RHOM Reunion: DOUBLE RECAP OH MY GOD!


And then there’s Ana again, piping up uselessly about where SHE came from.  SHE was the child of immigrant parents who put her through law school and after 23 years of marriage, she’s raised two smart daughters and been successful at two careers.  Mrs. Black is deemed less worth of accolade because she… married up.  That’s the jist. 

Though, being the child of immigrants parents don’t count for that much nowadays…

I still don’t think Ana’s right about Lea’s doing absolutely nothing but marrying up to gain her success (especially when you read stuff like this,  …and this…).  But Ana makes a good point – Lea claims to have a bunch of influence and she runs her mouth knowing people listen.  At the same time, she claims to be Marysol’s friend.  It’s a difficult spot to be in, ethically, and II don’t think Ana’s totally out to lunch to call Lea on it.    

THAT SAID  Ana kinda destroys the whole thing by saying that Lea’s done all her best work “on her back.”  Ouch.  You’re better than that, Ana.  She’s got a point, I suppose, but I just don’t get where it’s coming from.  I wonder if, since Ana’s in the legal community, she’s got an insight into Roy and Lea Black that we don’t have.  I’m gonna give her that, but she’s coming across really psychotic. 

 Commercial!  Now it’s time to take a look at Joanna’s drinking habits, and it ain’t pretty.  Before much can really be said about Joanna’s probable (obvious) drinking problem, the whole thing denigrates into another Adriana/Joanna knockdown dragout screamfest.  In the ensuing few minutes, both accuse the other of racism, both inaccurately and the only interesting thing that comes out is that I wasn’t wrong about Romain in the first few recaps.  I guess he’s French, but he grew up in Brazil!  Yay, me! 

Aaaand now it’s time to talk about the slap.  And when I say talk, I mean time for Adriana and Joanna to trade such mature and intelligent barbs as, “Let me tell you about HO-anna – what, it’s how you say it in Spanish!” and “Go fuck yourself.”  Ana, can you tell us where you’re from again?  I would much rather listen to stories about Cuban immigrants and law school.  Adriana still maintains that she tried to walk away so while she should not have gotten physical, she was still totally justified.  Part One ends in fine housewife form, with nothing resolved and new conflicts created.

PART THE SECOND

Let’s talk about Joe Francis!  The conversation moves to Lisa’s party in general, and Joanna once and for all addresses the fact that she did NOT sleep with him.  She won’t speak for poor Marta, though.  Eesh, Marta’s seriously gotten the short end of the stick this whole season – footie pajamas and boning Joe Francis.  Not a good year.  As for the fight, Adriana and Joanna regret the whole night, and Karen’t is allowed to bring up the fact that the reporter who wrote the article that started it all, Tweeted a retraction.  Yay!  The whole thing was bullshit!  Andy points out that Adriana owes Karen’t AND Joanna apologies.  One to Karen’t for the accusation, and one to Joanna because Joanna was totally right about reporters twisting words.  Adriana… apologizes and the situation is resolved.  Um… moving on? 

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Alejandra lives in Los Angeles and is an actor/writer/producer of opinions.  She loves the beach, but never goes, and hates reality stars, but follows them religiously.  In addition to TVGasm, you can read her writing at the online magazine DigN2It, or various fanfiction websites if you're industrious enough to find her.  If you're not industrious at all, a bottle of fine wine will always be an acceptable bribe.

14 Comments

  1. 1
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 10:26 am

    I do love how Mama Elsa is a bad ass. It has to be hard to have been such a beautiful lady then to have plastic surgery go wrong and her face turn out that way.

    Finally someone says something about Ad and Jo using bullying incorrectly. Both ladies can stand on their own two feet and fight their own battles so no you are not being bullied.

    Karen’t was probably the only person the whole show who didn’t apologize for at least ONE thing that they did. I mean she could have at least said that wasn’t the time or place to do something or even the Ana mix up with Rodolfo. Karen’t is perfect in every way. BLECK…

    When Lisa mentioned that she was doing promotional modeling and Playboy I thought it was mean that Joanna pounced and said that she was proud of playboy. I was thinking, “bitch no one asked you.” But since modeling is Joanna’s “thing” I guess she felt it necessary to comment.

    We didn’t find out anything new about the girls or anything revealing during these two reunion episodes. These are beginning to become useless. At least back in the day some sort of bombshell would come out or we would get closure on a situation but now all we get is a waste of two hours of women squawking at each other.

  2. 2
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 11:04 am

    I could not hate Adrianna anymore than I already do and I’ve been DYING to read this recap! Thanks for making it two-in one! Adrianna throwing the punch, kissing up to Joe Francis, ugh ugh ugh. It was so disgusting and she’s awful.

    Did anybody see this article? http://www.examiner.com/article/real-housewives-star-adriana-de-moura-denies-getting-married-2008

    She’s so awful.

  3. 3
    Mimo
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 11:28 am

    @Alejandra – Ana is claiming that “someone” told her that Lea was coming after her at the reunion. That’s why she came out with guns blazing. Rumor has it that one of the things she brought up was questioning where the money went from Lea’s charity party.

    I found this group of women to be repulsive most of the year, although I was most sympathetic to Karent. My opinion hasn’t changed much after watching the reunion, except I discovered a whole new loathing for Alexia. Her son “loves” homeless people. My god!

    P.S. my capcha code is heebie-jeebies

  4. 4
    labowner
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 11:50 am

    Obviously this reunion was cut to shreds by editing because Ana is making no sense. Sniff out the internet and we find Ana has some financial dirt on Lea and Roy’s Black Gala. Seeing how upset Lea was; there must have been some truth to what Ana had. We also find out Adriana has been lying and married four years ago.

    Joanna looked horrible in that fake tan.

  5. 5
    adelefig
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    I thought Ana was a complete Bi#ch during both episodes. She had this hard, mean look on her face the whole time. She comes across as pathetic…..it is SO obvious that she still loves her soon to be ex? husband.
    She tries to act so lighthearted and happy when they have scenes together but it is so clear he has moved on and he keeps laughing at her when she tries to be serious with him…Also, she is SO proud of both of her daughters?? Seems to me every scene with them they seemed to be talking about sexual hijinks between their dad and new young love. yikes! that is icky, icky, icky………

  6. 6
    labowner
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    I did like the Twitter shirt they gave Adriana.

  7. 7
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    @Alejandra Totally cosign on Mama Elsa. The other day in real life somebody was saying for all the PSAs and after school special stuff they have trying to tell young girls that their self image needs to go deeper than how they look. It’s this 70 something yr old lady on Bravo that’s the 1 actually sending that msg out. And without hardly even mentioning it in words.

    I can’t say a lot that didn’t already get said on the WWC where they talked about this reunion. Even though they’re all on opposite sides of the fence from me about Lea. That I don’t like for a whole lot of reasons. Most of which don’t have jackshit to do with entertainment.

    1 thing they were saying, though is that Ana was acting like that trying to save her job. Since her story was over when she signed the divorce papers.

    But they forgot to say Adriana was doing the same damn thing! She’s still my favorite of all the Housewives from anywhere. But her story’s as over as Ana’s is. She’s even told her son she’s going to marry Fredric. And since she’s smart and not a ho she doesn’t fit on the show any which way. I’ll miss her though.

    Marysol doesn’t have any business being on any reality show. She doesn’t have the stomach for it. The only reason she’s doing it is so her mom can have fun being a star in her golden yrs. When what they ought to do is just let Mama Elsa be the Real Housewife.

    Karent needs to get off of this show and get her chimp nose and Eric Estrada lookalike Halloween teeth’s ass over to Toddlers and Tiaras. She can be a pageant MC. Like Annette.

  8. 8
    Smango
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Lisa is 29??? For real??? I’m 29. She looks a good 10 years older than me. Yeesh.

    Ana was acting like a raving lunatic. I read somewhere that Lea posted a snarky blog about Ana’s two demonic kids. I thought I read it here, but I guess not!

    This reunion was boring. I agree with above: no new info, no settled issues, just extended arguments.

  9. 9
    NameofState
    Posted January 9, 2013 at 11:16 am

    Better than last years, though the editing was wonky.

    You know what got me re: Alexia? Besides her insistence that her oldest db son “loves homeless people” and didn’t punch that guy that he totally punched in the crotch? When Lisa pointed out how she was smiling, as she waited for Karent to hear about the article, Alexia shot back something along the lines of how it’s okay because she smiles and laughs when she wants to, not just to cover up something like KARENT. It was like, yeah, you just proved how heinous you are. Not that we needed proof. I didn’t like her much last season and this one just cemented it.

    There was definitely something more than shown with Ana and Lea; Lea was very emotional throughout the reunion.

    Lisa didn’t talk a lot, but when she did it made sense. That’s sad that no one even thought to apologize to her. Love that she called Ana and Alexia out on their bullshit.

    Mama Elsa-I wish we had her on for longer! I was surprised Marta and Elaine weren’t there; I guess they just haven’t earned it yet.

  10. 10
    tvsnarkeling
    Posted January 9, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    I am going to rant.. As a small service business owner I have total sympathy for Marysol. Lea married into a lot of money and does not know hard work of a business owner. Marysol cried because she could not fight with out alienating more business. I know a lot of \Leas\ who think nothing of bad mouthing businesses and not understanding their ramifications. If Lea had any business sense she would have scheduled at meeting with Marysol at her business within a few months of the event and discuss the problems . Not corner her at parties and lucheons. Lea acted like a rich bitch who is always right and owners know these are the type you wish to avoid because they can cause havoc on the bottom line and not blink twice. I do not do Angies List or any web sites that allow comments. It can be death to my business. I do great work and I get my customers from word of mouth.
    Another story. I worked with a guy who’s mom owned a small furniture store. The owner of our company’s wife bought a sofa from his mom. Because the wife found a small pen mark on the sofa she wanted the sofa for free. The furniture store offered the sofa at their cost but the the wife said no. In order not to cause problem with her son’s job, she gave the wife the sofa for free. They had money; it was a large privately owned (by our boss) manufacturing plant that did subcontract work for the goverment.
    Done.

  11. 11
    MarGoRita
    Posted January 10, 2013 at 7:53 am

    I think it’s wrong to say that Lea doesn’t know hard work. She may have married money but she definitely had a growing and established business – case in point, showing Lisa. Lisa being shocked that she had something before she was married. She also works damn hard on the Black Ball or gala. I think she is probably my favorite bc I don’t feel that she spreads unnecessary gossip, nor does she do what Ana or AD do. Those two women act like 2 year olds. Hell, even Lisa is a class act in comparison. So Frankie, on an unrelated note, \loves homeless people\. Is it the kind of love where, \I only hit you bc I love you\ love!!? I understand she was TRYING to defend her asshol* son, but really?! Say that he made a mistake, he’s paying the consequences and has learned from the ordeal he put the poor guy through. Good lord. .

  12. 12
    labowner
    Posted January 10, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    I will never understand the love for Lea after she complained to her son John Goodman did not get a fair trial. The man left a kid for dead and then adopted his girlfriend to shield money from the kids family. He is scum and so is Lea and Roy. Remember she also found the Kennedy rapist not guilty as well.

  13. 13
    newsroomFan
    Posted January 10, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    @eyediosmio — is that aviva from real housewives of new york in that picture with adrienne on the link you posted? No wonder I hate them both…bitches of the same feather…you know the rest

  14. 14
    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted January 11, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    Preach it, @labowner! Totes agree!!

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