• We skip the recap and the intros and go straight into previews of what looks like a HUGE dinner fight.

    So naturally, we cut to eight hours earlier.

    The women wake up, and Monica and Whitney are rooming together. Whitney is already gearing up to talk to Heather about her book, because she is still pissed that Heather wrote about her.

    Apparently, the two of them had a drunken argument about it earlier in the trip, which has clearly solved absolutely nothing.

    Monica then tells Whitney that Lisa called her dramatic.

    Whitney is pissed. She decides she would rather hide and go back to sleep but she goes to Heather’s room to talk instead.

    Heather sits down with Whitney to go over exactly what she wrote about her in the book.

    Heather genuinely doesn’t understand why Whitney feels exploited, which leads to the two of them going back and forth for a while. But somehow, miraculously, they actually work it out and make up.

    Great.

    One fight down.

    Only approximately seventeen more to go.

    Then the women take a scooter ride through Bermuda, which immediately proves to be a terrible idea because none of these women appear to have been trained to operate a motor vehicle.

    They wobble around the island in various directions, somehow avoiding death, and eventually break off into smaller groups to go shopping.

    Heather then discovers that she forgot her credit card.

    So she borrows money from Monica.

    Monica.

    The poorest woman on the trip.

    But then Monica’s  card won’t go through anyway.

    It turns out the card is simply being blocked because she’s traveling internationally, so she gets it sorted out and is free to resume spending money.

    The women go back to the house, and about an hour later, Heather gets a phone call. We only hear her side of a mysterious and dramatic conversation, and Heather is clearly freaking out.

    She tells the cameras to get out of her face.

    Four hours later, the women are all getting ready for dinner.

    Heather tells us she has devastating information and she has to deal with it.

    The theme of the dinner is the Bermuda Triangle, and Heather tells the women a little about the legends associated with it.

    Heather encourages the women to ask each other about their “unsolved mysteries.”

    Whitney asks Lisa why she called her dramatic when Lisa is so dramatic herself.

    Lisa cops to it, but says they are both dramatic.

    Meredith asks Heather why she hasn’t supported her on the trip or stuck up for her.

    Monica says that Meredith has been spreading rumors about Angie K.’s marriage, and that she has proof.

    Heather wants to know more and pushes Monica on the topic.

    They move on to Heather, who says she has a few questions about Monica.

    Heather asks Monica who she really is.

    The two have bonded during the trip, but Heather says Monica is an unsolved mystery. She now thinks the real Monica doesn’t tell the truth and is someone who doesn’t actually want to be their friend, but wants to profit from their pain.

    Heather says she knows who Monica really is, and Bravo bleeps out what she says.

    We cut to a flashback from two hours earlier, when Heather gathers all of the women except Monica on the beach.

    Heather tells everyone that Monica is not who she says she is and is not their friend.

    She calls her a schemer and tells them that Monica is Reality Von Tease, a blogger who has been going after all of them on Instagram.

    Each of the women has been trolled by the account.

    We see flashbacks of Monica sharing dirt on each of her cast members.

    Heather has also discovered that Monica is registered at Beauty Lab under three names, one of which owes them a lot of money.

    It’s all suspicious.

    The women are shocked and pissed off. Each of them has an ax to grind with Reality Von Tease, so they plan to confront Monica at dinner.

    We cut back to the dinner, and Heather calls Monica a cyber bully and an internet troll.

    Monica denies it and demands to see the proof.

    Heather screams that she has it.

    Then Monica says it isn’t true “entirely.”

    Everyone wants to know what that means.

    Lisa calls Monica disgusting. Heather yells at her some more.

    Then Meredith starts screaming that Monica stole from her store while in disguise.

    This shit is bananas.

    Monica calls Lisa a dumb bitch, while the staff watch the whole thing go down from inside the house.

    Monica insists that it wasn’t just her behind the account.

    Then Angie and Monica start screaming at each other.

    Monica accuses Angie of being involved with Reality Von Tease and says all of the women have DMed the page.

    Angie picks up a centerpiece and threatens to throw it at Monica, but she doesn’t, which is lame.

    Monica denies that she has posted anything about the women before eventually admitting that she posted videos of Jen while she worked for her.

    The women think it’s disgusting and call her a loser.

    Monica calls Lisa a leather-faced old bitch.

    Whitney calls Monica a liar.

    Monica insists she only went after Jen Shah on the site.

    Meredith shrieks at Monica, and Lisa demands that she leave the house.

    Heather stands up and tells Monica that the other women are all friends and have been through bullshit together before.

    She gives a whole speech about how the women went through the Jen Shah scandal and then HOLY SHIT, she admits that Jen gave her the black eye.

    Finally.

    Heather tells Monica to pack her bags and go.

    And I have a feeling we won’t be seeing her next season, but it should be a hell of a reunion.

  • There have been some truly epic fights in Real Housewives history.

    Divorce. Infidelity. Family feuds. Lawsuits. Broken friendships.

    And then there are the fights where you sit there wondering how a group of grown women with unlimited money and beautiful homes have somehow decided that THIS is what they are going to scream about.

    These are the dumbest.

    1. Heather Dubrow vs. Sarah Winchester — The Cake Bow | RHOC

    Heather throws a party to celebrate changing her last name to Dubrow.

    Sarah Winchester eats the decorative bow off the cake before it is served.

    Heather is horrified.

    Sarah refuses to apologize.

    And suddenly we have a full-scale Housewives emergency over a piece of fondant.

    Heather herself later called it “the dumbest fight ever.”

    2. Cindy Barshop vs. Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan — The Hangers | RHONY

    The women are in Morocco, where Cindy discovers that Sonja has apparently taken some of her hangers.

    Yes.

    Hangers.

    Not jewelry. Not money. Not a husband.

    Hangers.

    Imagine traveling all the way to Morocco and ending up in a coat-hanger dispute.

    3. Ramona Singer vs. Bethenny Frankel — The Salad | RHONY

    Bethenny makes lunch.

    Ramona wants to go out for lunch.

    Bethenny thinks Ramona is being selfish.

    Ramona thinks Bethenny is being difficult.

    And suddenly a salad has become a major friendship issue.

    It is lettuce, Ramona.

    4. Crystal Kung Minkoff vs. Sutton Stracke — The Leather Pants | RHOBH

    Crystal calls Sutton jealous.

    Sutton fires back with one of the greatest Housewives insults of all time:

    “Jealous of what? Your ugly leather pants?”

    Two wealthy women in Beverly Hills nearly lose their minds over trousers.

    The pants were fine, by the way.

    5. Mary Cosby vs. Jen Shah — “Smells Like Hospital” | RHOSLC

    Mary tells Jen that she smells like hospital.

    Jen is furious.

    Mary doesn’t seem particularly concerned.

    The argument continues, and eventually you are left wondering how two grown women managed to turn someone’s smell into a major Housewives confrontation.

    6. Lisa Barlow vs. Meredith Marks — The Hot Mic | RHOSLC

    Lisa forgets that her microphone is still on and delivers an entire rant about Meredith.

    Meredith hears it.

    Lisa has to explain it.

    Then they fight about what Lisa said, what she meant, what Meredith heard, and whether Lisa really meant what she said when she forgot she was being recorded.

    The dumb part is that Lisa literally had a microphone attached to her.

    7. Teresa Giudice vs. Melissa Gorga — The Sprinkle Cookies | RHONJ

    Melissa brings sprinkle cookies to Teresa’s house.

    Teresa is offended because they aren’t pignoli cookies.

    The cookies are thrown in the garbage.

    This becomes one of the defining moments in the Teresa/Melissa feud.

    They were cookies.

    Not even bad cookies.

    Just the wrong cookies.

    8. Sutton Stracke vs. Crystal Kung Minkoff — The “Violated” Argument | RHOBH

    Sutton walks in on Crystal while Crystal is changing.

    Crystal says she felt violated.

    Sutton becomes fixated on Crystal using that word.

    Crystal refuses to take it back.

    Sutton can’t let it go.

    And eventually we somehow get from a woman accidentally opening a bedroom door to an argument about whether someone is allowed to use the word “violated.”

    Then Sutton brings the ugly leather pants into it, because of course she does.

    9. Luann de Lesseps vs. Alex McCord — The Herman Munster Shoes | RHONY

    Luann takes one look at Alex’s shoes and decides they look like something Herman Munster would wear.

    Alex is not amused.

    And thus begins another completely unnecessary Housewives argument over footwear.

    Because nothing says “we are wealthy women vacationing in Morocco” quite like getting into a fight about somebody’s shoes.

    10. Shannon Beador vs. Lydia McLaughlin — The Vicki Comparison | RHOC

    Lydia tells Shannon that she gives off Vicki Gunvalson vibes.

    Shannon does not take this as a compliment.

    What follows is a ridiculous argument over whether being compared to Vicki is an insult, what Lydia meant by it, and why this has suddenly become an issue at a children’s birthday party.

    Because nothing says mature adult conflict resolution like getting worked up over being compared to another Housewife while children are eating cake.

  • It’s a dreary Wednesday morning, I have the day off, and I have spent the last several days doing lists and recaps by request.

    So today, I am headed to Jersey.

    Not for a peaceful stroll through the Garden State. Not for a nice cup of coffee. I am going back to the good old days, when Housewives reunions involved screaming, cursing, family feuds, and the occasional act of violence against the host.

    Today, we are revisiting the reunion where Teresa Giudice shoves Andy Cohen.

    Because sometimes a dinosaur needs a little Jersey chaos.

    Let’s go.

    This is my first time recapping a reunion, but a lot of you have asked for this one, and I am game.

    The women haven’t all been together in over a year, so Andy greets everyone and asks if they’re ready for the day.

    Caroline announces that she has lost 25 pounds through portion control, otherwise known as the lap band.

    They discuss The Jersey Shore and whether it is an accurate representation of New Jersey.

    Teresa says it is not, because the people on the show sleep with each other and with people they barely know.

    Like Danielle.

    And boom. We have shots fired in Jersey.

    Danielle stays remarkably calm and simply calls Teresa insane. Teresa responds by calling Danielle a desperate pig, because we have decided to skip the pleasantries and get right to the point.

    Andy tries to reel them in before this turns into an archaeological excavation of every grievance these women have ever had with each other.

    Instead, he moves on to the subject of “Jersey” language, and we get scenes of the women struggling with their native English.

    Teresa says she has her own language, so there.

    The conversation turns to the children and how much they enjoy being recognized. We get a montage of Teresa’s and Jacqueline’s babies.

    Andy asks Danielle a viewer question about why she didn’t call Jacqueline after Nicholas was born. Danielle says she did congratulate her.

    They move on to Dina’s departure from the show. Caroline says Dina is still a big part of their lives, while Teresa says Dina left because of Danielle.

    Andy brings up the old beef between Danielle and Dina and the mysterious thing Danielle supposedly did to Dina.

    Viewers want to know what happened.

    The rumor is that Danielle tried to have Dina’s daughter taken away from her.

    Um, I would like details, please.

    Jacqueline reveals that they really shouldn’t even be discussing this, because Danielle put a “silencer” on Dina.

    Danielle agrees that her lawyers did that.

    And now Caroline decides she is the boss of the reunion and tries to shut Danielle up.

    Everyone starts talking over everyone else, and Caroline slips right back into her role as the marble-mouthed, bossy den mother of New Jersey.

    Nobody can get a complete sentence out.

    This is going well.

    Jacqueline calls Danielle a piece of garbage, and Andy tries to get everyone back to the baby package.

    Teresa is having none of it.

    She starts talking over Andy about what a disgrace Danielle is for not congratulating Jacqueline when Nicholas was born. Danielle smugly asks Teresa if she acknowledged her own nephew.

    It takes Teresa a moment to process the question.

    Then she goes absolutely nuts.

    She is out of her chair and shrieking in Danielle’s face:

    “DO NOT BRING UP MY FAMILY!”

    The viewers really have no idea what Danielle is referring to at this point, but it is very clear that she has hit a nerve.

    Andy tries to hold Teresa back and BAM! She shoves him, and he goes flying back into his chair.

    We are less than twelve minutes into this reunion, and Teresa just sent her boss reeling across the stage and knocked him on his ass.

    Any of you remember seeing this live for the first time?

    It was, and still is, unbelievable.

    Danielle walks off the stage, and Teresa starts hurling pillows and insults after her. Andy is still trying to contain her, and I swear his voice wavers a little with fear.

    He has clearly lost control of these women, and he is frightened.

    This isn’t Beverly Hills, after all.

    Caroline tries to calm Teresa down by repeatedly grabbing her face, which would have sent me over the edge.

    Teresa is still absolutely furious.

    And none of us viewers even know why!

    We have somehow reached full-blown Jersey warfare over something that happened off-camera, and Teresa is ready to burn the entire reunion to the ground while the rest of us sit here trying to figure out what the hell she is talking about.

    We come back from commercial and everyone is still trying to calm Teresa down.

    Danielle’s glam team rallies around her, comforting her while Teresa wants to know who the hell Danielle is talking to about her family.

    Oh, I think it’s a little birdie named “Missy G.”

    Danielle says she will only come back to the stage if they keep Teresa in her seat, and Andy promises he can do that.

    Oh, yeah right!

    Teresa just tossed him like a rag doll.

    Teresa is now screaming for “the chicken shit” to come back.

    We’re not even fifteen minutes in.

    Andy tries to lay down the law and tells Teresa to stay on the couch.

    She promises.

    Caroline tells Teresa to be smart, and Andy points out that she is REALLY strong. He basically pleads with Teresa to behave herself for the rest of the reunion.

    Danielle returns, and they go back to talking about the babies.

    Danielle points out that she introduced Jacqueline to her fertility doctor and seems to think she deserves a pat on the back for it.

    They argue about this for a while.

    Caroline takes over as the moderator, and I hate her.

    Somehow, 70% of viewers say they would want Caroline as their mother, while only 3% would choose Danielle.

    Have these people actually seen the way Caroline treats her daughter?

    She is dreadful.

    They move on to clips of the Manzos, Lauritas, and Giudices on their trip to Italy.

    Then we get into Teresa’s cookbook and the extravagant gifts Joe has been giving her.

    From there, the conversation turns to Teresa’s financial troubles, and we get clips of her spending habits. We also see Joe discussing his recent DUI.

    And this is where some of the first cracks in the Giudice fossil start to emerge.

    The finances, the spending, and eventually the legal troubles are going to become a dominating force in the Jersey ecosphere, but for now, Teresa is still insisting everything is fine.

    Andy asks if her house is in foreclosure.

    Teresa says no.

    So Andy moves on to the bankruptcy.

    Teresa denies everything except filing and doesn’t seem particularly interested in giving anyone any more details.

    Probably because she doesn’t know or understand what is actually going on.

    Which, in retrospect, is going to become a pretty significant problem.

    Andy brings up the auction of Teresa’s belongings, and Teresa says she doesn’t read any negative press.

    Andy wonders if she is in denial.

    He moves back to Joe’s DUI. Joe claims that he drank after his car accident, not before.

    Danielle finds this hard to believe.

    Andy also seems skeptical.

    Teresa looks like she is having a very difficult time staying in her chair during this exchange.

    Andy asks Danielle if she considers herself a troublemaker, and she admits that she can be.

    We get scenes of Danielle stirring shit up throughout the season, which is probably enough evidence for the prosecution.

    The conversation turns to her relationship with that busted-up brunette Marty McFly, Danny.

    Danielle insists they are just friends.

    The women say Danielle actually broke up his marriage.

    Somehow, Danielle also has a song out and a girlfriend, so this boring mess gets a little attention too.

    Danielle blames the editing for a lot of how she appears on the show. Caroline says this is crap.

    Andy asks Caroline about Danielle saying she needs a makeover.

    Caroline says she doesn’t care what Danielle thinks because she has a man who has loved her for twenty-six years.

    She does not mention his girlfriend.

    The conversation moves to Danielle’s two sex tapes.

    She claims at least one was released without her knowledge, and she has a whole other lawsuit going on over it.

    Her legal bills must be something else.

    Hey, Danielle. My husband is an attorney in New Jersey. Call him. We could use the money.

    Her other sex tape is up for sale, so there’s that.

    Danielle denies releasing it or making any money from it. She also denies that the tape was made by a third party, but the other women think it was.

    Jacqueline says it’s like bad-acting porn.

    All of a sudden, Teresa and Danielle are screaming at each other again, and I am not entirely sure why.

    I literally blinked and missed the beginning of this fight.

    Teresa calls Danielle a skanky whore, and we continue with the sex tape discussion while these two scream at each other in the background.

    Danielle insists that her kids don’t know anything about the show, which is ridiculous.

    She says the kids were, however, offended by Caroline’s comment that they have no light in their eyes.

    Caroline asks how they know she said that if they don’t watch the show.

    And that’s actually a pretty good point.

    Caroline goes on and on, speaking over Danielle and basically refusing to let her get a word in.

    God, I hate Caroline.

    She is an insufferable beast, and she reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law, whom I hated.

    So maybe this is personal.

    The conversation turns to Danielle making a scene at The Brownstone charity event.

    Caroline once again rips into Danielle and won’t let her speak.

    Danielle was wrong in this situation. I can admit that.

    I still don’t like Caroline, though, and I still think she is a bully.

    She does call Danny a “sweat hog reject,” which I thoroughly enjoy.

    It is dead-on-balls accurate.

    I want to thank the reader who slid into my DMs to suggest this recap. It was definitely worth revisiting. We have the very foundation of the Giudice/Gorga fights, as well as all the fallout from Danielle. And, no one could ever forget the time Teresa threw Andy at the reunion.

  • There are plenty of former Housewives we have absolutely no desire to see again.

    But then there are the women who left us thinking, “Wait… why did Bravo let her go?”

    Here are 10 Housewives we would actually like to see return to their franchises.

    1. Lisa Rinna — RHOBH

    Yes, she was exhausting. Yes, she stirred the pot like it was her full-time occupation. But Beverly Hills was more entertaining when Lisa Rinna was around. She could walk into a perfectly peaceful dinner and somehow have everyone screaming by dessert.

    Bring her back.

    2. Dorinda Medley — RHONY

    Dorinda could turn a nice weekend in the Berkshires into an international incident.

    She was funny, vicious, emotional, unpredictable, and occasionally completely unhinged. New York needs somebody who can turn “How are you?” into a three-hour argument.

    3. Alex McCord — RHONY

    We need Alex back.

    Not a modernized version. Not a rebooted, polished Alex.

    We want the Brooklyn townhouse. We want Simon. We want the increasingly bizarre fashion choices. We want Alex attempting to explain Manhattan society while everyone around her looks confused.

    Bring back the weirdness.

    4. Kim Richards — RHOBH

    Kim was one of the most unpredictable Housewives of the early Beverly Hills years.

    She had complicated relationships with almost everyone around her, particularly Kyle, and simply putting her in a room could change the entire mood.

    A Kim Richards return would immediately make Beverly Hills more interesting.

    5. Jacqueline Laurita — RHONJ

    Jacqueline was there for some of the greatest insanity in early Jersey.

    Teresa. Danielle. Melissa. Stripper-gate. Family warfare. The never-ending Manzo/Laurita/Giudice ecosystem.

    She knows the history, she knows the players, and she would absolutely have opinions about what Jersey has become.

    6. Eileen Davidson — RHOBH

    Eileen spent much of her Housewives career attempting to remain a rational adult while surrounded by people behaving completely irrationally.

    And then Lisa Rinna dragged her into the mess.

    I’d love to see Eileen return now, because something tells me she has accumulated several years’ worth of opinions.

    7. Heather Thomson — RHONY

    Holla Heather was actually a great New York Housewife.

    She could argue with the other women, she wasn’t afraid of conflict, and she brought a completely different energy to the group.

    I’d love to see what she made of the current incarnation of New York.

    8. Camille Grammer — RHOBH

    Camille doesn’t even need a major storyline.

    Put her at a dinner table.

    Give her a glass of wine.

    Wait.

    She has an incredible ability to make completely ordinary conversations feel like we’re watching the opening scene of a diplomatic crisis.

    9. Jill Zarin — RHONY

    Jill was a gossip, a social climber, a shit-stirrer, and an enormous personality.

    In other words: exactly the sort of person you want on Real Housewives.

    She understood how New York worked, she knew everybody’s business, and she was never going to quietly sit in the corner.

    10. Dina Manzo — RHONJ

    Dina would be a genuinely interesting return because she isn’t another screaming Jersey stereotype.

    She’s quieter, stranger, and operates on a completely different wavelength from most of the cast.

    Dropping Dina back into the Jersey universe after all these years could be fascinating.

    There are Housewives we miss.

    And then there are Housewives whose return would actually make the show better.

    These are the ones we want.