Mob Wives Chicago Recap: Strippers are People Too

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   Chicken Lips
   Posted June 13, 2012 at 4:59 pm

   Thank you PA for touching on the “classy”. When those two broads were talking about their lives and how classy they were, I pointed out (outloud even though I was alone – it was that good!) that if you have to tell everyone you are classy…you probably ain’t classy. Just sayin’. Klasse, maybe, but definitely not classy.

   I was thinking I wouldn’t watch the show – I’m still trying to decide. I don’t know if I have it in me – they will never live up to what we get from Staten Island. Now, if Big Ang decides to vacation in Chicago, then maybe we’ll talk.

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   labowner
   Posted June 13, 2012 at 5:18 pm

   Thanks Plath. I gave you my “don’t read Karen’s book” recap on the mini recap.

   That bar scene was badly edited for shit. All I could figure out is Christina kept it up saying, but it was bothering Pia and she kept talking to me about it so she wouldn’t let the convo go. It was odd, forced and they got very drunk except for Renee. She seemed pretty sober.

   I love the over use of the word “allegedly”.

   Why tell everyone about your secret divorce on TV? I really don’t understand people some days.

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   hot cawfee
   Posted June 13, 2012 at 5:48 pm

   Maybe they meant “Class A” like felony and we being lovely folk assumed they meant classy. Mayhap they should read Countless Lulu’s book for she is the doenne of all things class.

   I am so on board with this show. I love Leah and her chubby chasin’ ways. And that hair–totally curled on spoolies.
   And Norah I am on board with your journey and finding out about your Dad. You had me “I’ll have a shot and a cocktail”. Look forward to a personal note each recap from me. Only Lauren Manzo is favored with them. Somehow I don’t think Norah suffers from the moments of self-doubt and loathing or the maternal brow-beating.

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   hot cawfee
   Posted June 13, 2012 at 5:50 pm

   Sigh…I miss Big Ang too. Maybe I am transferring that onto Leah.

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   PlathAddict
   Posted June 14, 2012 at 4:39 am

   @Chicken Lips, I couldn’t resist poking fun at the CLASSY. Because it’s not just that they are calling themselves classy, it’s that they are on a reality show about drunk bitches fighting calling themselves classy.
   @Lab Owner, I saw the recap and was grateful. Thanks for taking that bullet for me. The divorce thing made no sense to me either. They go to all of these great lengths to keep it secret from their family and child – even continuing to live together, and then spill the news on a national television show?
   @Hot Cawfee, “Class A” I love it! Luanne would shit herself were she to actually come face to face with any of these women. Of course, I would actually pay to see that.
   All in all, the show wasn’t horrible. It just felt really forced, like they were pushing their way through the plot just to get to a fight and the fight was incoherent because it took so much alcohol to get things to a physical point.
   I think back to the first season of the original Mob Wives. There were 2 fights the entire season. The first one was the hair pulling fight at Renee’s house between Renee and Carla. The second one was the rooftop rumble between Karen and Drita. Both of those fights – even though they were surprising – seemed to build from a truly organic place. And, no one was drunk during any of those fights. They physicality came from a build up of tension and in both cases, there was never even any intent to come to blows at all.

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   classy drunk
   Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:17 am

   Sigh…you had to give up your love for Tami also Plath? Then I know the producers say “talk about this scene” so yes Tami (and every other reality star) people are going to talk about you. Now whore slut might be a bit far especially if my friend says it, but yes there will be times that people talk about you behind your back even. And guess what…they might NEVER say it to your face.

   I love me some Leah already. When she said she was a chubby chaser she had my heart.

   I didn’t Pia being drunk so quickly either. This might be a stereotype but I figure strippers are good drinkers. I also assume the same about bartenders.

   What also makes me believe your theory about feed the women drinks is, have you ever noticed that most times when the women get together, and this is on all reality tv shows (housewives, bad girls club, etc), they have a driver or a limo taking them to the party. I really think that’s so the women can get as trashed as they please and not have to worry about driving home. Or the producers can get them trashed and not have to worry about a lawsuit if one of the women gets a DUI or worse.

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   PlathAddict
   Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:31 am

   @Classy, yeah. I had to give up on the Tami love. You know I thought she was the only entertaining thing about that hot mess of a show. So, I didn’t watch it regularly, but my sister told me that I had to watch the Tahiti episodes and when I did, I was so embarrassed for Tami. But, then she would be on Twitter and blogging about how she didn’t bully anyone. I couldn’t respect her not owning up to her behavior.

   As for Pia, yes I would expect her to be a better able to handle her liquor. But, then I noticed she wasn’t the only one slurring, she was just the one slurring the most. So, I totally suspect that they were just feeding these women drink after drink after drink. Renee seemed to have controlled her intake, but I suspect Pia would never turn down a free drink – no judgement from me on that one cuz I likes my booze too.

   And the limo thing? I think you hit the nail on the head. There is always a car of some sort to make sure the women are driving around drunk off their asses. So, I guess that’s at least 1 point for Reality TV producers.

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   classy drunk
   Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:49 am

   Agreed Plath. And the bullshit about how she didn’t steal Keisha’s purse. Tami was really under the impression that she took the purse because had Tami left it it would have been stolen. SMH

   “I suspect Pia would never turn down a free drink – no judgement from me on that one cuz I likes my booze too.”

   I am actually a bit more leery of people who turn down free drinks than who take them.

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   PlathAddict
   Posted June 14, 2012 at 6:07 am

   Haha! The purse stealing thing. You know she came up with that explanation as an alibi just in Case Kesha actually did call the police. Then she could say that it was all a misunderstanding and Kesha was confused about what happened. But, she forgot that it was on film.

   “I am actually a bit more leery of people who turn down free drinks than who take them.”

   Hahaha! That reminds me of when my now husband first met my dad. My dad offered him a beer and my then-fiance accepted immediately. My dad knew right then that I was marrying a man who could be trusted.

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    classy drunk
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 8:08 am

    You have married a smart man.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 9:30 am

    @ 6 ClassyD——-I think the limos came into play when Real World Hawaii Ruthie (the trainwreck’s train wreck) got bombed and drove off with production clue following and (natch) filmong. The producer pulled her over and tried to get her to stop driving– thankfully no one was hurt and of course no arrests were made.

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    classy drunk
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 9:42 am

    I thought about that when I came up with the limo theory hot cawfee, but I think back then they weren’t trying to get their personalities drunk to get a good show. That’s when the real world was pretty real.

    Now they are feeding these women drinks before they shoot so they can get a good fight scene.

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    labowner
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    I’m sorry not to threadjack, but how in the hell could you ever like a woman (tami) that claimed she was raped on reality tv when we all saw what she did before and what happened between her and David. That two bit slut should have been left on the side of the reality tv highway.

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    sheesh
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    Plath…I really hope this show picks up and becomes worthwhile.

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    PlathAddict
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    @classy, My husband is extremely smart. Out of the three married daughters in his family (well, one is divorced but it still counts), my husband is my dad’s favorite son-in-law.

    Hahahah! @labowner, I take my eyes away for a little while and you try to hijack the thread? Awesome.

    @sheesh, I hope it does too. It has potential. I think it’s just trying way too hard right now (It’s kind of like the ugly chick with no personality who befriends all of the guys in hopes that she can get some action). Hopefully, the next set of episodes will start to tone it down so that we can actually get to know the women. The problem is that I don’t feel like I know them well enough to be invested in any fight they might have. I think they started this one off with too many women. I liked the set up of 4 women on the original series. It’s just another reason that I hated the addition of CousinSuckUp as Karen’s advocate – plus CousinSuckUp was just awful and not worth the time. I think all of the Chicago Mob Wives have definite potential to be interesting, entertaining, and relatable, but there has to be more development beyond an introduction before I can get into spliced together fights.

    It really does feel like the first couple of episodes of The Bad Girls Club whereas, I was expecting to watch Mob Wives. I don’t really know all of the players well enough to tell them apart; I certainly haven’t gotten invested enough in them to choose sides in a fight (especially with that editing). My hope is that now that we’ve seen a fight, we can find out who they are and what they are about.

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    BellicoseBaby
    Posted June 16, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    I saw a few minutes of this show – the fight at the high-rise club in downtown Chicago. That was all I had to see that this show is bogus.

    Now if they showed a bunch of goombahs at Jilly’s on Rush or laying bets on, well anything at the Backstreet Inn in Elmwood Park…

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    Pedro Watson
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Those Chicago accents are so stupid, women acting like their fathers instead of their moms – horrible ugly women that rip off every idea from the original Mob Wives of Staten Island – no comparrison