Hola queridos Gasmii!!!
Me llamo Leia LaBiblia. I joined TVGasm in April to recap the so-not-terrifying CBS mystery/slasher maxi miniseries Harper's Island and loved it so much (the job, not the show) I begged Flipit to toss me another one. Little did I dream that it would be the delicious Queen Bitch of Reality TV, The Real Housewives! And Atlanta is one of my very favorite RH's. You can't beat the combo of nouveau riches and hood-rat manners! And while I'll miss dear dim-witted DeShawn, early reports indicate Kandi will be much more fun, wisely mixing it up with NeNe and her crazy-ass titties in all the promos! So, without further ado, slap on your best weave, grab some Popeye's and Cristal, and join me for Season 2 of high-falutin hootchiness.
After a two-minute montage of first season highlights (see Chickbomb's wonderful archived recaps for details), the opening titles introduce each of our Housewives, their personalities encapsulated by accompanying venal sound-bites.
First up, entrepreneuse with a hot bubble-butted husband Lisa: "If it doesn't make me money, I don' t do it."
Then, flamboyant, huge-breasted socialite NeNe: "I don't keep up with the Joneses-- I AM the Joneses!"
Next, token white (trash) chick Kim: "In Atlanta, money and class do give you power." So, depending on who she's banging at the moment, she's got the first part covered.
On to diva divorcee Sheree: "People are intimidated by my success."
And finally, the new girl, Kandi: "I'm an independent woman, doin' it for myself."
We begin at NeNe's new river-rock tract mansion, where she welcomes Series Gay Dwight, her droll, dapper stylist, who arrives in a full-length mink coat carrying an enormous bouquet like the queen of the Anti-PETA Prom. "I love me some Dwight!" NeNe interviews. We hear you, girl. Dwight is a fucking riot. And a talented interior decorator, who will be doing one of NeNe's new rooms.
New kitchen, new hair, same, er... enthusiasm!
Dwight tells NeNe her $15K drapes should have been longer, insists he's not wearing false eyelashes, and accepts her offer of "a glass of mimosa". NeNe has a phobia of champagne corks, and cowers to the side as Dwight lasciviously opens the Moet: "Just ease it off and let it come naturally," he purrs.
Massage it just right and you won't miss a drop of that foamy white goodness!
Dwight pronounces NeNe's 10-year-old son Brentt 's spinning karaoke disco light "dreadful", then checks out NeNe's spiffy home theatre, which he says needs some dramatic draperies for the full cinema effect. Obviously angling to christen the theatre with a screening of Showgirls, Dwight inserts a CD and starts bumping and grinding against the enormous projection screen. "I love a crawl!" NeNe whoops. "Crawl, honey, crawl!"
No way Nate Berkus does this for Oprah.
As Dwight performs a lap-dance, cut to:
Kim driving her convertible Bentley. The car's just like her: white, hard to the touch and frequently topless. Kim is paying a visit to Rose, her psychic. "She gives me direction, advice, helps me out whenever I have an issue in my life," Kim explains. Because God forbid Kimmy pay a therapist for that. Of course that wouldn't be quite as much fun. I myself possess no paranormal abilities, but I can safely predict that unlike a shrink Rose won't be bumming Kim out with words like "delusional", "borderline" and "morally bankrupt".
She reads Kim's palm" "This little line right here is an upset, a break..." Kim interviews (in a fuschia porn-star camisole) that she just broke up with her lover "Big Poppa", who, you'll remember, kept her in high style last season despite never appearing on-camera, a decision Kim insisted on the Reunion show was all hers. (She also clarified that Big P was "separated" from his wife, prompting NeNe to hilariously scream "Close yo legs to married min!" Good times...)
You'll die alone... and bald.
Kim says "the last straw" with Big P was "some betrayals-- he was talkin to people he shouldn't've been talkin to behind my back". (People like who? His wife?) Kim's hand tells Rose that Kim will soon be owning her own business and that people have been stressing Kim out. Kim interviews that Lisa hurt her terribly by calling her a liar, "which is ridiculous". As ridiculous as justifying a big blonde wig-addiction by implying one lost one's hair from cancer, which one never had. Kim adds that NeNe upset her by singing a song about her. NeNe counter-interviews that SHE felt "very hurt and betrayed by the things that Kim had did and said".
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Comments (22)
Leia!!!
Loved your recap. The day of the show, I ended up live-blogging the show on Facebook with a bunch of friends. It was totally by accident and totally fun. Anyhoo...
I am now firmly on Team Sheree. No matter how much of a bitch she is, you don't not pay child support for 19 months and just stop payment on their house, no matter how much you hate their mother. And that fight...
...Was the best thing I have seen on TV in a minute. I loved how after she "axed" him, "Who gon' check me, booo," that she looked at him over the top of her shades as if to say, "Not you!"
I am reserving judgement on Kandi. I couldn't stand Xscape back in the day and it's hard to call someone else ghetto when your hair is 5 or six different colors.
1 of 22 | Posted by blkarkitect | Posted on August 3, 2009 11:25 AM
Those last moments of the show were pure gold! Thanks for the recap, labiblia.
There are pictures up on Bravotv.com of Sherre's fashion line. Most of the styles have gotten 1 or 2 star ratings out of 5 possible stars.
There are also pictures of Lisa's line up on another site, nothing special if you ask me.
I don't know if I like Sherree, I think she talked a lot of trash about her divorce that wasn't true and from what I gathered she didn't get the 7 figures she was expecting. Isn't her ex broke? Those are the rumors online, that and that he's probably hidding his money somewhere so he won't have to pay her zilch.
Anyways, thanxs for the recap!
2 of 22 | Posted by User Name | Posted on August 3, 2009 11:48 AM
Better than the "check me boo" line was when A said to S, "I eat bitches like you for lunch!" (or something along those lines) and in response S goes, "Eat me then!" That was funny on so many different levels and vaguely sexual....
3 of 22 | Posted by slutty_whore | Posted on August 3, 2009 12:05 PM
I found it funny when Riley (Kandi's daughter) was telling her mom that all of AJ's kids where going to be her "friends" not her siblings. Girl needs a yearbook to remember all their names. She also was like "AND BJ is going to be my friend" like the kid was Satan's spawn or something.
4 of 22 | Posted by Nimabu | Posted on August 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Leia! I knew they'd give you a good show. I was going to start weaning myself off the Housewives series, but if you're writing the recap, I guess I'll stick around. :)
5 of 22 | Posted by ellenorah | Posted on August 3, 2009 2:04 PM
I have nothing of substance to add- I just wanted to say that this recap was soooooo funny and that I think "Kim, you ignorant slut" should be her legal name. She could go by Kyis for short. Or maybe K.Y.
6 of 22 | Posted by here4beer | Posted on August 3, 2009 2:44 PM
@blkarkitect: How could you not stand Xscape? Just hearing about a member of the group on the show caused me to remember my favorite songs from 10+ years ago: Understanding, Who Can I Run To, Just Kickin It. Ahh, memories...
Thanks for the recap; I missed most of the show so I hoped that someone would fill me in.
7 of 22 | Posted by NatPatBen | Posted on August 3, 2009 4:37 PM
Great recap Leia LaBiblia!!
I never really liked Sheree but this episode mainly the fight made me change all that. She held her own against the gay party who I didn't even realize way gay until he started arguing with her. "Who going check me boo" classic!!! lol
Can't wait to see more recaps of my favorite disfunctional show and is Atlanta just full of gay guys, I mean it should be called Outlanta! lol
8 of 22 | Posted by bigjr6633 | Posted on August 3, 2009 5:09 PM
Atlanta is full of gay guys and gals for a very good reason. Rest of the state isn't a very welcoming place unless it is six feet under for certain groups of people.
9 of 22 | Posted by yeschef | Posted on August 3, 2009 7:12 PM
bigjr6633:
The party planner released some sort of statement in which he clarifies that he's not gay, he's married and assures us that he's into P***Y. Yep, he used the p-word and in caps. Great way of making everyone focus on something that not everyone was focusing on. I personally didn't think he came accross as gay, I kinda assumed it since he's a party planner to begin with but still I didn't find him in your face gay. The fact the he had to clarify...
10 of 22 | Posted by Nimabu | Posted on August 4, 2009 9:23 AM
Great job LL! Sooo many giggles in your recap, it was like watching the show all over again.
NeNe was making me seriously nervous in that interview dress...that woman has serious boobage. I am glad to see that she and Sheree have patched things up. I'm sure that this season will be "everyone-against-Kim" but you know, I'm ok with that!
The party planner scene was seriously messed up. Way to advertise your business...I don't doubt for a moment that Sheree can be a serious pain in the ass, but isn't the planner's job to make the customer feel everything is in good hands?
So far I think I like Kandi. She seems to be sweet but also no nonsense. Kim still annoys the crap out me, her boredom in the class was just typical Kim. And agree that Ed is just yummy yummy yummy!
Promises to be an interesting sesaon - look foward to having you recap the journey with us! xoxo
11 of 22 | Posted by njgasmifan | Posted on August 4, 2009 10:05 AM
Nimabu:
If he had to clarify that he's straight then many ppl other than myself assumed that he was gay so what does that tell u? lol
No offense but he definately showed out like he was gay and I'm gay so that doesn't mean I have a problem with it!
12 of 22 | Posted by bigjr6633 | Posted on August 4, 2009 11:04 AM
Yeah, what I was saying is that I think most people where focusing on the fight itself and not on "oh this Dude is definetely gay" and then he comes out with a statement not saying "I may have overreacted" but basically underlying the fact that he's not gay.
Whatevs, it was freaking funny and he's still ridiculous gay or not.
13 of 22 | Posted by Nimabu | Posted on August 4, 2009 11:41 AM
Certain industries that are female dominated lend themselves to people "assuming" that men in that field are gay: flight attendants, bank tellers, ice skaters, party planners. I would agree that more than being "queeny," his behavior was way over the top and completely unprofessional.
14 of 22 | Posted by slutty_whore | Posted on August 4, 2009 3:45 PM
Hi Leia, thanks for the great recap.
I can't remember how many years Kim was supposed to be a customer of Rose the psychic, but I couldn't help but wonder how many times Psychic Rose can read the same palm before new information stops appearing.
~FloO
15 of 22 | Posted by FloOkY | Posted on August 5, 2009 12:32 AM
Hahahahaha! Leia, your recap was fabuloso! Thanks for the midweek laughs!
16 of 22 | Posted by friendorfoe | Posted on August 5, 2009 8:54 AM
Hi Leia,
I've been a fan of this site for awhile and can't remember not thoroughly enjoying a recap but this one left a bad taste in my mouth. I appreciate the time and effort that it takes for a recap of this magnitude (I produced recaps of large meetings for a well-known charitable organization), but as hard as I tried, I couldn't shake the feeling that this recap seemed rather racist: "black twat monologues, hood-rat manners, grab some Popeye's and Cristal, culturally dubious spectacle of African-Americans bidding on each other", and so forth. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional but in bad taste nonetheless. Heck, I believe that everyone should be able to laugh at themselves or their group, but when it's done by an outsider, there leaves too many questions as to the motive when too many colloquialisms are used. Please stick to using your own voice when commenting in your recaps.
17 of 22 | Posted by digitaldiva | Posted on August 5, 2009 6:22 PM
Hola Gasmii--
Gracias for the love. I Heart Blkarchitect for being my first commenter and appreciating Sheree the "Axe"-Murderer's meltdown as much as I did.
Ellenorah-- Thanks for following me over from HARPER'S ISLAND. This will be even trashier.
Nimabu-- I love that Anthony the party-planner had to issue a statement confirming his heterosexuality. So now we know he thinks he's on the DL. Approach him accordingly at any public restrooms.
And now onto the Hata! Digitaldiva-- I'm sorry you were offended. You might be too culturally sensitive for REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA, let alone TVGasm. Whatever you do, DO NOT check the Gasm FASHION SHOW archive for Flipit's thoughts on Lady Miss Reco.
I find it offensive that you presume to know what my "voice" is. To quote many a Maury/Montel/Ricki Lake hood-rat: "you don't KNOW me!!!!!"
I'm a recap artist, not a racist. And honey, hang onto your weave cuz I am just gettin started!
Besos,
LLB
18 of 22 | Posted by leia labiblia | Posted on August 5, 2009 10:08 PM
Leia:
"Kim driving her convertible Bentley. The car's just like her: white, hard to the touch and frequently topless..."
Probably the BEST line I have ever read in a review! And it's soooo true!
And has anyone noticed how this girl plays both sides? First trash-talking Sheree with NeNe and then doing exactly the opposite after the fallout. She is faker than that crap Barbie hair wig on her head. Love the review! Keep it up.
19 of 22 | Posted by CynTV | Posted on August 6, 2009 11:01 AM
"And honey, hang onto your weave cuz I am just gettin started!"
That line is almost as funny as "Who gon' check me, Boo?" LOVE IT!!!!!!
20 of 22 | Posted by ReeseWitherspoon | Posted on August 11, 2009 2:36 PM
And upon thinking about it more, Cristal and Popeye's sounds kinda good.
21 of 22 | Posted by ReeseWitherspoon | Posted on August 12, 2009 9:53 AM
digitaldiva,
If you can't take snark, then maybe you shouldn't be reading tvgasm in the first place. These women call themselves and each other ghetto, Leia is not saying anything they don't say about themselves.
22 of 22 | Posted by channel flipper | Posted on August 12, 2009 3:49 PM