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RHOBH Reunion Part 2 Again, what a did of an episode...this could have been a 1 hour reunion, easily. Kim really needs to get over herself and the fact that Lisa has never, ever really liked her. They've been cordial but to suggest that they've ever been friends, which seems to be Kim's contention about why she wanted Lisa at the graduation party, is absurd. Kim seems so desperate for Lisa to like her but can't articulate why she likes Lisa. It just made very little sense to me. But then, nothing Kim related does. The attitude these women have when Lisa RSVPd is so weird. It seems anything Kim related needs handling with kid gloves. Joyce will be back next season, she did well with her mild digs at Brandi. Carlton v Kyle was such a letdown. It lasted a grand total of 30 seconds? I will be shocked if Carlton returns which is a pity because she is far superior to Joyce when provoked and her husband's business could have made for some interesting moments. Yolanda wasn't much of a factor at all. Neither was Kyle for that matter. Brandi is wrecking her looks with overaggressive filler work. People who try and accentuate their cheekbones with filler often look overdone. And that's her. The red lipstick doesn't help. And I guess her doctor never told her that when you're on antidepressants you are not supposed to drink alcohol because it interferes negatively with the medication. Lisa's hair looks bad in this reunion. She was going for Dynasty meets Lion's Mane...but it just looks crispy and dry. Lisa looks her best in jeans and a white shirt. Such a dumb episode to waste my time on. I'm hanging in there for part three.

I'm absolutely loving Melbourne. It's on par with RHOV...impeccable franchises. Beautifully produced, perfectly edited, a terrific story arc, legitimately wealthy women, interesting interactions. Just RH franchise perfection. Sublime. I cannot recommend it enough. Gina, Chyka and Janet are the ones I'm riding with, especially Janet, who is my favourite. Andrea is such a self inflated bitch, the Jody Claman of this franchise without a doubt and for the wife of a plastic surgeon her work is unfortunate. Lydia is a sh*t stirring idiot, sort of the Amanda Hansen of this franchise. Jackie is a drama queen and is a kook with her 'shine, shine, shine' thing...but she also doesn't seem that vicious...she's chosen the wrong team that's for sure.

It's absolutely bizarre...but at least it somewhat crystallizes the RHOBH as being part of the zeitgeist.

The Lady Gaga video with the RHOBH (sans Brandi and Joyce)

RHONYC Loving this season, right out of the gate we have a fun to watch bit of drama between Carole and crazy ass Aviva. Next week looks epic with Carole grabbing Aviva's face and then Avery going to college. Ramona and Sonja are still incredibly fun to watch for me. I'm looking forward to Luann swinging into the show again too. This season just seems incredibly well edited, focused and well shot.

Definitely. That's why she shouldn't be on television, she's so dull and self righteous when she isn't a train wreck.

RHOBH Kim says this is the first season where we see the real Kim? Pass her some vodka, she's a total pill without the stuff. She quotes those AA lines like a pro. Yolanda...grasping at straws with that painting party nonsense. Locked in the house for 18 months? While filming RHOBH? Sure. Kyle...the perpetual victim. Hilarious that she acted so bewildered at the Dream Team. Brandi came off as a huge, trashy, bitch. Lisa, Carlton and Joyce all said little. What a boring part one of the reunion.

+1. Real Housewives of Melbourne... LOVED it. I've been through the first four episodes, and like RHOV (right down to the exact same production music) this international edition is putting the US franchises in the shade in terms of production values, casting and overall appeal. What a great one.

NYC I am SO glad this one is back after the bust that was BH. I loved last season of NYC, and from what I can tell, this season looks really promising. I am a Ramona and Sonja fan, particularly when Sonja is sober and not trying to be overtly sexual, and the two of them can be hilarious together. I think Ramona has done a little something with her eyes by the time she filmed her talking head interviews, hence the bangs, but it's quality work. Sonja has the best plastic surgery of all the RH franchises, she has likely had a ton but really doesn't look it. I had to laugh at the Barbara Walters vaseline lens used to film Carole's talking heads. Can't fault her, they look good. I like the Heather/Carole friendship too. Aviva remains batshit crazy, and it's bizarre to see her and Ramona and Sonja being ok with each other, but this promises fireworks for the upcoming season. I wouldn't say I noticed Luann was missing, meaning the show didn't suffer because of her absence, but I really look forward to her presence because I just love Luann's shady ass. Her haughty French that's easily translated and thus doesn't cover her affairs with Johnny Depp lookalikes, her snobby crap, that's so NYC to me and makes Luann a one off. Kristin seems to be a good casting choice, an interesting person.

Sigh...okay...you've guilted me into it! Kyle: THIS BITCH has the gall to say, with a straight face "I don't hold a grudge" to the very woman (Lisa) against whom she has the biggest grudge in the world. A grudge that her star was eclipsed by a British restaurateur who lives in a much nicer house than her. Kyle is the perpetual victim. And so she shall remain, the realtor's wife, conditioning her hair in her average house in that part of Bel Air that's a lot closer to Sherman Oaks than it is to Beverly Hills. Kim: she fails to realize that Ken and Lisa just don't like her. They don't like her because she's a deluded whiner, loser and boozer. Ken's reaction to her half assed apology was classically British: no sh*ts were given at all. Kim is irrelevant to Ken and Lisa and she is filthy in her thirst for some kind of revenge against their unwillingness to validate her pathetic mess of a life. Brandi: she was drunk the entire episode. And pilled out too from the looks of things. Given that Jen from 'Sober House' is her bff it is disturbing that nobody seems to check her in terms of how she's mixing alcohol and medication. She was not sharp, on point or sober at all. And it's all one big contradiction: she wanted Lisa to be her protector, yet when she acted on that, Brandi threw a childish fit and then tried to smooth things over with "I love you! We can work this out with an apology from you! You've hurt me! You've pulled away! I need you!"...what a psycho. An utter liability. Joyce: beautiful smile. Her husband makes me laugh. Brings nothing else to the table. Carlton: irrelevant aside from the fact that she didn't join the pile in on Lisa. God Save The Queen, may the British always stick together. Yolanda: she made an ass of herself this episode. The "My husband would speak to you?!" to Ken...oh, what an unflattering light. The "Don't touch me Ken!"...talk about blowing things out of proportion. The "Are you my real friend or my Hollywood friend?" nonsense as she talked smack about Lisa the last two episodes and then greets her with an air kiss and helllloooooo crap. Bonding with Kim over their daughters leaving home for college? The same woman she lambasted at the S3 Reunion? Bizarre. Crashing Ken's conversation with Mauricio? Ken's right, she is stupid. Lisa: she came into this episode with the greatest weapon of all: total disregard for these women. She just doesn't care anymore and it was hilarious that Kyle couldn't grasp that Lisa basically dumped her. Brandi of course didn't make any headway as she slurred "I don't care about your feelings, this is about ME"...what a mess. No wonder Ken and Lisa just left, as if that situation was going to go anywhere, I think not. The reunion looks good only because Lisa looks well prepared. May Brandi, Kyle, Kim and Yolanda all get raked over the coals for their bullshit.

RHOBH... I was going to write a long appraisal of the bust that has been this season...but then...I decided I'd just say this: Lisa and I appear to have something in common, a motto by which we live our lives: it's best to leave before the party's over. Lisa knows when to hold 'em and she knows when to fold 'em. She's walked away. She's checked out. And good for her. I'd do exactly the same damn thing.

The reunion looks good because Lisa looks ready for battle against these peasants. She checked Kim's comments about Ken perfectly. And Kim's ridiculous "I missed a few parties!" line...please, Lisa RSVP'd that she wouldn't attend your daughters graduation party and sent a gift from Tiffany's...Kim is so desperate to argue about that. Yolanda's always been a bitch, but this season she's basically become a bitch to everyone, sans Brandi. It isn't a good look on her. Especially to someone like Joyce. Her 18 month comment re Lisa not visiting...when was Yoland locked away for 18 months? When she was filing RHOBH? Nonsense. Kyle should realize that SHE is the one who kept the Mauricio story alive. It's her fault. Brandi knows she has taken a wrecking ball to her life and she is transparent in trying to fix it...but I really hope she fails. Ken seems intent on her being banished, as she damn well should be. She says Ken and Lisa were like her family for goodness sake...that's what people are talking about when they say Lisa opened her home to Brandi and then Brandi tries to usurp her because of Sheana (let's not even touch the burning building crap, as if Lisa would inhale those fumes for either of them). Ken and Lisa seem very united on the Brandi front, I hope they keep to it. She is nothing but a liability. Carlton should secure her spot for next season with one simple line: "You are just trash."....Kyle's reaction is worth watching the entire reunion for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0t-ljFssE

RHOBH Ultimately, it was another ugly episode. Joyce was right that Ken and Lisa should have said goodbye to her. Reading her blog is interesting because now she sees why they bolted and says she would have done the same. Brandi was relatively sidelined this episode aside from giving her parents a car which was rather nice of her. Yolanda and "Hello My Looooove" (aka King David) just hit this false note. Something's off. Gigi has an amazing apartment. What a howler that Yolanda was on the phone with Brandi sniping away about Lisa even while in NYC, she couldn't help herself. Now we know why Kim's daughter Kimberley (am I the only one who finds that truly bizarre that they have the same name?) is good looking. Her ex is a handsome man who seemed relatively down to earth. Carlton scored points, she's been scoring them in my book since Kyle's Anti Semitic Dinner. Notice she didn't see the magazines Brandi spoke of. Kyle, oh Kyle, the perpetual victim. The realtor's wife in the spacious house in that part of Bel-Air that's a lot closer to Sherman Oaks than it is to Beverly Hills. Lisa repaired and renewed this episode. Is this the first time we've seen tears from her? Might be. Certainly the first we've seen the ugly cry. I really hope the previews for next week are on target and that Lisa comes out guns blazing and takes no prisoners.

The difference is, unlike Adrienne, what Lisa is saying is defamatory...actually is. Adrienne threatened lawsuits about Brandi revealing she used a surrogate, which was true and didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding at trial. Lisa, on the other hand, has been accused of being bankrupt, which, potentially, could damage her reputation. And if she and Ken have not been bankrupt, as Brandi's said they have (then backtracked and dumped on Kyle...) then what she said isn't true and is defamatory. And when Lisa slung mud at Mauricio being friendly with them for the sake of a house sale, she was stating an opinion, her own experience...which isn't defamatory.

The blogs are worth reading this week for BH. They all, aside from Kim, make sense, in their distorted ways. Even Yolanda cops to Lisa probably feeling attacked and that it wasn't anyone's intention for it to go that way, aside from Kyle the perpetual victim, but it did.

Oh did he? My mistake. He shouldn't have called her stupid...much as she was being.

Ken's phrasing was "don't be stupid" which isn't the same as calling Yolanda stupid. Either way it wasn't nice...but it was, from my viewpoint, accurate.

In comparing Ken to other husbands I've slammed...note that, unlike Paul and Mauricio, Ken didn't refer to anyone as a 'bitch' or get in anyone's face, physically. He raised his voice while sitting in his chair and left.

Like I said...Yolanda's a second tier friend to Lisa and Ken. That's why she's pissed. In all likelihood Yolanda was "Mohamed's wife" rather than "our friend" to Lisa and Ken. And then there's whether Yolanda was slagging Lisa off in Paris...For a woman who prides herself on being so mature and straightforward, Yolanda really doesn't seem to handle the Ken and Lisa relationship well at all. Every time she's brought Lisa up to Mohamed he's shot her down. Mustn't have been the first time. And I see nothing objectionable about how Ken conducted himself. He saw his wife being ambushed. He defended her and he got them out of the situation rather than stay screaming at the table like a pack of hyenas.

Then why else is Yolanda such a petty bitch to Lisa? What other reasoning has she got other than that she's a second tier friend?

+1. I'm going to analyze this episode of RHOBH through quotes... "I'm glad that you're capitalizing on my heartbreak" - Brandi ...what a pile of bullshit. She's been working the pole called 'Eddie left me for Leanne!' for years now...she has written two books premised on it...and thus Lisa is a Bond villainess for being friends with Sheana prior to knowing Brandi. See how that doesn't make sense? Brandi is a little girl lost, no doubt about it, but she's bought into her own press and thinks she's relevant without Lisa. She ain't. "I have so much anxiety!" - Kyle ...and so it begins. Kyle's quick descent into the wounded wife and mother. The saintly victim. Please. This bitch has been talking absolute crap about Lisa for years now. She knew exactly what she was doing at that dinner table. Kicking it up, again, Yolanda, of course, played right into it. Classic ambush. Classic highschool crap. Same old Kyle. "You're a stubborn old man. I'm tired of your goddamn mouth!" - Kim ...and I'm tired of Kim. Full stop. This one was foaming at the mouth with glee amping things up to Mauricio about what Lisa allegedly did with the magazine. She is one angry heap of bones, blond dye and sun damage. The jealousy of Lisa is comical at this point. "Brandi feels like there is a divide in the group" - Yolanda ...speaking for yourself, eh Yolanda? Of course not. She was speaking for Brandi, using Brandi's "issues" to start in at Lisa because Yolanda knows that her "are we girlfriends?!" schtick is not going to fly. Ultimately, Yolanda fails to grasp that Lisa and Ken chose Mohamed over her and that, bottom line, she isn't their priority, Mohamed is. "*exhales cigarette smoke*" - Lisa ...I abhor smoking, but what more could she do? She was ambushed not once, but twice, within the same day. And over allegedly telling Brandi to bring some tabloids? Lisa denies it. Even if she's lying, big deal. It's not like she gave interviews about Kyle, it isn't like she was tipping them off about where Mauricio is sleeping around...this episode illustrated that Brandi, Kyle, Kim and Yolanda hate Lisa. They are angry and jealous. They'd jump on anything to try and get her, however ludicrously minor it is. Lisa said it well, she hasn't called any of these women an alcoholic (like Kyle did) or a slut pig (like Kim did)...she'll be fine, I just hope she washes her hands of these women with surgical soap.

Absolutely agree.

Christina was a ray of sunshine.

Production, regardless of whether we ever agree, controls a lot of what happens and what the dynamics are. But my issue with Brandi's statements doesn't actually apply to what's said on the show, she's edited for coherence. Rather, my issue with her statements are the ones she makes on Twitter, in print and on talk shows. She is incredibly inconsistent and, under the slightest pressure, crumbles and retracts her slanderous comments. (pictured L to R: DaytimeFan, Cat, JackPeyton) I know I can speak for Cat when I say we're all still friends JackPeyton!

I just don't like the lack of consistency in Brandi's statements. It seems that because she isn't that outwardly intelligent that a lot of her inconsistency is excused.