Minicap: Real Housewives of New York

17 Comments

1. 1
   Real ATL Housewife
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 9:25 am

   How crazy was it that Ramona actually seemed calm and sane, gently guiding Sonja to zip it?! What’s happening: black is white, up is down, Ramona is sober?!!

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   Derek Hazelton
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 10:48 am

   @BSL, I know this is a mini-cap, but I was certain you would touch on Heather and her entourage trying to run roughshod over Sonja during the business meeting. Heather is a complete bitch basically mocked Sonja and her ideas for the duration of that meeting. Heather has no good intentions. I was glad that “Miss Morgan” had Ramona there to protect her interests, as best as she could. Sonja seems easy to manipulate and it was great for her to have a good friend look out for her, since Heather definitely wasn’t that person.

   Also, as far as Carole and the whole Indian/Native American argument goes, Carole was completely wrong and here’s my reasoning. While in mixed company, Carole may have a point, but LuAnn (who I loathe to defend) was amongst friends, the drinks were flowing, and it wasn’t a politically correct debate. She was making a slightly off-color joke and I thought Carole was being ultra-sensitive and unnecessarily bitchy because of the whole Ranjana/dress situation. I got the feeling that Carole was being passive aggressive, but I did love LuAnn ignoring her and bulldozing through Carole’s anger with her Native American imitations. Priceless!

   Did anyone catch Madam Palindrome and the Hornysaurus on WWHL last night with Nancy Grace? I really like Aviva, but she didn’t translate well on the WWHL format.

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   featherhead
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 11:13 am

   I was dying when that Lu’s band started playing. I re-watched it six times! How freaking funny was that???

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   RomoSheDiNT
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 12:36 pm

   Well everybody knows that Heather is a bitch. We talk about it every week. Now what I have heard only a few bring up is that Pleather used to be a man. Maybe that’s why she’s a bitch? Her surgeon did a terrible job.
   She’s fug

   Great mini, BSL

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   Too-Old-To-Care
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 2:59 pm

   Watch Harry’s eyes go all pervy when he oggles Aviva. Does it remind you of Brooks someone else in the HW franchise?

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   Classy Drunk
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 4:07 pm

   Hold on hold on hold on a freakin minute….THAT’S Harry?!?!?! Was anyone else expecting more?

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   labowner
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 4:53 pm

   Classy it’s the smell of money.

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   2muchbravo
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 5:25 pm

   “More” as in what Classy? Young and good looking??

   Yes, Pleather is a bitch. I missed the episode with their initial planning session but I got the gist of it.
   So, she’s helping Sonja for free. She was getting iritated that Sonja was criticizing (OR just voicing her opinion really) her free help. But, even if Sonja were paying her she’d still be entitled to take or leave Pleather’s advice. She was really bugging me when she kept saying no to shooting pictures of Sonja with the toaster oven. The guy finally said they’d do both and pick whichever they liked best. She’s a controlling bitch!

   I’d like to get Pleather, Vicki Gunvalson, Adrienne Maloof and Nene together and strand them somewhere and see which one gets out alive. Holla!

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   Classy Drunk
   Posted August 7, 2012 at 5:26 pm

   Harry must be powerball lottery winner rich…..and hung like a horse and everyone on the island knows.

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    Classy Drunk
    Posted August 7, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    More as in taller, more hair, and better looking.

    I also think Pleather was trying to strong arm Sonja because she was helping her for free. To me Sonja has been against many of the ideas that Pleather and her team have offered up and they don’t seem to be listening to what Sonja is looking for.

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    SMH
    Posted August 7, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    I don’t watch enough to get in on the Heather hating. It’s free help. Sonya could just say thanks but no thanks, right? From what I have seen it seems Sonja is a little all over the place and trying to get her to focus is an issue. (And the video did show that she made a selection at their last meeting and was switching gears at the next meeting.) Maybe it’s the editing but Sonja doesn’t seem to be very business savvy.

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    Bronwen
    Posted August 7, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    I certainly had a different take away from the Pleather and team meeting with Sonja and Ramona. I didn’t think Heather was a bitch, but frustrated since they had decided on the issues on the name in the previous episode. Sonja didn’t like the free work/advice she was getting, so she brought in her enforcer, Ramona. If I was Heather and was doing work gratis, I too would have been livid to find Ramona in the meeting. Sonja is not a client. Client implies a fiscal relationship.

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    cherrylipgloss
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 7:01 am

    @derek….agree precisely with all your comment. I felt that luann was trying to lighten the mood when carole (wrongly) came down on her in a pleasant social situation. carole was clearly trying to school luann and embarass her in the process. not cool.
    And if carole is using the argument of what every 2nd grader knows about history, can I just say that every 2nd grader is sure to know the lyrics to Jingle Bells….watching those women struggle through the lyrics of the most well known, frequently sung, Christmas song was perplexing.

    @Romo….not only was heather a man, but she was grossly mysogynistic….which is probably why she gets along with the second member of her dream team who clearly has issues with women who have opinions, women who have ideas, women who have intelligence….and…well…just “women”. and the third member of her dream team (or recurring, cold sweat, nightmare team) …..I couldn’t even look upon his pasticene face… who does that to themselves?

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 7:41 am

    @Bronwen and @SMH: if Sonja is the client and she clearly doesn’t agree with the direction of the campaign, how have her and Heather’s team decided on anything? Sonja clearly kept bringing up things that she felt were important for her “branding” and Heather and Co. kept shooting her down. Bringing Ramona to the business meeting, to me, was akin to getting advice from a trusted confidante. Sonja knew she was railroaded in the prior situation and didn’t want that to happen again. Yes, they showed a clip of her agreeing with Heather’s team, but Sonja was still confused and getting manipulated into doing something she wasn’t comfortable with. If Heather offered help genuinely, she wouldn’t have been so married to her and her team’s ideas and would have given Sonja’s ideas some consideration.

    @cherrylipgloss: more than Aviva and Ramona’s “friendship” going to hell, I’m hoping we get to see Razzy and LuAnn mix it up. I love how Razzy seethes every time they’re in the same room and LuAnn is so blissfully ignorant of that relationship going to hell. It’s going to be awesome to watch the hate grow.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    @ 1 Real ATL– It could be the first sign of the Apocolypse!!!!!!!

    @ 6 Classy — YES Thank You !!!!!!!– I was thinking one Harry Dubin was at least a Mauricio of BH. His err…..we shall call it a comb-over was not very appealing. I am not saying that men must have hair to be attractive. Please dont be silly Harry Dubin. I may need to write open letters to Harry now!!

    @ 11 SMH– I like Heather–have been on her team from episode one–live her boots, her look etc. I chide her for her mistakes and then excuse them as rookie mistakes–kid can learn. She is giving alot of good and free advice to Lady Morgan or $onja as I shall call her (or dub as in Harry “Dub”in). Lady M is very indecisive and to move ahead, she has to pick a design. The idea that she is a “client” was laughable—this isnt Heather’s line of work!!!! She isnt a graphic designer.

    And to my girl-crush Carole–hhmmm– this a tough one for me– Love Carole but Lu (she loves it when we call her that) was making fun of her own ethnic group. I think the word/s being sought were “First Nation” for our neighbors to the North. Or why doesn’t Lu identify herself by tribe?? I would think that totally cool and “The More We Know”…..

    Mary-O— a proper host would never bring up the wine-tasting event (heeheeheehee) at a fancy dinner. I think I would have walked out and told him if he wanted to discuss the matter privately, let me know.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    Oh and Icky Comment of the show– Aviva– did we need to hear about Harry’s “creative juices”???

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    BelowSeaLevel
    Posted August 9, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    This episode was all over the place. I’m looking forward to Sonja and Heather at the photo shoot, and especially if any lunch friends show up. From the previews, it looks like Ramona and Heather are really going to butt heads.

    @Derek, I love Madam Palindrome! Is it okay if I borrow it?