Chris B

I posted about that Miami preview on the previous page. I really enjoyed it and I think it looks like the perfect housewives season. I can't wait for that.

That reunion was a total disaster and I'm sorry, but Tami was full of catshyt when she tried to accuse Jennifer of being a bully. You add everything Jenn did the entire first three seasons and it doesn't compare to how she was treated, complete unsolicited, during the last season. She kept trying to move on and Evelyn, Shaunie and Tami were just hating. It was very obvious and made them look bad. Unfortunately, they didn't truly understand why viewers were upset so we'll have more of the same. If the rumors are true and next season they're dumping Jenn, Kesha and Royce to "rid the show of negativity" I will for sure not watch.

Albie is not cute, he's looking like Bobby Flay IMO. A mess. The OC could stand a good shake up. This was a good season, but they got all they could out of that cast. If they keep it the same it'll be just as horrible and forgettable as the current season of New Jersey. I'd simply dump Alexis, keep the other four and bring on two-three new strong housewives and call it a day.

Thursday, September 13th! Also, there is a new picture of Alexia under the Housewives bios, so she'll still be featured as a Friend of the Housewives. She declined full time status since her son is still recovering from his accident and she didn't want to feature that on the show. Here's the season two trailer: http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/get-a-sneak-peek-at-real-housewives-of-miamis-second-season-2012247 Make sure you watch that entire trailer lol. Looks like they're a classier bunch than usual, instead of lots of bickering between wives you see lots of husbands/wives fighting, Elsa seems to be getting into it with various people and of course there is slap between two housewives that I CANNOT WAIT to see! Wow! Looks very watchable.

I could see what Marie Wilson played more as an evolution of Ellie than Meg. I just didn't believe any of her backstory as Meg, although I did enjoy her if you just imagine she's a long lost Snyder sibling that wasn't featured.

They will make tons of money off this fight. Nene isn't going anywhere unless she wants to.

Nobody could've prepared me for how awkward the scene with Aviva and Ramona shoe shopping was. That was worse than Ramona with Jill Zarin's step-daughter. Also frustrating because Aviva has tried harder than anyone to be Ramona's friend and she's going to insult her like that. I felt really bad for Aviva at that moment. I have so many insulting questions I may want to ask my friends, but there is a time and a place. If Ramona knew she was so disgusted by Aviva's fake leg she should've moved on and downplayed the entire thing. That was just plain rude. The London trip was brilliant. Very lowkey, but it fit the tone of this season very well. Heather doesn't seem like the type that has many friends judging by her actions with the ladies. It was incredibly tacky to make everybody stand, introduce themselves and say something about Yummie. She should've introduced Carole, LuAnn and Sonja as HER GUESTS, then have her colleagues introduce Yummie if thats what she wanted. Carole had every right to be upset. Speaking of, I LOVED Carole this trip. She reminds me of an older version of Bethenny and we needed this type of character on the show. She has Bethenny's snarkiness but isn't as abrasive as she was. I love the tension between her and LuAnn, the first thing interesting to happen to LuAnn all season. I go back and forth between loving and hating LuAnn, but then I see how gorgeous she is and that body and I'm back in love. When knocked down a peg or two she works. I LOVED the moment when she was waiting for the others so she could eat. THAT was adorable and a nice bridge between early season LuAnn who I loved.

I'll probably use that coupon to finally buy the James Stenbeck set.

I've read that the Peyton mansion was the same set as the primetime series, but I'm not sure if the others were modeled after any of the original sets. Good question though! I also wonder if anybody knows if this show did much on location shooting? BFORE02, I was wondering where you got that episode synopsis? Is there a chance you have that episode? I still dream daily about one day seeing this show lol. I'd settle for one full clip even.

I haven't watched this yet but I LOVE LOVE LOVE Rasheeda. Marry Me isn't one of her best, but the actual single Legs To The Moon is brilliant. For those who don't know, she was in a group called Peach Candy which was a duo with Kandi from Real Housewives of Atlanta. In fact, her new single also features Kandi. In addition to their Peach Candy stuff they've done probably a whole two or three albums worth of stuff together. She'd fit in SO MUCH better on the Atlanta housewives.

Losing Alex is a huge blow that I can't get over. The show is clearly missing something and the idea to make it more like Beverly Hills was a bad idea. As it stands, that's not what we're seeing. It's five episodes in and we still haven't seen Carole or Heather's homes. Using that as a mandate to get rid of Alex was dumb. She has her businesses and is doing well and would fit so much better with Heather and Aviva whether as friends or enemies. LuAnn is doing NOTHING and I doubt she'll do anything interesting all season. One thing I notice is that all the gossip column reports about this season (like last season) are true. First we heard the drama was low and Bravo wanted to bring Alex back recurring, possibly full time but she turned it down since it wasn't guaranteed full time. It's obvious they saw what everybody else see's. Then you have how they kept extending filming several times because they didn't have enough material. I'm sure we'll see that. I'm also sure we'll see when the original ladies refused to film during the last time they extended filming. The new girls are interesting, but not the type to bring the drama that'll give them the ratings they had. They need a more dynamic MIX of ladies. Even having Jill mixed in would help. Their failure is who they decided to bring back, not who they hired. Honestly, keep Jill and Alex and dump Sonja and LuAnn and you have a show. Jill would've mixed better than LuAnn, plus you break up that power vortex of hate that was LuAnn/Jill.

I think there is more long term potential if Ramona doesn't go to London. She will be in New York stewing and it'll officially be on with Heather. I'm praying for that lol. Poor Aviva being stuck with her. I also can't wait to see the new housewives start to fight. I also want to see somebody have a conflict with Carole so Carole can eat them alive with her common sense and wit. Did anybody watch the Vancouver reunion yet?

Ramona is so worried about this trip because FOUR housewives were fired lol. Now we have the new housewives and her plan to be condesending and have them bow down to her has failed. Now they're going to London without her and typically these shows only have one international trip per season. Last season it was like 3-4 episodes, same with Scary Island and these episodes are always big ratings hits. She's worried about her screentime and future and status on the show. It's GREAT seeing all those layers play out. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ramona this season. LuAnn is another one who is imploding because she's been a total disaster all season. Those forced scenes with her kids to prove she's a good mother don't work. The baby storyline doesn't work. The fued with Ramona makes HER look crazy and is also overshadowed by Heather/Ramona. LuAnn is on shaky ground. Don't be surprised if you see luAnn and Ramona teaming up just to stay on the show. The three newbies are all doing great IMO. They all need to return with more new wives. It's a shame the ratings aren't higher.

Heather is HILARIOUS. She was killing me not budging or acknowledging Ramona's desperate attempts to get an invite and that was fun to watch. She just slayed me.

NYC continues to impress, but when I saw Rich with the four girls having cocktails, I immediately thought of Simon lol. Then hilariously, Ramona finally mentioned Alex and Simon in comparison to Aviva. I keep getting too much memories of Alex and Simon, a perfect sign something is missing.

I won't be watching next season. Kesha was a GREAT addition and to fire her makes no sense. At all. This is so transparent. You fire the three people who DON'T fight in order to send a positive image? It's BS. And not only that, but I think they fired 3 of the most interesting ones with actual careers and friends to show.

I find NYC entertaining, but I always prefer the more lowkey seasons. In general, I do think they should've dumped LuAnn which is VERY obvious now and kept Alex and Jill.

I'm finally watching the NYC premiere and it has potential, but it seems too fast so far. They jump in with Aviva meeting LuAnn, then immediately into Sonja's party, then immediately introducing Heather and Carole and the approach is like they've been there forever and it doesn't work. I need an adjustment period. I need them to show me the new girls home lives before they start showing how they entertain. It feels very mid-story and poorly edited. With that said, I'm instantly LOVING Carole. Her outfit at Sonja's party was flawless and she's a firecracker. Aviva is kinda annoying a tiny bit, but I fully expect to love her. I still stand by my sentiment that something is missing. They should've kept Alex for sure and I'm thinking maybe even Jill. Then let the three new girls duke it out for new HW and have one (or two) as a Friend ofthe HOusewives for now.

You know, I can't fault her for just moving on. It takes balls, because like you said, she's NOT established yet. She's grown so much from the social climber in season one. I appreciate that she's used the show and knows when to move on. This is the worst news ever. She was brilliant.\

Like last season, this was a troublesome season to film. They DID ask Alex to return as a Friend of the Housewives with the idea that she'd become a full housewife if one of the new wives didn't work out. She turned them down, either wanting to return full stop or not at all. Then they sent the housewives on multiple trips and extended filming (which the original housewives boycotted at one point) to try and get better footage.

I didn't find the reunion to be that bad. It was decent and showed me enough and also a wide variety of characters. It's sad that Dallas was the high profile show, yet they only brought back a total of like 5 cast members between two movies. That's ridiculous. I don't think a reboot would have to ignore much from a Knots remake though. Only Kate and Gary's daughter would have to be remembered, maybe Paige leaving.

I agree they've missed the boat not releasing more seasons on DVD.

I haven't seen NYC yet, although I can't wait, but ratings were not good! Especially for a heavily promoted premiere of an established housewife show. It got 1.6 million for the first airing and 1.0 for the second airing. Hopefully with word of mouth it'll improve. The previous season was pretty big ratings wise. I think they definitely missed the mark in dumping Alex, who is probably more relatable to viewers. Now we have to wait and see how people take to the new wives. I'm in love with Carole and Aviva from what I've seen.

I was reading a pretty standard article about Dallas, which had some surprisingly good details. One thing I noticed is that the article says the producers reached out to Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackelford to appear in an episode. It would've been a small appearance, but imagine how nice that would've been! We could've had Gary and Val reunited with Lucy and hell, seeing them at all would've been amazing! Ted is the reason they didn't appear. He said the role wasn't big enough and turned it down. Now we know where the rumors of JVA appearing came from. I wonder if there's a chance she DID film the cameo by herself. What do you guys think? Personally I find it short-sighted on Ted's part because who knows what this could lead to. They might be thinking of a Knots Landing spin-off and could do that by testing things out with guest appearances by Gary & Val and maybe Bobby and Betsy if Dallas is a big enough hit. Or even on Dallas there might be a place for them. I think it's great the writers tried to include Knots even if it wasn't successful. Here's a link to the article: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Dallas-TNT-Ewings-1048494.aspx

If you were going to include originals, I would focus on Paige and Greg since they would make it easy for the Mackenzie's and also Abby to make appearances. Then you can include Gary and Val by having the twins around. Olivia, Brian and Kate are also options. I'd simply have most of the originals living elsewhere and their homes inhabited by their children. Would be a little contrived, but could work. There are so many different ways you could go. Another option would be to redo the Scenes From A Marriage theme of the early days and pick five couples to lead the way. Could do Brian & Kate (with their teenage daughter Molly & Grandma Abby), Olivia with somebody new, Bobby and/or Betsy with somebody new, Meg with somebody new, a recast Michael with a love interest and considering how Kent King has aged, I'd certainly have Julie around.