Chris B

I always worry Kim is kept because of Kyle, which I hate. I would keep Lisa, Yolanda, Brandi and Kyle. Only keep Camille if she's willing to become a full-time housewife. Upgrade Marisa and only bring in one official new housewife and one friend. I just don't think an overhaul is smart after the results for NYC. I think that's why the NJ cast was all invited back, yet they're still adding so many housewives. They're probably trying to transition the show before weeding out the cast.

I just finished the season premiere of RHOA and Remington stole my heart! That scene where she asked Mary to sing was so heartwarming. It makes me sad to think the US is missing out of this fantastic series. I LOVE Robin and it looks like I'll enjoy Ioulia. Losing Christina and Reiko is a huge, huge blow, but I think this will be a good season regardless.

I feel like Tamra really needs the show so there is a desperation there. I don't find any of her actions to be genuine. I know they're all guilty of creating storylines, but she is the absolute worst. I liked Tamra at first, but better when she wasn't the star. Now that Tamra and Gretchen run the show I hate it.

I think Lauri is one of the greatest housewives of all time and she really put this franchise on the map. Jeana, Vicki and Lauri were something special and I don't think this show is the same without Jeana and Lauri. What I liked about Lauri is that she seemed like a real life Edie Britt. She was sexy, had the overdone plastic surgery and had lived the OC lifestyle, but still had so many problems. I LOVED watching her work with Vicki and then find George and as her life is getting better seeing her struggle with Josh. She had interesting interactions with the ladies and also had a family that was interesting. I wish she'd signed the contract for season six when they tried to bring her back. To me, OC has suffered since Tamra and Gretchen became the stars. It has a new feel and tone and it's very desperate. The only thing I didn't like is that the trailers tried to make Lauri seem like some returning villain, but that was never the case. Hopefully it comes off better on screen.

The only thing that excites me about The OC trailer is having Lauri back. Not too crazy about anything else I saw. Can't wait to see how it is though.

OC should be done or close. I believe OC will be the next announced series and then NJ will follow Beverly Hills. NYC films in April with the latest rumor that the season five cast is returning with one or two new ladies. Alex and Ramona have been tweeting and hanging out, but I doubt that means anything show-wise. Still, no real rumors of who the new HW is.

:D Dead and buried. :D

Paul and Brandi aren't friends, they are acquaintances. Both have said it's basically if they're at the same event together they say hi and are civil. I think Adrienne was probably trying to make it seem like more in order to make Brandi look bad and play a homewrecking angle. I do hope Marlo's appearance on RHOA is worth is because this season is overall a dud for me. Like last year, it has it's moments, but as a whole it seems like a ton of filler. Last season was much better in retrospect. If it weren't for Kenya they'd have nothing. We're already almost done with this season and nothing non-Kenya is memorable. Even next week looks tame compared to how these ladies could bring it.

I would upgrade Camille and Marissa and dump Adrienne and Kim. If they WANT, I'd consider adding one person as a friend, but they don't really need anybody beyond that. Use Faye and Kim as "Friends" and have a main cast of Lisa, Brandi, Taylor, Kyle, Camille, Yolanda and Marissa.

Bravo has a clip on their website that makes Adrienne look *so* bad! Adrienne and Paul keep going on and on to Bravo about how she forced them to hire a lawyer and they aren't suing her, because they aren't like that. Then they flashback to Adrienne telling Kim, "That's a lawsuit!" Wow. It looks like they are going to drag that bitch for filth. I can't wait!

Ramona and Alex are walking in a fashion show together today. Hopefully we'll get some pictures. It's a shame the show won't be filming for this. It's holding most of it's lead-in and hasn't seen a drop yet. Shah's of Sunset also is getting a reunion (two parts!) so Bravo is finally branching out and having some success with non-HWs shows.

I'm sorry, but Vancouver has taken over for Beverly Hills and New York in my life. That season looks better than Bravo once again! I can't believe they don't air this!

I thought DeShawn was an pretentious idiot. She was the original Porsha. Lisa I really enjoyed and I feel she was popular enough to stick around if she wanted to. I could see her being more outgoing than some of the current wives.

If Jill comes back and Alex doesn't then I will scream. Honestly, if they want to save the series I don't think they can add any new housewives. I'd bring back Jill and Alex and let the fur fly. I'd dump Heather so you don't have a cast of 8. Or they could dump Sonja or LuAnn. If Bravo is willing to deal with the stress of having Jill on the show, then I'm sure the ratings will pay off.

She tweeted that this is a recurring role, so expect to see her back!

I feel the same as you, I enjoy most of the show, just not the stuff involving Adrienne. Since the lead story involves her, it drags the show down for me. I LURVE Yolanda. She's the perfect housewife. I also enjoy Marisa as far as newbies go.

All of the girls this season are supporting Kenya. She's bringing it. Nene flat out is useless as well. Losing Kim KILLED Nene's story. Nene and Sheree could interact in a way that got Nene's attention. None of the other girls can get that kind of rise out of Nene. I also maintain Marlo would've amped things up. Everything she said about Kim in the reunion was true! Imagine how it would be watching her throw that in Kim's face! Plus Marlo got under Kandi's skin and could give Kandi someone to spar off of, which she doesn't have without Kim. As for BH, I'm so bored with it! Like Yolanda, I'm over Adrienne and this story. Adrienne isn't even around, why do we have to keep going over it?! I hate to see Camille dragging herself in the gutter over this mess.

It's so sad reading this thread and getting excited about Melrose again! I'll never understand that horrible reboot and how wrong those writers were for the show. I don't understand why Darren Star wasn't involved when he's continued to work. Both 90210 and MP 2.0 could've been viable huge brands for CW had they done them right. Melrose especially. Just the thought of killing off Amanda in the pilot shows those writers should've never been hired and whoever greenlit that should be fired as well. I wonder if anybody will look into this again. It really shocks me that Dallas seems to have done well, yet nobody is trying to reboot anything else. All of the networks seem to have trouble launching new primetime soaps, yet nothing. It's especially shocking that Dynasty hasn't been brought back since Joan Collins remains popular and Revenge is doing well.

Andy says you DO NOT wanna miss the last 10 minutes of ATL tonight! I can't wait to see what's up.

Woman's World is fabulous! Much better than her early 00s dance tracks. I downloaded her Discography years ago and I've listened to a lot of it. I love her 70s albums (Dark Lady is my favorite) and Half-Breed is just a wonderful song. I haven't found much love for her 80s stuff yet, but I'll give that a go eventually. Considering I love pop music so much you'd think I'd love Believe and the album that followed, but all the vocoder and autotune killed it for me. Cher's voice is too strong for that. It just sounds weird and takes me out of the song.

If Adrienne is really dating Sean Stewart, I hope he's grown up. From past reality shows he seems like a total creep and loser. In other Beverly Hills news, Peter Thomas and Lisa Vanderpump might be beefing lol... Lisa didn't give him the Twitter fight he wanted....

From pics, it looks like Lil Kim's friend Jennifer Dalton and Kim D are going to be official housewives. I'd be surprused if it were anyone else since these are the only newbies at most events. Still wouldn't surprise me to see Kathy as a Friend either. BTW, there s a rumor Danielle appeared at Gia's birthday party also attended by Melissa, who fought with Kim D.

I liked NYC too, but I can still understand why others didn't and I don't think it completely worked. It could've been a perfect season if Luann had a purpose, but they went in with the wrong goals. I always liked the balance with Alex showing the Brooklyn side of things. I also dislike the lack of families or homes. Did we ever see Heather's home? We barely saw Aviva's NYC place, I think just the bathroom really and only a couple scenes at Carole's place. I missed The Munster's and what they brought.

OC was the one that made me a fan, obviously, but I stopped caring about it when Tamra and Gretchen took over. Throw in Alexis and it just wasn't the same anymore. It took until Heather arrived for them to properly get a housewife who could replace Laurie and Jeana, who both were IMO HUGE for this series. Tamra plays to he cameras far too much and has ruined this franchise and Gretchen and Alexis are alright, but just not good enough IMO. I usually start watching and then get bored. As for NYC, they really screwed up and now have to deal with it. Kelly and Cindy going is no big deal, but Alex and Jill are the two popular ones and firing both (when they had ample story) was foolish. I understand Jill was toxic and needed to go, but Alex never should've been fired. In terms of keeping Luann, I don't understand that at all. I know their had their foolish idea to make it like BH, but they fired he only people she had a storyline with (Alex, Kelly, Cindy, Jill)! Is it any surprise she was useless? Now the big problem with NYC is that they can't fire the new HWs because it'll be admitting the reboot is a failure, but that cast just doesn't pop. I still say, invite everybody back and add Alex and see what happens. Hell, maybe even bring back Kelly. More new faces isn't the way to go IMO.

Kenya's song was fierce. She was smart to rap instead of trying to sing and the lyrics were simple, but effective. I like that she doesn't take herself too seriously and can handle criticism. So annoyed with this show! I've been over Kyle, but Maurico is done for me now as well. Did he forget throwing Taylor out of his party because her husband was suing Camille? But now he wants Brandi to violate her lawyers wishes and talk to Adrienne? Sorry, she didn't lie and didn't really do anything major enough to get a lawyer involved. Adrienne knows Brandi doesn't have lots of money so her way of getting back at her is a BS law suit that she knows Brandi can't afford to fight. She knows and doesn't expect anything to come of it, but she wants to drain Brandi's bank account and cause her stress. I'm sick of Brandi having to apologize for it. Adrienne is just sick to me. This season of RHOBH has provided the most frank and quote worthy blogs. This episode alone: Marisa: "Let's talk about Taylor; she seems to be a walking contradiction. Honestly, how does Taylor tell Lisa to find her a man in one breath and then in the other she starts playing the victim, talking about how she feels guilty dating, etc.? I think it B.S." "Then whom do we hear from again? You guessed it, none other than Taylor, who is so desperate to get some attention on herself that she starts sticking up for Brandi and starts yelling that they are both are single women and need to stick together, and how her husband is dead and she's left with a mountain of finances, etc. . .yada, yada, yada. Who cares??? So over her!" Yolanda: "Dinner at the Moroccan restaurant was another public drama. Kim has a knack for bringing up ultra-sensitive issues at inappropriate times." "Taylor. . .really? Please stop drinking -- it makes you aggressive and it's so unattractive. I am concerned that she has not taken enough time to properly mourn the death of her husband. The alcohol only adds poison to her open wounds. Maybe being home with her beautiful little angel is a better and safer place to get through this tough and unthinkable time of her life." "We keep going back and forth on this whole lawyer situation, here is the deal; Adrienne is using her money to intimidate Brandi with a lawsuit because she does not have the chops or communication skills to work this out like normal people do. As we have previously discussed, and Mauricio tries to point out, Brandi hit below the belt. She was wrong and an apology is in order to Adrienne -- but if she doesn't acknowledge Brandi's phone calls, and surrounds herself with a barrier of lawyers, then this will never get resolved because Brandi does not have the money to defend herself."