Once again I just woke up when I should be going to bed. So I am behind on recaps. Let’s knock the RHOC recap out really quick and move on to Salt Lake.
We start in peaceful Lake Arrowhead. Well, it was peaceful until Elizabeth set off the alarm on her new Ferrari. Ten seconds in and everyone is already complaining about Braunwyn. If she is this annoying on TV imagine how bad it is in person. Elizabeth and Braunwyn are about to have a private sitdown. This should be interesting. Meanwhile, Shannon is mad that everyone is having fun without her. Gina gets news that her ex is facing two felonies and four years in jail. Gina feels guilty about it and has a breakdown.
Braunwyn Ain’t Right In The Head
Elizabeth confronts Braunwyn for hiring a private detective to investigate. Braunwyn admits it as it that is a perfectly normal thing to do. Then she starts rattling off everything she found out on camera! Braunwyn is a psycho. She is lecturing Elizabeth on how to speak to her. I think Elizabeth should be punching her in the face. Elizabeth handling this a lot better than I would. Braunwyn is confronting Elizabeth as if she is obligated to share all of her personal business with her. She keeps calling Elizabeth a liar when in reality she just didn’t want to share all of her finances with her. Why does Braunwyn feel so entitled to that information? Braunwyn makes Elizabeth cry.
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Braunwyn says she is not going to betray Elizabeth after betraying her! I would never speak to Braunwyn again. Gina is also crying. This vacation doesn’t seem very fun. Kelly is having champagne for breakfast. Finally, Braunwyn admits that she is a shitty human. Then she pivots again and blames Shannon. She’s a real piece of work. Shannon also has a private investigator on Kelly a few seasons ago. Shannon freaks out because she tested positive for Covid. So now she has probably given it to John. She is furious with her girls. So, she calls the girls to guilt them. She is such a drama queen. Shane is getting a five day treatment in the hospital.
Sky Park
You know what is fun to do in a pandemic? Go to an amusement park. It looks like production may have rented out the park. Braunwyn is calling her BFF her wife these days. I just can’t with her. Gina can’t ride a bike. Or a go cart. Elizabeth can’t shoot a bow and arrow. Or throw an ax. Braunwyn is pretty good at both. How did it happen that Braunwyn and Elizabeth paired off like two best friends? It makes no sense.
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For some reason, Elizabeth is the one that feels bad in this pair. She admits that she avoids conflict. Braunwyn continues to say the rudest things to Elizabeth. Elizabeth wants to share a secret with Braunwyn. Braunwyn promises to keep the secret. She’s a freaking liar! Don’t tell her anything Elizabeth! She says that she compartmentalizes things and no one really knows the real her. She wants counseling. Elizabeth was physically abused as a child. Again, why is she sharing this with Braunwyn of all people? Elizabeth has a huge panic attack. Next week, we get more backstory on Elizabeth’s trauma. Le sigh.
WTF. Though I get why Shannon was upset, she really should be grateful she wasn’t there.
This season still looks like an absolute mess. I still don’t want Vicki or Tamra back. Rather, they need to either take RHOC in a new direction or just end its misery (and ours) already.
Amazingly, this shit season is beating RHOA in the ratings, especially in the coveted demo.
I have to say that Shannon’s kids seem to be reacting to her the same way David did. It seemed like she was talking to David in that scene
Bc she’s cra cra and selfish. The kids were just waiting to placate her and tell her how much they love her and how sorry they are so she will pull it together and stfu.
She reminds me of my mom – that’s not a good thing. The emotional abuse tRiggers are heating up…..I’ve noticed how she wants them to solve her problems or how the kids can’t be their own people.
The scene where she is sobbing at them was horrible. Get out girls – get therapy. Hope David’s new lady has some more maternal streaks
Thanks for the recap!
It’s that time in the season when I proclaim my disdain for all things Shannon. To guilt trip her kids, when it could have been that man that lives in a garage. The one she has latched onto like some histerical paranoid soul sucking emotion leech. She is awful. Why did Emily want her to like her so bad? Why Emily?? Why?? Is it awful, knowing that she does survive this and has no real complications, that I’m really OK with her getting Covid? It probably is. Shame on me.
I thought maybe Kelly was hogging the [email protected] immunity idol, but it was really Brawnwyn. Hogging it. Asserting she has EARNED it cuz SOBER. It’s been eleven billionty days since she drank. And a hundred billionty days since she’s cared about anyone but her. It reminds me of a Robin Williams quote ( God Bless him. He was a genius). ” I realized when I quit drinking, I was the same asshole, just had fewer dents in my car.” Of course Brawnwyn doesn’t have the self awareness to know that it’s her. She is the problem, not everyone else.
I feel badly for Emily. Knowing that her kids also got Covid. How scary. And she feels guilty. I felt guilty when I caught a stomach bug and knew that my kids were doomed. That’s family with small kids. If they aren’t bringing home cooties, you are. Bless her heart, I just want to hug her.
Gina is hard for me. I watch her and realize this is exactly how domestic violence victims feel. I want to hug her too.
I thought Elizabeth was abused. She has that nervous energy to her so many of us do. I can not believe she spilled her soul to Brawnwyn! But then again, of course she did. Brawnwyn made everything her fault. She told Elizabeth she was intrusive, and down right mean to her because Elizabeth didn’t open up.. so, like a dutiful victim, Elizabeth tried to appease the one who had hurt her. I wanna hug her too.
Yes yes yes Krista! I don’t watch, but recognized all of this from TT’s recap. I’m going to leave my wishes and care for everyone here–Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Please take care of your fine selves and each other. TT, I read here often and rarely comment, but keep on rocking it baby :-)!
Thanks for watching and recapping this crap show. None of these women are likable at all, Andy should be ashamed knowing he was out her talkimg about the best OC cast ever, that had to be a big joke he pulled on all of us.
Sorry for my view here but i wish they would bring back tamra and vicki . This show is awful. I feel for all of them except for Kelly I just cant with her. No more new people just end this group. Peace to all
I totally agree. Flawed as they (and we all) are, they had personality. Were they dumped ’cause they were getting too long in the teeth? If so, sad sad sad. Bring back the OG!
Shannon and the Covid crying drive me up the wall. Imagine being quarantined with her.
You can see the look of “should I make a run for it now while she has the doors unlocked” terror in her boyfriend’s eyes. His facial expressions say it all. His thought bubble: WTF did I get myself into??? She’s going to send him running for the hills. I don’t know how anyone would be able to live with this misogynistic hypochondriac. Her daughter Sophie is almost there, she can see a light at the end of the Shannon Tunnel. The twins (I never can remember their names) are absolutely hysterical when it comes to shading their mom LOL! They see the cray too. Once Shannon’s daughters leave for college I bet they will never live under the same roof with her again.
You can see the look of “should I make a run for it now while she has the doors unlocked” terror in her boyfriend’s eyes.
^^^Says it all. I felt so sorry for the entire family. Shannon is so selfish, everything is about HER. I hope her children do better!
I’d have to kill myself. She got drunk at the “Story line, fake vow renewal, I need attention” event, she goes back to her room, and is practically eating what is ever in sight. Then, the hungover Shannon, walks around, whining about eggs. I can see why David got turned off by her.
The more she’s on the show – the better David looks. By this time – I think everyone is like “oh, she is that bad…..oh wow”.
She is so overly dramatic with the crying and telling everyone how many tests she took… poor John…
I’m surprised David stayed as long as he did. That woman sucks the life out of a room
She must not be too concerned anymore considering she is posting pictures of herself and her girls in Cabo, massless. She is incorrigible.
Great recap. You hit all of the high & low points. Did anyone else hear Kelly say that Gina reminded her of the Abdominal Snowman? She’s just not the brightest bulb.
YES! That was hilarious!
Braunwyn is a passive aggressive, manipulative, narcissistic bitch. How can they stand her? She craves attention so badly she is willing to destroy her children. What’s the statute of limitations as to how long you can blame your bad behavior on your mom. I’m sure that will be next with her, blaming Deb. I imagine she was a horrible mother, but still. Just goes to show you any idiot can birth a baby. Or 6. Meanwhile, TT hit all the major points. These girls need to go on some Housewife Bootcamp show with Judge Judy. Can you imagine what she’d say to them. It’s a shitshow and yet, I can’t turn away…
Omg! I was semi Braunwyn fan…..but I’m done she is one nasty piece of work. The master manipulator she is – was able to turn around her creepy ways (hiring PI) and make it seem ok to Elizabeth.
My eyes have been opened. Braunwyn is the friend I would run for the hills to avoid – she’s scary and a liar.
Thank you this blog for opening my eyes to crazy!!
Yeah, how did it become Shannon’s fault that Braunwyn hired a PI? That was some neat trick. I had no idea Shannon was such a puppet master.
John doesn’t live in a garage. The front of the house is on the water. You drive through and enter through the back of the house because that is the way you enter some of the houses are on Lido Isle pennisula there. Shannon wouldn’t be with John if he didn’t have status and money. Not when she claimed she needs 30,000 a month for essentials in her divorce paperwork.
Correct. I live here. He lives on the harbor on the peninsula. it’s one of those original older homes which have a lot of charm unless it’s been remodeled to death. It’s not a garage, nor is it cheap. All the homes on the water, the front of the home is on the water side and the back is on the street side and the back of the homes (the front to most people) don’t look that thrilling because the focus is the water side. That’s where we all live, out the front (the back to most people) of our homes on the water side with giant patios, etc. The peninsula, to me, is a nightmare due to a lot of tourist trap type stuff and really bad traffic but being on the water is a huge plus. It’s probably around a 1.5 mil home, believe it or not.
Just like lake and beach houses in some high value places . . . the view side is the unofficial “front.”
Multi-million dollar homes can look like storage rental units from the street. Weird.
Here in the Finger Lakes, people place shrubbery in pots and stuff to dress up their driveways/garages.
Try driving down Pacific Coast Hwy (CA route 1) in Malibu. The houses are super tight together, and there are privacy fences that completely block any view of the ocean from the front side on the highway. It’s to prevent looky-loo strangers from stopping and peeking through your private property. The street side of the homes have no windows, or tiny ones up high. It’s kind of a thing with living literally right on the water.
If I was Elizabeth I would not tell Brawnwyn the real color of my hair let alone a secret! Elizabeth is definitely in pain and vulnerable and Brawnwyn like a predator can smell it! She’s calculating and a master manipulator.
Shannon with her test results, it’s like that’s what she wanted because she took so many tests I lost count and she wasn’t going to stop taking them until she tested POSITIVE! Damn that woman is a pain in the a_s! She calls her daughters and it took all they could not to roll their eyes in front of her face! LOL That woman is insufferable! John will dump her soon! I swear if I hear, “I have Lung Damage ” I will get my weapon and shoot my TV! Gina I believe based on her reaction to her lawyers news has been abused by her husband for some time. This was not a one time thing & not about keeping the family together. She was shaking in fear! Kelly can be so inappropriate. Calling Gina names is just who she is. Emily trying to hold it together with the kids and a sick husband in the hospital, which you’re not allowed to see. Now that’s scary. She has such cute kids. I’d say she’s doing pretty good even though the poor girl is sick herself. But in conclusion this episode sucked the big one! Peace 🙏
You got a point about Gina. Maybe this was truly why they lived in seperate cities prior to the breakup and not just for work.
My guess is that he’s always been verbally abusive and it got physical when she wanted a divorce because he cheated. She’d still be with him if he didn’t cheat. She’s lucky.
It got really abusive after his coke bender…..when the neighbors called the cops and he was dragging her by the hair ….. yes ….. I’m with you all …..the abuse was present before hand.
Gina is brave and lucky that this was all public – bc it made her leave a bad situation. As annoying as she can be – she is brave and I admire her strength (getting through divorce etc). Her hair choices – don’t admire
Exactly! If this happened behind closed doors, she would have covered it up. I know because I was Gina and married to a Mat.
I feel like these boring filler episodes of Salt Lake City and OC are purposefully shoved into the holiday week so we won’t notice.
Brawnwyn is determined this year to not live up to the Boring-wind nickname but instead is now becoming annoying-as-hell-wind!
Gina is a champ. I know the feeling 90% feat and 20% relief that the truth is out and people believe you. Real consequences which can hurt. I think she’ll come out on the other side a stronger woman.
It takes a ton of courage to do what Gina is doing in the court system. Applause. Domestic violence is never okay, and Gina and her children’s lives have been forever impacted by Matt’s behavior. Whatever the outcome, she did the best thing to make her statement.
100 Hero!!! I’ll save smack talk about fashion etc. Gina is brave and sets a good role model for people in similar situations.
I honestly wish bravo would focus more on how domestic abuse occurs – bc they have a captive audience they could educate.
Alcohol abuse and domestic violence have been at the periphery of these shows – I want to see a “special” where they actually try to positively impact viewers lives through a little education
I just can’t with these cunts.. I only read your recaps . I have not watched any of the RH franchises in 3 years . But just from scanning your recaps I feel so sorry for all of these housewives . Every single one of them from all over the country. They embarrass their loved ones. They all look and act so ignorant I just feel sorry for their children and even their pets . Gina from OC is the only one I respect because she owns her shit and not fake . That is what I get from your recaps anyway . Merry Christmas to all ! And especially banjo !
She faked her entire first season when she acted like she was a happy housewife.
Okay, I’m changing my opinion on Braunwyn. She is competing with Kelly for most awful cast member. I don’t know why Emily and Gina are here for except maybe to show that not all people in the OC are absolute assholes. They are going through real stuff while the others are just being trash. It makes it all the worse when I think about stuff that Kelly has said about COVID, all the while Emily is scared, with reason. for her family. I just can’t with Shannon. I’m not shocked at the way her kids deal with her, They got that from their dad, otherwise they might have turned out neurotic like her. I’ve watched this drunk and sober and either way is awful. I was really onto Braunwyn for a second but I feel like even I need therapy after watching her. Does she really gaslight everyone in her life like this? She got me for a second. Just awful all around.
I am tired of Emily bitching about having to take care of her own kids. Braunwyn is the most selfish person I have ever seen. She puts herself above everyone, including her kids. She’s draining to be around.
I felt that way, too. Then I remembered that Emily has COVID, too. Her histrionics are deserved given that her husband is ill, her children are exposed, and she is also positive. It is a fuck-ton, right?
What I most hate about her whining is that her face doesn’t move when she sobs. It makes it so much more painful to watch.
I laughed so hard at her face not moving hahahaha!!!
Thank you! So sick of hearing Emily bitch about it and to think she was crying about having another one. Girl, please.
I think Emily is bitching about it because she knows she should be quarantined from the rest of the household. But she can’t do that because Shane is horribly sick and in the hospital. I hate watching her filming with her kids without a mask on. She needs to mask up around those kiddos.
LOL Teri Geib “I’ve watched this drunk and sober and either way it’s awful”
Way to commit!! 💛
I’m with you on Bruanwyn ….whatever the spelling!! I DID kinda like her, now I need therapy bc she’s triggered me with her manipulation
Fucking idiot, fame money Hungary cunts that don’t care about how much of an ass they make our of themselves . All off the HW franchises. Absolutely disgusting . I just can’t see Ramona or anymore of the NY housewives commercials either. They all look like stuffed pigs in a blanket in the dresses they wear . They think they have bodies of a 40 year old ! Lol
last night’s episode of RHOC was the first one i’ve actually watched this season. braunwyn is a human dementor, her trying to suck the bad emotions out of that poor woman was beyond cruel.
I’m thinking of changing my screen name to the Abdominal Snowman as frosty and I have a similar gut.
When Shannon was whining to her kids and then said in the confessional “I have to be strong for my kids” I snorted out loud. Uhm you’re whining. Not being strong!And she said to her mom she felt fine, then suddenly when the test turns up positive she starts feeling bad? Mind/body connection.
When Braunwyn said “I will never betray you” I was begging the TV for Elizabeth to say “you already have”. I mean it sounds like she owns a few properties in Newport, films at one but stays at another. And she rents out the one she films at. Who cares? Seems like a smart way to earn some quick cash.
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for the recaps! ⛄️ ❄️ 🎁 🎄
This show needs to go! Braunwyn – didn’t she just renew her vows? Very understanding husband who sticks around while she flaunts her new girlfriend and said never attracted to men!!! Total whackjob – had 7 kids so she can be sober while pregnant and nursing. Uses them for storyline. Never attentive to them!! Show is really horrible – crazy Kelly who leaves child to go to NYC during quarantine!!! Time to end rhoc or totally revamp it with all new people. RHOSL horrid as well! Bravo sinks lower and lower every year! Nothing what the franchise started out as!!
I loved all the chin diapers this episode!
I had to laugh at their ridiculous attempts to pretend to adhere to COVID restrictions. Maybe they didn’t understand to wear a mask over their moths and noses, and stay six feet apart. It is pretty complicated. Eye roll.
Honest to God I had to google chin diapers. hilarious! What’s the point? Our numbers here are through the roof (I live in OC) and NOBODY follows the rules here. Why? They all make me sick. So fucking selfish these covid deniers. They need to be sent to the back of the line at the ER when they show up with symptoms… Too bad people are lying about it like the couple on the United Flight and the damn guy died on the plane and the airlines OR the CDC has still not contacted every single person on the flight…. my sister who used to run law offices told me it’s because the lawyers are crossing every T and dotting every I before contacting the poor innocent people who were infected by these LIARS!! I’m gonna be wearing my mask for the rest of my life I think and I really don’t care.
Explain to me why Bronwyn is the focus of the show this year. She was horrible to Elizabeth. I find her boring and arrogant and mean. Shannon was angry at her daughters for getting sick with Covid by Going out. yet bravo production is filming in arrowhead. Double Standard for bravo production.
I still don’t get how filming is considered OK but restaurants have to stay closed.
Malls are open and schools/churches are closed. California is trying, but wow. Wow.
My parents are 78 and 79 with loads of pre-existing conditions, living right in the heart of LA county. They can’t get a vaccine, but AOC can. It makes me so mad. I know it is about providing an example to POC, etc., but my mom is 100% PuertoRican, so she could be the poster child for a Latina vaccine-taker. PLEASE get this vaccine to the most at risk!
Sorry. Rant over.
NO! You rant away. You are 100% correct!
I really really really don’t like Braunwyn (I’m pretty sure I have mentioned,lol)
Let’s think back on her reveals. She was a serious dance mom. Says an awful lot right there. It also tends to mean that as she stated her life was constantly trave!ing, competition, perfection, leading her daughter to be OCD (I’m thinking anxiety to strive for perfection, which is unattainable)
So, was she not at home with the other kids, was she drinking throughout those years.
Her daughter probably got a self absorbed mom who’s value was decided by the daughter and her dance.
Now she is so full of shit, and fake, and still extremely self absorbed, her kids are dying for attention, acceptance, being seen, and on and on.
What has she chosen instead? More of me me me.
Shame on her, the damage which may have been repaired, is deepened due to her being so selfish.
Her husband is accountable, but she is a pro at manipulating.
And that is why I despise the bitch. Zero sympathy, cries for her damage she has chosen not to undo.
I think it was the dancing daughter that did THREE Youtubes on how physically and emotionally abusive her mother was and that led to her OCD, anxiety, depression, etc.
Really? Hmmm. Tragic.
When Rowan voiced her understandable and legitimate concerns for the elderly and others during the pandemic Braunwyn dismissed Rowan’s concerns and attributed Rowan’s concerns to her anxiety. That was hard to watch.
I just had COVID during Thanksgiving. It is scary when my O2 was getting below the magic number of 92. I contemplated going to the hospital; however, I just didn’t want to go so I fought it here at home. I have asthma and have been hospitalized for pneumonia twice, so I had reason to have some fears. I just refused to freak out because it’s useless and just plain stupid to do so.
I say all of that to say that Shannon needs to get over herself because we’re tired of her histrionics.
We’ve been here in OC since end of January of this year. I can vouch for how people took to mask wearing. ZERO FUCKS. Nobody did in the beginning. I was making them by the dozens and giving them to our vet and all the employees, and the deli we picked up food from and Pavillions (grocery store). They were so thankful since there were no masks to be found. No toilet paper, paper towels, store shelves were emptied out due to the hoarders who didn’t need to hoard (self-entitlement and ME FIRST mentality runs rampant here in OC). Then when masks became more available, these assholes still weren’t wearing them or as I learned above, only as chin diapers. Even at gas stations inside to pay or get a diet coke or something. All the workers here.. garbage guys, gardeners, etc. all wore them but the residents? Nope. No way and they’d make fun of us who did. They were actually angry that their rights were being infringed upon. Oh, sorry people. it’s only a pandemic that is killing people. And Shannon’s kids? That age group was the worst and still is. Last Saturday night I was in bed reading the latest Bob Woodward book (highly recommend and it’ll scare the shit out of you as to how horrible Trump was about this pandemic) and a group of about 50 kids were in our driveway talking way too loud and I looked out the window like Alice Kravitz and saw them with no masks, all hugging and yelling out “Let’s go to Rite Aid.” and then more of them show up in their mercedes and bmw’s cuz GOD FUCKING FORBID they work for their first piece of shit car like we all did and I was so sickened by what I saw. I can’t wait to get the hell out of this place and move full time to the woods in Tahoe. So they are still not being careful and then bring it home, give it to their parents or grandparents and it’s just so selfish I hope they all get hit by cars. Sorry people, it’s not a nice thing to say but honest to God, Shannon’s kids are just like this. It just makes me hate them all the more than I did already. there’s my rant. Going to watch some Schitts Creek and laugh.
I’m rewatching this episode, so I apologize for posting again. BUT, did anyone notice the Band-Aid on Braunwyn’s neck?
It seems pretty obvious to me that Elizabeth suffered from CSA when she was a child. It takes one to know one and unfortunately her behavior is all too painfully familiar to me. I feel so sad for Elizabeth! I hope that she finds what she needs to heal. Happy New Year everyone!
Team Kelly!
Kelly cracks me up. I don’t think I’d ever laugh at anything on RHOC if it wasn’t for Kelly.
If she gets fired for being the most offensive castmember in the franchise, free speech is dead.
We *need* Kelly to tolerate Braunwyn’s painfully contrived posturing! Do we want a show that’s *full* of Braunwyns? That would be unwatchable.
Kelly speaks for everyone who’s afraid to point out that the overwhelming majority of COVID cases have happy endings – successful outcomes that don’t end in death.
Why is it so unforgivable to stand up against the paranoia (that Shannon clearly submerges herself in)?
We’ve been conditioned to attack anyone who downplays COVID as insensitive to patients who have lost their lives.
Of course we empathize with anyone who’s lost a loved one! We’ve lost loved ones, too!
Questioning the threat of COVID doesn’t reveal insensitivity. It reveals critical thinking (and courage, at this point). People are about to burn Kelly at the stake for refusing to be a Shannon about it. When we let the survival stats really sink in (divide fatalities by population) it’s easy to see why we have become more than fatigued by the hype and the regulations. The only numbers that are shocking are the survival rates when compared to the regulations we’ve all accepted without question.
I am SO grateful for Kelly. She’s the sanest one in the group. (Just had to support K Dodd because I’m afraid all the haters are gonna get her fired!)
Kelly’s reckless mouth is going to get Kelly fired.