On tonight’s RHONY Recap, the ladies are heading up to upstate New York to spend some time at Luann’s new house. Sonja often take a Jitney to the Hamptons. But for the trip upstate she is the only passenger in a luxurious van. There is TV and Internet and comfortable cars. I need to know where to get one of these! She’s also got her dog with her. She brushes the dogs hair and the brushes her hair with the same brush. Because, Sonja.
Dorinda loves her new neighborhood. She can walk to everything. We get to see a great flower shop. Then the goes next door for fancy cheese.
Luann Is A Cranky Hostess
Tinsley and Bethenny meet for a glass of wine and a quesadilla. Tinsley’s dog has cancer. She also coming to terms with the fact that having a baby may not be in the cards for her. Sonja was very mean to her about her situation. Ramona shows up to trash Luann. Then Ramona is mad that Bethenny didn’t come to her event. Bethenny is mad that Luann is being so disrespectful to her lately. Bethenny and Ramona tell Tinsley if she wants to have a baby she needs to just do it now. These three talk about a trip to Miami.
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Sonja is the first to arrive at the round house. She brings wine and her dog to Lu’s house. Sonja trash talks Tinsley to Luann. Tinsley wanting a husband and a baby is not a reason to trash her. All they do is talk poorly about the others. Barbara arrives next. She has gifts. She is so nice. Luann is making dinner.
Sonja and Barbara tell Luann that she should have come out to greet them at her performance. Luann gets really pissed at Sonja. She tells here she is in her house eating her food and “she needs to watch herself.” Luann is a loose cannon this season. Every other word is cabaret. Literally.
COCK…TAIL Hour
Dorinda, Bethenny and Tinsley take the same car to Lu’s. Bethenny brought lots of booze because it is a dry county. I didn’t know they had those up north. They are terrible. I used to stay at a friends cabin that is in a dry county. It’s also almost an hour to civilization. I stopped going because packing and unpacking the car and then cleaning the whole house before leaving (plus leaving $150) for the maid was exhausting. The drinking word is cabaret. They are all going to have alcohol poisoning.
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What is it about these Jonathan Adler stores that the housewives love so much? It’s the place that sells those stupid pills for hundreds of dollars. I just don’t get it. Ramona is there to get a housewarming gift for Lu. She picks out a coaster with the word COCK on it. Clazzy! Oh, the other one says TAIL. I get it now. She also gets the ugliest candlesticks I’ve ever seen.
Barbara Is Sexually Fluid
Forty-five minute into the show, everyone arrives except Ramona. Everyone pretends to love Lu’s round bungalow. There is a kitchen in one of the guestrooms. What’s up with that? Dorinda isn’t overly impressed. Tinsley says she could never live there in the middle of nowhere. I think it’s cute!
Ramona is at one of her many birthday parties. The other RHONY were not invited. I do not understand how Ramona gets to keep ditching these all cast events.
Barbara says she is sexually fluid. That’s the new term for bisexual these days. Barbara had a relationship with a woman once. She prefers men.
Luann talks about her cabaret life. Bethenny and Luann fight about Bethenny having to go home from her Halloween performance to be with Bryn. Then Bethenny brings up something Luann said when they were at Art Basel. Is this trip after Art Basel? Why do they show things out of order on RHONY so much? How many times do they have to have this fight?
Next week we get a glimpse into Luann’s future music career when the RHONY go to club where an 80 year old woman “sings” and plays the keyboard. Come back next week for that RHONY Recap.
I love how Tinsley was actually participating (by herself, lol) I’m the drinking game “Cabaret”!
It looks like “The Countess” is back in full force, and it looks like we’ll be seeing how and why she’s back in that giant pot of boiling water now. Perhaps under different circumstances, I’d feel more sympathy for Luann. But considering how she threw Dorinda under the bus last season after Dorinda stood with her during “Tom Time”, and how she’s now throwing Bethenny under the bus under Bethenny helped her avoid a jail sentence last year, my patience for “Countess” antics is running very thin.
I agree, I thought after all shes been through she would at least be a bit humbled, I can’t stand her right now.
Humbled is a great description of how she should behave. I would imagine that would help her recovery very much.
A huge part of sobriety is humility. I always liked this quote:
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” ― CS Lewis.
Unfortunately, I don’t think LuAnne is there yet. She has the tools now to stop herself from sliding to an even worse bottom but it’s up to her to use them.
Thanks for another great recap TT!!
I agree! I can’t stand LuAnn’s entitled attitude. I did not like her criticism of Bethenny. Bethenny has a small child who definitely is more of a priority than LuAnn. Bethenny showed up. Lu was late. NOT B’s fault. Bethenny had to relieve her babysitter and get up early to get her child to school. Lu can’t relate because she wasn’t that type of mother. We just saw where she tried to take what belonged to her children in order to pay for the home she wanted (along w/begging others for money). I’m sick of Lu’s “I’m the bride…I’ve been through a divorce…I’m a star”…..she’s a self-centered bitch! I don’t typically desire to see someone get into trouble, but in the case of Lu’s upcoming appearance in front of the judge, I’m truly hoping she’s shown that the law does apply to The Countess. She needs to be taken down a few notches.
Yeah, that was so cringeworthy. Even if Bryn was asleep by then, why wouldn’t Bethenny want to be home with her daughter? And even if Bryn was asleep by then, why would Bethenny want to leave her home alone once the babysitter had to go?
I can’t fault Bethenny at all for choosing her daughter’s well-being over extra camera time at Luann’s Halloween party, and it boggles my mind that Lu can’t understand that.
Lu couldn’t even wrap her head around Beth needing to relieve her babysitter. THAT was what Beth said, that she needed to go home so her babysitter could go home. Whether it was 11:30a.m. or 11:30p.m., Beth takes time commitments seriously. Most of the others would figure the sitter was a lowly minion and they would party as long as THEY wanted to, F the sitter. And when Lu said “I’m a mother, too,” she didn’t even GET the difference between being a mom of a young child compared to adult children. Likely she was preoccupied trying to figure out how she was going to sneak in her next cocktail. (CLUELESS Ramona getting her those coasters. Or maybe it was secret code for “I SEE you, Lu.)
I hate to criticise any parent, and God knows Luann’s children seem like absolutely wonderful young people, but Lu had a very different parenting style to Bethenny. Luann seemed to keep a part of her life for herself (again – not criticising- they are great kids) and always had a terrific social life.
Yes, to everything you said, MelG!
Lu needs the best room because she’s the bride ..Lu needs the best room ecause she’s going through a divorce.. Lu needs the best rm because she’s an alcoholic.. Lu needs the best Room because she’s a cabaret star…… Rinse and repeat… It’s been the Lu entitlement show for about 3 seasons now.. I’m not overly fond of the house but I do love the view.
There’s a weird dynamic w/the whole cabaret thing, & everyone seems to ignore that Luann JUST got out of rehab/freaking out about finances w/house in catsills, ?, ..so yea while seems Bethenny went all out for her,LuAnns picking at Bethenny over little things like Bryn’s bedtime like it’s a blow to her ego. ?
You are so on point! They should rename this Mean Girls of New York. And Luann is intolerable in the best of times…and these aren’t the best of times. #Shutuuann
It was very telling that she couldn’t remember anything that she said or happened during her show. I just take it that she was already drinking again. That’s why she hid out in the suite.
I agree. How can she not remember that?
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
YUP!! My exact thought when I was watching…it’s not like it happened 2 years ago!
10 bucks that guest room with a kitchen was actually the lower floor rec room that opens to a lower yard. Lots of places of that era would put a small kitchenette in them. I see them all the time on VRBO in ocean rentals. A lot of them just put a TV screen and day beds or murphy beds in them to increase the number of people who can sleep there.
Lu has a lot of nerve the way she spoke to Sonja about “you are my guest” etc., and “showing off” that extra bed in the kitchenette room after she bitched so much about the fish room.
And of course, as I read on Twitter, Ramona WOULD by the newly recovering alcoholic coasters that say cocktail.
All in all, a fun episode. I’m glad that Dorinda has calmed down a bit from the first episode. I can like her again.
I don’t think Ramona bought the COCK TAIL coasters.
Pretty sure she put them back after she said, “Oh, I get it now”. I think I remember her saying she’d just take two of the candlesticks.
Yes, 2 ugly space needle candle sticks!
A crappy version of Mid-Century style. And THREE is the usual when the items are not matching. But Ramona doesn’t care enough to know that.
I thought the same thing. Extremely ugly and you’re suppose to buy three. Maybe we’re out of the loop and you only buy two for a round home. Three is too much round for a round home. Gotta get a lot of straight things to balance it all out 🙂
Ramona knew that you were supposed to buy 3 since she commented about that, but once she heard the price she decided to only spend enough to buy 2…lol
Oh my… what a cheap bitch. (lol) With all her money.
When I buy a gift for someone, I search forever for the perfect gift, which stresses me out. I see Ramona’s not like me, and just stops at the first place she sees, and picks out ugly crap.
It was nothing more than a paid ad for Jonathan Adler. I am not sure who he is fucking but we get of lot of ads for their stupid shit. I am VERY CURIOUS why Ramona keeps missing filming and is filming these weird promotional by herself.
Where is the house located ?
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m 95% sure her new house is in Port Ewen in Ulster County, between Poughkeepsie and Albany.
Yeah, the chyron said “Kingston, NY”, but is Kingston right on the Hudson? It’s been a long time for me.
It’s Ulster County at any rate. I’m pretty sure whoever said it was a dry county was being facetious about how far out of the city they were. An ex of mine lives in New Paltz and…uh…no way is that a dry county!
It looks like Kingston and Port Ewen are next to each other, and both reach the Hudson River, so we mostly figured it out. Both are in Ulster County.
And when I was looking it up, I didn’t see any Ulster County municipality come up on New York’s “dry town” list. So yes, they were probably being facetious and possibly didn’t want to bother looking for liquor up there.
I couldn’t comment on the recap. I could only reply to someone else’s post. I think you’re right. We were up there and I remember Kingston and the whole area well. The ladies weren’t exaggerating. I don’t know how she bought there. It’s very remote and there’s not much there that I would call lovely. I feel like Lu is acting. She’s not this haughty. I think she wants a storyline. Sonja is hilarious and so were B’s comments about that weird kitchen. I don’t know why Sonja is so hard on Tinsley. Ramona probably never paid for any of that knowing her. I don’t care for Barbara. They need to either add Jill instead or get rid of Barbara and have the other women. She’s annoying.
And does anyone know if Lu still owns her Sag H home? I thought on WWHL she said she had all 3 places, but on the show last nite, didn’t she make it sound like she sold the Sag H home because photographers were stalking her near the street? If so, I don’t know how she gave up that beautiful home for the Jetson house in the boonies.
Trying to reply to Cat37 2nd post..
I thought she kept the Sag Harbor house, but now I don’t know. The Sag Harbor house is my dream home. It was love at first site for me. So pretty, cozy with a beautiful view. It also seems like a fun house to live in with lots to do.
Now this round home is awful. Luann not only became insufferable this season, she also lost her taste in homes. It has no charm, the decor is just blah. Nothing special. And like you said it’s a Jetson home.. that made me lol so much.
*Love at first sight.
Pardon the dumb Georgia girl question but is Sag Harbor the Hampton house? If so she still has half ownership of that house and her kids have the other half. They house she owned with the Count prior to that she no longer has.
So she has the river bungalow and half interest in the Hamptons house.
Something is weird on the site not allowing replies. I was trying to reply to TT and Laila. Thank you, TT. It’s confusing because the show implied she was sick of the lack of privacy and sold the Sag Harbour home. I know it was clearer for me to say Hamptons home, but I didn’t want to confuse her original, gorgeous Hamptons estate with the Count. We know she sold that when they got divorced. They showed Lu selling its contents on the show. I agree, Laila, the Sag house was perfect for just her. I get that being on the Hudson is beautiful so the idea of the upstate house kind of makes sense, but it really doesn’t if she has the hamptons house. I guess she’s got enough money to indulge the upstate home for a very secluded retreat where she won’t see anyone she knows,etc. But like Tinsley said, there’s nothing to do there and it’s SO secluded, you could see it may not be the best idea for someone trying NOT to drink.
No disrespect to anyone in the area, but I’m telling you, I can’t imagine the Countess chillin in the Kingston region. If you’ve ever been, you feel me lol.
Hi Cat37 and Tamara.
Cat37, I find it strange that she moved out of the Hamptons to be in the boonies. What is she thinking? Maybe she thought she could have plenty of privacy to get drunk without getting caught. The people that I know who live their would never leave, but my friends are stuck up, entitled, phony, alcoholic bitches. They think because they live in the Hamptons, they are better than everyone, they’re not. One friend of mine even took on Dorit’s accent. I ignore them as much as possible. I’ve known them since high school and they were all dirt poor then.
Tamara, Luann’s white Sag Harbor home is considered the Hamptons. I used to go there in my 20’s a lot and party there. Pretty beaches, but I don’t like to drink. So, just been a few times later on in my life to go to dinner. Montauk is very pretty and cozy, but the farthest out of all, but I like it. I’m very close to Hampton Bays, so I shop there once in a while, I think it’s considered poor to these rich folks. Whenever I see the Jitney on the Long Island Expressway, I always try and see if Sonja is on it:)
Tinsley taking a drink every time Luann said cabaret was cracking me up!!! She literally kept playing the drinking game
Luann is the archetype of the newly “sober” alcoholic who thinks she is so special and above it all. It is a tie between Lu and Sonja over who is the least self-aware. I usually am all for rehab over jail time, but I really hope Luann goes to jail. She needs to learn that she is not above the “unspecial alcoholics” who don’t have the money for a high-powered attorney (or a Beth to pay one for you) and get down in the trenches. Beth is killing it in the ITMs this season, even more than usual.
I meant Lu and RAMONA. I love Sonja!
Yes — I’m sure if she went to meetings, she’d be better (or maybe not). The total & complete lack of self-awareness is to hard to watch! And her saying she was a “special alcoholic” was one of the worst things I’ve ever herd her say! She has not gratitude!
I’m just up to episode “It’s kind of a phone-y story”, and were it not for TT’s recaps, I would delete this entire season. Luann is on my last nerve, don’t like watching Sonia, her life makes me feel sad, Dorinda has me loving her one day and hating her the next….knowing what Bethany is going thru with the loss of Dennis makes me sad…..I want to see fabulous women living fabulous lives, for fux sake.
You are correct. If you Google “Port Ewen, NY round house” the original real estate listing comes up, and you can click through all the photos that the seller posted. Yes, I have too much free time and my mad Google skills prove it.
I looked it up and AT FIRST I was confused because it listed for $475,000, then $975,000. The $475 was the last time it sold; the kitchen has had major remodeling — more the sleek streamlined mid-century than the “holdover country” decor. Other extensive remodeling too, including the downstairs kitchen. I thought how horribly cold the kitchen slate floors would be — then I saw RADIANT HEATED floors, my favorite. Unless they need repairing.
The house isn’t horrible – I just think had I been L, I wld have taken out that stove from the bedroom. I’m not a fan of mid-century modern houses, but the view is spectacular!
Thanks, Dalai. I think it is a beautiful home. I noticed it it far more expensive than neighboring properties—resale value may not be good. Hope Lu plans to stay awhile.
Hmmm. That was supposed to be a reply to atdleft.
Dorinda making fun of Lu’s future as a one woman show as that 80 year old was hysterical. In my hometown the old lady that had a similar was act was Saucy Silvia.
luanne needs to take a seat. or sleep in the extra bedroom w/the kitchen in it. oh she probably keeps her
booze in the oven down there, and would not care about sleeping there. well how about being locked in
her room, listening to the 2 songs she knows,( w/dorinda on speakers hollering jovani), over and over again until she can’t take it anymore. and she can never say cabaret again, or back she goes into the room!!!
Maybe I’m way off here but how about Bethenny doesn’t need to give Luann or anyone else an excuse to leave. After 3 hours maybe leaving is okay by itself. Maybe say I love you and I wanted to support you but I was exhausted and it was late. Good friends understand things like this.
Luann was upset that Bethenny didn’t think she was important enough and whether or not she needed to get home for her daughter or not isn’t the point. To me Luann felt hurt that she didn’t get top priority. She wasn’t top priority and she was mad that people didn’t go along with the facade pretending she was.
There are zero dry counties in New York state. There are a few dry towns- none are anywhere near Lu’s house
Thanks. Maybe Bethenny was referring to the round house as a “dry county.” We only got Sunday Sales here a few years ago for beer and wine. I think liquor stores may still be closed. AND JUST THIS YEAR my county I think just changed the Sunday drink sales for Sunday brunch so you could get a mimosa before noon or noon thirty. #WontHeDoIt?
Oh and it varies by town and county but for the most part you can’t buy booze on Sunday until after church is over. lol. Like noonish. Which is when white people church is over. AME can go on for fucking hours. 🙂
And I think you can buy booze on election days now and Christmas day but you ustah couldn’t.
So many, many, many reasons not to go to Alabama.
I loved when LuAnn started to say, “I wasn’t thinking . . .” and Tinsley finished her sentence: “of anyone but yourself.”
That LuAnn couldn’t understand Bethenny’s position even after Bethenny explained it multiple times just shows how utterly self-centered and entitled Lu is. All Lu can think of is that she wanted everyone to worship her during the show, not that Bethenny is going to have to get up early and get her daughter to school. How can she be so dense and unable to understand someone else’s point of view??
I didn’t like her house at all. I liked the river view, but I didn’t like the house.
Agree with all of this SD!
I’m unclear as to why Luann needs another house? If she still has 1/2 interest in sag harbor, why the big push for this place? And why do it when your life is in termoil? And traveling all the time? Wouldn’t NYC be the best bet for home base? We are not getting the backstory on this.
Dorinda and Ramona as well. Dorinda’s place was tiny, so I can see that. (although bluestone seems massive); and Ramona’s place didn’t see all that large for an “empty nester” as she put it. Plus, they did own these properties for awhile, and purchasing new ones has got to cost more? A lot more? Ramona would never leave the upper east side, right?
LuAnn said on the show the Sag Harbor house is visible from the road, and photographers were camping out there. This upstate one is more private.
I too am over the Jonathan Adler “commercials” by Bravo. His stuff is sofa king ugly.
Luann…Get over thyself. She needs a mega dose of gratitude in her attitude! I see more rehab in her future. She has yet to complete a full stay!! As Bethenny pointed out, she does not have a nanny and needed to relieve her sitter…plus she gets up early in the mornings, gets her daughter ready for school and then takes her to school. Plus…She has an actual J-O-B…and is not out skulking around NYC at all hours of the night like Luann used to do when her kids were young and Rosie did EVERYTHING.
That house was chosen so she could hide out and drink herself into a coma. Also because it was in a cheaper area. WOW nothing like the 6M one she wanted. Big huge come down. I cannot stand that
she thinks her s…does not stink. She is nothing but a drunk and the reason people come to see
her show is they are star struck NOT because it is good or entertaining. The caliber of attendees I would love to see. NOT!!!!!!
Where is the reunion being filmed?
Watching it now. “Let me get…Let me get stretched out, and ready, for this bullshit” Lol. Best Housewife confessional line with visual in forever! — Bethenny’s comment concerning Ramona’s impending criticism.
Kind of weird how the camera keyed in on the slider Tinsley put on her plate. What was that?
Also, is it me or is Ramona getting a video edit here avoiding closeups because they’re afraid she’s looking her age in these restaurant shots. They’re panning off within seconds every time they film her. She’s so good looking though so I’m not sure why they’re doing that.
If I’m not mistaken that 80 year old cabaret star Lu wants to take everyone to see used to have a show on cable TV in New York in the 80’s. She went under the name of Margarita Pracatan and she was so terrible she was good. Has to be her.
Sort of New York’s version of Sondra Prill? (Look her up at your own risk!)
The only one I remember from NYC public access cable from back when is Robin Byrd. But that was a whole different type of…uh…”entertainment” altogether!
OMG I think I met her once. I’m pretty sure her schtick is screaming MAAAAAAARGARITAAAA PRRRRRRRRRRACATANNNNNN..
I have never understood how Bethenny was able to start this season as if last season never happened…Dorinda, Ramona and Tinsley were 100% aligned with Carole and were out for B’s blood at the reunion (dream team), yet this season there is no lingering tension left over from that? I was expecting acknowledgement of last season and a rebuilding period btwx Bethenny and the other girls. Weird…
Haven’t read the comments yet so don’t know if anyone has commented on this and I am no doctor but have family members who have bipolar disorder and Luanne’s behaviour- the manic episodes, self absorption and no comprehension of how her erratic behaviour affects other people, seems to imply she may be bipolar to some extent? Also self medicating with alcohol is common. Wonder if others see the same
When they were filming the dinner with Sonja and Barbara, it appears that Lu has a highball glass with red wine in it at the top of her plate. Sonja is drinking out of a wine glass, so it can’t be hers. I’m wondering if Lu thinks wine with dinner “doesn’t count”.
Bethenny has screamed at Lu calling her a whore. What LuAnn said about Bethenny going home to watch her daughter sleep was no big deal. Lamest storyline.
I don’t think it was the one thing she said, I think it is the accumulation of everything Lu has said about Bethenny just in the past what, 3 weeks (which in filming could even be a shorter time period). B’s screaming at Lu was part of a bigger argument that Lu played a part in. B did’t just randomly arrive and start screaming at Lu, while Lu has just been taking random pot shots at Bethenny when Bethenny isn’t even there, for really ridiculous stuff. To do that ESPECIALLY after B helped Luann was pretty shocking – I think even to the other HWs who tend to let shit slide. This is the cast that includes Ramona after all.
The ladies were in my neck of the woods a couple of weeks ago. The local newspaper had pics of Lu and company shopping incognito at the Target. Since we are about 90 miles NW of NYC lots of celebs come here to hide out in the woods.