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Thank you @DaytimeFan. It is appreciated.

Granted you have fresh eyes and it's been a while since I've seen it, but I recall Kary coming in hot, making Cary's old-and-settled feud with LeeAnne her storyline from jump. THEN they tried to get along, but both kept looking for a moment to attack the other. So...I am going to have to repsectively and kindly say 'chance at first' is a no. lol. That out of the way...WELCOME!!! lol. I always enjoy when other posters are playing catchup on a show and I'm living for your comments. So see RHOD from another perspective. I didn't like how dark Season 4 RHOD got. And I STILL need to sit down and watch the finale (saw the reunion...never again), but while the season and LeeAnne leaving was a bad taste in my mouth. I am at least curious to see how Season 5 will be. But like others have said and maybe because it's how we Southerners can be...it is very soapy at times. RE: Gizelle and Robyn They went through all of this trouble to get Monique out of the group and now that Candiace is doing that they want to be all 'huh?' Really? Re: OC Yeah...there appeared to be a massive online SM campaign to boycott OC. I do wonder if it will work since fans tried to do the same thing on BELOW DECK MED post-Hannah leaving. People were more into hatewatching it by the time it ended and ratings did take a hit. EVENTUALLY. I'm also curious about next season's rating since SM already spoiled the people who fans want fired are BACK. + 1 on the bold. As long as people still have LeeAnne's name on their lips like the Coven has LVP's name on theirs, I feel the producers will still miss her in some way. So their best revenge (though I still like LeeAnne and continue to see her as ignorant) will be going into Season 5 is to not discuss or mention LeeAnne AT ALL. Turn the corner and make a new way. I'm however NOT looking forward to the whitewashing of what Brandi did. She should have been right behind LeeAnne out the door. And speaking of someone not showing any remorse...well...

Hehe...just stumbled on this on Twitter this morning. Same. Or back to that. I might not have liked it back in midMarch and April, but clearly it was effective enough to be done again.

Woof!!

Sadly, Dramatist, this is all happening during another of my long busy work weeks. But doing the best I can to not freak out. And thank you, Cat. I mentioned what you said to my mother earlier today. She was feeling a little bit better earlier. It is appreciated. My neighbor just mentioned this to me earlier. Wow.

POTOMAC 'I'm already married to a millionaire. What do I need to get paid for?' DAaaaaRN! I have no choice but to stan Ashley. lol. I needed that today. @Gray Bunny awwww thank you. As a child of being raised in a small town, I completely understand. It definitely is different, but it sounds like you both are prospering greatly. Awesome!

Same. If anything, this shows for sure a pattern of behavior and not a case of hearsay from the ladies.

WOW. So who did Michael P.O.ed this time for this to surface now...?

Thank you, everyone for the good wishes, prayers, and hugs. I guess I was in a daze the other day. Still am honestly. In spite of the fact that both of my main jobs involve me interacting with people who seem to do everything in their power to NOT wear a mask sometimes, I am well. However, my brother (he is negative) had to deal with Co-Vid with his wife (she is recovering thank goodness). And I found out that my mother has it. While everyone has told me (and I have) told her to work on her vitamin D while she self-isolates...my mother also was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease a couple of years back so I'm extremely worried since I am half a continent away from her. It was also this time of year I lost my father so my anxiety is pretty high. I never thought of my mother as weak. So to hear her on the phone like herself, but not and with a cough. I...I just don't know what to do. But...so far, so good.

NY Sometimes all one needs is a little bit of laughter and a lot of LuAnn. lol. Finishing up the Mexico trip from this past season. And I loved that Sonja got her own little birthday party. And I knew that if anyone got up the next day for a set of hot trainers it would be Lu. She did not disappoint. And I needed to laugh so God bless her.

Yep. I agree with Vicki, but yep, yep. Petty boots. I wonder if she will go the extra mile Kenya did during Season 11. Agree.

Hello, Well...Co-Vid has decided to hit a little too close to home this week. Prayers and thoughts are welcomed since I now truly find myself beside myself. Hopefully some good news in the morning...

AMEN.

I feel like she's pulling a page from Kenya's playbook and posting to still some thunder from them like Kenya did from RHOA during her off season. Though tbf, 1)Vicki isn't wrong and 2) Kenya did it better.

Funnily enough, Google on my phone had it bookmarked for me. According to it, I have several close locations that I can just walk to. But I got conflicting info from my neighbor so I will be trying to verify it either tonight or tomorrow. Yes, I should be able to track my ballot which is good.

POTOMAC Another easy, breezy episode. Perhaps it was my headspace after binging NORMAL PEOPLE or the Dad Blues sneaking up on me, but it took a while for me to get through it the first time. Or the wine. lol. I did enjoy it. We were just talking a few pages back about Karen Season 1 vs Karen now. So this episode was extremely well-timed into digging more into who Karen is. Meanwhile, the undercurrent of the fight was still very much present. I LOVE THAT. This is like its own little soap opera with individual scenes going on. The producers have found the right balance. And dare I say...Miami Season 2 without the recurring characters? Other shows could take note. KAREN. So...not only is Karen a legacy which she has been saying forever, but her father was self-made. For me that says so much about her. I love that Karen was giving the spotlight and as she would say her view was spectacular. It was nice to get to know her. It was interesting who she chose to come with her. And yes. Wow. Her and Ashley have come a LOOOOOOOONG way. But this really, really humanizes her even more than they were already doing. I giggled at the parade since I am from a small town as well and that was how our parade used to go down when I was a kid. And I felt her when she was at the church. The pain of losing a parent never truly goes away. And while my loss has been years it is still quite unnerving at times. If I was disappointed at Karen at all, it was because she should have talked to Monique about what she said to Candiace before anyone else. You could already see Gizelle's wheels turning. And then we have Robyn telling Candiace too. Can we say ambush? But I am confident Karen will get those bandits all the way together. GIZELLE. Doing too much. There were times her humor was fun. But then she just had to be shady. ROBYN. Her dress up scene was a hoot the first time around (and someone pointed out online that she still had her tag on), but I ignored it the next two times. And I don't like how messy she was with Candiace. Just more reason to believe that the Green Eyed Bandits set up Monique and Candiace. Yes, the fight is both of their faults, but the bandits worked with what was already there to push it to boiling point. I do hope they get called out at reunion. And the karma over IRS coming for Robyn. HA!!! WENDY. Is that the hint of a storyline coming up? I would say good. Right now, Dr. Wendy has started to lean toward a miss. And like Karen before her, she definitely needs something to humanize her. Because her aliging with the Green Eyed Bandits...is not a good look for her. I love Ivy. So more of her, please. Good start. ASHLEY. She had me hollering in the first five minutes. And I LOVE her hair at the parade. She was the best humor magnet this episode. And I continue to like that she has Monique's back. And yes, her and Karen have come a loooooong way. CANDIACE. Honestly? Darn. Robyn manipulated her good. As did her mother. MONIQUE. The stuff of what good soap is made of. She FINALLY calm down. She FINALLY saw where she was in the wrong. She FINALLY saw what she had to do. But...TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE...? since lawyers were on the way. Ugh. That said...I liked her scene. I understood where she was coming. And a lot of us have been saying what the pastor said to her last night. She has been under so much pressure. And we know why. And yes, she was still partly responsible for that. Part of the 'fun' of watching Monique now will be the journey to get to a better place. And I feel that she will get there. I love that Chris allowed her to get to a place where she would be able to hear what the pastor was saying too. He is a great husband. Pre-pandemic...and I might be oversharing a bit so I apologize...I have been on a bit of self discovery myself. I have suffered from self esteem issues, working hard to have a good life and come from a poor background. Over that time, I have had anger issues. Always trying to be the best and do the best and I while I would be the first to say I am not perfect, there is nothing more triggering than knowing no matter what you do as a black gay man you never seen to be good enough for your peers when you are a double minority. I have come a long way, but I felt it was time to better myself and feel more comfortable in my own skin. To follow my dreams in a way that I feel I've drop the ball on. It was part of the reason (those who read my RHOD posts here remember the other reasons) I left my job of eight years to put myself in a place to be focused on chasing my dreams. Then Co-Vid happened, and that made me look inward more. And now...it has been a matter of keeping balance in a world that as I get ready for work...has gone mad around me I feel. They say that when you feel pain is when you know it's time for a change so that's where my head is at at the moment and it is quite frustrating to keep it together which the world around you is losing it. So with that in mind, I felt that whole scene of Monique talking to her pastor. The person I would talk to in these trying times passed from a long battle of cancer in January and I discover this under lockdown started so I really feel those scenes. Navigating without one's sounding board is...new...to me. Okay, that was a little bit deeper than I meant it to be. lol Again, my apologies. It was a good episode.

True. It does worry me. I got my voting packet this weekend. And booklets. I plan to sit down and read them on my next off day. But I have looked online for where to take this. I'm in San Diego so I find this worrying. Like the San Diego Public Library is opened for drop offs...I'm a block away LITERALLY, but I now wonder how safe is it?

Since we know how triggering Kary was to me all I will say is...

YES. It balances all that and as @DaytimeFan said they balance both with comedy, too. They are literally putting every franchise to shame right now HANDS DOWN. And I will go a step farther saying a bit soapy this season and last. LOL!!! That was what my cousin when she first started. Next time I talked to her...she was also on Season 3. lol.

Isn't that the best feeling in the world? I've been doing the same. And I look forward to clowning with my cousin every Sunday now over this and RHOA. POTOMAC...bringing families together through messiness.

And on TONIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS???

Hahahaha

So all of Team Pretty was in the house...

RHOA WOW. The pictures and videos from Cynthia's wedding though...Great.