BY: POPCULTUREKELLY
Good evening y’all!! Before we get to the recap I just want to send out my love and safe wishes to any of you and your loved ones in the eye of this hurricane. Hopefully you’re stocked up and barricaded or evacuated. However you’re getting through, please be safe and I’m sending out prayers that this storm isn’t as awful as they’re predicting it to be.
We open with the ladies in their homes and Stephanie in Italy. Sigh. Brandi is dealing with her new reality of a newborn and her two older girls. It’s a LOT of work and she’s exhausted. The girls are acting out and as a mom I am not judging, but for perspective think Milania from Jersey x two. Bruin is so tiny and sweet. Brandi is overwhelmed.
LeeAnne and Rich go out for dinner and LeeAnne is filling Rich in on D’Andra and Brandi’s newfound friendship. They discuss not setting a wedding date and LeeAnne is fearful to pressure him. Rich insists that he wouldn’t have proposed if he didn’t want to get married but he avoids her because he doesn’t want to set her off. They agree they need to communicate better and Rich tries to reassure her that she’s his best friend and he truly loves her. LeeAnne’s fear of abandonment and Rich’s past divorces scare her but they decide to start planning the wedding without the wedding date. I really like Rich and I hope this works out for them.
Kam is getting ready for a pet trade show. She enlists her two children to help her get ready to beg for a distributor for “Sparkle Dog”. Her daughter insists that her business idea is “dumb”. Out of the mouths of babes!
LeeAnne goes to D’Andra’s house to have coffee and catch up. D’Andra is considering a start up company on her own without the Dee Simmons name or funding. LeeAnne tells her about the conversation she had with Rich at dinner and that she’s feeling positive and excited, even though there’s still no date. D’Andra wants a date and still feels that Rich is stalling. LeeAnne wants to know why she’s bosom buddies with Brandi all of a sudden and confesses that she’s scared for D’Andra getting close to Brandi. LeeAnne is scared that Brandi will come between her and D’Andra. D’Andra wants the chance to get to know Brandi on her own but questions why LeeAnne would say she forgave Brandi when she clearly isn’t over what happened.
D’Andra gets ready for her birthday celebration at the rodeo.She greets Kam, Brandi and LeeAnne with tequila shots. Cary and Steph are still on vacation so they’re missing out on the rodeo fun. Kam can’t distinguish between a bull and a bowl but the rest of the girls are all excited to go. They do beer bong hits and again, super jealous of these girls-it looks FUN! LeeAnne hits the beer bong because all the other girls do and Brandi makes a bitchy comment about LeeAnne feeling left out at 51.
They all ride a mechanical bull and the only one who has never ridden one is, surprise! Kam. She Kams all out about it but stays on for a minute. They go watch real bull riding which D’Andra loves.
Cary is back and opted out of the rodeo because they don’t have a fancy restaurant at the rodeo. So there’s that. We see Cary’s house renovation and her closet looks like it will be its own master suite. They are spending 75 grand on a professional stove so when she calls herself a bougie bitch, she ain’t lyin.
The girls have drinks and popcorn and they discuss Brandi being without Cary and Stephanie and how different it is. Kam feels that she has to be a certain way in public and Brandi tries to bring out the fun in the girls. LeeAnne talks to Brandi about how D’Andra and Kam feel pressured to remain conservative and Brani wonders why LeeAnne feels she can speak for them since she’s not a society girl. Brandi wants D’Andra to be a free spirit and not feel shackled to her name and status, and D’Andra feels that she can bring that out in her. LeeAnne is concerned that D’Andra is acting too much like Brandi. Brandi gifts D’Andra with the VERY expensive necklace that D’Andra wanted but couldn’t justify at Beaver Creek. Kam feels Brandi is buying D’Andra off but D’Andra is moved by the gesture. D’Andra confesses to Brandi that LeeAnne warned D’Andra to not be friends with her but that she didn’t listen. Kam is concerned that D’Andra will act classless like Brandi does.
Leeanne is drinking heavily and D’Andra toasts the girls and thanks them for coming out for her birthday. LeeAnne gives D’Andra a drunken lap dance and LeeAnne gets down on the dance floor-literally. Kam is mortified and LeeAnne marks her territory with D’Andra. Brandi isn’t amused.
Steph is back from vacation and goes to Brandi’s house. Stephanie had an amazing trip and Brandi recounts the day at the rodeo. Brandi re-enacts the lap dance and tells Steph how LeeAnne doesn’t want D’Andra to be friends with her. Steph sees LeeAnne trying to change but also says she’s her own worst enemy. Steph wants to support LeeAnne until she’s given a personal reason not to.
Next week: Brandi asks her daughters to tell the social workers that she’s a great mom but her girls don’t bite. LeeAnne starts wedding planning and Cary starts pot stirring by telling D’Andra that LeeAnne is talking about her behind her back telling everyone how much money she has in her bank account. D’Andra confronts then loses it on LeeAnne. I don’t want to see their friendship dissolve!!!
Stay safe everyone!!!
Thanks for the recap. This show feels like it has life to it and is so much FUN. I wish the other franchises followed these ladies lead.
You’re welcome and I totally agree!!! The fun us real and I love that it was at a down to earth rodeo.
As a guy it’s rather easy for me to see why Brandy’s husband out of town as much as possible. The adopted kid another way for him to hide. She’s horrible on so many levels.
haaha I’ve never understood all of his travelling but I agree that Brandi isn’t the nicest. At all.
cheap shot!
Brandi rox and is able to parent 3 kids on her own while dude is making coin!
With the aid of her mother and her wine
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therealdeb
joke – no biggie ?
She’s said herself that she needs Saint Merlot to grace her tastebuds multiple times a day to see her through. Shes a good mum imo but she’s s total lush on the side at the same time. Ginger Kim Z come on through ??
Agree. Totally uncalled for
Great recap! And thank you for your well wishes of safety for us in Florence’s path
Usually Pinky gets under my skin but I was pleasantly surprised tonight when she threw off her country club demeanor to risk stepping in “bowl” poop to celebrate D’Andra’s birthday. She almost seemed likable until her comments regarding Brandi’s influence on D’Andra. Seriously? She and LeeAnne are forming the 40+ mean girls club. And rolling around a dirty bar floor is an element of social class, LeeAnne? Still I’m strapping on my seatbelt. This looks like it is going a wild ride (hold on Pinky) this season.
Thank you and I mean it from the bottom of my heart-please be safe.
Now see, I think Brandi is the mean girl! I see LeeAnne as feeling excluded so she tries really hard to hang on to this crowd. Kam and D’Andra are the same social status and Kam takes it super seriously. But Brandi saying bitchy mean things about LeeAnne always gets under my skin. LeeAnne is pretty transparent in her desire to fit in while I feel like Brandi will always be that mean girl who will never accept her.
Maybe Brandi is just crass and ignorant and doesn’t know any better (didn’t her kids get kicked out of their posh school because of her lap dancing). The adult play toy she brought to Mexico was a bit tacky. But she’s new to the social scene. Is that right? I can’t remember how all these women came together. But I really hope her friendship with D’Andra remains on course. D’Andra probably needs someone who doesn’t expect her last name define every aspect of her life especially since Mama Dee is behaving like Crula Deville.
D’Andra need a storyline. She only gave Brandi credit for the birthdat gift, she knew Stephanie and Cary gave money towards that give. She later had to retract her tweet and thank Stephanie and Cary too. Something is not right about D’Andra. There is a reason her mother treat her like a child. Brandi need to plug in and act more alert. Her daughter spit in the baby face? She need to corral those girls.
I just see Brandi as the perennial mean cheerleader in high school who never grows up. And yes I agree that D’Andra is different this season. Omg the girl spitting on the baby made me want to hop through the tv! I’ve been there, I know she has her hands full but it doesn’t seem like those girls hear the word “no” too much or have much discipline. It’s not going to help the girls (or the baby!)
Agree to all of these!
Brandi is life, love how she doesn’t give a rat’s bottom and does as she pleases that’s what’s attracting D’Andra, she wants to step out of her mother’s shadow. Girlfriend bring it be your own girl as Tom Petty said.
God I love this show. Wish we had more Steph
tonight she is hw gold.
Do they just ride the fake bulls because they want to make comments about how they ride their husband “reverse cowgirl,” or have thighs so strong they can break a man’s ribs? Do they think it makes them look sexier and more attractive? I wish, just for once, they’d keep their big mouths shut and have a little class. It must be my bedtime – I’m feeling a little cranky and judgmental, but I don’t like these vain and shallow women. My least favorite franchise.
You know what, in reading everyone else’s comments, I’m beginning to think perhaps I’m missing something. How can I dislike it and everyone else is saying what fun they are? Maybe I’ll get a good night’s sleep and watch if from the beginning of this season on On Demand tomorrow.
You will enjoy it. 🙂
Awwe I hope you change your mind because it’s a fun show!
English Rose, I am with you! I particularly despise LeeAnne! Ugh..have never liked her from the start. The attraction of these shows, in my opinion, is for us commoners to see how the rich and famous live. At least that is how they started out….but from the get-go, LeeAnne never fit in. Judging from what we have seen on the show, my house is bigger and more expensive than LeeAnne’s, and that isn’t saying much! She was the person in charge of “charity” – gawd, remember how that word was thrown around and around and around the first season?! Blech…Well, she has gotten a makeover and a stylist, and a bad makeup person who makes her look very orange onscreen…it hasn’t changed the way I think about her. She is a wanna be! Her not fitting in is not because the other girls are excluding her – it’s because she doesn’t fit in! The only/main money she has is from the show. She is my main beef with the franchise, but it makes it unlikeable to me. I think the producers like that she is loud and obnoxious and in your face, etc…and they think she makes good tv, but it feels like the most contrived of all the shows. She, in particular, seems like she is acting more than any of the woman on any of the other shows. So, I hear ya and agree! (but while typing have realized that I would enjoy it a lot without LeeAnne on, lol)
Brandi is the mean girl and can’t wait to stir the pot. She is trying to put a wedge between Leann & de andra. But why ever did she tell Brandi what Leann said ? Seems she wants in with the “cool girls”. Leann hasn’t done anything that Brandi hasn’t (bar scene) so why is she trying to be so above it all.
So true. I also don’t understand why D’Andra is selling out Leann after just recently bonding with Brandi in Colorado. I think D’Andra wants to be the top dog and is willing to switch teams and ditch Leann to do so. Not impressed. And D’Andra pushing the wedding date issue with Leann is a bit much. None of your business. You party like a college kid to fit in with Brandi. Pathetic.
Yeah I’m not liking where this is heading, that’s for sure. The best thing for me last season was the strength of LeeAnne and D’Andra’s friendship and I don’t want to watch it dissolve.
PCKelly!
I totally have issues with Leeanne – her insecurities about the friendship between D’andra and Brandi sux poop!
So cool that D’andra is making this her year – standing up to her mom and then having to remind LeeAnn that she is a grown ass woman and knows how to choose her friends!
not cool that LeeAnne is trying to put D’andra in check! piss off!
OMD! Trying not to laugh too hard at K..what the heck is her name? on the bull! that was too hilarious, but kudos to her for trying something different.
my deal with LeeAnne and her fiancee is – if he wanted to marry you he would.
Spot on! I think we should be new bffs:)
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I have never found Leanne to be the type of person I’d ever want to spend time with. She is abrasive, loud and crude. And desperate. The “bon mots” she posts on twitter about Southern sayings just to stay visible are stupid.
Leanne is a bundle of insecurities and fear of abandonment. I know she is supposed to be working on these things, but it doesn’t make her more pleasant to be “around” (on my tv). Her tie to social acceptance, that she desperately wants, is D’Andra. And now that she fears D’Andra will replace her with Brandi, she is doubling down — on trying to destroy Brandi in the other women’s eyes, and at the same time trying to “be” Brandi by her desperate lap dancing and whatever that was she was doing on the dance floor.
I think she is already losing D’Andra for some reason — how else can we understand why D’Andra seems to hell bent on pushing her wedding and saying mean things about her in her confessionals?
hello thill
it “feels” like each season LeeAnne is putting off – changing herself – by “searching” new ways to
understand herself! she blames everything but her own choices!
About the wedding thing – I think that guy knows that after dating LeeAnne for centuries – all he has to do is say/do/give her that “that’ll shut her up” behavior – and LeeAnne is fine with it.
If Leeanne really had issues with that guy – she would never have said yes to the – ring – umm…to him. She already knows his behaviors so – I think the “what if he dumps me too” – is crap.
Sammmmm!!! =) Awwee I want to bring you over to the “I like Leeanne” side!! haha. No, we have differing opinons which is what makes the world go round. I see LeeAnne as deeply vulnerable and wounded and it makes my heart go out to her. I think she was trying to protect D’Andra because Brandi had really hurt her. I LOOOOVE Rich and I think that he truly loves her and all her batshitty ways =)
hey there PCKelly!!!!!!!!
I was totally a cheerleader for LeeAnne – being an abused survivor – that did it for me! I thought – At last Bravo hired an actual human with relatable issues with anyone that watches!
and then she went on her bashing spree – a woman who had decades to deal with her issues, used her abuse as an excuse to be violent with humans.
and zoom to this season, she’s back to her old ways of lying and being insecure, she just
masks it with “concern” for her friend D’andra. I absolutely like that friendship, D’andra is good for leeanne.
I did have to laugh when leeanne and Karmen (?) blab about the bad influence of brandi with D’andra..umm..hullo…LeeAnne has a criminal record and has threatened the lives of 3 cast members – how bout that influence on D’andra…I call b.s.
Hahah we will have to agree to disagree my friend but we will keep watching because I’m afraid LeeAnne and D’Andra seem to have a big falling out =(
Totally agree with you.
D’Andra head is getting as big as her ass. Brandi is D’andra’s storyline. Cary exposed her on WWHL as the aggressor in the 3:00 am argument and she confirmed the word queen never came up, so Brandi is being dramatic as usual. Cary also confirmed they went in on the gift Brandi gave her for her birthday. D’Andra sent a tweet earlier thanking only Brandi, but retracted the tweet, after Cary told the truth. D’Andra has a problem with budgeting and over spending (exposed next week). Now, we know why her mother treat her like a child and her father left Mamma Dee in control over her inheritance. He died a year before she married. He knew his daughter would have spent all his money in less than 5 years so he made his ex-wife the gatekeeper.
I am sick of Brandi age shaming LeeAnne. The girl is not eye candy and she looks like she damn near 50 yrs versus being in her late 30s. It is a cheap dirty shot to take against another woman. She is so juvenile. Other than those sparkly boots that I need to wear on my next night out at Fort Worth Stockyard and Billy Bob Texas, she has no style. She is a cliche and I believe she is trying to antagonize LeeAnne by befriending D’andra.
Your comment is spot on!
Spot on.
Agreed!
I agree… I can’t stand Brandi. Everything about her just comes across as being so fake
Bougjee Bee-perfectly said! I agree wholeheartedly
I see a woman who loves her children so much that she adopted a child an gave this human a loving home. Call her a mean girl please give me a break.
What I see is a person who doesn’t put themselves in a box, she sees through the high society parallels and the pomp and circumstance.
I love this in her honestly think how hard it had to be to make it as a Dallas cheerleader knowing her background but whatever.
She has a heart for what its worth.
Thank you for the recap! Also, thanks for the well wishes concerning the hurricane. We have been on vacation for the last week and our flight back to North Carolina was cancelled. I have to find a way back to my grandson and my dogs.
Oh Jaded please be safe, as well as those grandbabies and dogs!! Please check in when you can.
I’m here in NC with you Jaded. Stay safe my friend.
Please stay safe!!!!
Well gosh, Brandi –why would Leamme be concerned about your obvious attempts to befriend/suck up to D’Andra after mocking her age, looks & society position last season?
It’s almost as if you previously used Leanne by befriending her only to hurt Stephanie and then dropped Leanne like used toilet paper as soon as you and Stephanie made up.
Brandi is a user and is approaching Tamara (OC) levels of crassness. Kam & Leanne have her pegged: shes only befriending D’Andra to hurt Leanne.
Right. Brandi is using D’Andra to get at LeeAnne. She is jealous of LeeAnne. Kameron was right in calling her classless. She is just aging dumb mean girl, who love to booze it up. D’Andra is showing her true colors. She is just a Little Dee in the making. Andy busted Little Dee on WWHL about not owning the Adderal story, when caught on tape. Yep. LeeAnne should let Little Dee hang out with Drunk 24 Brandi and be done with it. Let her tarnish the Simmons name. The family goes beyond the Dees. I bet they are cringing at her antics.
I don’t know if I think Brandi is *jealous* of Leanne as much as Brandi is a vindictive little tw*t.
Everything she’s done for the last 3 seasons (including pretending to befriendi Leanne to drop her) has been designed to humiliate Leanne because she can’t get over Leanne telling her she as acting like a drunken fool S1 (which she was) with the fake dog poop at that tea party event.
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Brandi is a drunken fool. Steph soiled her TenaLady when she thought she might be on the outs in the whole charity gala scene because she was acting the fool. Brandi doesn’t give two hot potatoes about that stuff, she just wants to live life and have fun. Its what I admire about her.
Girls just want to have fun is the tune Brandi march to. She lives a grasshopper life, when the ants are being productive. I am okay with enjoying life to the fullest, but if it keeps you stuck in a Sweet Valley High frame of mind, you basically sitting around whistling Dixie and playing a banjo underneath the Yum Yum tree. She need to grow up. Seriously.
Yes!! I see a lot of similarities with Tamra and Brandi-calculating, mean and and loves to embarass people. With LeeAnne I see a lot of her actions coming from a place of hurt but with girls like Brandi and Tamra, it’s just to hurt others.
The recap was awesome!
This franchise is getting so boring to me I literally fell asleep during the middle of it last night and forced myself to finish watching this morning.
Starting to like LeAnne.
Kam is even more boring than this franchise if that’s even possible. Pink Dog Food? Could you possibly pick a more cliched or predictable rich girl story line?
Her veneer induced lisp drives me insane.
Awwe thank you!! Haha oh no!!! Kam isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, that’s for sure. I’m glad you’re starting to like LeeAnne and hopfeully you’ll stay awake next week when they smash stuff and gang up on LeeAnne =(
Hello again GLH!!! Thank you!! Oh would love to but those are big shoes that cannot ever be filled. I haven’t watched it yet, I will watch it tonight. I hear it’s nuts but good? I really don’t understand D’Andra’s badgering of LeeAnne with the wedding and you’re absolutely right that it’s not the be all and end all to a relationship. LeeAnne and Rich clearly love each other and that’s all that matters. They will move at their own speed. Ugh Brandi is just awful to me. I enjoy seeing the family scenes with her that show her soft side but it doesn’t negate her horrible side. You are exactly right that she’d be fun to hang out with in small doses but not someone you trust with anything deep. Can’t wait for next week!!!
Sort of rude to ask Pop Culture Kelly to start reviewing a show you like. It’s Tamaras site?
No I think she meant it because I also do M2M. It’s all good! TT is the absolute best, no one is stepping on toes!!! =)
This! And also The Lady C used to do the Walking Dead a few years back. Ugh people get offended by the slightest things these days.
I enjoyed this episode for the most part. The site (probably our internet) is running slow tonight so I’ll comment more later. Thank you Pop Culture Kelly!
Booooo!
American horror story
Than you.
Hi Kipper!! Thank you for the comments!! I’m glad you liked it, these ladies BRING IT! =)
You mean in addition to disrespecting my author by going off topic, advertising another site and continuing to talk about a show I’ve said will not be recapped here?
That’s sort of a trifecta of cuntiness.