It’s 4:30 pm and I am doing setups for tonight’s Shahs of Sunset recap and I am going to have to make some coffee because I’m having some sort of an afternoon crash. I thought about giving in to my huge desire to nap, but I’m afraid that would make me stay up late and I finally have my sleep schedule in a relatively normal place. So I’m going to try and fight off this narcoleptic fit. Yay! Took my B vitamins and drank some coffee and I’m good to go. Also, I am binging In Treatment on HBO. So good.
Two Sides To Every Story
Golnesa’s mother moved in during the pandemic and has been there for six month. I am amazed they are both still alive. Golnesa is having a welcoming party for baby Elijah. But, the baby will only be making a brief appearance due to Covid. That makes sense to me. Golnesa’s party planner is batshit crazy. I can’t wait to see how this turns out. It’s annoying to me that everyone has decided to do Sip and Sees for their babies. It’s a southern thing.
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Golnesa and Destiney meet with Reza to discuss how hurt they are that Reza bailed on them in Palm Springs. We get a montage of previous seasons where Reza has treated Golnesa like crap over the years. We have dueling explanations about how Golnesa was blamed for Mike’s inappropriate texting. Mike tells MJ that Reza said it was Golnesa. Reza tells Golnesa that Mike told him it was Golnesa. They are both liars so I don’t know who to believe. But, if I were forced, I’d believe Mike over Reza. Golnesa tells Reza not to get into it with Mike at the baby’s party. Golnesa also spills the beans that Reza will never meet baby Shams.
Width Is Important
Mercedeh and Nema take an outdoor painting class. It looks fabulous! Thankfully, it is a still life and not a nude model. Nema is upset that Golnesa did not invite him to her party for Elijah. Mercedeh points out that he did reject here advances last season. Apparently, she is not over that. I actually loved both of their paintings. I’m trying to enjoy all of my artwork because if I want to move overseas eventually, I don’t know what I am going to do with it all. I can’t bear to part with it.
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Golnesa goes to meet with the new girl, London and London’s spiritual advisor, Heather. I am terrible at spotting wigs or knowing a good wig from a bad wig, but I’m pretty sure Heather is wearing a really bad wig and a horrid shade of lipstick. Again, I don’t usually even notice such things so it has to be pretty bad, right? I really like London a lot. However, she appears to be batshit crazy. The spiritual advisor was asked to say who was telling the truth between Mike and Reza. She says basically that they both believe they are telling the truth. That sort of makes sense.
It’s Darth Vida’s Birthday!
I live for the scenes with Mercedeh and Tommy. By the way, since I am always whining lately, I should point out that I’m in a great headspace again today. I’m starting to think I should drink coffee every day. OMG! It’s the TRIFECTA! Vida is coming over! It’s Vida’s birthday. She is going to spend a night or two with them. I need a spinoff with these three. Shams is adorable! I need one of those lobster tails. Vida is so much nicer now that she is a grandmother.
Holy Shit! Lawn Kid just walked by and the girlfriend who always walks a block and a half behind him is pregnant! Good Lord. I told him to leave that girl alone a thousand times. Also why are they walking when he has a car now? I know, I know, not my problem. But dayum. This kid does not learn. I have a new lawn guy who is his same age and he is about 40 IQ points higher. SIGH.
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Reza is really sad that he will never be able to meet baby Shams. He tells Adam that when they go to Golnesa’s party, they need to avoid Mike and MJ like the plague. He wants to focus on Golnesa and the baby. Whatever. We just need to get to this party you know it is going to be a freak show.
Reza Just Has To Stir The Pot
It’s party time! The party is jungle themed and it is, in true Shah’s fashion, WAY over the top. Oh Vida is coming to the party! YAY! Reza sucks up to Vida right off the bat. Reza also greets Mercedeh with a kiss on the cheek. Interesting. I thought she was the plague. Nema is not at the party, so he has a scene with his baby sister. Nema wants to be a director. I want to be a size 12. We all have our dreams. Vida tells Reza that Destiney needs an ass. Reza tells Destiney what Vida said. He’s such a drama queen. What happened to avoiding MJ like the plague?
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Cue the African dancers. Really? Golnesa makes her grand entrance with the baby. Golnesa’s daddy holds the baby up like in the movie Lion King. I am not making this shit up. I have to admit that it looks like a super fun party. Golnesa says that everyone there has taken a Covid test. They can all gawk at the baby briefly at a six foot distance. He is a beautiful baby boy. Golnesa is pissed about the drama about… of all things Destiney’s butt, or lack thereof. It’s time for the big blow up. MJ and Mike come for Reza. Or maybe it is the other way around. Reza suddenly brings up the Turkey trip from how many seasons ago where Mike tried to get with Golnesa while with his previous fiancé.
Mike And Reza Tell Two Different Stories
Mike and Reza both call each other over the whole sexting scandal. They both blame the other for blaming Golnesa. I have no idea who to believe. They are both liars who lie. What do you think? Then Reza confronts Mercedeh about saying that Reza will never meet her son. MJ points out that for seven months prior to the incident where Tommy lost his mind on Reza’s backyard, he never bothered to try to see the baby. She says the only person she wanted to see when she was in the hospital was her mother, her husband and Reza. And he didn’t even call her.
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Everybody starts screaming in defense of either Reza or Mercedeh. Somehow Golnesa is the moderator? LOL. The suddenly she’s all “this is my son’s happy day.” Please. You kid is barely old enough to find your teat. This affects him not at all. She kicks everyone out.
Next time: It’s a pumpkin patch trip with the babies for MJ and GG. And then it is Halloween. God, how I hate Halloween episodes. But this is my favorite Bravo show at the moment (along with Top Chef of course).
Who is telling the truth, Mike or Reza? I honestly do not know.
I haven’t watched yet on the West Coast so I will read the recaps later. Guess I am too early for the comments. I will be back. Thank you for the recap, I hope your well.
So this week in Lawn Kid news… He sent a fucking Paypal request for $35 dollars because “he had a flat tire.” I denied the request and ignored him. Then like the day before yesterday he showed up at my door to show me he had $5.10 in his cash app and wanted to cash app it to me (I don’t do cash app) if I would give him give dollars in cash. I reminded him that he is an adult and needs to handle his own problems and not contribute to mine. I explained that my help seems to make no difference in his situation and he needed to man up and handle his own business.
Then tonight I see the VERY pregnant girlfriend walking two blocks behind him down the street. Where is the car? How did he get a car if he can’t come up with five dollars? He keeps mentioning he is “going to work or leaving work which I never believed. This poor kid is going to have a negative IQ with these two morons as parents. The baby mama has told me that he lies all the time. I can see a request for baby clothes and such before the end of summer. “My kid needs formula” etc.
Sorry for disrupting my favorite Bravo show with this nonsense. I just needed to vent and you guys are the only ones who know I’ve been subsidizing this kid.
You’re right. When the baby comes it will be paypal requests non stop. You’ve done your best and he clearly has no ambition to improve his situation.
Haven’t watched Shah’s yet but the lawn kid story is just as interesting IMO. You’re doing the right thing by denying his money requests. Is there a way to block his requests from Paypal?
No apparently not. But I had a liberating discussion with my next door neighbor who had the same reaction about him wearing a heavy black sweatshirt in June in Atlanta. She also cut him off.
I take it the sweatshirt has long sleeves. In the heat? Right!
Please be kind, no lectures. You are financially struggling and cannot help. New lawn guy is helping you out and not asking for money. Hide the bangles. Things will be OK if you remember those simple suggestions.
I think he walked by your house so you could see the pregnant girlfriend. Good on you for telling him to man up! Stay strong with that attitude. I mean think about it, he may have several “Tamara’s” around the area that he has been sponging off. Is there a way to block him from even making requests for money on Paypal? I don’t know how all that works.
So glad you are feeling better and yes, coffee is the best!
I know it’s weird but it looks like Reza is trying to fit in he seems extremely uncomfortable. Shams is adorable. London is a weirdo I agree Tamara and the wig was baddd. When you tell the story of the lawn kid and baby mama I literally get a visual of her walking a mile behind with a huge belly while he pushes a mower down the street.
I hope the comment about Destiney’s rear doesn’t cause her to get butt implants. Her figure is amazing, I would love to have her figure. That was a negative thing for Vida to say, even joking and it was a negative thing for Reza to repeat.
Unfortunately I don’t know who to believe because this group stabs each other in the back and lies so much I lose track of who is honest and who is not.
I still cannot get my head around big butts being a thing. In the 90’s I always wore a jacket around my waist to cover my ass, and it wasn’t even that big. These trends come and go and people doing permanent stuff to their bodies. Makes me think of my nana having no eyebrows from plucking them all out in the 40’s.
That wig was from the Kim Zolciak Season 1 Big Poppa Special Collection.Very versatile, can be worn in the studio with Dallas Austin or while jogging/drinking beer with Sweetie.
That’s absolutely hilarious
I did a double take it looked like Kim’s season one wig when she told others she had cancer?
Mike is not very bright and I believe he is the liar here I don’t think Rena is completely innocent however. Texas is more of a stirrer of crap whereas Mike is more of a dishonest person
Wow Reza auto corrected to Texas
You were thinking “texts” and “Resa” = Texas! Or as Teresa Giudice would say “textses!”
Yes! That was the “Close Your Legs To Married Men” Reunion. I think she also wore that wig on the Sheree hair tug on the street episode, the one with Lindsay Lohan’s daddy standing on the corner with his hoochie mama.
We need to hang out more you are hilarious
me too me too please !!!!!
IMO, you win “comment of the week”! Cracked me up and l’m still laughing! Brilliant!!!
Ha ha…but that wig though….damn Kim.
Another possibility is that there were real
Texts and then mike himself sent fake spoof texts to try and cover up his own lying. I am convinced Mike is a liar as he has shown himself to be unwilling to be monogamous
I’m with you on that, Kate. I’ve been thinking all along that this was all Mike weaving a web, falsely bringing Reza and Golnesa into it to cover up for his own wandering dool. I see Reza as more of a shit stirrer than a liar, but Mike is a pathological liar.
AGREE!!
Here’s my takeaway from this episode: I MUST have GGs macrame Jean jacket! I’ve searched and had no luck ☹️ I thought it might be YSL because she was wearing a YSL tee earlier, but no. I’m obsessed.
There is a website that you can go to find clothes worn on tv shows. I don’t know the exact name but I remember I found the lavender purple sweater-y outfit that I think Robin wore on Potomac. I hope this suggestion doesn’t violate any rules…..
Found the jacket! It is from a company called She’s Knot Back. It was being sold on a website called shoprichrags but isn’t available. There is one on Poshmark for $70. It would be pretty easy to replicate-though using denim strips would be rough on your hands
So am I .. with alot of GG’s clothes.. I liked the striped pants and grey la shirt she wore .. is that the shirt that is YSL ?
Here’s my takeaway from this episode: I MUST have GGs macrame jean jacket! I’ve searched and had no luck ☹️ I thought it might be YSL because she was wearing a tee earlier, but no. I’m now obsessed.
Reza is trash. The whole conversation about Mike’s text sounds just like him. He already has a history of impersonating others. Only a snake would have repeated Vida’s statement that way. She has no tact but she wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. He can’t say the same. Also why would he imagine MJ’s husband would ever let him anywhere near their kid.
You didn’t mention the best part, which is when MJ called out Reza’s long-standing addiction to pitting his female friends against each other. She was talking to Destiney. It’s too bad Mike is so compromised right now because I would have loved to see a season where everyone gets together to finally show who Reza and Adam really are. Toxic waste.
These are all just horrible people. I don’t really care who is lying about what. What I do know is that Mike has a history of cheating/cover up/admission. No matter what he SAYS, his actions always contradict him. Reza likes to keep the pit stirring repeating what others say. They are both pitiful. MJ, after being such a bitch last season, has been trying to rehabilitate her image this year but her old ways are always revealed. Vita is just naturally mean spirited and is no position to comment in anyone’s appearance. These people can wear all the gold, designer duds, drive the most expensive cars in the world but they are still basically just trash.
Reds is a snake but Mike is a GASLIGHTING SLOB.
I believe Mike..while he brought it up to take the heat off himself it feels like a very reza thing to do & bringing up Turkey re-enforced that for me
Is that party planner the one reza brought to Palm Springs to try to get on the show?
Anita, GG’s party planner, was on the first season and has appeared as a friend over the years. So was Sunny, the Palm Springs planner, as Asa’s friend who went out to dinner and got in an argument with GG. Sunny also planned a party for Asa as well years back. Can you tell that I rewatched all seasons during quarantine? Lol
Everyone’s comments basically summed up my thoughts so I want to address your art, TT. Although it’s not the same thing, when I’ve had to get rid of things or scale down, I’ve taken pictures and made a book. Although not the same, my son’s artwork from when he was small was something I couldn’t part with but I took pictures and made a book of the photographs. After I had the book, I found it easier to part with the actual paper. It’s an idea and I hope it helps you. In the same way, take a snapshot of your relationship with lawn boy … where it started to where it is now. He obviously thinks he can keep asking which is so uncomfortable and disrespectful of your boundaries. Keep the photo, lose the lawn boy. If you give an inch, he will be back with the baby. I know it’s easier said than done. You would like him to be grateful. For what you did and have him finally be responsible. He won’t if he knows he can get to you. Don’t answer the door even if he knows you are home.
I second all of the above. You did what you could (& then some) for Lawn Boy. No response is the only response, and keep yourself safe and content. (know it’s not easy)
I love your suggestions and am stealing them. Pictures of gkid art, clothes, crap memorabilia, and PEOPLE who may need to be out of my life.
First pic is the hubs 😬 j/k kinda
I have to admit that, until last night, I’d never watched a full episode of Shah’s. There was nothing else on last night and now, damn it, I’m hooked. That bad wig and the party planner pulling crap out of her bag and bragging about how long it took her to prepare some of the crap, made my night.
I love this show and this is a particularly good season so far. I’m actually excited to recap it and sometimes I get so into it I forget I am supposed to be typing. There is no preaching about social justice issues or history lessons. It’s just a bunch of idiots doing stupid stuff. Sort of like the Jersey Shore stuff. 🙂 Just fun.
Reza was caught in the act. Lol he can’t help but to start mess. We all know Vida offers unsolicited opinions. I happen to agree. Destiny needs to leave her face alone and do some squats or something. With that flat body and whatever she did to her face, she looks 10 years older. Those babies are adorable. I like London and agree with her advisor. Although Mike and Reza are seemingly really dishonest in general.
I’m all over the place with this show lately but one thing I do know with MJ, keep you enemies closer, theres no way in hell she’d cross Tommy loyalty lines for that snake. she knows Reza is full of shit and keeps bringing up that R.O. hoping he’d get a clue that she will NEVER trust anything out of his mouth again. Maybe lawn kid and Reza should team up as sad sacks, woe is me! I really don’t understand what happened with this Mike texts nonsense and it’s quickly killing my interests! He text cheated but is blaming others for spoofing him, see I dunno. And Reza needing to save paulina from him, um what??? Does reza secretly have a crush on Mike, did things go down one drunken night, frankly I don’t get all the backstabbing with this group.
I love this show, have always loved this show, and probably ALWAYS love this show. For some reason, it seems less scripted, more real, and people seem to be just fine looking like themselves. As for the Reza/Mike/GG debacle, I think THIS happened: Reza was probably talking to Mike saying something like, “You KNOW who’s PROBABLY behind this.” Mike says, “who” and Reza probably adds something like “who’s messy and sneaky and has been saying you can’t be faithful?!?!? (Now we ALL that everybody has been saying that about Mike because it’s true), but Reza leads Mike into thinking it’s GG without actually saying it’s GG. I think Reza is so adamant that he didn’t say it because technically…..he didn’t. Mike is so adamant he DID say it because Reza probably gave him all the characteristics of GG as being the person who sent the texts and just stopped short of saying her name. However, if I had to say who is the one of the two who is most likely to tell a bald-faced lie….it’s Reza (though I LOVE his messy, dramatic, Queenly arse though). I’m falling BACK in love with Mercedes this season. Baby Shams has made all right with the world, and she seems less bitchy and more centered. AND…..she looks great. I don’t know if she’s had any work done in addition to losing weight, but she looks good. Now, the wardrobe choices are still a little questionable (in MY opinion)….but that’s part of what makes her who she is, so I can’t complain. Vida is GREAT TV. Vida, Mama Joyce, the mother of the RHOD housewife who wears the blond “updo,” Candiace’s (RHOP) mother ,and Dwight Eubanks (RHOA), need to have a show of their own and call it 4 mothers and a Queen. But seriously, ain’t nothing wrong with not having a booty. I’ve had one all my life and though it’s nice to have, it’s hell on the knees.
Mike is a liar and will always be a liar. That’s who he is.
Reza will STIR IT. But he is honest about it. He is up front about it. He’s not a liar.
Neither is GG.
What I don’t like about MJ is that she it holding Reza accountable for the situation with Tommy. TOMMY went to their home, trashed their backyard and threatened them. They got a restraining order. And because of that, she won’t allow Reza to see baby Shams even though they are supposedly rebuilding their friendship. However, how is TOMMY accountable? Those were HIS actions. She’s mad at Reza because of the restraining order, not at her husband for causing it.
Mike is a lovable, lying horndog. If Pauline can forgive him and move on, it is finished and nobody’s business but theirs. Personally, i think Reza should be booted off the show for what he said ( not to be repeated) at the pool party about MJ. Of course , Tommy lost it. Plants can be replanted, but those words cant be unheard. Then Reza crys and asks for forgiveness. Sooo phony. Reza couldnt run fast enough to tell Destiny what Vida said about her flat butt, knowing it would make her teary eyed and the camera guy had to get tight shots of her ass from all angles. I cant stomach Reza. Superficial and unathenic. He continually attacks the women on the show, knowing they wont beat him up.
Island girl, I agree with you 100% about Reza vs Tommy and I will add if we really want to talk about accountability for actions then Reza needs to remember all of last season was due to Adam’s actions. IMHO Adam is the least likable person on this show and I’m happy he’s excluded from the cast trips and wish all of the cast would call Reza out for his crap.
Please – the reason there are so many flashback seasons of Reza being a snake is because he is a snake!!! Yes, Mike is a cheater, and may not ever be able to commit BUT who needs to insert themselves into every single storyline – you guessed it, Reza. He set GG up once again and I really hope she opens her eyes!!!
Mike lies to his lady of the moment and his friends but only when he’s trying to save face from a cheating situation. I haven’t ever seen him lie, start trouble or stir the pot with his friends outside of lying about being unfaithful. Reza, on the other hand, has turned on GG countless times, turned on MJ, cried crocodile tears to the group to get them on his side, has threatened to cancel his friendships if they dare side with his enemy-of-the-moment, etc. How GG and Destiney can defend him now is beyond me. Mike is a horndog POS but Reza is highly manipulative and narcissistic. In the current situation I think Reza definitely threw GG under the bus, either outright naming her or specifically implying it was her.
I have a MAJOR CRUSH on Destiney!😍
I love almost every one on this show. Can’t figure out who’s zooming who but it keeps me interested every week. Love it!!!🤗🙄❤
Was the personal attack on the spiritual advisor really necessary? Has anyone stopped to think that sometimes people wear wigs because they’re sick, and COVID isn’t really helping with a hair and make up team on set. I know Heather personally, and she’s lovely inside and out. The crap comments are out of line. If it somehow makes you feel validated to be snarky about someone who’s sick, maybe it’s time to look inward, and deal with the toxic feelings. Before anyone jumps on me about being overly sensitive, refer back to the updated comment rules – real people, real feelings, right??
While it is great you read the commenting rules, I have no idea who Heather is. London is the spiritual advisor. And we like her.
Heather is London’s spiritual advisor. She was the one wearing the wig. I’m sad to read these comments about it — its not only hurtful to heather who has health issues and thats why she wears the wigs (if she ever reads the comments, and i’m hoping she doesn’t) but its hurtful to others who also wear wigs due to health issues.