After a season full of Sutton Stracke’s Blanche DuBois personalities and Kyle Richards’ meltdowns, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills kicks off the first part of the Season 14 Reunion with almost the entire cast going after Garcelle Beauvais — including her “bestie”, Ms. Augusta Peach.
She jinxed herself and tested fate by saying the cast can take a group photo this season, after skipping the Season 12 photo-op because Kyle was crying about something that I don’t recall, while the Season 13 reunion photo lost Sutton after she stained her undies realizing Kathy Hilton was coming out on stage. There’s no cast photo for this season either, since Garcelle exits the filming (and the show) before the reunion ends. They should take these photos before the reunion ends — and while everyone can still fake the pleasantries!
The reunion begins with me feeling like I missed something, as Garcelle tells Sutton she and Kyle are in a bad place. Really? Why? Is it because she put it out there into the public domain about Kyle’s confusion of whether or not she’s a lesbian, while stuffing their faces with pizza at a kids’ place that has a giant rat as a mascot? Garcelle senses the mood immediately, noticing the coldness and direct ignoring of her by Kyle.
The first shot comes from PK, who fires off at Dorit (and Bravo) by opting to send in a statement defending himself as a father instead of appearing in person at the reunion; claiming Dorit was basically badmouthing him as a father by using a public platform for their potential custody fight in divorce court — not in those words, but that was the sentiment of it. It’s War of the Roses.
Kyle, having spent a lot of time around Dorit and PK as a couple, more or less sides with PK’s sentiments on this. However, I will say that there are even family members who often are either in denial, refusal, willingly ignorant, or a combination of all of the above when it comes to domestic discord; especially when abuse is involved — not saying that PK is abusive in any form, but as the saying goes, you never really know what goes on in a home, behind closed doors.
Next, Kyle gets into the semantics of her “memes text” friendship with PK. She’s about as much as a “girl’s girl” as Sutton (and in case you missed the title of this post, its title is basically saying Sutton’s a shitty friend). Kyle’s still spinning her rationale of why she’s actually being a good friend and not a bad one, despite being in contact with an estranged ex-husband of her supposed closed friend. I mean, Kathy’s 3000-BC Chinese ancestor should talk to her about the meaning of loyalty and friendship.
Then Sutton, wanting desperately to prove to audiences that she is, in fact, a woman in support of women — claims she’s worried for Dorit’s finances, and that she worries for all women. (That Georgia heat must really do something to the brain!) Dorit tries to explain her financial situation, which is basically the explanation of someone who didn’t concern herself too much with the finances because she was dependent on a man — basically like the majority of the women who are casted on Bravo.
Anyhoo, Erika’s claim to Entertainment Tonight that Sutton and Garcelle don’t show their real lives is addressed. I agree that Garcelle’s solo storylines are uninteresting, but I believe Garcelle when she says that’s just her life. Not everyone is reality-TV exciting, and if you refuse to bring in your home life (unlike the Gorgas over there in New Jersey), you can make up for it with group contributions by being a messy shit starter. Garcelle does that, largely — like Margaret, also over there in NJ.
As for Sutton, well, she lacked a storyline in her first two seasons because she was a Housewife that was edited into a friend during Season 10, and filmed Season 11 as a friend, but then was edited into a Housewife — Bravo and executive producers can’t decide what to do with the friend or foe of this weirdo woman, who keeps over-talking others when she insists on you answering a question, by repeating the question annoyingly over and over again.
I mean, this season she dragged the camera crew to Georgia to throw her mother under the bus and tell the world a narrative of what a shitty mom she is; dragging Garcelle into her dirty family laundry — last season she gave us a horse named Santos. We will see if a demotion to a friend-of is in the tea leaves for Sutton for Season 15. Maybe they’ll bring in someone that Boz knows instead, or promote Jennifer Tilley to a Housewife.
The thing is, Garcell, even if she does lack an everyday interesting life — says everything out loud that the audience wants to know, like whether Dorit’s home invasion was fake, and if Kyle’s a lesbian or not. Sutton just annoyingly repeats a one line question over and over, without letting you actually answer. Name ’em.
And thus ends Reunion Part 1, with the editors very obvious to Garcelle’s exit and her contention with the Shed Media editing department.
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