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 I still marvel at the fact that they managed to step it up. And I'm happy you enjoyed the reunion. 

 

I cried during Mary's segment, too. You are not alone on that.

 

You will be happy to know the Bob is back...and clashing with Lisa from what I see online. Allegedly.

 

So you noticed that, too. re: Heather quick as a mouse during the Jen Shah (who gets out next year) segment. So did Production. I hollered at Mary and Whitney calling out how vile Jen was, but Heather...just sat there with a camera on her.

 

I am looking forward to the Angie/Mary/Meredith dynamic next season because the last part of the reunion made it clear she is sooooooo jealous of the Angie/Mary friendship. And speaking of Meredith, allegedly, she got into it with Britini and it got physical. 

Amen.

 

Hmmm...I feel Bravo will be more strategic this year so they can avoid a slump in their schedule, but it's sad so many HW shows are on pause.

 

Oh, you know. hehe. re: The Bob.

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Stick a fork in it, BH is done.

The only moderately interesting tidbit was Kyle stalking LVP in her neighborhood and briefly pledging to buy the house overlooking Villa Rosa's driveway. Kyle stays unable to let go of her inferiority complex with Lisa. And her coyness about Morgan has reached self-parody at this point.

My heart ached for Garcelle. You could see the realisation in her eyes in real time. What am I doing here? These people hate me. Why must I keep pretending? Her unspoken disgust when Andy asked her if she'd dated any other A-listers, or when he asked if she'd reached out to Terri -- a Coven-Production set-up if ever there was one.

Watching these last few years, you realise how Garcelle has largely reflected the voice of the audience, in the sense that her visceral reaction to The Coven mirrors our own. Without her, BH is an unmoored clown car, driven by a cackling Lisa Rinna in Joker make-up off a cliff. 

Oh yes, i heard! And apparently there's an allegation of identity theft on Bronwyn?? My mind is boggling. SLC cannot start soon enough.

So glad you noticed the Heather part also. She better not be laying the groundwork for the felon's return!

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Yeah, it sounds like it will be a crazy season (and I'm looking forward to cameo from all the BELOW DECK vets) and I admit that I am curious already about how the season ends given the Jen Shah news. Perhaps with a Monica cameo for S7. 

 

You know I did!!! Especially since she tried her best to interject in everybody's segment. But Jen Shah gets mentioned and she goes on mute. You know me aka GIRL, BYE. I believe I shaded her here and online. Mary's words fell on deaf ears unfortunately.

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My first time skipping a BH reunion and everything I’ve seen here and online makes me feel like I made the right choice. And if there isn’t a soft reboot to BH casting wise, next session will be the first BH season I will be skipping. When you realize you’ve been hate watching a cast for like 7-8 years when you don’t have to it’s eye opening. 

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I really feel we might have just watched the death of BH during this reunion. It was so ugly. 

Kyle talking about LVP's house...typical Kyle wanting to live on Oak Pass Rd just because someone more fabulous than her already is. 

In Countess Luann news...I saw her cabaret show recently. It was amazing how much the audience loved her. People were screaming like they were seeing Elvis or the Beatles. She packed in a great crowd. Sang much better than you'd expect, had 4 costume changes, a 3 piece band, did a Countess Trivia game where her mugshot was used when the wrong answer was given, and belted out all of her greatest hits with the confidence of Tina Turner. She has a lot of energy and clearly loves the audience. 

Yes, it's really interesting to take a breather from these shows when they've reached toxicity like BH has  - and not for the first time. 

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I feel you on that. Outside of clips and Part 1 of Reunions, I haven't watched a full season since...hmmm...Crystal's first season?

 

I don't do hatewatching. Just look at me and GH

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Really good to hear that she is doing oh so well.

 

 

Really good to hear that she is doing oh so well.

 

 

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I re-watched the lemon brunch and did anyone else feel like that was the show testing out the show without any OG’s? I think they did well if so. 

Oh man, sad to hear that. If you hate watching for that long, I would give it a rest too. 

BH is one of the easiest shows to fix IMO. I hope they can get it together before they lose more fans.

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I genuinely don’t have it in me to watch or reward this cast with continuously gang attacking their castmates into quitting the show for another year. And the fact that Bravo is okay with it pisses me off. If any cast needs an Atlanta like reboot it’s this one. But I have zero faith bravo even cares because it’s somehow become the highest rated show on the whole network now.

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It is eye-opening, and to my point earlier about Garcelle being a proxy for the audience....  It wasn't just sadness at being rejected by Sutton or the FFF that we were seeing cross her face. It was disgust at the gaslighting, it was irritation and boredom at the inanity of it all. She realised that RHOBH, Bravo's crown jewel, is an empty, hollow vessel. There is nothing there. She walked away without looking back, showing how easy it was to let that nothingness go, even as Dorit screeched after her. 

I'm glad there are other RH franchises I can turn to. I know you mentioned that BH won't ever change because of its ratings, but those ratings are slipping fast. Dorit ain't it, Kyle gaslighting the audience ain't it, Sutton ain't it. It badly needs a shakeup. Or, as the Bravo Boys podcast suggested, we give Jennifer Tilly her own spin-off where she travels to Europe to buy exquisite jewellery. 

Typical Kyle who after all these years, feels she has to imitate what LVP built years ago.

What a great write-up of the Countess Luann's show! I have not ever read a bad review of her cabarets -- even the most introverted observer is won over by the audience camaraderie and interaction with Luann, the belly laughs, self-deprecation, her enthusiasm and love of perfoming. Luann is a TV icon, and I don't use that term lightly.

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Oh i know you shaded her! You and I are on the same page when it comes to Heather's endgame.

I know Heather wants her back, so that she can fall back into her old comfort zone of playing the BFF victim. A role she really needs to shed because nobody buys it anymore. And Monica would love a reason to rejoin the show. However, i don't think these folks realise how far they have moved on from that dark vortex of suck. She gobbled up their personalities. Nobody existed except to react to Jen Shah or fall in line behind her. Without her, we have seen Mary blossom and take centre stage, Monica rise and fall like a shooting star, Lisa Barlow take on a more aggressivly proactive position on the show, a happier Meredith, Heather, Angie and Little Girl bloom in confidence. I'm not sure Bronwyn would ever have come on the show had Jen Shah been there. Should she return, it would become The Jen Shah Show all over again, and I simply do not care about this person to buy whatever histrionics and false narratives she is shilling.

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Oh fun! I'm glad to you got to see her in action. She puts on a fun, boozy show. We've seen her twice and I was able to ask her a question during the audience Q&A session. I love how she can make fun of herself and just be carefree. 

I agree about the lemon brunch, and it really showed how this is a completely different cast from the previous season (sorry, I always forget Drew's been there a few years; she's just so... irrelevant). If this is their ultimate goal, they've handled the hand-off much better than the total reboot debacle that was RHONY. 

Agreed on BH too; this can easily be fixed. They have plenty of former housewives they could bring back and/or bring on fresh faces. They can go on forever like OC if they handle it correctly and let go of their dead weight. 

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Always. I still can't believe that no one (outside of Mary) can't see her tale is a tale as old as time. The duckling who becomes a swan and a mean one at that. But wants to hide it behind a 'girl confidence' narrative. You can do all that. It's called being assertive. And...this ain't it. I want for her what I would LOVE to see for BH Kyle: a takedown season. But alas.

 

I agree. They have all come a loooong way. But I still won't be surprised if for S7 Jen Shah (and Monica for extra mess) aren't used to give the show some drama. 

 

 

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