Picking At Old Wounds: The Real Housewives of New York Reunion
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Picking At Old Wounds: The Real Housewives of New York Reunion
SINCE THIS SEASON HAS BEEN SO ANTAGONISTIC AND HOSTILE, Bravo has decided to drag out the reunion into three-parts. Ay yiyi.
Host and creator Andy Cohen bravely faces the lionesses' den three times 'cause it's all money in the bank for him. He welcomes the Housewives, who are broken into teams: Alex, Ramona and Bethenny on one couch and Jill, Kelly and LuAnn on the other. Part one begins with snippets of everyone’s trials and tribulations during the show. I guess Sonja will join us later.
Cohen begins with Alex's delivering her screeched message to Jill that she's "a mean girl and in high school."
Andy says she was a different person this season but Alex says, no, she just got out a lot of feelings that she had held back. She's only sorry that she breaks out in hives when she's that upset.
Everyone's really snippy, sarcastically calling each other "dear" and "darling." Kelly, in her uptight schoolmarm guise, tells Alex to close her legs just as Jill tells Alex that they were never really friends, something she continually stresses during the hour. They grouse about who’s going to the press with stories about each other.
We get to see Ramona's stiff-armed, wide-eyed alien walk down the runway again -- always appreciated. Andy, reading from an audience query card, says someone said, 'Okay, enough with the renewal talk.' Thank you, viewer.
The ladies talk about how Ramona's ragged on everyone this season except Alex, and that’s because she’s spent the last two seasons disparaging her and Simon. When a viewer questions the drunken kiss she planted on the lips of Hooter’s yacht owner she calls it innocent, which it was. But Kelly pipes up that she thinks it was an indiscretion. Oh please, girl. I think i'’s because she doesn’t really know what the word means. I really don’t like her.
Next up, Bethenny, who, with the growing business, husband and baby, now has it all. She looks great and I think the rest of them are a little jealous. She addresses the "media whore" accusations and says, ''Hey, thank God for the press, it’s how I pay my bills.'' Kelly accuses her, AGAIN, of being malicious and planting stories about her and says that Bethenny has “people” spreading stuff about Kelly. And, because Kelly's involved, it gets crazy quickly. Basically she continues her 'Bethenny is evil and I am Snow White' screed. Bethenny tells her you have to prove it, girl, you can’t just throw stuff out there. That shuts her up.
Bethenny's on-camera pee test entices a viewer to ask when is enough enough. Bethenny doesn’t think it's a big deal and that all her sacred moments, like Jason’s proposal, take place off camera. LuAnn says it was a bit crude, my dear, and you'll never see her bathroom or bedroom on camera. But we saw her in jammies in Jill's guest bedroom. Does that count?
When a viewer says that Bethenny should pull in her artillery when talking to Kelly cause she's just a fly, Kelly concurs: “Yes, I am a fly.” She has no clue that the viewer was saying that Kelly could never match wits with Bethenny, cause she’s a twit. Please God, let this be her last season. Mean is one thing but crazy is another.
We go through the Jill and Bethenny fight timeline, Bobby’s illness, the walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, the ambush at Ramona’s, the engagement party, the lunch, Jill’s makeup gift of potato latkes.
Jill's crying as she says she was in a bad place and just wants to drop it. She loves Bethenny and she’s a New York bitch and even though she said, "It's done,” it was just an expression. But that she knows it's too late.
Bethenny lays it out like, 'Yeah, we were friends. But fame brought out the monster in Jill. She was jealous of anything Bethenny did and kept throwing it up that only reason Bethenny was on the show was due to Jill. Bethenny says Jill counts everything, sends gifts and then talks about it later. I guess that’s what New York bitches do. Then talk turns to who told who not to film with whom.
Ramona says Jill told her not to film with Bethenny and sabotage her new show. LuAnn says they all have said not to film with the other. Alex says that Jill said not to film with Bethenny and let her have her own show. That Jill wanted her off Housewives.
Bethenny says when Jill’s plan didn’t work that's when she got nasty. Jill admits that she holds a grudge, but wanted to make up off camera and Bethenny wouldn’t. Jill says because they were real friends, she wanted to make up off camera and that the fight began off camera, before filming. Both women say they’ve changed. But have they? I don’t believe it.
The crosstalk is difficult to follow and this discussion would seem to have been better done off camera. Bethenny says she wishes Jill the best but doesn’t know where she fits in her life anymore. That when Jason first met Jill, all she did was talk about what she had and didn't ask him anything about himself. So Jason (who I think is Prince Charming now that I’ve heard that) doesn't like her, and well, that’s a problem.
Jill can't stand anymore and gets up to leave. Kelly says something stupid, again. And next week -- Sonja! Things are bound to be better.
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Comments
Let me tell you Kelly didn't act like a little fly on that Island. She was pesky like a fly and if I had been there I would of use grenades!!! Someone should of called an ambulance on Kelly. She was bullying and abusing a pregnant woman!! Kelly said 4 women were bullying her. Sonya was not her enemy!! Kelly was the instigator and did the abuse, Bravo told Kelly to pack her bag and a producer escorted her to NY. By the way I hate mushrooms not people, I dislike Kelly and Danielle as people on a show.
Posted by: D.... | June 16, 2010 04:46 PM
Real housewives, real psychological disorders? Judge for yourself.
Read about Kelly, Bethenny, Jill, LuAnn and just added, Ramona!
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Posted by: bloganalysis | June 15, 2010 09:24 AM
Can't wait till tonight. Although I can't stand Jill and Kelly (can they please be off the show next season, bravo?), I want to see Sonja tonight.
Posted by: FanofRHONY | June 14, 2010 05:19 PM