Bethenny is a direct communicator with a sharp wit. I’ve never watched Fredrik’s show. Although previews showed arguments, nothing looks mean spirited.
You have me curious about Imposters now after mentioning it again. Season 1 episodes run in a marathon February 19. DVR is set to catch up. Season 2 starts April 5.
OMG! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE IMPOSTORS NEWS! THOSE OF US WHO WATCH ARE OBSESSED!
I can’t handle her either. I’ll read the recaps but won’t give her any ratings.
I am with you. I can’t stand Nene or Bettenny.
Here here. Can’t stand them both.
Bethenny is awesome.
I don’t like her personality. It’s served her well in business but I couldn’t be friends with her. Philanthropy has also benefited from her, she’s a decent person but something is so abrasive.
I think they complement each other perfectly. Fredrik is the perfect foil for Bethenny’s sometimes sharp comments, and Bethenny brings Fredrik back down to earth. They really get each other, and you can feel the true friendship between them. Looking forward to watching this.
I have never watched Fredrik’s show, but I’ll watch this one. Their chemistry on RHONY sucked me in.
I wondered about that drain thing too-good researching!! (Cause it’s so hard these days but still!) Shouldn’t they just make 1 hour long episode though? Where’s my NYC real estate porn? Idk yet but I would prefer Bethanney and Jeff Lewis. They were killing it on WEHL last year -it was so good I protected it!!
I like this show. I agree with the comment that they compliment each other
Bethenny knows her stuff &will save Frederik a ton of money. He needs her & her team on all his projects. I’ve done rehabs & flips (& one build) for decades (on a mini budget) & am already a fan of this show.
That’s funny. A guy that one of the top real estate agents in the city and he needs Bethenny? You’re buying into this totally fake show?
hahaha agreed
Rehabbing a place with your own money and design aesthetic is totally different from showing other people properties.
What happened to Fredrik’s vaunted negotiating skills? There’s no way Bethenny shouldn’t have to buy into the project at its current value. He’s carried the cost for 4 years.
Put another way, if I put $500,000 into a savings account 4 years ago and it accrued interest and it now has grown to $750,000, and you want to buy into co-ownership of my account, you should pay me half of its current value.
Sheesh, he’s a total putz and she’s a shark. If he’s taking her as a partner because she’ll save him money, she just cost him $375k right out of the gate.
Totally agree with this. I watched it thinking what am I not getting here? He is the one who took the risk that it might not increase in value, or could even decrease in a bad market. Ok, in the Flatiron district in Manhattan that likely won’t ever happen, but you never know. And as you pointed out, he carried the costs. It’s like buying it four years ago and selling it now for the original price, which is basically what she was asking him to do. That would never happen, so it has to be a false premise just to get the show rolling. I think this show isn’t going to be for me. I expect a certain degree of fakery to make these shows work, but when it’s on this level it’s just not fun
So far I am enjoying this, and the pairing of these two. I am looking forward to hearing things from them that I don’t know. I am glad that there will be commenters here that will put a fine point on some of these shenanigans for me.
It was the appraised value not the actual value.
Theirs is a perfect partnership. I’m all in for this show!
Bravo should’ve given dreamy Steve Gold, from MDLNY, his own spinoff instead of this crap. One show with Bethenny is exhausting enough! Steve Gold is Sexy, kind, hot, a mensch, smart, did I say sexy already! He’d bring top ratings to Bravo if he had a solo show! I like a Fredrik, but I hate watched the two episodes of Beef and Franks and wasn’t into it!
I’m just not feeling this show. I’ll give it another episode.
Ditto. I’m willing to give it another shot because I adore Fredrik! Isn’t Ryan also getting a spin-off called, “Sell it Like Serhant”? I don’t see the need for that. It reminds me of a male version of Tabitha’s show. I can’t watch it. It looks like an hour of therapy with random family members and Tabitha. No thanks!
I agree with you ktina (a total farce)
I like the two of them together. Both crazy in their own way.
Loved Derek asking why Fredrik needed Beth at all — uh, because we are making a tv show lol.
Don’t really need the side scenes, e.g. Bethenny and Carol discussing sex. The show is short enough as it is. (But I will watch Freddy and Derek all day long.)
I am totally enjoying these 2 better than a show with just Bethenny and Carol.
Fredrick and Bethenny are funny together and they have great chemistry together so I am for sure looking forward to watching this new show.
I do not get why some people are so hard on Bethenny .
She’s a hardass and can be extremely abrasive with a take no prisoners attitude. She can also be extremely giving and vulnerable. For me, my feelings for her can fluctuate from episode to episode and sometimes scene to scene.
It’s a surprise to me that people think this is fake. Frederick’s anxiety is clearly through the roof, and that is definitely not acting. Bethenny lays out why this is something different for each of them in a logical way. There’s just nothing hinky here with the major premise. Of course I’m sure the producers will make some problems look bigger than they are.
I don’t like the female designer. Laughing at every inquiry like it’s coming from a crazy person is not a great way to act with a client.
I love that you’re recapping this. You may not like either of them, but they know how to make money.Bethenny will definitely rein in Frederick with the unnecessary marble everywhere.
I just watched these, trying to get caught up while my Thursday episodes of everything else record!
I wish I had Bethenny’s moxy! She is such a bundle of energy, sharp, quick witted and she has the ability to step back or up when the situation requires.
Her and Fredrik are paired well. I think they’re truly friends and have a level of love and respect for each other that makes their playfulness and bantor understandable. (To me anyway.) Her ability to cut the budget and his end vision make for a good high end flipping real estate show.
I think the personal scenes, dates and husband’s keep the housewife lovers interest…because I always want to know what their personal lives are like too…maybe not necessary but probably why they have those snippets…nosy people like me.
Tamara, I have read about the great lengths Bethenny allegedly goes to in order to win over influencers and threaten the naysayers. When you support her I always feel like you just received your skinny girl gift basket? It feels phonie as you know what.
I use to not like Fredrick and love Bethany and now since their new show I feel the opposite. You see a real down to earth Fredrick that is adorable and genuine.
what is the name of the tile store in this episode?