Just as a note, all the screen caps this week are MFW pictures. Keep that in mind.
Anyway, back to the review. I really like how with this installment of the franchise they waste literally no time getting into the drama. Whereas with some of the other Real Housewives shows they will start the episode off light with someone not so intense, Beverly Hills always draws the gun from the first moment. We start off this week seeing Brandi with her promised lunch meeting with Lisa V.
This actually turned out better than I had imagined. Lisa V may not be willing to budge and forgive Brandi, but at least she's being a mature adult about the whole situation. She knows that if she doesn't at least make an effort (or appear to make an effort) that the others will rip her to shreds and she could easily become an outcast from the group. The two girls give each other some rather half-assed apologies and move on. I feel like this is actually a nice start to getting things back to the way they once were.
I spent the entire clip trying to figure out if one of them was lying.
Then in a big twist of events, Brandi makes even more enemies! As much as I love her and her wit, I really feel like she does need to learn how to control herself in social situations. I have also become acquainted with people I've grown up listening to the music of or watching on TV, but if you act like a creepy stalker fan, they aren't going to react well. That's exactly what happened at the dinner with Yolanda, Lisa R, Eileen, and Brandi. They were all getting along well, with the exception of internal anger from Brandi over Eileen's "home wrecking story" until the fan moment kicked in again. Brandi bugged Eileen a great deal to do a scene from Days of Our Lives, the soap opera that Eileen starred in for years.
Eileen, however, was not feeling it. Brandi began throwing money at her, and since that was enough she found something else to throw -- wine. Yeah, it happened, but it wasn't as dramatic as the promos made it look. The promos for the episode made it look like Brandi threw the drink at her for talking about cheating on her first husband, but that wasn't the case. It really felt like a bait and switch from the network, as if they were trying to create a fake rivalry.
Well only kind of fake.
Still, though. Damn, Brandi!
Somewhere mixed in the episode is Yolanda still distressed over her daughters DUI, and Kyle still talking about how insanely rich they are. But that's not important.
What is important is Yolanda's dinner party. Haven't these girls learned that dinner parties are a bad idea? Well at least Yolanda's track record is a bit better than most of them. Anyway, all of the girls arrive and they instantly begin talking about Brandi and Eileen at the dinner party. Everyone (minus Kim) gets in on the scoop with Kyle once again inserting herself into everyone's problems. Is her life that boring?
Brandi does do a much better job of apologizing in this situation. She brought Eileen a necklace and was very sincere. It's obvious that she got caught up in the soap opera drama and didn't mean to have the incident take place. Eileen is not totally convinced, but enough so to let it go for now. After the dinner she and Lisa R escape to the house where they decide that Brandi is literally insane and decide to keep her at arms length. It looks like the two newbies are finally starting to form their own alliances. Took them long enough.
The best part of the episode was something that could have easily been edited out, and is pretty easily missed by anyone who left the room or had the volume too low at the time it happened. During Yolanda's speech, after she got done congratulating Eileen on her Emmy, she went on to say she was proud of Lisa V opening Pump and that she should invite her friends next time. Oh. Lord. No. Lisa V was all smiles, but in that interview, she made sure everyone knew that Yolanda's bridge had been burned too. I forsee this bubbling over soon.
This episode covered so much, and much of it's drama was self contained to this episode. While some of the damage will probably leak out to the rest of the season and the reunion, I think it was mostly it's own thing. This could have easily been spread out over multiple episodes and fleshed out some of the other ladies in the mean time.
Speaking of those who don't get much camera time, we still barely see Kim in the episodes. I don't know if she's being flaky again in the past (she looks so much better) or if she is relatively drama-free now and they have no footage that would be interesting with her. I hope she doesn't leave next year or get demoted to a "friend" like Porsha. But even then, Porsha has had more screen time in Atlanta so far as a "friend" than Kim has as a cast member.
This franchise is weird.
'Til next week!
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