The Real Housewives of Orange County
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There are some truisms about theReal Housewivesfranchise that I have voiced repeatedly that no one ever seems to heed.
The woman Tamra goes to with her son Ryan is named Mckayla.
Yes, its awful that hes depressed and thinks that he is completely worthless.
I dont think so.
Is the show trying to equate mental illness with right-leaning tendencies?
I hope not, because that seems like really reductive thinking.
Ryan is doing the right thing by getting help.
This episode is odd because we see Tamra more with her son than with the other women.
Shannon Beador and Braunwyn are with their oldest daughters preparing for college.
I dont think that Sophie really needs an admissions adviser.
(This is coming from a man with a masters in fine arts inpoetry.)
Lets just cut out the middleman of this arts degree.
She doesnt want to bring the failure of their past relationship into their future relationship.
What is marriage other than just moving past failure repeatedly until you are both dead and in the grave?
How do you even learn without failing?
Anyway, this all seems like foreshadowing to Matt inevitably doing something awful.
But the coffee meeting that ends the whole episode left me a little baffled.
Shannon shows up to coffee with Tamra and asks how she is.
Awful, Tamra says.
It does not improve from there.
Now its Tamras turn to accuse Shannon of being a puppet master.
How is she going to orchestrate all of these women to come after Tamra?
Did Shannon sufficiently stick up for Tamra?
Was she a good friend?
Does she really think that Tamra talks all that shit about her?
Did she walk Archie this morning?
Did she remember to sign a check to Yosepha?
Can someone show her how to download Venmo?
What really is Venmo?
Can it steal money from her?
It probably can steal money from her.
How will she get her money back when Venmo finally steals it from her?
Will Tamra lend her money?
