Finally, RHONY is back! I am not ready for this season to end but it is starting to wind down because they talk about the Cartagena trip on this episode.
Luann is practicing for her cabaret show. Oddly, she doesn’t really sing on the camera. She mainly sing-talks or sings along with the pianist. No one really cares about that though. She’s going to get Sonja to do some of the singing. Sonja promises Luann that she will keep her clothes on, but we all know she doesn’t keep her word. Luann wants the show to be a snatch free zone. Sorry, Luann.
Tinsley shows up to Carole’s apartment for a present. Is it her birthday? Because Adam sent her five dozen tulips. They are really pretty. Carole says that Adam wants back in her life and she isn’t sure what to think about that. Puhlease. She is so sprung over that boy. Tinsley gives her fingerless mitten that make a heart in her hand when she puts them together. Banjo just had to go out and now he is losing his damn mind in the back yard. I am already behind on this recap. Adam was in the building visiting the shared dog and just showed up at her apartment and walked in with the dog at ten pm. Do people in NYC really leave their doors unlocked?
Tinsley says that Scott wants to live together in NYC. I do not believe her. He has a very large business in Chicago that makes a lot of money and he needs to be there to oversee things. But Tinsley is telling this story her way. And the are traveling Europe again right now. So who knows what he tells her. My take away is that he is getting her an apartment because the hotel bills are so damn expensive. Apparently, he is going to rent the penthouse apartment in the same hotel she lives in now. So she can still order room service. As they are talking she gets a delivery of flowers with a speed dating party invitation. All the single girls are going speed dating.
Sonja stops by to see Bethenny and she gets more free SkinnyGirl jeans in some magenta color. Sonja says this is the color of the year. Bethenny wants to know who decides such things and Sonja points out that she is a fashion forecaster. Bethenny starts joking about her putting that on her dating profile that currently lists dozens of jobs that only exist in Sonja’s airy head. Apparently, Sonja got accepted to Aria and she is already getting likes. The app just took all the jobs Sonja has ever mentioned online and put them all under her occupation. Sonja moons Bethenny and Bethenny slaps her ass. I like how these two are having fun this year.
Dorinda takes Luann to pick out some dresses from a designer for her shows. Luann looks perfect in every dress she tries on. Seriously. Everything fits her like a glove. Luann talks to Dorinda about her court issues. We all know she was not really charged with anything in the end. Still at this point, I’m sure it was very stressful.
Tinsley keeps her shoes on the kitchen cabinets and her sweaters in the oven. This reminds me of a guy I used to “know” on the Internet in a previous life. #partypigs
Luann and Carole go out for a coffee shop. Luann has just been to an AA meeting. Carol is being nice to Luann for a change. They talk about Sonja and how her act is too raunchy for Luann’s show. Clearly the whole open wrap dress with no panties was RHONY storyline.
Dorinda takes Luann to her church. It’s quite beautiful. I don’t why I never thought to go in the churches in NYC, I go in all of them in Europe. Luann says that quitting drinking is a hard habit to break. They light candles for Luann. Dorinda invites Luann for speed dating. She just wants her to have some fun but she doesn’t really want her to date just yet. They say a prayer for Lu’s recovery and light a candle. It was a very sweet scene.
Andy is wearing the same damn pink suit he wore for last night’s WWHL for tonight’s episode with Sonja. Why? I know he had the reunion yesterday but what is with these not-so-live live shows?
At speed dating, Ramona is a hot mess right off the bat. She asks a gentleman what nationality he is. He says, “American.” Ramona’s hope is to find someone smarter than her. That shouldn’t be a problem. Sonja is a hot mess too. Bethenny is open to speed dating because Dennis is not capable of being a partner. They are still together last I heard but they seem to fight a lot. Bethenny knows one of the guys. Tinsley and Dorinda are just observing. Ramona drops that she has a house in the Hamptons and seems to be stealing the guy the hostess had in mind for Carole. Then that guy moves on to Bethenny and this is the guy she knew from Miami. He claims he came to meet Bethenny. Bethenny is not really into him. The Countess was paired with a guy who was terrible at conversation and she seemed uncomfortable. Ramona kisses another guy on the lips for saying she looked his age, 44. Carole never got to meet the guy that is bouncing between Bethenny and Ramona. He was supposed to match with Carole. There are apparently only half a dozen age appropriate single straight men in NYC and they just pass them around. Ryan is the new Tom. Bethenny does a cruel imitation of Ramona interrupting her conversation with Ryan to bring him a drink. It was funny. But still mean.
Tinsley invites the girls to Cartagena. Except Sonja is having a serious, yet drunken conversation with one of the guys about BDSM. She complains that most guys don’t know how to spank. He whispers in her ear that he has a cat o’nine tails and she would be tied up and helpless. He says when they are done she would have hand marks all over her ass. She says, “OMG, I love handmarks the next day.” Jesus. Where was Luann to give these two a lesson in appropriate discussions to have with strangers over cocktails while on camera when you have children?
Next week: We are going straight to the trip from hell. It’s the new scary island on a private island. Ramona needs a wheelchair. Sonja is stuck in an elevator. Bethenny may have gone on a date with Ryan. Carol may be pissed about it. Dorinda and Bethenny drunk fight at dinner.
Sonja was on my last nerve this episode.
Wait, she is on every episode.
I’m so glad the LuAnne’s Cabaret show is such a success.
Is it just me or is there something about Tinsely that is off? She’s stunted in some way that I can’t put my finger on.
You are right, her wiring seems to have a problem
Tinsley is a little scary. The cabaret thing is boring. Carole is a mean girl and I am sick of her ‘holier than thou’ smirk on her face in the interviews.
Bethenny’s imitation of Ramona was fucking hysterical!!!!! It made the episode.
Carol is a cunt.
SAME! I haven’t laughed that hard in a minute! By far the best moment of this episode.
It really was Hysterical !!
The problem is Ramona has zero self awareness of how off the rails she looks to normal people. Since I am usually of sound mind I didn’t see it as mean.
Bethenny making fun of her will just Piss Ramona off more.
Maybe I am a b^%$#@! cause I laughed out loud ,My husband thought it was funny and laughed with me. I am not usually a mean girl but it was Hysterical
That speed dating scene was ONE FOR TBE BOOKS!!! PS – why has Carole gotten soooo mean …!!!! PPS – Ramona could be one of the nuttiest ppl EVER !! No comment on Tinsley – just sad ….
So great. Love this show. Luann and Sonja. Can’t wait to see that show. I don’t know what the story is with Carol and Adam, but clearly she feigns indifference. And why is Tinsley not moving to Chicago in a hot second? I don’t get it.
The speed dating was everything. OMG. I was crying laughing at the comments. TT got that right- Ramona will have no problem finding a guy who is smarter. But she is desperate. Like on the island that time.
Sonja is so fucking funny – do I smell like mothballs? But it’s cringe-inducing watching her with the S&M guy and seeing Ramona in action. Bethenny was freaking hilarious imitating her. How weird is it that B and Carole don’t even speak to each other now? I don’t want this season to end.
Oh, and what did Sonja do to get her ass in such great shape? Sounds like from the interns she was taking all kinds of supplements and likely HGH which firms you up. Maybe plastic surgery on her butt? She’s in damn good shape. See her on WWHL? She’s had something done. Her face looks different. But good.
I think I would love to have Sonja in my group of friends. She may be exhausting but it would be a hoot. I think Lu would be fun, jury’s out though. Is she fun now?
Speed dating has always been funny to me. How does Sonja find the freakiest guy in the room. On WWHL, Ramona was voted on having the best game. Really? She flirts her ass off but Bethenny gets the guy. If Carole would stop sucking lemons and making those faces, she might be more succesful I agree with TT, Adam has Carole snockered with love. She can’t see anyone. They are connected by Baby for now.
I am glad that Scott finally got a place big enough to store Tinsley’s clothes. It couldnt have been convenient to run to the kitchen for shoes.
And to the oven to choose a sweater. In college, we would hide our dirty dishes in the oven if our parents were coming.
At church when Dorinda teased to LuAnn that she had relationships with a Tom and Harry, now she needed a Dick, it came true with new guy Rick.
Bethenny with the blow job comment was worse than Sonja’s behavior.
Tired of hearing about the Lu and Cabernet act.
This was a sleeper episode to me this time.! I’m on at 11:40 third or more rewatch. I still just look up. Tinsley to me screams in a neon shitty motel vibe “failure to fkn launch”.
I think she’s my age but with way more funds to tweaks things. I’m not a dude but I’m pretty sure I’ve led my boys to steer very clear of the subliminally prone wingnutz.
Pretty packaging and great sex usually rears its head down the road to seriously emotionally stunted woman. Be romantic and sweet open doors but the whole I’m just a girl flag is like a waving a female preying mantis flag.
So far so good. I like Luann always have but I feel besides her Countess classy bitch days this season is her most inauthentic.
Ramona is the carbon copy of my mother from Long Island. She’s my birth mom but the bitch is cray and delusional as fuk.
It’s like watching my mother but minus $$50,567,456,08 bucks less.
I’m gonna keep watching so I don’t feel like a weirdo coming back and reading the comments.
I’m sorry..I’ve dated and have friends from Colombia so the whole coke reference is gross. If I had the money these bitches had I would not hole my fat ass up in a Hilton in the Bahamas. They are in Colombia, the food..the music the experience should be life changing.
I swear to God if these chicks act super stupid entitled white chick and gripe the entire trip I’m out as a viewer and I don’t need a slow detox. I’ll rage cook arepas and speak Spanish all day 😡
I loved this comment! Especially the female praying mantis flag comment. LMAO!
Tinsley is so sweet. She’s educated and well-traveled. I often think she’s a little introverted and depressed for the show. If her marriage or something in her past traumatized her,I hope she got help for whatever went down. Has she regressed from trauma or is this how she was raised?? Was it a world filling their life with events at the club? With Buffy’s and Muffie’s and Tinsley’s and Topper’s and Tab’s calling their Mummy’s and Daddy’s. I hope Scott has a kind heart and is helping her get past her past. It’s as though her family raised her for life in the 1950’s.
I think this comment is really insightful, she is a sweet and educated person – it’s easy to throw a label on someone being stunted, etc. when you only see (dramatized) seconds of their lives.
Oh my God, Carole acts like Bethenny was chasing Mr. Red Scarf all around the bar and he wasn’t interested. He was CHASING HER.
I hope she felt like a fucking idiot when she saw the scene where he said that he only came to the event to see Bethenny, AND heard that they’d already been out.
I don’t know. I agree with the matchmaker. I think carol and red scarf guy would go well together… did he not speak to her because he was talking with Bethenny and never rotated? Bethenny said she wasn’t into him but she obviously liked the attention. Wish carol and him at least gave it a shot…why not?
It is really scary that those were the only speed dating “men” they could stir up in NYC. Ramona seems desperate, as someone mentioned; Mr. Red Scarf was chasing Bethenny (another reason for Carol to hate on her); Sonja with the “cat o nine tails” guy – not just nauseating but frightening. On the whole, I found the episode boring, although the church was pretty. The pianist coaching Lu was great, and could pull a performance out of anyone!
Carol is absolutely clueless as to what is going on in Bethenny’s life.
Bethenny dated the red scarf,Brian guy in Miami and said he is not her type,He said he showed up just to get to spend time with Bethenny.
Brian was invited by Carol’s new friend as a hook-up for Carol and he chased Bethenny Blawhahahaha.
The flowers did not come from Adam but the girl who invited Carol and company to speed date. Carol probably had hope they were from Adam.What the hell is wrong with her leaving her front door open,well My guess that is her begging Adam to just stop by and walk right in,or ant random person could help themselves to all her great fashions.
Bethenny just about made me bust my gut Laughing . My husband was too.He said well she just got done bragging how wonderful and great she is ,and it was a well deserved mocking of how she behaves.
The tulips that they showed Carol said was from Adam the Roses was the invite from the speed dating lady.
I think the off-feeling people are getting from Tinsley is that she did a reality-show previously. It was about her handbag line and her life. She did all sorts of silly Lucy/Ethel type things – like trying on wedding dresses. Her antics come off as inauthentic on RHONY, especially after Luann bares her soul. Hopefully the real Tinsley will show up eventually. I feel like we are just getting her “character”. Or possibly that is all there is.
Tinsley’s handbag line is popular in Japan, too, isn’t? Tinsley reminds me of Japanese millennials in her dress and personal style. I think she has an Asian flair that is unusual in a blond New Yorker. She’s cute.
Ramona’s dating style is best described as Adore Delano does Anna-Nicole Smith at the snatch game.
Carole seemed more than a little butt hurt that the guy she was ‘supposed to be matched with’ didn’t dig her vibes and prefered Bethenny / Ramona. I thought she liked to play it cool?
The best part of this ep was a tie between Carole meeting Dwayne (she sounded like his grandma 😂) and Sonja getting propositioned, don’t think the guy knew what he was letting himself in for ha.
Bethanny’s imitations are freaking hysterical!!!
I have to comment on the new “$30,000” suite Tinsley and Scott and allegedly were cohabitating in.
1) $30,000?! How much is that number being reduced for PR for the hotel?
2) Scott is undoubtedly paying for it. And since he ‘resides’ there, he can write-off some as a business expense.
3) I find it gross paying that much since it doesn’t translate as luxury to me. Just excessive and sad for some reason.
Welcome to NYC real estate.
It’s hard to get it reduced as PR for the hotel as we’ve never seen or heard the name of the hotel.
bethenny is the most recognizable, successful, and wealthy out of the group. Mayb thats the attraction of the red scarf guy to her?? ramona was hysterical when she brought him a drink and b’s imitation even better!!! ramona’s desperation very apparent. carole just plain mean and nasty!! dorinda more grounded and sober this episode and has genuine caring for luann. i thnk she realizes this could have been her and she needs to reassess. sonja very creepy and cringe worthy!!! very surprising over the years to me that she hasn’t lost custody of her daughter w/her public antics and nat’l tv behavior!!!
You’d be shocked at how many NY’ers who live in doorman buildings leave their actual apartment doors unlocked. It drives me crazy that my boss does but I guess they figure strangers won’t get into the building so it’s ok??? I would never.
Carols building isn’t even a doorman building. I would not leave my door unlocked and I live in a doorman building with a big growling dog. It’s not something I understand.
TT told us about Richard Super being Luann’s new bf and Then last night Dorinda made the joke about her dating a Tom Dick and Harry! I never understood how we get Dick out of Richard, but we do.
I enjoyed this episode, the first half there was no Ramona!
Totally agree, the first half was fun HW viewing!
Oh, Sonja with a “j”, just no, a thousand times no. That was so gross to me. Then I remember that she and Lu had no trouble being with the pirate guy on one of their vacations. Does Sonja not realize how this must embarrass her daughter?
I thought this episode was the worst of the season. Tinsley has Peter Pan syndrome. She just refuses to grow up and she desperately needs a style guru. Her clothes look like something a child would wear. Carole is such a hateful person. She places way too much stock in her intelligence. I don’t remember her reporting from war zones but I guess I believe her. She’s shown that she can’t meet a time deadline for her book or stories for magazines. It looks like she gets mad at Bethenny next week for snagging the guy who was picked for her.
Bethenny killed the Ramona imitation.
The only reason that makes sense to me, as far as Bethanny and the red skarf guy, making Carole mad at Bethanny. Is if Bethanny accepts a date with the guy or leads him on, just to win, and knew she would never ever like him, and was actually still with Dennis too. I had a woman do that to me one time, when I was single.. She just didnt like me and wanted to be competirive. I was talking to a guy I just met in our group, and she strode up, jumped.between us and proceeded to flirt her ass off with him. I just stepped aside and was like whatever. The woman lived with someone who essentially was a husband,so she wasnt even available, but he didnt find that out, till the end of the evening, and after she disappeared with him, from our group for several hours. I just thought that was mean and shady at the time. I had allways thought that woman was catty and fake and she proved it. But, if its not that situation, then no you shouldnt be mad because someone likes them better than you. Ive had women get mad at me for that too, but you cant help that.
Ha! I thought for a long time the red scarf guy was Adam and was terribly confused 😂😂
I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying Bethenney this Season! That Ramona imitation was everything! I literally LOL.
I did think Ramona looked really good at the speed dating. I liked her hair and how she was put together. I think with men, its better to be yourself. It takes alot of confidence to do that though, and its easier to put on a sexy flirty persona and drink too much. I was thinking it was sad her marriage to Mario didnt work out. Mario looked more her type, than any of those guys there. I was thinking about how things ended up so awful with Mario’s mistress, and its too bad him and Ramona couldnt get back together again. But, I imagine that ship has sailed. I dont think hardly anyone finds someone at speed dating or those dating mixers. They look so uncomfortable. I think it would make me think about forgiving Mario. He he.
The Many Faces of Carol: I can endure the self-proclaimed romantic who careens down the street perched on her boyfriend’s handlebars (likely supported by discreetly placed pipe cleaners and duct tape). I can endure the Pierre-I-don’t-care ambivalence of the aggressively hipper-than-thou girlfriend enthusiastically moving Adam OUT of her apartment. I can even endure the grim-faced earnest stoic who decrees that Nobody-Better-Say-Anything-Bad-About-Jordan-Catalano (while humming 10 CC’s “I’m Not in Love”). But this smug, only-Botox-conceals-my-eyeroll ex-girlfriend wasting no time in climbing onto her soapbox of condescension to identify the number and designation of every tulip her ex sent as a preamble to her Hilarious and Rollicking Anecdote about Adam just waltzing unannounced into her apartment (a dance she used to brag about) so that she can snicker about the implied pathos, and giggle like Betty Rubble when Tinsley quips that maybe Adam’s at the door Right Now (the jocularity! the wit!) – that is a face of Carol I can no longer endure. Using the attentiveness she has required he display to publicly mock him is crass. I just want to grip her bony shoulders and say “You can reupholster a couch, darling, but you’ll never be Lee Radziwill. Never.”
Well ain’t that just the post of the day. Kudos.
I’m on day 3 of conducting 4-hour fiction workshops for teens in Pennsylvania – reading your posts during the breaks have been my only respite. I worship at your altar, oh Empress of Shade.
Wow! Me like! (I need a writing workshop!)
Yes it is! WOW!
I love Luanne, she hasn’t had many good days lately, however, her believing she is a singer is embarrassing. From the very first, several years ago, it was embarrassing, and now even more so. Who ever told her she could sing professionally? I mean who told her she could sing, but wasn’t making money off her. When you have money, there are so many blood suckers floating around you, you have to take what they say with a grain of salt.
Sonja is getting too old to be flashing her bare bottom. Ramona is not just getting too old, she is too old to flirt like that. She looks like a teeny bopper. Ridiculous. I suppose these women have to do notable things to be viable on the show. I keep forgetting these people aren’t real, they are putting on a show.
I remember Carole saying a few episodes ago (when she and Tinsley were sharing a hotel room in the Hamptons) that Tinsley was overzealous about locking the hteol room door, and that she never locks her own door at home. I thought that was inviting trouble like nothing else. I LOVE the friendship between Sonja and Bethenney this season. Sonja’s guileless personality is bringing out the protective and lighter side of Bethenney, which is what is generally missing with her.