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Tonight's OC was missing something other then more airtime for the OG of OC...such as something interesting going on... That wine cellar/room looked creepy..right of fifty shades of grey. http://www.chicagonow.com/confessions-coffeeholic/2015/06/rhoc-whine-country-recap/

And the benefit of Brandi being gone is that Kristen on NY now officially has no.job security...silver lining. Also...Kyle/Lisa V/Lisa r/ Eileen were bonded in their dislike of Brandi and Kim to lesser extent. With both gone... they will turn on each other..unless the new housewife bought in is vile.

Although I.think Lisa rinna proved she could be bat [!@#$%^&*] crazy..and being a people pleaser rubbed Kyle the wrong way last season. I think seeing Kyle without Kim and Brandi will be interesting. And I'm all for Camille returning full time...she was a rich bitch, didn't drink, dressed well and was good at shading...and didn't swear either

What scary is that twitter is saying that Brandi is the only reason to watch... yet Eileen's debut episode as well as the reunion episode where Eileen was featured the most dragging Brandi without breaking a sweat were highly rated.. I'm sure we can have a housewife who is wealthy, bitchy, is a non drunk and isn't sleazy fill in....hell.no to Faye R.

NY is hit and miss for me this season.. Love Dorinda, but too much Bethanny... and the show could have downgraded Kristen, Sonja, and Carole.. and had five women to focus on with the other three being friends of. OC seems real, but I wish that the show had cast a Lydia type to balance out the angst that Vicki/Tamra/Shannon look to be projecting this year.

I did.see an.interview from.a few years ago with katie.Hamilton and she was like Alexis only smart.She would have been a good addition.

Actually i like Dorinda and think she's a great addition. I would have dropped Kristen, Carole, and had Sonja as a friend. Five housewives and one friend... I think five or six main women are the best in terms of equal focus...seven is kind of pushing it...though BH did pretty well this past season with seven.

I'm unpopular but the only time I've liked bethanny sans her talking heads was the scene of her in the business meeting. Otherwise, she's been an insuffable Debbie downer. Ratings haven't been all that good this season for NY..and I think its due to too many women, too much focus on bethanny..and too much contrived group outings without proper individual scenes (barring bethanny and Dorinda). With that said, anything with Ramona is reality gold...she and Vicki G are the stiff reality shows are made of

I'm wondering if the reruns will continue into.the early 70s so that we get to see a young Anna Stuart and Julia Duffy.. that would be interesting.

Rewatching the pre.Barnabas episodes...I can.honestly say I liked the show better before Barnabas and.Julia.Hoffman hogged all the airtime and character development. It seems like a mix of Jane Eyre as well as secret storm..pre supernatural elements. I can also see why it struggled some as well.

Lisa Rinna can bring the drama..no.need for Brandi nor Kim. Both of their stories have been told.

Iva was a tragic character...and I'm glad that she got her happy ending when the character was written off. Nowadays, she would have been kidnapped,murdered, gone psycho, etc if the character was being written off. Or worse, shed be written like how Nicole is written on Days.. hamster wheel, punching bag, etc.

I must be watching a different show because bethanny is such a Debbie downer. The vibe was so much happier and fun before she showed up. With that said, I do think heather also was in the wrong for keeping things going instead of backing off. And quite frankly if heather is jealous of bethanny then she needs help. I don't find one thing about Bethanny I'd be jealous of. She's probably the most unhappy I've ever met...and that's sad. To me...heather is that know it all girl we all went to school with. You smile to her face and roll your eyes behind her back. Lastly, the web exclusives on hulu I wish were on the actual.episode. we got to get talking heads from.behannys staff as well as Sonja's interns. I want to see them in their day to day lives with some group introduction.

Didn't Jennifer runyon's Sally start the peter/sally coupling? I could have seen her with peter...but I think.when mpk took over as Sally by summer 1983...I couldn't buy her Sally with Peter...if that makes sense. Perhaps the change in actresses shifted.the story?

Its funny that in the mid 90s and thereafter that the show considered Reva the main draw when she wasn't even the main reason several people I knew in college and post college started watching the show. The character that caught their attention was Blake. In fact, my one college roommate started watching with me in late 2001/early 2002 right when the toru grainger story was starting. Her favorite story was that...and I remember her being crushed during the summer that she had to go study abroad and when she returned in the fall..the story was wrapped up with no long lasting effects. So I explained it to her..about the final showdown.between Blake.and Tory and she thanked me and thought the ending sounded fascinating. With that said, the Blake they all saw was Liz K's version. She took the comical undertones that Sherry S infused and ran with it...the writers took advantage of that and made Blake almost a caricature.. when Liz k was capable of playing Blake the way sherry S played her. E. Dennehy's Blake was almost tragic, sherrys Blake had the tragic element but was more sardonic...Liz's Blake was more comical but could be sarcastic/sardonic as well. Thoughts on the three primary Blake's?

Michelle.being the focus hurt the show...so glad they aren't doing it. Michelle could be referred to as out of town in new York and mentioned off.screen. I think for this to stand on its own...it has to separate itself from full house a.bit. DJ was always peacemaker between Stephanie and Kimmy...and it was focused on.a.nit during the original show..

I'd rather have seen a full scene of Ramona and her business partner interviewing employees then another scene of bethanny in therapy

The sad thing is that nothing can be done with Kim Richards... she just doesn't want to get sober long term... at best, she'd be a dry alcoholic/drug user until she modifies the behavior that is causing her to keep falling off the wagon.

I say no Michelle... the overuse of her character at the expense of others hurt the show..making it worse then it was in the early years. The early years had a little more.balance..and Stephanie was adorable when she was little as was DJ.

I think Kate Jackson was hired to fill the ingenure/governess role that Alexandra MOltke filled to prefection the first 2 1/2 years. While KLS was decent in the governess/ingenure part... she was much pretty playing the tough as nails diner worker and the fortune hunting Kitty Soames.. then the weaker maggie Evans/Rachel Drummond. I know Alex M. was approached to return.. and she did say she considered it.. if she could be a dark character for awhile.. or even have Victoria W possessed.. just something new to do. I don't think she was opposed to playing Vicki W.. just wanted some variety like the other cast members got.

I do.remember molly's realization that her choice to.always accept.being a second choice influenced her own daughter Abigail to do the same thing and she broke up with Holden before leaving town. It was the one decisions pass ante/gout man did that I actually agreed with. A woman finally deciding to.choose herself and her daughter first over some man. Sad that was seen as a marvel.when as much as ten to.fifteen years earlier..that was par for the course.

I'm hoping that Retro TV shows reruns into 1971 at least.. then we can see a young Anna Stuart as Toni. I do enjoy watching Nancy, but I agree that they are a mismatch. At least some of the other characters are commenting on this... if this were nowadays, then all the other characters would be propping the relationship.

Manuela is Andrea redux. Gambles only mistake was making her more relevant then she really is.

It seems.early.Alice was more teeny bop per/perky then the Alice of later years. Odd to think Steve frame in a weird way did a number on both her and Rachel.

I wonder if filming will still be Washington state like it was in the original series? Intrigued with the more then nine episodes now