Meanwhile, Back In Hoity 'Hood: Real Housewives Atlanta Returns
BIG QUESTION: IS KANDI DICKMATIZED?

Meanwhile, Back In Hoity 'Hood: Real Housewives Atlanta Returns Tonite
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES ARE BRANCHING OUT ALL OVER, YA'LL!
Last weekend there was a performance of The Real Housewives of Philadelphia at the Actors Center in town. Ascribing personas from the most affluent parts of the city, five actresses, with audience help, improvised the hoity-toity Philly housewives' experience. (And, no, that is not an oxymoron.)
And who was that I saw while peeking at a monitor over Lawrence O'Donnell's right shoulder on Hardball one night? Why, NeNe Leakes chatting with Bravo's Andy Cohen. They're everywhere!
Last week's show opens with Lisa Wu in full-on makeup pretending to exercise with husband Ed. A call from her mom brings an invite for her and NeNe to come celebrate Granny's 92nd birthday in L.A.
Then we see dumb-as-rocks Kim doing nothing with her kids and their Nanny The nanny's helping with homework and Kim keeps butting in with wrong answers. It's not cute not to know what a "verb" is Kim.
After her older girl raps a Spanish prayer, the nanny tells her she's going to hell. Kim's appalled and she fires th… ugh, she complains about it to her assistant. While sitting around doing nothing. I agree with her that she is not about drama. She's really about nothing.
There's a photo shoot for, I think, Kandi's new album. She's also going to have a shoot with her family -- mom, fiancé and daugher. Well, she thought she was. She can't get in touch with mom and when she does mom says she's been asleep. Kandi doesn't believe it and neither do I. She don't wanna come. But she does. She's no Candy Spelling.
But the shoot does not go well. AJ only says hello to mom and she stays as far away from him as possible. She takes photos with her girls but when Kandi wants boyfriend in the picture mom says, "I don’t want to be phoney." She then gets up and gets to stepping. When Kandi asks later why she left she just looks at her like she's thinking, "I can't say anymore or I’ll cuss somebody out. Baby."
AJ is definitely not as mature or responsible as Kandi. As his 6 kids with 4 babymommas and 7th month marriage proposal all indicate.
Kandi, momma always knows best. Maybe young girl's dicktamized. That's the only explanation.
NeNe manages to get all the ladies together for a private viewing of a King Tut exhibit. Kim, it’s not cute to not know who "King Tut" is.
There's a brief flashback to the wig "tugging" incident as Kim asks if there’s gonna be drama. NeNe reassures her that there will not. The lure for Kim is meeting Kandi, a fellow musician. Hehe.
The private viewing. It's all very beautiful and staged and awkward from beginning to end. Sheree and Lisa manage to act like mean girls, over by the food making fun of Kim in hushed voices. Kim takes this time to form a bond with Kandi over kids and music. They have producer Dallas Austin in common. Kim says Dallas always has kind words about Kandi. Kandi says nothing about what Dallas might has said to her about Kim.
NeNe, sensing that there’s not enough drama in the room, saunters over to Kim and Kandi to stir up the pot.
"I’m gon sing with ya'll," she says, then launches into a little "Don't Be Tardy For the Party."
Kim looks a bit off, then smiles while Kandi just looks puzzled. Lisa's head whips around and she says, "Did I just hear tardy for the party?" Looking for trouble. These bitches.
Sixth housewife Dwight tries to break the tension but getting the girls to be his backup group while he sings a bad rendition of "Summertime." Kim says he's a lot worse than her. No, Kim, He's not.
All the while Kandi's man AJ holds a glass of wine and texts. NeNe put it kindly: "Her fiancé is very, very quiet." They take a tour of the exhibit and everyone oohs and ahhs.
In the midst of all this madness there's more Kim nanny drama so after only five days the nanny gets tossed. NeNe and Lisa pretend to exercise for 5 minutes while discussing some nonsense about getting Dwight and Sheree dates though a speed-dating event. Both agree that the most important trait for Sheree is "fat pockets."
I’m surprised that both Dwight (wearing the most amazing pair of soft-looking leather pants I've ever seen) and Shereee, two divas extra ordinaire, also agree.
Dwight tells us that his last blind date was horrible but he's being open-minded tonight. He found two guys he liked and hoped to be friends with if nothing else. Sheree found no fat pockets. But she was very graceful about it, I'll give her that.
Later, Dwight and NeNe gossip about the Tut party in a fabric store. He wants to know what's up with the "fiancé." So do I, Dwight. "Does he work or is he between gigs," the diva wants to know. Things don’t smell right to him and I'm with him all the way. NeNe, of all people, says that she thinks Kandi is just a little, bit ghet-to, "You know, hood." Well, her situation certainly is.
The episode ends with Lisa and her brother talking about the trip to LA and Lisa going to her brother’s grave. Very sad.
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