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Im here! Phenomenal news. Gina, Janet and Lydiot all better be back!

100% agree. And I love Alicia but Jo-Ellen earned first spot. Rulla was basically a FOH were it not for her philanderer husband. BTW, that was an absolute knockout episode this last week. From Jo-Ellen confronting her mother, to Alicia failing to tell Rulla about the video (the most amazingly awkward dinner party where, at one point, Alicia turned to the cameraman with her eyes screaming 'SOS'), to Rosie decimating Kelsey -- this show is Chef's Kiss. Omg please do post about Ladies of London! It is my favourite show of the year thus far. Not that I'm biased or anything (!), but i really adored the eccentrics in that cast. Lol RHORI is definitely Revenge of the Brunettes, but little by little, Jo-Ellen and Skelator Liz start to stand out, then Alicia, then you realise that Rulla looks like Peggy Sulahian from the OC. Kelsey and Rosie will be the most difficult to tell apart. I still mistake one for the other in their VTs.

How did nobody inform me of this breaking news until now?? Apparently RHOLondon Amanda released a truly terrible promo (in a good way) of her dance track, "Back to Paddington." I am cackling at the audacious overuse of autotune.

Oh, she would definitely cry SA if it got her something in return. Don't forget she landed her hubby Jacques (Catholic Lebanese) after she quickly fell pregnant and got him to marry her. I will say that she seems like a great stepmother to her stepsons. But she’s sooooo manipulative, not just with Mark-Francis, but with Martha. That's why the final party was so satisfying to watch. She sashayed in there in her cheap acrylic crop-top, and nobody wanted anything to do with her. Martha took her to the side to talk, and you could tell Margo was smug because she assumed Martha would be begging for forgiveness. And Martha cut her with "Ever since you've come back from LA, you've been manipulative, bitchy and mean." Masterstroke! Margo couldn't believe Martha had unmasked her. I'm only bummed we don't get a reunion. Would love to see Margo getting dragged by all and sundry. I'm really hoping it gets a second season. It's been my absolute favourite Bravo show. Sadly, the US ratings don't seem to have been good. I do know it is one of the most watched show on Hayu/Hulu in Europe, though.

And I know you've seen the mid-season trailer for RHORI, which has that same fool putting a tracking device on his wife! "What are you gonna do about it, Rulla?" I have caught up with all episodes of RHORI, and I am absolutely hooked. I know Liz is the Queen Bee of the group, and she is pretty great, but for my money, Alicia is hilarious (she needs to dump her guy and start her own pizza empire, Pizza Cicerone). Jo-Ellen is driving this show, and she may be considered the villain, but IMO she is the truth-teller. Brian tried to ruin her career, and she is proving to Rulla that his word cannot be trusted. That mistress sh!t is off the charts. Jo-Ellen's sister coming over to do the husband's laundry and cook when Jo-Ellen is out of town, in a strapless denim mini-dress...I want to believe this isn't what I think it is. Having Ashley as an outsider joining the group was another wicked-smaht move. Where are you on Kelsey vs Rosie? I'm kind of leaning towards Kelsey. I think Rosie is particularly manipulative.

I haven't missed her either and this is why. She's not cute, she's not witty, she's not a wordsmith, but she definitely thinks she is all of the above. I can't believe how mean and resentful she is after all this time -- and how Ashley sti(ll lives rent-free in her head.

Im about to enter the Italian Trip episodes. I will say i enjoyed the Hamptons trip and thd fact that Rachel Zoe kind of brought Dorit and Kyle together, temporarily. Nice to see Rachel with her parents, and to ask Kyle why does she has a property in Nashville, lol. I get the sense Rachel enjoys trolling Kyle a lot of the time, and given her status in pop culture/the Bravoverse, she can get away with that, too. While im not sure I care about Boz's fertility journey (or even quite believe it), I do appreciate that she is a voice of reason and basic critical thinking on the show. Erika has very little SL, and Sutton even less. And while I agree with you that BH is a more peaceful watch this season (in a positive way), I really cannot get past what Erika and Sutton in particular did to turf Garcelle off the show. Amanda is a pretty basic influencer wannabe, whose 'manifesting' idea was stolen from Oprah's talk-show 25 years ago.

If Robyn comes back, Gizelle will retreat into Mean Girl mode, egged on by her bully sidekick. She can isolate herself from the rest of the cast and not do much. Without Robyn there, she had to work much more on narrating SL and bridging Karen's return. I thought she was much more palatable engaging with the cast this season.

I saw that. And there was one spot-on moment where Andy asked: why do you think Margo is so convinced that your friendship with Emma is about clinging to social relevance? Mark-Francis answered: "Because she's never had a real friend, so for her, friendship is all about status -- just like her marriage."

This PPD public service announcement is another excuse piled onto an excuse. Margo was milking the victimhood versus Mark-Francis for all it was worth, and she actually had a lot of the cast on-side. But by stretching out that narrative so long, she managed to lose the very sensible Lottie and Misse, who gently but firmly told her to let it go. Once that happened, she couldn't handle that she'd messed up her plan and lost support. She retreated into 'panic-attack' victimhood, reminiscent of nuRHONY Brynn Whitfield (though obviously not as egregious). The interesting thing about much of this cast is their acknowledgement that they are privileged and lucky, and that instead of wallowing in problems, one must carry on. Even Martha, who has lived some challenges, has a 'look on the bright side' aspect. It is incredible that Margo, for all her time in the UK, with the upper-class friends she cultivated, never picked up on that cultural trait. I also think it's significant that she left Martha wondering for hours and days if she was ok, to better work her victim angle. It was clear 1-2 episodes in why she has Martha as a friend -- so she could look down on 'poor Martha' while vaunting her married wealth. She makes for a satisfying 'villain' to root against, because she has now been exposed. Moreover, M-F is brutally right: her outfit game is a flop. That Alaia looked like Forever 21. This has been a completely compelling show to watch -- one of the best in years. Like classic RH mixed with Jane Austen.

@Maxim --

And this is why RHOM bring about top-tier mess. Lenny presses Lisa's buttons, and she goes a bit too far in her reactions, and this is all part of RHOPM lore that we should be watching! Also, in that mugshot, Jody looks like he has been driving in a snow blizzard. LOL.

OMG Jennifer is a QUEEN

@Maxim you are single-handedly making me want to watch BH. That has not happened in a while.

Mark-Francis v Margo are somewhat well-matched as enemies. He masters the elegant put-down, she will go scrappy, low and dirty. They both have some type of dirt on each other. And that is what makes this an interesting face-off. I am betting Margo plays victim in order to keep Martha on-side. Margo is a manipulator, and she leans into a friendship where she is the dominant figure, and the other person is the sad sack. Hence why she has glommed onto Martha. I think Kimi and Mark-Francis can see this from a mile away and have no intention of being controlled by the wannabe from Malibu, lol. I also agree that the crushed velvet catsuit was a Nope. Not just on Margo, but on anybody.

Online the rumor (unverified) is that she wants to leave and that Bravo wants Rinna to take her place. Can you believe it. RHORI is,like visiting my once-hometown of Greater Boston. I love it. Once I finish the second episode, I will post my thoughts properly. Need to catch up on ATL and even BH. Bravo has flooded the zone with clips of Erika and Dorit fighting at dinner in some Mediterranean locale. I wonder why they would bother to do that if the ratings are as good as they say they are?

Ladies of London mid-season (already?) trailer. Looks epic.

RHORI sneak peek and it's probably the Massachusetts in me, but I think I'll be watching the first episode at least. RJONJ OTOH.... I kind of have no desire to watch at this moment in time. Even though i didn't like Marge, im not ready to ingest this fake 'we made up' stuff with da Gorgas.

Yep. I see the mean spirit now. I thought she and Martha had a great scene, as Margo seemed to be looking out for her friend who is a fragile bird. But seeing how she stirred up Missé with Kimi, and had to insert herself in their convo, I thought 'Oh, ok. She's playing people against the other.' And she thought she could play Kimi because Kimi always seems half-drunk but is, in fact, incredibly sharp and nobody's fool. It made me wonder whether Margo enjoys having Martha be the perpetual [!@#$%^&*]-up and she (Margo) be the successful, together one. Something to watch slowly unfold. Emma is gorgeous and aristocratic and everybody's darling, but she is also steel dressed in a velvet glove. That gossip about her husband and Kimi was TEA. I was not sure whether Myka will make it past this season. The way Dara treated her was like a doormat. She dressed up in that white hat and gold jewellery just to go to a coffee shop to demand answers -- and Dara basically gave her none. Just deflected her questions until Myka had nothing to demand of her. That kind of manipulative 'friend' is toxic AF.

Sad news. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicholas-brendon-dead-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1236543090/

Really upsetting as Miami was such a compelling show. Even watching Julia & Martina's implosion was compelling! I was ready for Dr. Nicole's return, and Adriana/Marysol showdown. In the meantime, we can be bored to tears with the empty scripted nothingness that is BH, and an over-sanitized nunuRHONY.

I'm only 3 episodes in but I'm hooked. Dara Huang leaving was unexpected, as she was already shaping up to be a passive-aggressive villain who talks behind her BFF's back. But I'm hopeful the rest of the cast can keep the momentum up. Mark-Francis is always enjoyable to me. His excoriation of Dara at the end of ep. 2 as someone who didn't choose to leave, but was cut by the group, was breath-taking. I don't know how the ratings are, it is a little less marketing-friendly than RHOLondon, but I think it does show the London high-society scene even more intimately than RHOL. Someone like Martha Sitwell, for example, once an aristocrat, now impoverished but still trying to hold on to her position in life. Martha and Kimi both dress like 1940s Mitford sisters, and I imagine harking back to that era of iconic socialites is entirely the point. Kimi reminds me of a late-60s Babe Paley. Missé is doing the work as the supposed truth-teller of the group, ready to lay things out on the table. She understands this game, and she's almost too good at it, i.e.: it might be a bit pre-planned. The Margo & Martha of it all is shaping up to be an intriguing slow-burn which I suspect will explode very soon. Something Ladies of London understands is the interplay of female friendships in these circles. The power plays, dominance/subservience on the one hand, the deep confidences on the other. These friends have seen each other at their best, and their worst. While Real Housewives seem to be on a mini-hiatus (unless you are watching BH, in which case: my condolences), this is a pretty compelling show. I'm lowkey addicted.

RHOP Strong end to a solid season. Was great to see Karen back and intent on preserving her territory on the show. It was interesting how the show is setting up a Stacey as antagonist to Karen, in addition to Wendy. Karen warned Wendy away from divulging too many details that could be used against her in a court of law. Both couches were nodding vigorously the entire time she said that. It did feel like a 'goodbye for now' to Wendy. What a fall from grace. Ironically, Wendy has never been more centered in the cast, more relevant to the show, and more sympathetic than she has been this season. I have to imagine she will be back next season. Interestingly, she did not outright deny that she might be broke, Gizelle may not have got a clips package, but Ole Soror is still central to the show. Like @Gray Bunny I really want Monique to come back full-time. I also want Tia to return.

Excited that Carole is joining! I've really wanted an OG-nuCast crossover. I am also hoping we get some questions about Ghislaine, the JE files, and whether Carole really did ghost-write her first book. 💅

Poor Mary. We watched his struggle, and I hoped he'd find his place and sense of self in the world.