The Real Housewives of New York City
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You remember this Chuck E. Cheese for adults.
To get to this place, though, takes both Barbara and Sonja having little breakdowns of their own.
This episode I could not.
Barbara is too much of a regular person for this show.
That can be trueandthe other women could be ignoring her, which is the part Bethenny glides over.
Bethennys right to tell Sonja that she needs to rein it in when she parties.
If shes annoying the other women, thats a problem.
But I think theres a far cry between being an annoying drunk and having to go to AA.
No one told Luann to go to a meeting when she fell in the bushes.
No one even told Kelly Bensimon to go to a meeting after scary island.
Sonja is not an alcoholic, shes just a (wonderfully) annoying drunk.
If theyre just dragging her along, its like taking a vegan to Sizzlers all-you-can-eat night.
Sonja says of AA meetings, I dont think I particularly benefit from them.
Only the pitiless glare of the almighty.
I dont understand what happened.
Sonja has never really reinvented her life, so maybe its not that.
That wouldnt have annoyed me.
Life is full of choices and sacrifices, and Luann doesnt think she should have to make either.
The same goes for her.
She shouldnt get a massage and her hair done because she was basking in the glory of her cabaret.
Bethenny would have understood the hustle.
She turns it, once again, into the women being ungrateful and not concerned about her well-being.
As Bethenny told us, life is not a cabaret.
Luann doesnt have any empathy for anyone at all.
Luann brushes it off.
When Bethenny tries the same tack with her ex-fiance Dennis, Luann waves that off too.
Its all just gunpowder sprinkled all over the table like its part of Barton Gs Scorching Hot Nachos presentation.
I think Im still drunk on this scene.
Oh, and did you hear that Bethenny ordered ahead!
Just fucking try it.
What really makes it amazing, though, is that its a spectator sport.
There are people at other tables trying to enjoy a ludicrously themed meal and just eyeing them.
They do not seem to be enjoying the cameras.
Bravo should really sell tickets to these dinners.
They stare up into the starless sky and hope that the expanse will swallow these women whole.
