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Whoever would have thought that Mary. M. Cosby. would be the MVP of Part 1 of the reunion? She did not break a sweat and took no prisoners. She seemed to be coming into it with zero alliances and just her own opinions. That comment to Jen was one of the most forthright ways to take someone down by outright rejecting them. I haven't liked Lisa from the start and this part of the reunion solidified why. She hates Heather because good 'ol lollipop chicken drumstick loving Heather is a breakout favourite while Lisa has been shown to be the bitch that she is. "Roll the footage!" should only be used when the footage you're rolling doesn't directly contradict the point you're trying to make. Heather is a serious opponent for someone like Lisa whose used to steamrolling people. Meredith looked great. Whitney was ready for a fight and Lisa was on the defensive with her as well. Lisa will come out of this reunion looking worse than Jen the lunatic.

This is the Modern Hippocratic Oath. Laurent is living it, especially the bold: I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery. I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure. I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

RHOV S1 can be rewatched endlessly. For me, it is the height of Housewives perfection. Can't blame Garcelle and I was surprised she hung in there for another season once I Am Denise f*cking Richards, Kyle, decided to quit. It seems to be the trend that if a HW doesn't need the show that the BH women go absolutely cannibalistic on the poor woman.

The interesting thing is how they’ll incorporate Erica - is she still going to be chasing her dreams and having romances or will she become the new Phoebe Tyler? There is no doubt they need her for this show to work - but whether ABC will be brave enough to give a 74 year old woman a marquee role is something I struggle to see them doing.

Indeed. I have loved every second of SLC. As @Chris B points out, there are parallels to Potomac - in my view these smaller communities make the best settings for RH franchises. This season reminded me of Melbourne and Vancouver (in my view, the finest RH iterations) in that it had strong cast chemistry, a tight storyline arc, and was beautifully produced and embraced its setting.

It is now clear that LVP's overall deal is with NBC/Universal, rather than Bravo itself, so they're going to get their money's worth - I think it expires in 2022.

Bless him, poor little soul. That is a real tragedy.

Danny’s impression of Meredith makes me laugh every single time.

I got his name wrong - it's Thomas Kelly. But yes, my understanding is they're one in the same. He is obviously a major problem. BH will never be fixed from the looks of it but at least it's last season, while a mess, was watchable thanks to Denise F*cking Richards, Kyle. OC, however, is in a tailspin: it is a calamity. Ratings are in the toilet. The audience has spoken. It's time to gut the show and start over.

THAT is a cast I’d watch. Throw in Jeana Keough as a Friend. This season of OC was the worst Housewives season in history (yes, including the NJ season with the twins). The show must experience a hard reboot and that involves firing the existing EP as well. Vicki gave a podcast interview to Behind the Velvet Rope and she said the current EP, Chris Kelly, is why she was demoted. If he is responsible for what we see onscreen then he absolutely has to go.

I watched the movie. It was a masterpiece of Lifetime movie tropes. The actress playing Wendy really embodied a lot of her mannerisms - and the wig budget had to have been supplemented by Wendy’s own because they all looked great. It was never boring - if anything it was too fast paced. Considering she produced it Wendy did not canonize herself as some saint. I think it did a good job of showing why Wendy stayed in the marriage so long and what her true breaking point was and why it was the trigger it ended up being.

She suuuuuuure is. Only RHOV's Jody Claman and RHONJ's Siggy Flicker have self destructed on a season in a comparable way.

I loved Larry King Live. For decades Larry was the 'go to' guy for a softball interview where a high profile person could get their point across. It was because he was a softball interviewer that Larry had the access he did. Many of those who went on his show failed to realize that what Larry did was give you miles of rope, if they hung themselves that was their own fault. Nobody enjoyed being a broadcaster as much as he did. His coverage of OJ was probably his peak - everyone wanted to speak to him, he was so LA nobody could touch him.

A Canadian study has evaluated the use of the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine, commonly used to treat gout and the results are quite promising in regard to colchicine's ability to prevent the most serious symptoms of Covid-19. Best of all, colchicine is a generic, old, well studied, commonly prescribed, and inexpensive drug: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-19-research-heart-institute-1.5885347

OC I'm glad it's only 2 parts because this season could hardly sustain itself it was so bland and boring and pointless. Brown Wind deserved all of the heat she took and while she fought back well, I don't like her at all. I'm sick of her and don't want to see her on my screen going forward. Emily and Gina both came across well, as they have basically all season. Shannon remains totally insufferable. It's interesting to see flashback scenes because her face is a cautionary tale about fillers and cosmetic dermatology treatments coupled with weight gain. She looks like a swollen cabbage patch doll. Tamra was right that sometimes a good ol' fashioned facelift is all you really need (Tamra still looks amazing and her recent appearance on Danny Pellegrino's podcast has me...I can't believe I'm saying this...missing her.) Elizabeth really does lack a certain charisma when she's filmed for this show. She was far more interesting on Heather McDonald's podcast. Kelly is an idiot and while I appreciated her dragging Andy, who needs to go, her discussion about masks is absolutely pathetic. She is ill informed and anyone listening to her is ill advised in doing so. This franchise needs a really massive overhaul. I'd do the following: 1. Bring back Tamra and some names from the past like Lynn, Jeana, and Laurie - let's see where their lives are now. 2. Keep Emily and Gina. 3. Fire Shannon, Elizabeth, Kelly, and Brown Wind. 4. Hire one new cast member. SLC Still loving it. Heather is just one of the brightest spots to my week, seeing her dance into that restaurant to Coach Shah's delight. Brookes and Meredith are the oddest little pairing but I'll hand it to him: he's the most interesting HW child in years. Whitney's storyline with her father strikes a very authentic note. It would be so stressful to deal with him because he seems like a live wire.

Yes, she got her JD from Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law, which is always part of the top 10 rankings (if not the top 5). Not only that but she got her Masters in Management (aka Business Administration) at the same time. Seeing how she chooses to 'not engage' with Jen on camera, I can see the education paid off.

I agree. I haven’t commented on ATL for several weeks, despite watching faithfully, as I don’t think there’s much to say. It’s boring and whatever soft reset they thought they were doing is a failure. I am all for following their real lives but someone as negative as Kenya is draining to watch and in a world full of serious bad news, I don’t care to endure someone as negative as she is.

OC Alright, so I decided to watch the rest of the season on a cold Saturday last week and watched last night's finale. In a word: awful. What an absolute zero of a season. Joyless, entitled, disgusting. And truncated to the point that I had to question why it was even aired. The only people who came off well were Gina and Emily. Gina had the most fulsome storyline and easily came off the most likeable. She felt real and accessible. As some have mentioned, Emily had the season that Shannon wanted to have when it came to her Covid-19 diagnosis. Shane had the comeback of all comebacks where his sense of humour and ability to roll with the punches was a highlight. Their kids were adorable. Shannon is just so mean and emotional and awful that she was always going to make a pandemic all about her. This season really highlighted Shannon's worst qualities and she was so unlikeable. Elizabeth, in any other season, might have been far more interesting than this season allowed because oh, there are more layers to her than a lasagna. Kelly was non-factor. She had zero storyline and is unlikeable. She is one who I can't articulate any storyline for her. No one is more unlikeable, however, than Brown Wind. Somehow, she was able to incinerate all the goodwill the audience would/could/should have had for her with a combination alcoholic/coming out storyline. That was a first - but she's so vacuous and self absorbed that I watched it and concluded I didn't care to hear about her and all her selfishness ever again. SLC I am still absolutely loving this show. Heather is a dream and a delight. She gave an interview this week on Danny Pellegrino's podcast that is a very fun listen. She is just as she appears on television. Jen is burning through storyline like a forest fire - she comes across as unhinged and my lord Coach Shah is a patient man. Whitney was the bigger person to smooth things over and apologize. I don't like Lisa. She just seems mean and like a woman who thinks she's more important than she is. Meredith is like a mannequin - beautiful to look at but I have not seen or heard anything of substance from her. Mary is tacky. That house? Heaving with excess? NJ Trailer It looks like an incredibly juicy season full of mayhem. The thing with NJ is that the husbands really get in the mix. Joe Gorga is as much a HW as any of them - let's get him in the opening credits at this point.

I don't think it's Luann or Sonja based on their Instagram postings...but you never know because so many celebrities keep content stockpiled for posting later.

There's no way they were physically together when this was filmed thanks to the pandemic, but it's Nene and Dame Joan:

I can see that, potentially, for some of theme. Isn't that level of disingenuousness, in a way worse?

Many years ago, back when she was the District Attorney for Westchester County, Jeanine would appear on CNN, specifically Larry King Live, and while she expressed a 'conservative' view, she was by no means the monster she has become. In that clip above, it's like the last 20 years of lunacy never happened and she sounded like how I remembered her. It makes me wonder whether Jeanine has ever believed or meant a word that's come out of her mouth. Indeed, she damned her own viewers, how did the irony of that not hit her?

SLC I love this franchise so much. It is a breath of fresh mountain air. Heather is just full of win. She reminds me of a Melissa McCarthy movie character - just so fun and real.

I've already posted this in the Covid-19 thread, but I think it's important that people see a familiar face taking a vaccination. Dame Joan Collins publicized her receipt of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine through the British National Health Service:

In the perfect marriage of soap and Covid-19, Dame Joan Collins has publicized her vaccination with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine through the British National Health Service: