From the look of the previews, this RHOP recap is going to be weird. Very weird. Also, I think this is the episode with the party where the cameraman filed charges on Micheal Darby for “touching his butt.”
Monique is throwing herself a baby shower it seems. But not just any baby shower, it’s also a memorial of sorts for the baby she miscarried. She calls the deceased baby her angel and the current fetus her rainbow baby. Who does this. Gizelle has a sick daughter so she doesn’t have to go. It’s a huge catered event. Who does this? Did I just see a little dead baby on a cake? I can’t.
All of the husbands are there. And Monique’s mother in law who doesn’t drink Jesus juice, but apparently she does drink Jesus. What does that even mean?
Rainbow Babies
Monique starts off giving a speech about “rainbow babies” from the balcony. Then she releases doves. Remember Phaedra’s self-thrown shower with the random dancing ballerinas and a dozen white full-sized roses stuck randomly into her head? Well, this shindig is just as bizarre. After the release of the doves, Monique’s mother-in-law, Shirley, wants to give her own speech. She feels the need to put her disagreements with Monique behind her and she apologizes for all the trash she talks about her. They hug it out.
Candiace and arrives late with her husband. But the important thing is that Michael is going inside to get a drink. The party is outside and according to what I read, “the incident” occurred inside. I just reread that link and it says the cameraman was going outside when it happened. There are a lot of people at this event. So there would have been witnesses galore of something untoward happened.
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Michael seems drunk. He also seem very affected by the whole rainbow baby thing since Ashley and Michael also suffered a miscarriage. He wants to do something to acknowledge that child too. He’s not in drunken flirtatious mode. He seems to be in sad drunk mode. Karen is also in sad drunk mode missing her father. Meanwhile Michael is quietly crying while talking to Ashley about the miscarriage. Then he goes inside. We see no encounters with a cameraman.
Monique offers up the floor for others to share about their miscarriages. Dear Lord, why? Ashley volunteers to tell her story. Michael is still inside the house. He’s still emotional when he comes out. Ashley and Karen film a scene where Ashley apologizes to Karen for being insensitive to her about her loss.
Gizelle’s mom shows up at her house for a visit. She tells her mother that she is thinking about buying a house that is a fixer-upper. We cut abruptly to Robyn who is still working on property flip. There is still so much to do. None of it looks fun. They have been working on the flip for nearly a year. They are expecting a $50,000 profit. Split between Robyn and her mom, that’s $25,000 each before taxes.
I have had enough talk about miscarriages for one night so I am going to move along to Gizelle. She’s at Candiance’s husband’s restaurant. I need Chris’s BBQ in my life. Candiance mocks Ashley’s miscarriage story to Gizelle and reiterates that she doesn’t believe Ashley is trying to conceive. Then she moves on to Monique. She basically says that Monique was trash talking Katie. I really can’t follow this girl’s “logic” about things but she sure does like to gossip behind everyone’s back.
Getting Salty
Ashley and Karen go to meet with a spiritual healer in a salt spa. This may be too weird to recap. As Karen says, “This is some bullshit.” The healer says Karen’s dad is in the salt spa with her. Karen starts crying. Someone has been crying in almost every scene this episode. Why can’t we have fun shows anymore? I don’t need to watch other people cry. Then Ashley is sad that Michael is almost 60 and her baby won’t have a father for long.
And the episode and the RHOP Recap comes to a merciful end.
TOTAL Debbie Downer episode. I’m just not feeling this franchise this season.
Hear, hear!
Opposite opinion. I care about these women. Karen is a head trip but sincerely grieving her parents. Ashley a free spirit in a miserable marriage with a uninterested partner. Giselle is always a riot even when she is messy as all get out. Robin is just sad but I like her too ! Candace is the only unbearable one but she brings the drama. Love Katie, dont care what everyone else says she makes this show so much more enjoyable & I look forward to all her scenes. Great episode for me. Usually filled with laughter but tonight’s episode still satisfied me. I love Potomac. Even when the girls have a bad case of sadness.
Wait, in the preview for the rest of the season, did Candaice say her mother smacked her in the face with her purse? I am dying. That would be so embarrassing! I kinda hope it is on camera.
I believe she was speaking metaphorically there. I think she was alluding to her mother actually having taken money away or a belief that she would.
It’s obvious to me that Karen is immensely jealous of Gizell. You can feel her envy in the way she looks at Gizelle with such venomous spite!
LOL I think she hates the fact the viewing public sees right through her and much prefers Gizelle (Gizzy) over her. I mean she took the time to create a silly nickname like Gizzy for her. I wonder how long it took her to come up with that one. Kind of backfired though ’cause I kind of like it.
Great episode tonight 👏🏾
So Monique had a gender reveal party and didn’t reveal the gender or did I miss something? I love those salt caves. I go frequently and feel like a million bucks after. Very relaxing, stress relieving and helps my sinus problems.
I wasn’t sure if it was a gender reveal party/baby shower or a memorial/baby shower.
Who knows really but the best I could gather is that she was celebrating the upcoming birth of the new baby after her miscarriage. Apparently such babies are known as rainbow babies hence the rainbow theme. Something beautiful out of darkness. Really though rainbow themed baby showers are for gaybies.
Also rainbows are the result of the refraction, reflection, and dispersion of light, darkness doesn’t really come into play which is what makes the concept kind of bizarre to me.
Please don’t let “miscarriage parties” become a trend because of this episode. The 2 words together – just – no.
I think Monique had the rainbow party because she got pregnant pretty soon after the miscarriage and was still not over grieving. I’m not going to judge her for processing her grief. I guess I’m in the minority, I like watching this cast. They may be boring compared to others, but I think they’re still entertaining.
I’m typically a cynical bitch, but I can’t even hate on her Monique’s rainbow party. Definitely could’ve been planned differently and not combined into one big ole thing that got confusing and please, no doves! But her heart was in the right place. Maybe it’s because there’s a rainbow baby coming any day now in my extended circle or maybe it’s just me getting older or maybe I should stop making excuses and admit I’m getting soft. 🙂
i’ve really tried to like this show, but i just cannot get into it. 🙁
I am not feeling Candace at all. Someone on WWHL called Candace out and what they said was so true. They basically said that Candace is acting just like her mother. She wants her mother to treat her like an adult and wants her mother to stay out her business but she is acting like a child and is in everyone’s business. If she keeps it up Chris is going to leave her.
I was really enjoying the interaction between Gazelle and her mother until that bad edit of Robin and her flip.
I can tell I’m going to like Gizelle’s mother.
I was thinking about this show and about Ashley in particular, and I can’t shake the feeling that maybe she’s really just a beard for Michael, and along those lines it struck me what if she’s lying about having had a miscarriage to solidify Michael’s heterosexuality. Eh, just a thought.
Candiace is such a whiny person. Jesus I don’t know how the hell her husband puts up with her constant tittle-tattlling, and caterwaulling. I really wish her mother would kick them out of her house so Candiace has to live on her husband’s income so she has to work to live the lifestyle she demands but doesn’t merit.
So next week is the confront Michael on his other people’s penis loving ways. Man that’s gonna be rough for him. He should just come out of the closet. Also he should probably stop allegedly sexually assaulting other men.
I think Michael is bisexual and there is nothing wrong with that.
Only when your wife doesn’t know.
Damn! You got that right, The Tatum!!
Forum Dude – love “his other people’s penis loving ways (howling)!
Maybe it is just me, but the fact that Candace’s mom is a practicing therapist freaks me out!
She has really done a number on her daughter.
It’s frightening. Candace is something. I wonder if her brother and sister are just like her.
While I find it odd to throw a baby shower and a “memorial” at the same time. “Rainbow baby” is a common term for those of us that have experienced a loss via miscarriage or still birth.
Thanks for the recaps.
It does not matter one iota what Ashley or Michael have done in the past or even the present, CANDIACE NEEDS TO STOP INVOLVING HERSELF IN OTHER PEOPLE’S SEXUAL ORGANS.
What Ashley does or doesn’t do to her body that may effect her uterus and its ability to conceive a child is NONE OF HER FUCKING BUSINESS.
Preach!