The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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Lets do what we can to treat this episode like a normal trip, right?
Its like any old trip, right?
We see their rooms, with huge Botticelli goddesses painted on the walls as headboards.
She is doing something worse than wearing a bands merch to their own concert.
Shes doing the fashion equivalent of wearingStar Warscosplay to an anime convention.
Because this is a normal trip, this means shopping, right?
(Its really just a bunch of stairs, guys!)
The best dont need to advertise, honey.
Everything is normal, right?
The rich women are doing things.
The rich women are buying things.
Theyre back in glam.
Theyre getting ready for dinner.
But this is not a normal trip.
The producers know it.
The sales staff at Fendi and Gucci and Max Mara know it.
The feral cats that terrorize the Roman ruins know it.
This trip is about Denise, just as this whole season has been.
But this episode really marked a change in my thinking about this whole, pardon the pun, affair.
Denise flatly denies it and is actually surprised at the accusation.
Its like the background of a Nagel painting.
People are asking what this thing is, what this thing is, because Teddi wont say it.
Its really bad, Teddi and others are saying around the table.
I dont think she means that its bad that Denise hooked up with a woman.
After much prodding, Teddi scowls at Denise, Im not going to torture you any longer.
She said you two had sex.
Now that they are, I feel…I dont know…kinda sad.
We see her saying that if they want her to be on the show they have to cut this.
We see her looking into the camera and pleading, yo dont air this.
That is not the case.
For the first time, perhaps in my whole life, I felt bad for watching.
I think it comes down to a question of what we would consider off limits.
Lets take Taylor Armstrong being abused by her husband.
I think that is totally fair game.
However, what happened between Denise and someone who isnot even on the showshouldnt come into play.
Her storyline, as mundane as it was, was humming along without this being thrown into the mix.
In fact, it has nothing to do, at all, with anything else weve seen this season.
All of these women deserve to keep some things private.
If it happens within the context of the group, they need to address that.
If there is strife between members of the group, for whatever reason, that is on the table.
Its none of their business.
I want to get to the bottom of it, though.
There is a prurient interest, but not an essential one.
Its a similar frustration that Dorinda had with Tinsley on this season ofReal Housewives of New York City.
With everything that has happened with Denise so far this year, Teddi is right.
This, however, is different.
This isnt something that happened while the women were at work.
It is not something that happened between coworkers.
This is something that happened between Denise and someone who is, ostensibly, a private citizen.
How did production learn about Brandis story and why was she invited on?
Did one of the women set Denise up?
Did production sell her out because they had a dud of a season?
There is all of this fourth wall breaking going on, why not tell us exactly what triggered this?
Why was that left on the cutting room floor but someone introduced Brandi to wreak havoc on Denises life?
And who introduced Brandi?
If it was production, I want to know because that seems unfair.
Were not getting the whole story here, and what we are getting, I think, is backfiring.
