The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Thoughts?

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By Nads | Tuesday, September 6, 2011 | 10:00 am | 18 Comments
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I forgot how much I loved The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I swear, it’s the best reality docu on television!

Did you guys watch the show last night?

The cast support group was exactly how I envisioned it: short. I’m glad Miss Andy didn’t make a big to-do over it, and let the cast just do a scene amongst themselves. It was quick, but it was real. Anyway…enough of that…let’s talk about the show! I can’t even explain the feeling that came over me when the first music cue started. I had reality euphoria! The show is so glossy, so beautiful, and SOOO damn rich! I can’t get enough. What a great first episode…A dog stand-off, a dramatic dinner party compliments of Taylor, and a typical Adrienne/Paul fight–doesn’t get better.

I can’t wait to meet the new cast members.

But first, here’s one of my favorite moments from last night:

I’m curious to see what the ratings are going to be. What did you think of the show? Better yet, what did you think of the season teaser?? OMG! Explosive, right?

About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

18 Comments

  1. 1
    snappleaddict
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 11:03 am

    I want every single shoe shown on the episode. Except Camille’s box of used ones, those are for the homeless. She’s such a saint.

  2. 2
    giffordsaz
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 11:15 am

    A bit more than explosive. Whoever the younger plastic model of a BH housewife is..Brandy? Did they just need to find a blond Teresa who just stirs up shit and pisses people off? Did they think this showwas missing confrontation and they really needed that? And making Lisa Vanderplump look like the bad egg… in this carton of spoiled rotten eggs.. me no likey.

  3. 3
    2muchbravo
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Yeah, looks like Lisa’s going to get a few blemishes on her Perfect Housewife medal. At least Kim and Kyle are being civil and I hope Adrienne and Paul aren’t headed for splitsville. I really didn’t see what he did that pissed her off so much. I’m psyched for the new season after all the boring BS on RHoNJ!

  4. 4
    Truthsquad
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 11:46 am

    My favorite moment was during a commercial break when they aired the ad for the new Sarah Jessica Parker movie co-starring Kelsey Grammer – who had just been trashed again for the way he treated Shemiele. Great timing!

  5. 5
    whoochile
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    in love with camille’s dress! omg, it was awesome!
    Ad recently tweeted how much she loves her hubby, hopefully this is true and not a cover! She needs to stop messing with her face, too tight and filled.
    I think Kyle injected her lips, anyone else think that?
    wowza it looks to be a doozy of a season, count me in!

  6. 6
    whoochile
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    whoops! actually she said something along the lines that she and her hubby may bicker but he’s the best! hmmm

  7. 7
    Sue Sylvester
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    @whoochile, I was completely distracted by Kyle’s mouth. It looked a bit Jokerish and she seemed to have an underbite. Is that a new desired look that I haven’t heard of?

  8. 8
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    Sarah Jessica Parker must be stopped. She’s like kudzu. Or pig weed. If pig weed had a horse-face.

    I really think the nuclear option should be considered.

  9. 9
    ohralphie
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    loooved it.

    This is by far my favorite franchise, and this year promises to be beyond wonderful — if they don’t edit out all the drama.

    I will say that Kim looked the best of all the housewives. She alone is still able to move her forehead and doesn’t have lip fillers. I don’t understand the deal with lipfillers…..has anyone looked at Taylor to see just where that road leads to? It just looks so fake, but this is Beverly Hills we are talking about.

  10. 10
    pompom
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Well, since you asked … I think the whole season, this episode included, is in incredibly poor taste given Russell’s suicide. The frivolity, glossiness, and “drama” of this episode (and I imagine what we should expect to see the rest of this season) demonstrates how tone-deaf Bravo is to this real human tragedy. I expect to be pilloried here for putting forth this opinion, but I’ll just say that I’m not the only one who had this response — e.g. Alessandra Stanley at the NY Times and Richard Lawson at Gawker.

  11. 11
    ohralphie
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    Out of curiosity @pompom just what does the New York Times and Gawker think reality television genre is about?

    In my view, reality tv is the syphilitic bastard child of respected indie documentaries. I’ve seen ‘real’ documentaries that have broken my heart, and had the content been edited out because of a bad life experience from one of the participants, well…it would no long be a documentary would it?
    I know to put the Real Housewives in the same catagory as the BBC’s ‘Up’ Series is like equating Budweiser with fine Champagne. But really – they are both alcoholic beverages at the end of the day. And real Housewives is a documentary , albeit not highbrow and at times not entirely undirected.

    Not pilloring you, @pompom….just suggesting a different point of view.

  12. 12
    June Summer
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    Paul just makes me giggle every time he’s on.

    I love Giggy but someone would be buying me a new glass. Yuck!

  13. 13
    Thatswhatshesaid
    Posted September 6, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    Amen! @June: Giggy drinking out of that glass was gross!!!

  14. 14
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted September 7, 2011 at 12:32 am

    @pompom amd @ohralphie: I also read Richard Lawson’s recaps at Gawker. However, I found that his latest recap on the RHoBH premiere was just him ranting from a soapbox about how awful it was for anyone to have any interest in the show in light of Russell’s suicide. While Russell’s suicide was bad, and cast a pretty far shadow on the series, his and Taylor’s storyline was not the only part of the show. Kyle and Kim, Lisa and Ad, Lisa and Taylor, Ad and Paul, Giggy and Jackpot, Chef Bernie and the British…there is so much more to talk about. Especially when skank ass Brandi gets added to the mix! (Did you know that she is friends with Cedric???)

    Yes, there is plenty of drama to go around without having to focus on Russell, who never really made much of an impact aside from what Taylor told us about him. He was always quiet and awkward and shy and Taylor projected her misery onto him until we saw it through her eyes. Maybe he was a horrible husband, but many people on here talked about how great he was with Kennedy while saying Taylor didn’t really know her daughter at all. (A $60,000 tea party for adults, when you could have just gotten her a pet?! And maybe used the leftover [$58,000] to hire a 5* dog walker and customize Snowball’s own champagne glass/water bowl.) We’ll never get to hear Russell’s side of the story and perhaps Bravo will once again let Taylor paint the picture she wants to and we will either empathize with her or grow angry that she is so readily badmouthing her (now dead) husband.

    I read that the premiere ep (before the suicide) was screened to critics and showed Taylor buying lingerie in an effort to spice up her marriage. They edited that out, but maybe there were several scenes that showed them really trying to work on things that will now be expunged in exchange for Taylor providing all the reasons why she will later file for divorce.

    Watch what happens..

  15. 15
    shana
    Posted September 8, 2011 at 2:05 am

    No, Russel never came off as a good husband, even on camera when Taylor wasn’t saying a word. He did come off as a jerk of a husband many times. However, he also came off as a dad of a young girl that he loved and was also unable to have a good connection with–because of work, ignorance, and a possessive wife that liked her storyline (that she is a victim and has to do everything herself. Poor you :( Taylor. Not.).

  16. 16
    shana
    Posted September 8, 2011 at 2:09 am

    And yes, Kyle’s lips were weird, Kim looked good, Lisa’s boobs needed their own table, and Ad’s face looked as stretched out as a blown up balloon–one more blow/pull and she’ll pop! Taylor’s big square? face has always freaked me out, from the inflated lips to the pulsing veins running up and down the sides of her pasty flesh…ewwy.

  17. 17
    shana
    Posted September 8, 2011 at 2:15 am

    Lastly, @NotWithoutMyTV, concerning Sarah Jessica Parker–what is up with her hands? She has the bony, gnarled, twisted up fingers of a poor, withered 108 year old woman living in the 1860s. No lotion, no rubber gloves, no dishwasher or washing machine, and using lye to clean everything by hand. I mean, those fingers are kinda gross. And she is constantly waving them around!

  18. 18
    shana
    Posted September 8, 2011 at 2:19 am

    PS I didn’t mention Camille in my assessment of how everyone looks because she nauseates me so much when she speaks, and I find her so ugly and repulsive, that any difference in her appearance is barely noticed.

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