2 hours ago, Cat said:

NJ was 🔥 !!!!

 

I am so glad it is back. As with RHONY, I feel a real affection for this cast, maybe because I grew up in MA and NY and they remind me of people I know.

 

Danny Pellegrino's most recent podcast interviewed both Marge and Dolores, and they said that they loved pretty much everybody in the cast, despite everything that goes down on the show, and their husbands too. They have a tight circle (Dolores once worked for Bill Aydin way before Jennifer and he joined the show!) and, as Dolores put it, she would 'sit down with any of these women at Reunion' any day of the week.

 

RHONJ has been very watchable since S8. It pivoted from the toxic family stuff and weird S6 transition, and found a good balance and cast mix. It struck me that everything we saw go down in this most recent episode has been building over the course of two prior seasons. The Teresa-Jackie rivalry in particular. Teresa was always going to be biding her time to get Jackie!

 

I have a theory that Bravo gave Teresa Siggy's and Danielle's salaries on top of her own if she agreed to play villain this year. Teresa (who is in a good mood because she is getting the good D) said "No problem!" Teresa is all in on being the villain, and that, too, has been building the last year or two to this moment.

 

The interesting thing is that, while Teresa is clearly in the wrong, and letting her hatred dictate her actions, Jackie's chance to play innocent victim went left. When she did that Gia analogy (and poor Gia's Twitter is now inundated with the most awful Tweets, SMH) and said "I WIN," it wasn't great. Anyhoo, this looks like a great rivalry, unfortunately with a shocking, damaging rumor at its heart.

 

Oh, and this Tweet 

 

 

ETA: I haven't finished the SLC reunion Part 2 episode yet, so Fabulous Ice has yet to melt.

 

However, I did watch the first 25 minutes, which featured Mary, including her admitting that she and her husband sleep in separate bedrooms. She got emotional at that point and her emotionality was authentic -- partly because she herself seemed shocked that she had admitted it on-air. I think the other women empathized with her at that moment.

 

Mary is a master at moving the narrative where she wants it to go, and it is fun to see her outwit Jen, Lisa, Heather, Whitney, etc, at this reunion. Whitney and Meredith are lowkey nodding their heads and smiling at the way she got Jen and Lisa spinning. At the same time, she has this very disarming quality of admitting raw and truthful stuff, even if it doesn't present her in the best light. Unlike some of the other women who are hellbent on presenting themselves in the rosiest (though often most contrived) way. It is for this reason that Mary is my favourite on SLC. 

THIS.

 

I also think this (and her ability to read a person like a scripture is why she has fans. 

Totally missed this. 

 

 

That was a great NJ premiere, esp. following that lukewarm OC season.

I've been in MIA from the Housewives (life has taken me all the way off from tv) but I randomly watched the Season 11 NJ premiere after seeing some Twitter buzz..... All these years later and it's still Teresa Giudice for me!

 

She is messy, ignorant, petty, and vindictive but she is an icon and the show. Periodt!

 

RHOA

 

WOW. Now THAT'S how you bury the hatchet.

 

LOVE.

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 20214 yr by Taoboi

Gia responded to what that bitch Jackie said about her

 

 

 

 

NJ

 

Tre had to apologize to a Young woman for calling her Mom a prostitution whore in front of her, I'm Team Jackie 

3 pages to catch up on after my 5 day power outage adventures.

 

Salt lake city 

 

Lisa vs Heather is everyone I was hoping it would be after the 1st episode where Lisa didn't remember Heather in school..but heard she was a good time girl.  I'd been waiting for the match up.  So far..evenly matched.

 

Also, I was wondering what Lisa would be like in a conflict..and we got a taste at Sharif's party.

 

I'm wondering if Lisa is a true blue friend wrapped in Ice...while Heather is a cold hearted witch wrapped in awkward cuddly cotton candy.  Hmmm

@TaoboiYeah...the baby rumors are probably coming. This sounds like she’s quitting mid season without even doing the reunion. 
 

 

3 hours ago, Chris B said:

@TaoboiYeah...the baby rumors are probably coming. This sounds like she’s quitting mid season without even doing the reunion. 
 

 

*RHOMAdriana*You beat me to the tweet*RHOMAdriana* 

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

I just woke up and saw this and was coming over here to find you!!!!

 

OMG! OMG! OMG!

 

Wow. I guess this season is about to turn later seasons RHOP and be lit. Cuz that? I wonder how it is going to go down on the show then? Who would even bring it up? Jen maybe? 

 

And also maybe this is why Brandi was brought back rather than fired like LeeAnne. Because the producers knew this would come out and wanted some drama. Or...just payback.

 

If so...bravo Karma...

Good. I hope Brandi is out. Once she leaves, I'll consider coming back to Dallas. I always felt that if they were going to get rid of Leeanne, Brandi needed to bounce too. 

@TaoboiIt still amazes me how Dallas keeps their stories under wraps even while airing. They have me pumped for this second half! That mid season trailer told us *nothing*! 
 

This needs to be the new normal. I know everybody is excited for RHOA tonight and while I will watch, we’ve known about this stripper gate since it happened! I want to be surprised! Salt Lake City was a surprise, Dallas has been a surprise, Jersey is a surprise! I like not knowing everything that is going to happen. This is why I’m so pumped for New York and Beverly Hills. It’s unheard of for BH not to go to the press, but for once we truly don’t know much of anything. 

@Chris B same. I've been surprisingly enjoying this season so far. And YES on the trailer. They are so stringing us along and doing an efficiently great job at it by not releasing anything new in the midseason trailer.

 

Well with strippergate on RHOA...at least for me...we really don't know the specifics of the aftermath...just that there was a great shift in the dynamic. Hints of who and what. But not all or how it will affect the whole yet. So I am tuned in to that. 

 

SLC, RHOJ did a great job of keeping what went down under wraps for sure. I giggled during the premiere because I remember seeing pictures of the place where they had the party for Evan (and I remember they had more masks than was shown which I liked) and those pictures were dropped a while ago, but they filmed this season pretty fast as RHOA did. 

 

BH not watching but respect they have been secretly hush hush other than Kyle having a slipup. And they filmed here in San Diego in La Jolla a few weeks ago and still nothing. 

 

And I'm soooooo ready for NY. I know NOTHING. 

 

1 hour ago, NothinButAttitude said:

Good. I hope Brandi is out. Once she leaves, I'll consider coming back to Dallas. I always felt that if they were going to get rid of Leeanne, Brandi needed to bounce too. 

Same.

 

But again...maybe those production knew they were going to make Chucky walk over broken glass.  Which now that I think about it...perhaps those rumors of her being preggers while filming are true.

Welp. Brandi certainly couched her goodbye statement in a whole lot of religiosity! Wonder if she's leaving because someone brought up the Bryan + affair = Bruin rumor, or whether this was always the plan and production just wanted to give her time to wrap up her story.

 

Nothing in the last two episodes say to me that she is ready to leave and move on. If anything, she seems increasingly keen to participate in group dynamics. 

Edited February 21, 20214 yr by Cat