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Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Money Can't Buy You Love

By Karen Malmquist

Karen M.It's time for a nice vacay from Haterville (NeNe's words, not mine)!

NeNe, Cynthia, and Kandi take a break from Atlanta and head to Miami. Kandi's hoping NeNe doesn't flip out this time around, since she and Kim got into it the last time they visited Magic City.

When they arrive at the hotel, NeNe asks Kandi if she’s going to "throw those legs back," before realizing the bellhop is still in the room. Awwkward.

Kim's birthday’s coming up, so Kroy talks to her assistant Sweetie about planning a surprise party for her. Meanwhile, Kim's bulging belly is pushing on her bladder and she keeps having to pee. Looks like she'll be tardy for her birthday party -- she's turning 33 -- because with baby on board the booze is off limits.

Phaedra’s looking into opening a funeral home. She wants it to be the "Saks 5th Avenue of the funeral homes" so she visits one of the best funeral homes in town headed by Willie Watkins. He gives her a tour, tells her some of the tricks of the trade, and shares the need to show compassion. While they’re sitting in a pew together, she pulls out her prayer cloth. You know, the things women wear to church to cover up their “luscious thighs and kneecaps”?

Kandi asks NeNe about the argument with Sheree (when she kept talking about how rich she is), and NeNe insists that she’s done talking about Sheree and Kim. Then two girls approach the table and tell them that it’s Pride Week in Miami. The ladies are confused, and notice that there’s a lot of lesbians everywhere, which baffles NeNe.

Sheree takes her son shopping for cleats, and she reflects on how he needs a positive male role model in his life. And then marvels at the fact that he is 14 years old and wearing size 14 shoes. Groundbreaking stuff right here.

Done with the “bitches in Atlanta,” NeNe decides to go house shopping in Miami, and brings the ladies along with her. They see a $9 million house, which is apparently a lot less extravagant that what $9 million can buy in Atlanta. But there’s a pool on the freaking roof, so it’s still a nice house. And it's in Miami, so that's a plus.

Later, the ladies head to the beach, and a conversation about Kandi’s bikini body quickly turns into an uncomfortably long discussion about sex toys. Then the ladies decide to play Frisbee with some random guys, who want to see them later that night. The scrawny, pasty one tries to hit on NeNe, who awkwardly tries to deflect the conversation.

Sheree and Kim meet for lunch, where they talk about Kim’s pregnancy and her future with Kroy. They spend discuss NeNe's penchant for burning bridges. "She really needs to humble herself, because as fast as you go up, you can come down," Sheree says. "Just like on a stripper pole." In her interview, Sheree wonders if Kroy’s going to pop the question at the surprise party.

Phaedra and Apollo discuss her plans to open a high-end funeral home, and tells him that she wants him to be involved, so that it can become a family business. Apollo tells her that he wants to no part of it. Maybe he prefers Macy's?

Kroy takes Kim out for lunch as sort of a decoy while her assistant gets the house ready for the surprise party. Kroy starts talking to Kim about hunting and going to Montana and having guns in the house and whatnot. Then he gives Kim her present, which is a big clunky $22,000 chocolate diamond bracelet. They decide to head back home, but first Kim has to pee again.

Meanwhile, as the other women (minus Cynthia and NeNe, of course) arrive, everyone is scrambling to get in place for the surprise. Kim is on her way home. As they get into the house, Kroy has her keep her eyes closed as she wobbles around confused. When she opens her eyes and sees her friends in her kitchen, she starts to cry. Phaedra jokingly yells, “Come out, NeNe!” Then Kim asks about the trip to Miami, and they all start talking about NeNe again. Then Kandi makes a joke about how NeNe is “rich now”. We get it.

Next week, it looks like something “goes down” between some of the husbands at Kim’s baby shower. Thank goodness, because it’s the fights that make the make the show so entertaining.

Karen Malmquist is a junior at La Salle University, and the head writer and star of In Other News, a comedy series airing in Philadelphia.

Tags: Television

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