I wanted to watch last week’s episode that I basically missed but It seems I deleted it. This episode looks depressing which is the last thing I need at the moment. I can be severely depressed all by myself. So this may be a RHOP Recap, or it made be more of a RHOP discussion thread. Sorry. This show has never gotten me fully engaged. Maybe the return of crazy Katie Rost will help?
Dear God. I finally see the fake braids on Karen’s wig. What was she thinking? It occurs to me that my sources almost never mention this show. Perhaps that is part of my piss poor attitude. I don’t know much about the behind the scene action. Other than the whole Michael situation. Which I think was a giant pile of crap. And despite an odd downpour of rain a bit ago, there is now some crazy lady screaming outside my house. Because, ghetto. Karen is so damn dramatic. Gizelle and Ashley are the only two I like on this show. And I use the term like very loosely.
Cold Uterus?
I am not interested in Candiace’s storyline at all. And I hope she doesn’t have kids. I also have little compassion for Karen’s fragile place. I feel some kind of way about myself for that. But, I just don’t.
I’m confused about the whole not drinking when trying to get pregnant thing. People get pregnant while shitfaced at a bar and have perfectly healthy kids. And what is a “cold uterus”? And why is Ashley’s uterus any of Candiace’s concern? In the meantime, Ashley got her period. So she’s going to party hard in NOLA.
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Meanwhile, Katie is pregnant. That doesn’t end well. New Orleans always looks like so much fun on TV, but when I went there with a guy I was doing a cross country trip with, it was a nightmare. Someone busted out the window of his car and stole a bunch of his things. I was ready to leave him there. It was bad. He was moving across country to live with me. He was living in LA and I flew out to drive the long hideous I-10 with him. I was already trying to formulate an exit strategy by Arizona. Because I suck at relationships. From New Orleans to Saint Simon’s Island where I lived, there was a black trash bag covering the busted window that rattled the last ten hours or so. And I thought the trip could not get any worse. But it did.
And Now Something Even More Depressing
Where are Candiace’s pants? Why are we pretending like Gizelle is from New Orleans? How are we four seasons in and just learning about these women’s genealogy? Gizelle’s dad takes them to tour a plantation to tell them about his ancestry. It’s a very bleak trip that I am going to fast forward through. Because, I’m depressed enough.
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Karen is still grieving and is taking a pass on going out with the girls. So everyone heads out to the Polo Lounge pretending it is Mardi Gras.
Gizelle, Katie and Ashley are the first to arrive. When Gizelle gets online to find the rest of the girls she notices that Karen is doing an Instragram story live. I thought she was in her room grieving. The girls are upset that she is staying in her room on Instagram rather than going out with them. The rest of the ladies go out. Except for Robyn who they left behind. Ashley is down to party hard. She hopes to be pregnant soon.
Get Out Of My Cold Uterus!
Candiace just can’t get out of Ashley’s uterus. She’s shaming her for drinking. Ashley is on her period. She’s find to drink you moron! The girl’s all go back to the hotel to party in Gizelle’s suite. Candiace and Ashley are both already wasted. Katie is pregnant but still full blown crazy. Boobs were flashed. Beads were thrown. Drinks were had.
Things get ridiculous when drunk Candiace confronts Ashley. She says she doesn’t believe she is trying to get pregnant. I’m glad I am not alone on Candiace being way too up in Ashley’s uterus. The other RHOP are on the same page as me.
On next week’s RHOP Recap, we stay in the big easy for some tarot card reading. And the braided wig is back.
Ugh. This whole show has always sounded like a horrible version of RHOA and with Nene’s recent bullshit and the overall blahness of Atlanta…how is that possible?
So I’m going to derail and talk about New Orleans.
NOLA is my favorite place in the whole world and I give the BEST tours of the Big Easy. I can even lay out a plan where you’ll have the best time according to your interests.
I know you love to eat, TT! There is NO bad food in New Orleans. What else do you like to do? I’ll lay out the best trip for ya! <3
I sort of envision myself going there soon and being a hot mess with Forum Dude. I feel like I am going to flee somewhere soonish. When the worst happens and make a fool of myself. New Orleans? NYC? Somewhere.
Oh and I am totally down with making these comments about NOLA and not the show. I have a really difficult time recapping this show on a good day. Thanks for your offer. I suck at everything right now. I appreciate your offer, I’ve never had beignet and clearly can’t even spell it, I’d want to go to some sort of tarot reader or some such and then probably continue my quest to drink myself to death. Sorry. Dark place.
TT – sending you love. Hang in there. For what it is worth, your insightful writing brings me and so many others great joy. You are 100% kick-ass!!
Ooooooo! I found your email. I’ll send ya some suggestions! WoooHOOOO!
Awww. Let’s take your Dark Place to New Orleans and make it Decadent Elegance.
I’d seriously love to help you plan a trip to NOLA and I don’t want to mess with the commenting rules by posting specific places such as B&B’s, hotels, restaurants. And this day and age I guess I need to say this: I just do this out of the goodness of my own heart. I only suggest places I’ve personally stayed or tried. I don’t get any $ for my suggestions from the businesses nor do I ask for $ or favors of any kind from the people asking for help on where to go.
New Orleans is special. The people are amazing! For instance, we went to there for Paddy’s Day this year along with a family member and his partner who just graduated from funeral director/mortician’s college this spring. I asked the partner what he wanted to do and he said anything to do with death! ([email protected]!) I got him a surprise grand tour of one of the oldest and most amazing funeral homes in New Orleans! When I called them to schedule the tour they were so nice. I got a call back a few days later and my contact had actually set the tour up to be private with the managing director who is the 5th generation of the family to own/work at the funeral home! They even took us into areas that aren’t completely done and into his own private office which has a view to DIE for! (pun intended!) It was amazing just like everything in New Orleans. The tour was the highlight of the trip for my nephew’s partner. It took him a couple of hours to crank his jaw back up into place. lol
So email me if you’re serious and we’ll work something out where whiskey milk punches await your Dark Place. <3
LaLa, could I take you up on that offer?
I don’t have a trip planned yet, but it is on my travel must do list, so I’m hoping to go there next year.
Let me know when you can and I’ll find a way to get your email address. ???
@TheTatumTalks, i do not know how to get my email to you. i do not know it TT allows that.
i seriously just sent TT an email that is so long i just re-read it and she might actually get a restraining order against me…
it’s like the internet version of war and peace.
Lol…TT…hook us up!
Damn it TT I was having a dark moment of my own down there all by myself, but noooo you had to go and post this… So come on over we can do fried shrimp poboys to start then the park, why does nobody do the park, but we will because beautiful and swans F-U LVP we got ’em too, then bloody marys at…Secret Place, Royal Street for the street performers, then Adolfo’s ’cause that shit is just good eating, and then since we’re on Frenchmen at that point music…Also music all around because…New Orleans.
Did I mention drag shows? Yeah, that’s gonna happen too.
No muffuletta????
TT NO ABSOLUTELY NOT. THEY’RE DISGUSTING! WAY TOO MUCH BREAD FOR WHATS IN IT AND WHATS IN IT ISN’T WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.
We make have to break up. 🙁
TT, I just sent you a g’damned WALL ‘O’ TEXT via email. Get your muffuletta at Napoleon House. It’s all in the email…
Drag Shows. Covered that, too.
xoxo
New Orleans if one of my favorite cities to visit. The food is amazing. I love the old homes there.
I am just happy that someone knows to use an adverb. When asked how she slept Candiace answered “wonderfully” . The grammar police are so happy! It almost makes up for the booty shorts and overly intense interest in Ashley’s uterus. If it wasnt’ for alcohol, half the kids in the world probably wouldn’t even be around.
I love Candice. She may not realize her judgmental comments to Ashley sound a lot like her own mother.
I think the reason Candiace doesn’t get along with her mother is because they are just alike. She doesn’t want her mother to say anything to her about behavior, however, she also wants to live off her mother. Candiace needs to grow up she thinks it’s cute to play the spoiled brat. It’s time to grow up it’s not becoming. If she wants her mother to shut up become self sufficient and stop behaving like a child. She’s so annoying.
Candiace lives in a glass house and really needs to STFU. Until you get out of your mother’s house and you support yourself you need to keep your thoughts to yourself.She cannot judge anyone.
That braided wig on Karen is a hot a$$ mess. Poor thang needs a better wig stylist. Her wigs get worse instead of better. She needs to get with Gazelle’s guy.
I never thought I would have anything in common with Robyn but I do. I too did ancestry and found out that I have 59% European (both parents being black). I am not as fair as Robyn nor do I have green eyes. It was a total shock. I can totally identify with her on that.
Karen’s braided wig was hideous. I think her hair stylist does a fabulous job on her wigs. I think he was hired, after that wig fiasco last season, because he could not had been the one styling her fro day one. He was so into the work he had put into the wigs he styled for NOLA, When Karen walked in and told him she wanted a braided wig, the look on faces was like “ugh”. The man was shocked and did the best he could do for that crazy last minute request.
Was he also the stylist who did her wig last season that kept falling off her head?
Wow… that would be a shocker. I’m reminded of one episode of Oprah – this woman and her family had NO idea that her mother had essentially passed as a white woman her entire marriage, until her long lost maternal family came looking (her mom had died before they found her). Luckily, I remember the woman totally embraced it; said it made some sense that in the summer around the pool she tanned REALLY well (and had once gotten into trouble for drinking from the white fountain, if I remember right).
I actually like this show. The women are educated and it’s nice to see women clearly articulate thoughts to each other, though shady, clearly. Any show associated with DC is never going to be comparable in hot mess like RHOA . I remember they did Top Chef in DC the year after Pres. Obama went to the White House. The entire season was boring as hell. I was shocked at Robyn’s ancestry percentage though. My favorite part was the plantation tour. It was touching and painful.
Me too. Love these women. It reminds me of how I came to the Bravo fold. Watching these broke ass people trying to front as wealthy is a laugh fest. I feel for Karen even at her most unlikable I still root for her. Katie is so basic ( yet beautiful) & her back story & current dilemma is newsworthy sad yet still relatable
She seems to be a good mother albeit one with a drinking problem, alledgedly. Giselle is a whole lot of snark. Ashley is the gold digger with a heart of gold. Candace is the only cast member I dont like yet even she is sorta fascinating. Potomac has become my favorite.
Totally agree with y’all!
The only similarity to this show and RHOA is that the casts are made up of black/mixed women. Other than that the shows are completely different.
I would usually have sympathy for Ashley in regards to Candiace asking so many questions about her drinking but I just remember last season Ashley doing the exact same to Monique and it even leading to people claiming that Monique suffered a miscarriage because of the drinking she did before she was pregnant.
@Chelle: I guess I should have given it a chance. It’s just that the trailers for the show make it look terrible and boring.
I want to watch an episode or two to see if I can get into it so is this a good time to try to catch a recent episode or should I try to start from the beginning?
I agree with you about Ashley being a nosy pot stirring. It obviously she can’t handle the scrutiny, Zero empathy for Ashley.
I love this franchise. Well done episode.
I like RHOP. I think Karen and Gizelle are the perfect frienemies.I’ll take Robyn and Juan over Ashley and Michael any day. Candiace should just be a friend of the wives.
I think Candance is trying to hold Ashley accountable for her own words. Ashley said in the first episode of the season that she was trying to get pregnant and part of that was that she quit drinking. I don’t think Candance was trying to say that someone who is trying to get pregnant can’t drink.
Although slavery is a dark topic, I LOVE history and enjoyed seeing some of it on this episode. I’m always happy when the cast trips can include some education or scene about the local culture among the fighting.
Gizelle must think everyone, including Karen, has forgotten her behavior last season otherwise, why on earth would she expect Karen to talk business with her?!
I’m happy to see Monique celebrating her pregnancy. She’s my favorite so far this season
As for Ashley and Candace I don’t have a dog in that fight but Ashley did say she would stop drinking as part of her quest to get pregnant.
Candace(I refuse to spell her name the silly way she does) was annoying but it’s hard to have empathy for Ashley who’s been scrutinizing all of the other women since season one. If you dish it you must be able to take it.
I love how Monique said even people smoking crack can get pregnant!
I just drove the I-10, cal-TX and back, my God I cannot do that again, sorry mom and dad. Only lost a tire from the superb infrastructure work happening on those roads. I wish they would hire producers that can come up with interesting storyline versus the white guy/brown dick or drinking while trying to get pregnant, but what can you do!
Why did Candiace wear the pink towel turban for half the show? After watching this show a couple of years I have noticed that Karen wants to play the Grand Dame but does not act like one. Grand Dames know how to stay above most of the drama and pull the strings from behind the scenes and she does neither. I like Gizelle but if she is your friend she is going to really piss you off sooner or later. As fun as Robyn is her tardiness would drive me crazy. I wonder if Monique learned anything by watching the other women get drunk when she could not drink? I love Ashley’s enthusiasm but I don’t think she’s got it together enough yet to have children. Then again, maybe a child would help her to grow up fast and figure it all out.
I can’t with Candiace. Every time I see her name I think Candy Ass. She and her mama drama is ridiculous. Stand on your own two feet, woman.
Thank you. Seriously thanks. This show is about Gizelle, Monique, and Ashley. That’s it. Candiace is tiresome as all hell. She needs to go, and now. Also Karen can show us her backside as well. I would not hate that either.
Am I crazy?? It seemed to me as if Katie was drinking and visibly pregnant. I wonder if she didn’t know she was pregnant yet.
You missed the part where she told one of the girls that she got her period on the trip and was bummed.
Ashley got her period.
Central Grocery Store on Rampart for the best muffuletta. So much meat and olive salad you can hardly get your mouth around it. Lots of fascinating products, too. I always pick up one to bring back home, but inevitably can’t resist and eat a quarter in my car getting olive salad all over! I grew up in New Orleans and I have to get one every time I am back home.
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Yep!! You got that right. Central Grocery has the best muffulettas ever. I do the same thing, grab one for home but eat it in the car. I grew up in NOLA too 🙂
Why do Karen’s husband act like that was the 1st time he saw her win a while on messenger/FB?? He said you look good and she said you just like my African braids… hadn’t she had the braids for a few episodes ? Hmmmmm
Why *did*
And I am ambivalent when it comes to Candace but her mother sure did a number on her growing up… Candice does not know how to stand up for herself and an argument… She buries the lead and are nonsensical talk.. She start off having a decent point but then get lost in translation./ babble. Ashley did state that she was not drinking and order to get her womb ready for a child… There so many pointers she could have argued but she fell flat… But I was impressed that she didn’t pull out her secret ( not so secret) to just randomly hurt Ashley. Especially being that intoxicated.
It’s pretty obvious Candice is just giving Ashely a taste of her own medicine. Ashley has always been more concerned w everyone else’s family dynamics (Robyn and Juan, Monice and her pregnancy) and not concerned w the fact her husband is a predator waiting to strike. I also sympathize for Candice, I know how hard it is to have a controlling mother who you can’t seem to please.
Side note: I love seeing Giselle’s daughters they are all stunning.