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That is QUITE interesting indeed...especially on the heels of the switching Ashland news. The plot thickens...

I definitely would say Carrie/Austin/Sami in the 90s too. I skipped class for that Carrie's 'I win' and her punching Sami.

HOT DAMN!!!! Ha!!! Loooord, I just can't escape this guy, can I? lol. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully it's a sign like then that there is going to be a change BTS coming if they are all three heads are fighting over casting.

It reminds me of Huss vs Nichols re: Tucker.

The rivalry of it all...

SLC Wow. So WITHOUT the reunion, this season of SLC has been revealed to be 22 episodes....6 to go.... NJ Premiere is sounding like another doozy since it starts with the aftermath of the reunion...

Kenya stay grinning.

Thank you!!! If there was anyone who would be Team Kenya on this, I figured it would be you so I know we are living after tonight.

Yep...she suuuuuuuuure did. And then... Kenya is grinning right now. And the voice of Season 8 Reunion Nene can be heard....

WOW.

JOHANNESBURG Doesn't seem like they are going to touch on the fight though.

Well, I can't say I didn't like it. But I'm looking forward to a lot of the anniversary episodes that @kalbir has mentioned.

12-30 And finally...it begins... Love the Sonny/Dante talk. Because finally FINALLY Sonny admits what MB has been playing since the Nixon Fall story ended...Mike is still in there and wants Nina. And now he's drunk with her as his driver. Uh oh. While I would not mind Jake with Liz, I have to admit that I was not minding the tension between him, Sam, and Dante this episode. Hehe at the Savoy shenanigans. But happy to see Lucy in any way I can get her. Bring on January....

Hehe. That reminds me of that episode of LOOKING when that was brought up.

lol.

RHOA COME THRU, SHEBYSHREE!!!

SMH. Yeah stupid is slowly making a comeback.

12-29 Willow, get over yourself. Nina...you better READ. I wish I could say that I feel sympathy for Carly and Michael, but this has been set up sooooooooooo well. So nope. NONE. Awwww....finally!!! After all this talk, we SEE the teens in a college class. Cool.

Well quite a few Housewives are erratic, can form sentences that make no sense, have been known to be ignorant, and sadly can be racist. AND...? But seriously...in regards to Mary...and why I myself like her...well for one, she has not changed from her First Season. Which is a plus right there in a season where everyone has been about alliances something I have brought up since this season begin @Gray Bunnyrather than the friend group they appeared to be in Season 1. Mary has always been kooky for the most part, but still showed enough common sense to stir the pot like in Season 1 with her feud with Jen...all done while she was safely in her closet BTW. And the real shocker was at the reunion where she came, she saw, she gave great observations, and she shaded as needed. A more coherent Mary, but at the same time she still put it all out there...for best or for worse. And even in Season 2...outside of her forgetting she said things...she has STILL be telling the truth about things she said...like the woman who had the car accident...THAT was true and not just her being kooky. You can find the post from it waaaaaay back in the thread. She is an oddity, but she rarely says something that is not true. And even at the Pho dinner, she was doing and saying what WE ALL wanted to do or say about Jen and her arrest and spitting nothing, but truth in her confessional. But that again brings us back to her ability to not be able to articulate. Again, this is something I have also noticed. For the most part it has been fun since Season 1 how she does it. And I still laugh when I think of the phrase 'I smell hospital.' But that is something I do like about her. She has always reminded me of ShebySheree in her delusion about fashion and how good (or not) she is, but her ability to put foot in mouth has also been hilarious to watch. And she even brought a full grown feud to her with Jen due to her ability to not articulate. How can one not laugh because that is the definition of a petty feud...which HW shows used to be built upon. Now has it gotten her into hot water this season? Yes. Has she apologized for that comment? Yes...and as can be noted...moreso than OTHERS in her group who have done the same aka goose...gander. And as I've said before...I was happy Mary used a confessional to explain herself with the cartel comment which is what she was clealry trying to say. So I don't see why anyone can be upset when there is a reality show called CARTEL CREW on tv showing that very thing that she was trying to articulate about. Or are we picking and choosing when we as a 'verse' are going to be mad at someone making a mistake? Which brings me to the racist comment. Well, it's been a long time since I watched the Season 1 finale. I remember Mary putting her foot in her mouth over the 7 11 comment, but not being so much racist as classist. If I am wrong, early apologies. Just like in the case of LeeAnne over on RHOD, I have a different perspective on this as well. So just like LeeAnne, I just see her as ignorant. While I would have preferred Jeannie had a one on one with Mary explaining her feelings on the 'slanted eyes' comment, it does not take away from the fact she did tell Mary about her feelings and Mary clearly did not get it...at first. But she did see she had offended someone so Mary did what a normal human being would do when they see they made someone upset and did not know it...Mary APOLOGIZED. The fact that people are treating her like she is Frankenstein and waving cyberpitchforks at her as if they did not watch this scene or her confessionals explaining the Mexican thug comment quite honestly is telling to me...moreso when said people do not even keep that same energy for HWs who have done worse...and are still on their shows. And then her backstory...which is full of oddities and questions. I honestly wished one of these girls would go and find Mary's mother to give us the tea. I just cannot believe that in the pursuit of taking Mary down due to the fact that for someone who is not all there she can gather them...a black woman...in Utah. I guess I could see by location why they would be pressed. Gives air of the South where I was raised. But like I said, I do come from a different perspective as a person, so I see Mary differently. And that was me speaking on Mary as a person. Now as a viewer watching Mary...well, outside of Jen...she has been giving all season. And even from her closet last season she was giving. She has been a typical Housewife. Mixing it up. Or not. She has shown her background. She has not been boring...the kiss of death...even in family scenes. Last season her rivalry with Jen was the best part of the show outside of the drama with Meredith. And this season...we have a whole arrest with actual evidence out there, and Mary's name is STILL on everybody's lips with only gossip keeping it going. Heck, we have papers with Erika Jayne's writing on it. And we might get Jen's writing on Season 3. But Mary...not a thing. Not to say it is not out there...but it would have been nice to see that unfold or a smoking gun of some sort rather than 'he said this' and he could be discredited as a disgruntled ex-member of a church. And lest we forget Mary...can and WILL read you like a sculpture. She stayed entertaining. and created so many gifs and memes. But that's just my perspective on why I like Mary. I cannot speak for other people. I just hold that like for someone does not cause people here to think less of me for my like. In the land of Housewives, people's minds change so much so for all I know something will come out and I will be like 'naaah. can't like.' lol. But...time will tell. Oh speaking of... @Gray Bunny give me Ashley Darby over Little Girl any day. Still love hearing your thoughts all the same even if we see things different. lol. That Seth is. With Mary probably not coming back next season, I could see Little Girl being the next target. lol. Very true. I don't even mind Emily and Gina stirring the pot. I do wonder if it will come back to bite them though.

Yeah now that Andy finally confirmed...I'm going to miss Sister Mary for moments like THIS. ETA: Okay, fake Mary account, but she would totally do something like this. lol.

SMH.

Uh oh indeed.

1-4 Oh, lord...and then she unraveled some more. lol. Yeah, Sheila pushing Brooke off the wagon (and Deacon struggling as well) and Brooke completely and utterly losing her s&*( is doing wonders for this show right now. And then that coda where she poured out the vodka, stares at the bottle with sadness (and longing)...that was just so well done. As has been the flashback to NYE. And already they are dropping crumbs...Thomas's son trying to warn Liam, but Liam not getting it, Deacon questioning the bottles, Brooke trying to piece it all together...I hope they don't figure out it was Sheila too soon, but let it build a little bit. I like these are all puzzle pieces. And they should be dealt with one by one. Meanwhile, work on Sheila making those inroads with Finn. Outside of a brief aftermath of the Paris/Carter kiss and a nice talk scene between Deacon and Liam...nothing really going on so far this week. It's all about Brooke.