It’s finally time for a new episode of RHONY! Recently, Bravo release some new taglines for the show. I thought that was odd so I ask SOURCE what the story was. I was told that production was moving in a whole new direction for the second half of the season. Not sure what that means exactly, but it seems that with the current state of the country that people are not interested in seeing women brawling and acting like entitled assholes. So things are going to be lightened up a bit. Allegedly. I mean I’ll believe it when I see it. So this RHONY recap will let us know if things get kinder and gentler now that Tinsley is off the show. Click the link for the latest on Tinsley’s life in Chicago.
Ramona Meets With A Matchmaker
Unfortunately, it is still Halloween. Can we just skip forward to Christmas? This means costumes and a party at one of Luann’s friends house. Dorinda is still pissed for having to drive to the ends of the earth just so that Ramona could get a free party for the advertising. Ramona and Dorinda are irritated with Ramona. Meanwhile, Ramona is meeting with a matchmaker. This is the same one that set Ramona up with red scarf guy. Honestly, I think Ramona and Mario are back together.
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Sonja and Elyse go out for dinner and drinks and talk about…Ramona. Elyse basically says she is a fair weather friend. Sonja says Ramona only wants to talk about Ramona and never wants to hear what is going on with her. Dorinda and her daughter went out for burgers. Hannah tells her she is proud of her and Dorinda cries. It seems that all the RHONY are having birthdays soon. Then we have a family scene with Leah and her daughter and the ex. It seems the new direction for RHONY is more family scenes. I’m sooooo sleepy. I never really woke up today. So I keep zoning out. I can’t stop Yawning. I don’t think I will get to MAFSA tonight unless I catch a second wind.
The Housewives Pile On Ramona
This year’s Halloween party looks much more over the top than usual. They will have a sit down dinner. Luann is the designated hostess and the theme is voodoo. Ramona has of course double booked Luann’s party with someone else. Dorinda wins best costume and I am not even sure what she is. I guess she’s a skeleton. Dorinda, Sonja and Elyse ride to the party together and they are all coming for Ramona. Oh look! It’s Jill Zarin and her fiance, Gary. Jill is invited over to Luann and Leah’s private hair, makeup and costume squad. Sonja is already wasted and she is telling Ramona she’s a bad friend. Elyse jumps in on Ramona too.
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Leah makes up with a very drunken Sonja. Sonja agrees to a fresh start. But she won’t have any memory of this tomorrow.Luann, Sonja and Leah bond over disliking Ramona. Ramona has invited the infamous Missy to the party. Guess Missy isn’t with Tom anymore. Dorinda stands up and starts going in on Ramona in front of the entire room. I’m not a Ramona fan, but even moreso, I am not a fan of everyone picking on one person. These bitches are making the viewer sympathetic to Ramona and that is hard to do. Even Luann is starting to feel sorry for Ramona.
Leah gets drunk and starts tearing up the fake seafood tower. Ramona head off to another party at Omar’s where hopefully people will be nicer to her.
Next week: We’re off to the Berkshires where Dorinda will make it nice. Or will she?
I recently got caught up on the NY housewives, and I was blown away. These rich old white broads are trashy as hell. No wonder Tinsley left. How in the holy hell are any of these ladies accepted in high society in NYC? I am a middle class woman in the middle of KY and I have more manners than these people.
I’m close to age to them and watch as a reminder to age gracefully and NOT use “medications” to stay active and thin in order to one-up my friends while competing for yucky guys
Dorinda is a horrible person and mean girl.. . I’m not a Ramona fan, but I felt bad for her tonight.
Ramona is the worst. She’s not a real friend to anyone and deserves to be called out. Bringing Missy was a shitty thing to do. Avery wasn’t very nice when she said why are you wasting your time talking about Elyse. I thought that was a bitchy thing to say. Sonya was bombed and uncomfortable to watch. She’s pathetic
K…..
I thought the exact same. Avery just parrots her boorish mom.
That whole episode was a tossed salad without dressing. Made no sense.
I’m glad I am not the only one feeling like Ramona is getting what she deserves. Maybe I am heartless but I truly feel she needs to be knocked down a peg or two. For YEARS she has been horrible to the newbies, og’s and the help. You reap what you sow. I am just embarrassed that Sonja, Ramona and Dorinda are all Scorpio’s. Trust me most Scorpio’s do not act like them.
Only Ramona is a Scorpio. Sonja and Dorinda are Sagittariuses.
I would like to know what Sonja wanted to happen with the Ramona voodoo doll. That was one ugly ass voodoo doll. She at least could have got one from Dr. Wren, the lovely Southern gentleman who makes fetish dolls!
As Cindy (the Fiancee) calls to tell me roof rats have invaded HER BIRD’S cage in the back bedroom, I am dogsitting in a civilized house. Except, no bedside table lamp. WTF? Even frat house bedrooms have lava lamps. WTF? And clean sheets, but no pillowcases. WTF? I can’t find any in the usual places. (I DO NOT LIKE LOOKING THROUGH PEOPLE’S STUFF. Even with good reason.) I will get some at a Target tomorrow.
I spent so much time looking for pillowcases that I will have to watch this Voodoo Lounge Dogpile On Ramona episode when it repeats at 10. WTF would Ramona bring Missy to LUANNE’S party? Why would Missy go? Those two bitches are Philistines! DOGPILE AWAY.
Did you look in the dryer?
Good idea, TT!
I’m a dogsitter also, and I know that people are usually rushing ahead and leaving things to the last minute!
Yeah I just figured they were washing sheets to change and the pillow cases were probably in the dryer. Or not, We shall see.
I am completely with you! I didn’t feel sorry for Ramona at all. She brought Missy. Wtf? But ramona has always been an asshole. The fact that none of then have called Dorinda out must be a story line. Someone is trying very hard to fill a B’ shoes.
I really wish production would have given Sonja’s vodoo doll for Ramona big googly eyes or something. I would have screamed with laughter
Lol, perfct!
I completely Love Halloween, but for some reason I had a total flashback to when RHONY were consumed with charity work, openings at the Metropolitan Opera, husbands and kids (at least some of them). It was probably Jill Zarin that triggered this and she seemed so out of place, now.
The food on that table was totally gross! The rams’ heads (or whatever they were), the seafood tower. The whole thing just had a very disturbing vibe, and not in a fun Halloween way, but in a sick, twisted way.
Dorinda is the mean girl of mean girls, but I can’t like Ramona either–she’s so self-absorbed. Sonja is completely right when she say Ramona makes everything about her. And Ramona is terrible in her confessionals, not just when she has had something to drink. But the level of venom in Dorinda is shocking.
TBH, I am not sure if they even had real food. It seems like fake scary food. No wonder Ramona left for dinner at Omar’s…It’s middle Eastern Food! https://omars.nyc/
Dorinda is a pill to watch. The way she hops from one foot to another when she’s narrating one of her she said this and she did that stories. Plus I cannot stand how she argues like a coward by talking over the person and diverting the topic to stop the other person from speaking. And with all the ugliness we’ve seen her do over the past few years, tonight we have to watch her daughter tell her what a wonderful person she is. I’m not buying.
Bethenny once mimicked her hunching her shoulders and rubbing her hands together like a witch – it was so apt.
That photo of Luann catapults us forward in time. We now know what she’ll look like in her 70s and it’s not a good look.
It seems they’re all hitting the “3rd half of their lives” and having difficulty coming to grips with no longer being a rich, high society Mrs Countess/Mrs JP Morgan/Mrs Richard International Banker/Mrs TrueFaith/Mrs Kennedy-adjacent so they are instead just all hideous to perpetual Daddy’s girl ex Mrs Topper Mortimer who never hurt a fly and deserves to be happy
They all deserve to be happy I think the show just makes it very difficult
The whole episode just seemed like a hot mess — and more from a production/editing standpoint. It was hard to follow WTF was going on, and why people were even arguing with each other…
With the exception being the bananas Hamptons/tiki/lower level episode, the whole season has just been kind of dull and repetitive. They need a casting shake up bad. I think Ramona’s schtick is wearing thin, and Elyse brings less than nothing to the table.
After a couple great seasons — last season was lackluster, and this season is just plain bad — it seems like nothing is really happening in any of their lives at the moment.
Maybe it’s just me?
Stuff is happening in their lives. They just don’t want to show it. Watching Ramona strut around like she’s some in demand 30 year old is hard to watch. She looks good for her age but she looks 60. She’s FOS and is with Mario because no man In his right mind would ever take her seriously
I decided that I like the storyline of Luann dragging Sonja into her show while they quarrel bitterly about lack of compensation. Dorinda is depressing. I’m glad that her daughter is kind to her. It’s really weird that Tins is suddenly gone, but if she hadn’t left, the entire season would have just been scenes of Dorinda screamslurring at her.
That was a really good recap. I missed this episode but with what you wrote I can certainly picture everything in my mind. I can’t wait to go back and watch Ramona and the matchmaker. After seeing her attempts at flirting with younger men at the Newport bar I feel sorry for whoever goes out on a date with her.
I wonder what men think when she bats her eyelashes and plays coy? I think she looks ridiculous. How can they keep a straight face?
Hannah has become my new favorite housewife offspring. I love seeing her together with Dorinda, it was so sweet, then Dorinda has to get all nasty during the party, but hey, airtime.
I am coveting the turquoise glass backsplash in Ramona’s kitchen. Is that her Hampton’s house? Gorgeous.
This, absolutely.
It looked like Sonja has gotten oversized veneers during quarantine. I never noticed that she had issues with her teeth. That’s all I got out of this episode.
^actually, now I remember an episode where she went to have veneers applied a couple years ago
Rhony is now HORRIBLE! They are mean, drunk and angry…I cannot stand Leah! I don’t know who she think is, but she’s annoying as hell and needs to stfu..she is loud, nasty and overall just a nuisance, go away and quit calling your mother by her first name, ass$&@! You are NOT cool or hip, you r just gross! And all the others are so disconnected nothing makes sense anymore. Too bad, used to be at least funny and gossipy interesting, now just annoying and sad…
Interesting how opinions vary, isn’t it? I love Leah! She’s my favorite on this franchise now. She’s REAL, warts and all. The others, not so much. I cannot stand to watch the current Dorinda or Sonja. Their drunk antics are beyond OLD. Leah is not a mean drunk. Anyway, just to balance out your comment…
Yeah I hear you, I think you either love her or hate her, but I sure wouldn’t want her at my house drunk, she is just so destructive. Tearing up things, and breaking things, keep your hands off my things. I don’t think she would like people tearing up her apartment, just saying!
Exclusive:
They brought in a new EP to run the story/post department mid-season and let the old one go. It is not getting better….
I’m digging this little half-season so far.
I like the ladies in their unfiltered Zoom-type talking heads.
I really enjoyed seeing Dorinda with her daughter.
Hannah was chic in her Prada cherry shirt, and Dorina had Flock of Seasgulls hair!
I stand corrected!
Hannah’s shirt was actually from amazing Italian label No 21! 🍒
Am I the only one that had a hard time watching this episode? The sound was all goofy on the titles. The zoom/home interviews were so jarring. It was all like a poorly put together pilot. I was choosing between RHONY, Dear John, and MAFSA. RHONY barely won out. I am getting very disinterested in the whole housewives franchise. The gory days of Bravo are fading fast.
I absolutely agree, very difficult to follow everything…used to be fun and gossipy silly, now just confusing and angry…
Did anyone notice the confessionals were really weird looking? Some of them were done with a computer webcam and others were done in the studio. The whole episode seemed like a piecemeal cobbled together. Plus, It was clear that some of the scenes were failing months ago and others were filmed quite recently.
The reason for the hiatus for RHOBH and RHONY was because of the Pandemic. That meant that the RH had to film some of their confessionals at home and production had to pick them up and work them into the show.
I never thought I’d say this but I miss Alex. Her self delusional social climbing was at least calm and not at all mean spirited. Between Ramona and her vacant narcissism (that fake crying scene to get the cameras on her a few episodes ago was the definition of thirst), Luann and her narcissism, Dorinda and her vitriol, and now Leah – who I really have liked but she’s losing her shine to me – and Sonja who are both to consistently messy it’s too much chaos.
I am happy that Leah is driving Ramona crazy. That being said, she would get on my nerves after awhile. Bringing Missy to Luann’s party was f^cked up and was intentional. She didn’t get the rise like she wanted to from Luann. I want them to bring back some of the old RHONY.
There has to be more interesting women in NYC?????
I haven’t caught up with latest because in UK and refuse to pay extra so will wait.
However, keeping up with the gossip (thanks @Tamaratattles).
Dorinda appears to have kept up her role as “Mrs Bucket” (English sitcom character who insisted people addressed her as ‘Mrs Bouquet’ when surname was spelt as’ Bucket’).
In reality, Dorinda’s a self-deluded classless drunk with ‘Sinus’ issues (sniff, gurn) who married well – twice – and insists moves in the upper echelons of NY intellectual society.
She was an ex-restaurant hostess / 80’s aerobic instructor – nothing wrong with either but any perceived Upper East Side status is aligned to deceased husband; not incoherent, aggressive drunk.
I have to admire her chutzpah in parading the vile, sweaty, inarticulate, abusive John M (can’t be arsed to look up his surname) as a credible boyfriend – then again, Red Scarf man anyone??!!
Bit strange to be wailing and rending her clothes NOW over last husband’s death when she moved on within six months with said sweaty, unpleasant, sinus medication provider boyfriend.
I understand she’s been going after Tinsley – why? God knows TM is boring as f*** but harmless – is she jealous because Tinsley is the real deal re moneyed (brainless) WASP?
I understand that Ramona dragged fellow housewives to unscheduled events – they didnt realise they were endorsing product / event on her behalf till they got there – result being she got kick back / personally benefited e.g. gifted her next ‘party / launch’.
The woman has no shame – does anyone remember Heather’s husband ensuring there was loads of top end Caviar for her birthday (it was part of her present – because she loved Beluga so much). Ramona steamed in and proceeded to shovel in as much as was humanly feasible into her gob. She’s the type of person that even if she secretly hated Iranian Beluga, would still gobble handfuls.
Someone made a comment about leaving a bit for others and she basically replied she was paying them a compliment by being a glutton – she was proving the Caviar was good.
Considering she didn’t recognise her own branded Pinot Grigio at a wine tasting, I would suggest a future host serve her Herring Roe in a Beluga Caviar tin and secretly film her stuffing it in her gob whilst surreptitiously swiping any unopened tins into a wasted Sonja’s handbag (in case called out / leakage) to be retrieved later.
Usually RHONY is my favourite, but I find myself disliking every cast member at the moment. It may just be me and the fatigue from COVID social distancing, changing work patterns, hubby being laid off etc, but they are just not fun to me anymore.
RHONY used to be one of my favorites! It’s now virtually ‘Drunk Hags Gone Wild’. Every one of them (aside from Elyse & Tinsley) need serious counseling and rehab! Leah may have been likable if not for her drunken
episodes. Seems like her baby daddy is also very concerned and could she risk losing daughter??? Guess she felt she has to be drunk to be on the show after a number of years of sobriety. Luann, Sonja, Dorinda delusional drunks living through their past lives. Sonja’s daughter must be so proud. Laughable when Dorinda’s daughter said she’s a good role model now!! Dorinda’s now using husbands death as excuse for her obscene behavior; most especially her treatment/abuse of Tinsley. That alone should have gotten her fired from the show. Tinsley has every right to leave mid-season whether breaking contract or not after the abuse she endured from Drunk, Jealous, Gross, Dorinda!! Ramona as usual just totally into Ramona and her narcissism!! Loved how she tried to use the word and screwed it up as she often does. She’s all about ‘what’s good for me’. Bethenny would keep them all in check.