This July heat continues to zap the life out of me. I am sleeping for hours every few hours and then awake again. I feel like I have a fever even thought it is 76 degrees inside, which isn’t bad at all. My temperature is actually below normal from all the cold water I am drinking. Anyway, I’m going to try to do a bit better with sort of a mini RHONY recap tonight. This is season is probably the worst season of RHONY ever. And tonight’s episode guide makes this seem like a ridiculous one. But let’s get through it so I can go back to bed, AGAIN. Banjo is not holding up well either. He not eating and not drinking enough water. :(. And he keeps barking (because fucking fireworks) and I have a headache.
And here we go. I am just glad to get out to the Berkshires. Even if that means we have to have a birthday for Ramona. Don’t people sort of out grow birthdays when they are adults? I tend to ignore mine. Why can’t I stop sneezing? Argh! Ramona is planning her birthday party for three thousand of her closest friends. I care even less about Sonja and Luann pretending to care about incarcerated people. It just doesn’t seem genuine to me. Your mileage may vary. If she was not on TV she would not be doing this.
Forced Family Fun
Ramona, Avery and Mario all get together for dinner. These two just need to get back together already. Then, this trio all quarantined together in Florida. Even Avery says that Ramona doesn’t have 50 friends. But I do love this little trio. They seem to go together very well. Meanwhile, Leah and her sister ( i think) go to a spa. Or a bath house. Or something. Not sure what is going on here. Has anyone been to Spa E? What is mttm? We are halfway in and basically, the show hasn’t started. Sonja’s townhouse where she no longer lives is flooded.
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And apparently. Sonja got kicked out of a gay bar. Back when I was underage, I went to downtown Atlanta for some sort of festival. I went into a gay bar to buy cigarettes from a machine that was right inside the door. The guys at the bar all started screaming at me. NO LADIES ALLOWED! And I was like, so why are there Virginia Slims in this vending machine? lol? That was literally the only time gay men have been mean to me. I think it was just because of the street festival and they didn’t want randoms in the bar. My point is that it takes a lot to get thrown out of a gay bar, They are usually pretty tolerant in my experience. Then again, most of my future visits were with gay guys. So perhaps you should not go unescorted?
Sonja Drama
While Sonja frets about water damage in her apartment, Dorinda, Leah and Elyse discuss Sonja getting thrown out of the bar for singing Hello Dolly. WTF? How did I miss this story? Meanwhile, Dorinda’s apartment that she say in not really done yet is beautiful. They also talk about violating Ramona’s strict dress code for what they are allowed to wear to Ramona’s party. Dorina gives Leah some lingerie and suggests she go in just that. Dorinda thinks Elyse has Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to Ramona. And was that Len the housekeeper at Blue Stone Manor we saw just now? Does she have to follow Dorinda everywhere?
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No one is happy about going to this birthday party. I am mind numbingly bored. Dorinda invites everyone to Mexico. This year the RHOA are confined to the US because no one will let us travel there. Ramona is so self interested. Dorinda says she is worried about Sonja. So is Luann. The party seems to be all about Sonja. Why are Dorina and Leah humping Luann. I don’t understand any of this. Ramona tries to get Leah thrown off set by production. Does’t she know by now it just gives Leah more camera time? Ramona threatens to quit the show. LOL! As IF! Next week, we are off to Mexico. And I am off to bed.
MTM = married to the mob
Rhony time is up!
Isn’t the spa Leah visited with her sister the same spa she brought the ladies to earlier this season? I wanted to say last season because it seems so long ago. I wonder if production is going to add Leah’s sister next season? They need to do something as this cast has turned into a bunch of melodramatic drunks.
I thought it was the same spa too but I swear she called that one the Russian Bathhouse I think. Both r super weird
Apparently it’s a spa when it’s coed, it used to be a gay bathhouse in the 00s.
Yes, same spa. I thought it was pretty awful Leah’s sister told her their mother didn’t like Leah. She tried to act like it was a slip, but it was calculated, and she had to know that would be super hurtful.
Sarah said her mother told her she didn’t like EITHER of them, but that “at least you [Sarah] try.”
Can you IMAGINE going to that bitch for therapy? I have heard LOTS of mothers say they don’t like their kids but they love them. Mothers tell me LOTS of stuff they don’t tell other people — ESPECIALLY other mothers — because I chose not to have children by getting my tubes tied. I can understand that — all assholes are someone’s child. BUT my advice to ALL of those mothers is to not share that with their children. Does “honesty” win over kindness. Is it really necessary? Not to me.
Sigh…I miss Virginia Slims
I miss cigarette vending machines
I forgot those ever existed!
Me too! The last time I saw one was when I went on a school trip to Spain in early 2000. That was my only Christmas present and begged my parents to let me go. It only cost about two thousand dollars then for a 12 day tour for high school kids. Even then we thought it was nuts that we could buy cigarettes from a vending machine. We also had no problem buying beer either. The adults in charge of us did not watch us closely at all. But I was definitely sneaky as hell.
We still have the vending machines.
The minimum buying and drinking age in Spain is 18, which is fairly young compared to the rest of the world. This includes buying alcohol in bars and clubs, restaurants and shops.
During tourist season that minimum age goes out the window but not for the local kids.
….Soph. year in the college dorm trying to scrounge up .75c for a pack of mental Virginia Slims in the hall machine…then being pissed they only had Benson Hedges….ahh….good times!
OMG I miss those Benson & Hedges Deluxe Ultra Lights — it still rolls off the tongue!
Virginia Slim Menthol Light 100s.
The birthday party looked kind of boring actually. Why was Sonja crushing a glass mirror? That looked dangerous and stupid.
I like seeing Mario and Ramona together.
The entire episode was a big nothing. Agree, the party was pathetic and just sad. Ramona going on and on about how wonderful and sophisticated it was going to be and the only interesting thing was the licorice ladder, which would have been better suited to a bar mitzvah. It looked like any old convention, complete with the banner. It did sort of clarify why Ramona is so insecure and always wanting to be the center of attention-her sister is the beautiful one.
That is by far the brightest party space I’ve ever seen for an event not exclusively for small children. I don’t understand the theme. It looks like a high school Valentines Day dance. I’m into the licorice ladder too, but why was it in a ye’ olde telephone booth?
just like jill zarin’s sister was the nice likeable one.
Ramona had that banner Implying people actually used that phrase when referencing her. If that were true why did she have to explain it? It seemed desperate, like somebody assigning themselves a nickname. Sad.
Leah said on WWHL that Dorinda ending up cutting her foot on piece of that glass and Sonja took her to the emergency room, or at least went with her.
That is awful glass in your foot is painful. Didn’t Dorinda Stab herself while drunk? Lots of unnecessary injuries
Yep, a couple years ago. I think that was the same Mexico trip where Luann fell in the bushes.
I have been waiting since the first “this season on RHNY…” preview came out for the mirror tray stomping scene. I expected there to be glass in someone’s foot, but I thought it would be Sonja’s. That SHOULD BE a wake up call to Sonja about her drinking, but we shall see.
I thought it was typical Luann self-centeredness that she was saying because of her experience she could relate to the people who had been in jail/prison. She was in jail for one night, not years, and she still could keep her job (RHONY), not struggle to get a job for the rest of her life. And maybe it’s just me, but I think I would rather be given some rent money than have the rich white lady pay for a spa day.
That scene was embarrassing. Reeked of white privilege. Lumann is the worst.
Luann sharing her story with the former prisoners was painful to watch. A rich, pretty, white lady getting 3 felonies and getting zero jail time. Hmmm. Luann seems to have zero ability to see the glaring difference in her situation & theirs. But, she did seem genuinely touched by being there. I couldn’t help but wonder what the other people were feeling when they hear she hit a police officer and got zero jail time.
I am really enjoying this season because of Leah. She is the best thing to happen to RHONY since Dorinda came on board! She is so straight forward, funny and real. Yes, a little crazy at times. After years of Ramona’s rudeness and cluelessness, Leah is what this show needed. Leah and Bethany would have been big fun. Leah and Heather could be good together. Maybe? They need to find Leah a good side-kick!
Leah said on WWHL that Dorinda ended up at the emergency room with glass from the broken mirror on her foot. Sonja’s elevator isn’t going all the way to the top this season. (But, she does sound much more focused in her recent talking heads.) The party’s decor may have looked okay in person, but on TV it looked like really, really, REALLY bad convention decor. The sign was baaadd. Ramona’s living room? The bright lights & the big room added to the convention feel. No warmth. Definitely one of the worst RH parties when there have been so many beautiful ones!
i completly agree with you that leah has revamped the show and been the best thing to happen! i just feel like anytime you watch sonja or ramona ist like watching a trainwreck. sonja is a sweet lady and very charitable but she needs some SERIOUS help. and ramona. ramona is WAY too entitled and bossy and thinks her shit doesnt stink. its just time for a new fresh crew for that show. i miss Tinsley but cant blame her for leaving!
also i cannot for the life of me understand why ramona was pissed about raunchy dancing but no sonja breaking glass at a party??? really????
Leah better look hard at Sonja, because Sonja is Leah’s future if she doesn’t stop drinking. Leah is a fresh face and she’s beautiful, but that’s it. Her antics would get her jail time in any other venue.
I’m tired of drunk, crazy, out of control getting attention and money for their drunk, crazy antics.
Ramona was pissed because Leah was getting more attention than her.
Dorinda could’ve done a better job decorating the party…she would’ve made it nice!!!
Didn’t Ramona make Dorinda and Sonja (?) drive to the hinterlands to fellatiate the party planner so she wouldn’t have to pay? And that is what she got????
Yup and Ramona even said at the party “I tried to give him a check but he wanted me to have this as his gift.” So incredibly narcissistic and unaware. I really can’t stand her.
Leah, blah, please Get rid of this hungry B!
Couldn’t agree more! She just tries too hard!
On WWHL, Leah said with the giant white palms and all the red, it reminded her if the opening scenes to some kind of porn. Maybe old white lady porn?
She also said that the energy was so toxic that she had to see a shaman cleanse it from her.
MILF porn
Sonja dancing on top of the table, stomping on the broken mirror, holding a giant flower napkin on her head with a bored model expression on her face is THE BEST THING EVER! She has ensured her immortality because that clip will played a million times.
So agree!!! I will always love Sonja! She looks amazing in her talking heads. Leah is growing on me. She was really good in WWHL. Ramona still loves Mario . You can see it . 😞
Don’t those dopey gays men know that there are gay women too?
Drunk housewives shows are all really lame, thanks for recap, more entertaining and less waste of time…
Can we talk about Ramona’s dress?
She wore it the first time around in the 1980s.
The designer, Ronny Kobo is very popular with the Goop, downtown, I-married-a-really-rich-guy, thirty something, vegan/plant based/anorexic crowd. She is definitely trying to recapture her youth.
Scarpetta is really a nice place. It definitely didn’t get shown in its best light.
I think production is trying to edit Ramona so she is out next year. They certainly have not been kind to her and I feel bad for her.
Tinsley would have killed it in that dress, miss baby gurl.
Yep, I miss her too.
I kept thinking it was way too short for a woman of her years. And not very flattering. Sonja had her pegged though Ramona tells everyone to wear black but then shows up in red. And that’s exactly what she did. I was glad they didn’t wear black.
When the founder of the organization asked Luann if Sonja was an upper eastsider as well, it spoke volumes as to what we were all thinking…”this is who you came up with?” (for a motivational speech). A condescending rich woman who insists on calling her night in the drunk tank, her incarceration. She understood their shame because she too, was shackled. Bahahaha…she was shackled because she decided to fight the cops. The police still treated her gently because they didn’t put the cuffs on tight enough and she slipped her man size paws out of them quite easily.
Jen, yes. I was cringing the entire time. I’m glad it got air time, but really. Luann is saying “I know your pain.”
Belladonna…lol
I actually think I had a little vomit in my mouth with that scene. She is a piece of work. Sometimes…ok often…when i feel like I need a good chuckle, I am tempted to buy her book on manners. But then I think that the book sale would benefit her and i can’t give one penny to that dreadful, haughty She Man.
Buy it USED. She doesn’t get a dime. Then tell us the “best” parts.
That is a great idea!!!
So now that David Bowie is dead, Sonja dated him. Wrong. The timeline doesn’t work. Bowie started dating Iman in the 1980s.
Also why have NONE of these European Modeling” photos of Sonjas managed to surface? We’ve seen LuAnns.
Because there are none. Sonja was way too short to model in Europe.
Why does she lie about everything?
Billy Idol, not David Bowie
Way too short and not pretty enough. Who is she kidding?
Leah’s sister is hot. I think I’ve said it before, but she gets me closer to rethinking my lifestyle. I know, “lifestyle” is bullshit, but damn.
Great episode and a kind of real. ALL the ladies were shown in a horrible light.
Self centered Romona (me, me, and more me)
Drunk Dorinda (she look plastered at the party)
Sonja (so jealous of Romona’s friends)
Teenager Leah (acting out for attention)
I like Leah but her drunken acting out gives me anxiety & her humping & kissing on women in public is disgusting. I was disappointed to see Dorinda & Elyse join in. How is that entertaining? If they are lesbians they need their own show at least we’ll know what to expect. I’m with Ramona on their unnecessary & nasty public behavior.
Exactly. I’m no prude, but what we saw does not belong at an adult party. I would have been mortified in front of my other friends….all 50 of them…too.
RHONY used to be kinda classy
One of the best two moments from WWHL was when Andy asked Leah to describe Ramona’s “baby turd” in three words.
Leah: No thank you. (Very classy.)
A little while later, the other guest, comic-actress Michelle Buteau came up with one even better.
Michelle: It’s turd-le time! (Bwahahaha!)
Turd-le time. Now that is funny.
I..I can’t believe I’m saying this but RHOBH is a lot better than RHONY this year. RHONY is becoming a mess of a show and not in a good way.
Ya know, I watch both and I have to agree. I think BH and NY do one thing very wrong: the cast try to jump in front of the camera no matter the need. I’m sick of these pile on scenes (with Elyse actually jogging to get in the shot). It smells of desperation and is uncomfortable to view. They all do it, but NY does it to the extreme.
I paused this at the perfect scene, with Leah screaming, Dorinda doing her finger thing, and the camera guy with a look on his face that says is the pay worth this shit show. It is 41 minutes and 28 or near it seconds in, if you go by DVR and commercial time. It sums up the show so well.
Ramona’s dress soo 1980s!! and not in a good way! The party venue and decor looked like a kid’s party – Dr. Suess came to mind. Every year Ramona has a bday/renewal party – definitely getting old! Sonja had to have gotten her new face for free with all the advertising the doctor is getting – no way would she have paid for it! Don’t understand why she doesn’t just sell the townhouse and be done with all the ‘stress and pressure’ is causes her!
Leah looks like LeAnn Rimes!
oh, good call…
Best part of the episode was Dorinda’s talking head… HOW DARE YOU DANCE! 😂😂😂
Again late to the party, and just watched this. Man, this franchise has gone downhill fast. It’s like the Golden Girls only drunk and not funny. And doesn’t Sonja know that breaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck? Girlfriend doesn’t need that! I miss Tins.
I miss Bethenny.
There really isn’t much of a plot this season and the alcohol consumption is way out of control. Still watching though. Also a big THANK YOU to production for numbering Ramona’s friends as they entered the party. Brilliant.