Quick question for you: on the classic TV show Boy Meets World, where was Mr. Feeny's house in relation to the Matthews house? It feels like a dumb question with an obvious answer,...Normally I’m sad when a Real Housewives season comes to an end. That is not how I feel about Season 8 of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills wrapping up. It was easily the most boring, least enjoyable, and overall worst season in the show’s history.
Essentially nothing happened, but they still managed to drag out the reunion into three different episodes. Now, we are so close to putting that dismal season behind us.
The newest Beverly Hills Housewife Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave reflected on the final Season 8 reunion episode in her last Bravo blog post of the season. She wrote, “The long and short of it is that this season was a fun, educational, emotional time. 100%.” I don’t know about “fun.” Describing this season of shameless self-promotion, arguments about glassware, and debates over tardiness as “fun” just doesn’t seem accurate to me.
Teddi admitted, “I get why the reunion is necessary — it really opens up the conversation to a place where it needs to go. And with Erika [Jayne], I think we finally find some sort of understanding as to how each of us views the other.”
Teddi continued, “Regarding Erika recalling Dorit [Kemsley] ‘hammering’ me all season, the reason my reactions weren’t the same than with Erika is because the tone was very different. The only other thing that left me scratching at my extensions is that Erika freely admits that she’s an —hole yet tries to put my reactions to her as something wrong with me. But we end on a good note, and I’m looking forward to what the future may hold there.” That sounds like she’s expecting to return for another season along with Erika…. It’s too soon for me to decide if I am on board with that. All I know is some major changes need to happen to make Season 9 remotely watchable.
Teddi admitted, “There’s not much else I can say (as you see, my blogs got me in a bit of hot water) other than I don’t regret anything that I wrote here this season. I tried my best to use these blogs as a cathartic way to get across how I was feeling in the moment as well as when watching the episodes back, and I like to think I did that with a lot of humor, no matter how shady they may have been.” We want the shade though. This season did not have nearly enough shade. If Teddi returns for a second season, we need the shade from her blogs in the new episodes.
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There’s no denying that Luann de Lesseps is just a gift that keeps on giving. The Real Housewives of New York star could not be boring if she tried. It makes perfect sense that her Season 10 tagline is “The most interesting people make the best headlines.” Making the best headlines is something that happens pretty often for Luann.
Even though her Christmas Eve arrest happened months ago, there are still new details coming to light. This time it’s from Luann herself. She theorizes that she might have been drugged at some point that day.
According to an article from Page Six, Luann admitted that she thinks she was drugged in an interview with Dr. OZ. She told him, “I almost think that somebody slipped me something, because I don’t remember a thing after that.”
Why does she think that? The countess explained, “And so I checked into the Colony, to make a long story short. I had a rosé at lunch with my girlfriend, we split a bottle of Whispering Angel, which is normal.” If that is “normal” then she should have been more accustomed to “not remembering a thing” than she let on.
Luann added, “And then there were some people there that were fans, so they send me more rosé. So I drank more than I usually would.” So I guess she’s insinuating that it was the fans who might have drugged her?
Sure it is possible that she could have been drugged, but there are also plenty of other possible causes for her lack of memory that night. Luann shared that she went to a friend’s house “and on the way, we stop and have not one martini but two. So, by the time I get to the Colony, I was pretty sloshed and then I don’t know.”
Luann insisted that level of drinking was normal at that point in her life and said, “That’s kind of a regular kind of thing. You know what I mean? In terms of the drinking path that I was on. So I almost think that somebody slipped me something, because I don’t remember a thing after that.” There’s no way that it could have been the bottles of wine or the martinis…. That would just be too logical.
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Last night was part 3 of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion. Which means this season of interminable squabbles about protocol and etiquette at the queen’s court of public opinion, an unintentional farce from the court jester, is over. Thank you Dorit Kemsley for your tragicomic contributions to Reality TV – we salute you with a beer stein filled with cheap champagne.
So last night the ladies of Beverly Hills trotted out their plethora of headache-inducing shiny dresses for the last time to bicker over such impotent social slights as who talks about themselves the most (the answer: always and forever Kyle Richards) and the definition of a liar. For the record, I really dislike recapping reunions. It’s like following a verbal tennis game and I always want to activate closed captioning on my TV to catch all the shady little barbs, except I don’t actually know how to turn that on. Maybe that’s a good thing?
However, as far as reunion installments go, this one was far better than the first two fender benders. I mean, at least there was some action! Unfortunately, most of the ‘action’ involved these ladies being in denial about their psychological tropes.
Take Kyle for instance. Kyle seems to use RHOBH, and now scripted television dramas showcasing highly-idealized versions of Kyle’s life that she’s using as an F-U to big sister Kathy Hilton, as therapy.
Of course, Kyle denies this and pretends she just wants to share her story with the riveted, begging masses but her meanie older sisters just don’t get it. Kathy and Kim just don’t want Kyle capitalizing off the feathers in the Kathy and Kim’s caps by besting them to cashing in on Big Kathy drama. Kyle believes that once Kathy sees American Woman she’ll change her mind and become a big fan. All together now, let’s do a big laugh at that silly delusion!
Sadly Kyle does all TV preening in lieu of getting actual therapy, which I guess she doesn’t need to because Lisa Vanderpump sits there, stroking her little dogs while absently listening to Kyle prattle on about her insecurities over Birkin bag colors and family baggage. That is pretty much the gist of Kyle and Lisa’s friendship. Kyle projects the relationship she wishes she had with Kathy and Kim onto Lisa, while Lisa treats Kyle like one of those naughty dogs you might passive-aggressively dye hot pink. Even the astute Dr. Rinnavation took a break from her weird role as Erika Jayne Pussy Patrol leader (aka guard dog) to notice the complexities of Kyle and Lisa’s dynamic. Although Lipsa has also become some sort of LVP obsessee so talk about underlying issues! I liked the old unhinged Lipsa better!
Maybe Kyle is no different from Erika Girardi in trying to paint this idealized world which everyone knows is far from the truth, but they both hope we’ll just go along with?
The hilarious thing is that Kyle seems SHOCKED when Lisa admits their relationship is 90% about Kyle talking about Kyle as a reason to explain why Kyle has no idea who Nanny Kay despite after 10+ years of friendship. Later LVP will, in fact, compare Kyle to a little sister and Kyle will get all misty-eyed because she’s currently not talking to Kathy (although LVP is… and now Kathy is also confiding in LVP about her family drama. Basically: FREE LVP FROM THE TWISTED SISTERS RICHARDS).
Other than Kyle’s 35 millionth emotional breakdown the only other thing of note was Erika showing her true colors – again – it’s not pussy, it’s asshole. (Self-admitted!) Oh, the irony of Erika, a grown woman who spends the majority of her life dressed in costumes and playing make-believe, lecturing Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave on how to be an adult… I mean, right?
Erika complains that Teddi pretends to be this innocent “fallen in the forest” damsel in distress who needs rescuing, but really that’s just Erika wanting to see herself as the huntress (cunt-tress?). Erika excuses all her contempt by picking on an off-phrase Teddi used, seemingly without premeditation, and trying to twist it into some sort of character assassination attempt. Would Erika have an issue if Teddi accused her of having simply “amnesia”? (Yes. Erika would have an issue if Teddi called her a “pretend blonde”. Don’t call her a liar!)
Teddi apologized for the “pretend amnesia” comment. Immediately! Which literally NEVER happens in the Housewife universe. After all, it was Erika who, like Teddi said, inserted herself into Teddi’s argument with Dorit because Erika wanted an opportunity to have a go at Teddi. Now Erika is blaming Teddi because she slipped up and showed an unseemly side of herself. See, Erika only likes to have her ass out if she’s playing Erika Jayne, not if she’s pretending to be Miss Above-it-all Erika Girardi.
Erika is a riddle wrapped in a shroud of denial and I don’t really care to figure it out, but what she’s doing goes beyond rudeness into the pathological territory – everything Erika accused Teddi of being and doing, are actually things Erika herself is doing, as even Andy pointed out.
While Erika was going along accusing Teddi of not being able to take ownership, she sat there spinning her own excuses like someone operating a paddleboat when the other paddler is a kid who doesn’t know left from right. Erika apparently doesn’t know left from right, or right from wrong, or Erika Girardi from Erika Jayne, whose fantasy world is bleeding all over the beach house sheets of reality. Which is Teddi’s fault? Or, whatever? I think Erika has me super confused.
I did LOVE seeing LVP squash Erika’s nonsense by not only defending Teddi but calling Erika out directly for her rude tone and outsized reaction. Even Kyle, who has a history of quaking in Erika’s wake, stood up for Teddi by admitting that she thought Erika went too far. Cause DUH.
The moral of the story is that Erika needs to get over herself and see about getting group therapy with Kyle. I’m Team Teddi on this one. Also, Lipsa, the Erika apologist, needs to go sit in the corner with a dunce cap over that Golden Girls hair.
Dorit’s still amputated at the neck by LVP. Which she fully and thusly deserves. Lipsa and Erika using Dorit to try and come at LVP over her magazine decision fell flatter than paste diamonds. I do wish LVP would’ve just told everyone she wasn’t going to reward Dorit’s bad behavior with a gorgeous photo spread, so she decided to just focus on her jewelry instead. I mean they’ve all heard of Pavlov’s Dogs, right? This is LVP’s Pets. Pretending it was a magazine decision intended to avoid negativity was ridiculous. The focus of the spread was supposed to be on the jewelry, LVP tried to do Dorit a solid by putting her face in the magazine, but Dorit was a diva so LVP repaid her by going back to focusing on the jewelry. End of story. No further explanation needed.
In the end, though LVP rallied for Dorit and told everyone that although she talks too much and doesn’t remember half the drivel that pours out of her wine-sodden lips, Dorit is a good person who means well so we should give her another chance. All the bobby pins in all the world couldn’t make me like Dorit, but thanks for the endorsement LVP! Maybe I’ll adopt a Vanderpump Dog instead?
Kyle and Dorit also promise to work on their friendship because deep-down, despite the snippy comments and confused conversations, they do love each other. That’s nice. So Dorit wins-ish in the end. Teddi and Erika also vow that they’re good now that they’ve hashed it out. Basically, Teddi has accepted that Erika is unpredictable and not anyone she wants to befriend and Erika feels she’s righted the cold fish equilibrium she wants to portray?
All in all, this was a mellow season, which I (and seemingly I alone) didn’t mind, but it’s time for some shaking up of the cast. I say keep Teddi, move Erika along since she oh-so-clearly doesn’t want to be part of the show anymore, and either have Lipsa return to her former shit-stirring splendor or move her along too. Also, whatever happens in this universe and all the alternate reality ones DO NOT BRING BRANDI BACK. I probably shouldn’t even put that out there, huh… it might come true. Oh god – the horror!
Teddi Has No Desire To Hang Out On Planet Delusional Dorit!
TELL US – FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS REUNION? WHO SHOULD STAY AND WHO SHOULD GO?
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