I am going to try to get caught up on some recaps this weekend. But while I was poking around on Twitter I saw some photos from tonight’s Shahs of Sunset, so I am going to try to get through a Shahs of Sunset recap. It looks like it is going to be an interesting episode.
Mike and Paulina have a new adorable puppy. The Hawaii trip storyline is that Mike planned the trip for Paulina’s birthday. Nema’s mom is in town and cooking Iranian food for her kids. Nema tells his mom that because of his childhood trauma he doesn’t want to have kids. Apparently, he asked him mom to write him a letter two years ago to explain what happened when he was a kid. She did. And he has been to anxious to read it. He finally reads the letter later in the episode and it pissed him off. She didn’t explain why the siblings were divided. It just left him with more questions. Nema and Mike get Botox injections together.
Mercedeh went out to a cafe to meet up with Destiney one-on-one. Personally, I think MJ just needs to leave the show and stay away from all of these assholes. And why on earth is she apologizing to Destiney. This is all her fought. Oh shit! Now Ali has walked in! Somehow Destiney and MJ hug it out. But neither one seems to trust this truce. Meanwhile, Adam and Reza have sort of a tense conversation. Adam says he doesn’t want MJ in their house ever again. Reza is fine with that. Adam never wants to see or speak to Mercedeh again.
Girls Night Out
Oddly, all the girls go out for drinks. Some of them barely know each other. The ones that do know each other are in the midst of some very shaky truces. MJ finds out the details of GG’s ectopic pregnancy. They both sort of bond over their difficulties with pregnancy and child birth. GG is due pretty much any day now. It must be terrifying to be pregnant during this fucking pandemic. MJ gives GG a supportive hug. This was one Debbie Downer girl’s night out.
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Nema goes to see a shrink about his mommy issues and we hear a bit more of the letter. Apparently, both siblings were sent to Iran with their grandfather. They were supposed to stay at their grandparents for a month while his parents tried to sort out their relationship. The kids ended up staying with their grandparents for nine months. They must have been very young because Nema doesn’t know much Farsi at all. Nema says Iran was a scary place.
Aloha!
We make it to Hawaii with fifteen minutes of show left. It looks really beautiful there.They are staying in someone’s enormous home. Clearly, the homeowners have never watched a Bravo show. I fear for this house already.There is a spiritual advisor at the house who gives them all leis and has them all greet each other by touching foreheads. Awkward.
At there first glorious meal on their lovely lanai, Reza starts taking MJ and Destiney to task for talking to Ali. Destiney is the one who told Reza. She is his little lap dog. We learn in a talking head with MJ, Ali has been there for her during her father’s death and her pregnancy issues in ways that none of her other friends have shown up. I still don’t get why Reza’s feet are not being held to the fire for ignoring MJ when she was in the hospital. And harassing her when she was in ICU. MJ tells Reza that he has treated her horribly many times in the past. If she was going to do something to hurt Reza, she would have retaliated then.
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Somehow the MJ and Reza argument turns to her wanting Reza in the delivery room. That’s just weird. Even weirder, Reza says he wanted to be in the delivery room. Please. He didn’t even call to check on her! Yet, somehow they both admit that had no empathy for what the other was going through. Once again, they forgive each other. FOR NOW.
WWHL
Mercedeh going to start using her real name again! I can’t believe that she and GG had to basically change their names to Americanize them in season one. The whole point of the show is to learn about Iranian-Americans. OMG! It is Shams first birthday! This drama has been going on for a year!
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Both MJ and Nema reallyl Like Pauliina. I am going to post this and then edit because my laptop is crashing again.
I’m 4 minutes in and Mike’s girlfriend is making me nauseous with all her breathy “I luv you” and “I love you more” statements. So fake ?
Be back to read recap and give two MORE of my cents later…
Word. I find that to be creepy AF.
Only at 45 minutes, still snoring. Only four 2×2 rows in first class from LAX to somewhere in Hawaii. I’d make fun but their getaway is Hawaii and us East Coasters is the Bahamas… anything that doesn’t require a stop in Miami or San Juan.
Is GG not appropriating other cultures with her braids? Just askin’…
Braided hair does not belong to any culture. I hate the whole appropriation thing. I live in the US. We are THE MELTING POT where cultures are supposed to be melted into one I don’t think I ever saw braids when I was raised in Africa. And people should not be claiming some things belong to some cultures IF WE ARE ALL TRYING TO BE GETTING ALONG.
We can all wear our hair however we want. We can all dress however we want. It’s the people screaming CULTURAL APPROPRIATION! As if one country owns one look who are ruining it for all of us. Do you, boo. Stop being the cultural police, LET US ALL LIVE!
And I say this out of love.
The way someone does their hair, if they want to wear a kimono, is a POSITIVE nod to sharing other cultures. Shouldn’t that be what we should be doing?
This whole cultural appropriation thing is crazy to me. Living here in the “melting pot” or the salad of other cultures as we trry to call it now. If you, like I do, want us all to live together maybe share more? Anyone can braid their hair. Anyone can wear a kimono. etc….
Thank you!
I think the whole cultural appropriation thing is a pile of crap. Just something else to whine about.
AMEN! ?
Ain’t nobody got time for that nonsense.
#teamkendall
I paid a bunch for mine in Jamaica, and while I’m brown, I am not Jamaican. It didn’t seem to be an issue.
Those braids hurt!
But they are wonderful.
If my scalp was in better shape, I would get them now! ?️
I truly don’t see the big deal in MJ talking about the stupid texts. Adam is the one in the wrong and no one seems to see that. On WHHL Neema nailed it. He also said about Destiney: If she’s crying, she’s lyin’ LOLOLOL
Adam is guilty as fuck. He knows MJ, Tommy and Ali know the dirty truth—that’s why he is avoiding them. Reza knows too. He’s looking the other way. I think they will be divorced soon.
Yes, Reza is angry at all the wrong people. It’s so odd that he thinks MJ set him up but then on cameo says he hopes Adam isn’t cheating and admits Adam sends lots of inappropriate texts and pics. I agree with you, Reza knows what Adam does but is looking the other way and blaming everyone else.
Yes, the real problem is Adam’s inappropriate behavior and also the belittling, controlling way Reza treats Adam. We all knew there were problems in their marriage. But somehow now the big story is who said what when. Adam, if you don’t want people talking about you, don’t sext with anyone but your husband.
I haven’t watched any of this season so I apologize in advance if I am missing something.
I thought Adam was going to be the best thing for Reza, grounding him and starting a family (I do know Reza has always backpedaled on children…red flag Adam…but we don’t know what goes on behind closed doors so I assumed there were some promises made?)
I just wonder if Adam’s “behaviors” are reactionary to Reza’s? Potential guilt and insecurity keeping him from being honest with his friends/cameras? I hear the anger described here and it sounds like he’s miserable, lost and is still clinging to a dream that has turned into a nightmare.
Times are hard. We cannot be tasked by explaining the whole season to you.
What I dont get is how come Reza hadn’t said he was sorry he didn’t come to the hospital when MJ was on her death bed? I mean doesn’t death trump everything, even supposedly starting rumors about your marriage? I just dont get it. Was Reza too busy shaving his legs to show up at the hospital? If your best friend does not show up when you might be dying are they a friend?
MJ was going through the birth of her child and then almost dying. Reza should have been checking in with her and Tommy through all of that. That is way bigger than yet one more bad development in his and Adam’s shaky marriage. And when Reza called her angrily about the Ali situation, that was *after* she had given birth. So that means he had not checked in with her to wish her well before she went in, even though we know of no reason for him to have been mad at her yet. He’s just a self-centered narcissist.
SD yes! And yet Reza is barely apologizing for his behavior.
I can’t believe Nema *asked* his mother to write that letter that was very painful to write, and then he goes two years without even reading it. What a jerk. It’s very obvious why he and Mona were separated: his parents were divorcing, and each wanted a child with them. I felt a lot of compassion for his mother when he read how she had to work a third-shift job in addition to her day job in order to be able to fly to CA to see him. But he says that made him angry. Once again, Shahs is a PSA, this time on how painful divorce is for children, even when parents want to say the kids will be fine. Usually, they are very hurt, even if they suppress it.
This was a childhood trauma fro him that was prolonged. He even hinted that he didn’t get along with his dad (or doesn’t?). His reactions to this trauma are going to be from that space, and so it will be childlike at times because of where it comes from. I felt for him – my cousins went through a very nasty divorce and growing up the parents battled and their mom had to put them in daycare, etc. so she could work to support them. It was hard, but my cousin has said at least they had each other; that she wouldn’t have survived some of their shit without him.
Adam looks cute in his flannel.
GG looks like a wax figurine of herself!
I’m not sure about the return of matte purple lipstick. ?
I am happy for MJ, totally tubular Tommy and that precious baby.
I think if Reza grew back his excellent stash, this would all be ok!
–Polly Positive ?
The dynamic between Adam and Reza is so tense and uncomfortable. Even before we as viewers knew about cheating rumors, etc. Something about Reza is very scary and unpredictable. Bad energy or something.
Can we just have an episode with Baby Shams and Mike’s (Paulina’s?) puppy?
The look on Adam’s face when he said that about MJ – he’s purposely destroying that 30 year friendship in an attempt to deflect the fact that no one has said IT DOESN’T MATTER who talked about it, said it, knew about it… HE DID IT. THEN BRAGGED ABOUT IT.
Adam will forever be associated with Naked Jenga while the hubby’s away and Reza has to decide if he wants to live with that.
Nobody has ever asked me to play Naked Jenga! ?