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One of my favorite Housewives motifs is theatrical medical emergencies. Obviously, I would never want one of our darlings actually to get hurt. Still, when it does happen, there\u2019s something about their inevitable diva reactions in the aftermath that just scratches a specific itch for me. Vicki Gunvalson is the undisputed champion in this category of gags, with her wheelchair-bound exit in Iceland after mixing Xanax and Adderall being a favorite of mine. And who can forget the intensity of Tammy, lying on the floor of a Miami mansion while Shere\u00e9 yelled, \u201cSomebody call an ambulance!\u201d Or Angie K slicing her finger while in a seahorse costume. Call me sadistic, but it\u2019s great TV!<\/p>\n
K. Michelle, who is on a roll for providing the most entertainment for the third week in a row, continues her Housewives initiation with her own medical mishap to add to the vault. As she heals from BBL complications, she proves herself Bravo-worthy by dragging her glam squad to the hospital for a face of makeup and perfect hair before joining Phaedra, Porsha, and Cynthia for a mani-pedi. It\u2019s nice seeing K. Michelle with the all-stars of old-school RHOA \u2014 the chemistry is there, and she can hold her own with the upperclassmen. The only thing that would\u2019ve made it better is if she had taken a cue from Vicki and come in a wheelchair, but watching her hobble up the stairs on the nail technician\u2019s arm is still the sort of diva behavior I love. Phaedra peeps K\u2019s game, reminding us that she delivered her baby in a full face for the world to watch.<\/p>\n
Phaedra\u2019s callback made me mourn the time when she did more than mimic Porsha\u2019s aesthetic and regurgitate rehearsed reads in her confessionals, praying she\u2019ll become a meme. After years spent banished before climbing tooth and nail through a probationary period, she\u2019s re-achieved full-time peach-holder status, but at what cost? In her attempts to redeem herself from the drama that led to her exile, Phaedra lost the spark and verve that made her a compelling television character. She\u2019s a natural-born villain, but her obsession with trying to look like a good person and leaving her conniving behavior for when cameras go down makes her \u201cShade Assassin\u201d reputation fall flat during her comeback.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an argument that Phaedra isn\u2019t the only current Housewife afflicted by this balancing act\u00a0 \u2014 Lisa Barlow comes to mind \u2014 but what bugs me is that she doesn\u2019t do much of anything else to make up for it. At least Lisa puts in work on RHOSLC, love her or hate her. I almost want to prod Phaedra with a stick, to check for signs of life. The episode has great moments as the women open up their lives and allow us to see their vulnerability: we see Angela retrying her hand at real estate while grieving her mother, Drew dealing with her divorce, and Pinky filing for bankruptcy in hopes of a fresh start. Yet Phaedra does little more than get caught talking shit off-camera to Shamea by saying Pinky isn\u2019t a real vegan. The rumor is hilarious on the surface because Pinky\u2019s whole schtick is being vegan, but now that Phaedra\u2019s seed germinated in my brain, I do think it\u2019s a bit strange for a PETA board member to marry someone who sells animal meat. She rightfully says the rumor could mess with her money, though it\u2019s interesting she\u2019s more upset by the financial repercussions than the ethical ones. The math is off, though I don\u2019t really care who she marries or what she eats\u2026but PETA might. Phaedra definitely knows where to throw her daggers, I\u2019ll give her that.<\/p>\n
The newbies are also annoyed with Phaedra\u2019s lackluster performance; K. Michelle shadily asks during a lunch with Cynthia and Pinky, \u201cSo what is up with Phaedra? All she does is giggle.\u201d Pinky strangely jokes that Phaedra is \u201ctoo busy eating dead people at the morgue.\u201d Girl, what? As NeNe would say: \u201cIt\u2019s getting weird.\u201d References to cannibalism aside (I hollered when she doubled down on it when it didn\u2019t land the first time), they\u2019re right to question Phaedra\u2019s behavior. Like K. said, \u201cYou cannot trust no lawyer who don\u2019t practice the law,\u201d because what exactly does Phaedra do these days? We don\u2019t see her in court, at a funeral home, or even practicing Reiki as she did on Married to Medicine. Perhaps Phaedra should go the Mother Cynthia route as a friend of the show who flits in and out of the fun scenes to offer her two cents and provide a connection to the old days \u2014 her scene with Pinky and K. Michelle did more to move the season than Phaedra\u2019s contributions in the last three episodes.<\/p>\n
Shamea seems to be on the opposite end of the spectrum from Phaedra, doing entirely too much. Her rum business is a strange pivot from her music career, and her husband, Gerald, is just as skeptical as I am. It\u2019s giving Housewives gimmick brand, along the lines of Meredith Marks caviar or whatever Gizelle and Ashley were doing with GNA. Gerald clearly believes the endeavor is frivolous, using the two sentences he allots for himself during filming to say he thinks the business is \u201cfine\u201d as long as she \u201cputs some work into it.\u201d There is footage of him grilling the company Shamea wants to collaborate with, asking the real business questions that his wife clearly isn\u2019t concerned about, before saying it wasn\u2019t market-ready and abruptly walking away. But for Shamea, what matters is not the viability of the venture, but the amount of screen time (and businesswoman-themed attire) it\u2019ll earn her on the show, so she\u2019ll ride this idea until the wheels fall off.<\/p>\n
As Shamea plays business Barbie, we get our first instance of an activated K. Michelle after one of Porsha\u2019s mindless comments ruffles her feathers. While at the nail salon, K. shares how her infected incision led to a two-hour reconstructive surgery. She begins with her intense bleeding at the Academy of Country Music Honors, to which Porsha asks if she had a miscarriage. Based on the look on her face, the insensitivity of the remark rubs K. the wrong way, although she pushes it aside in the moment. But after stewing on it for a while, she expresses her feelings through her Twitter fingers, something she\u2019s been doing since her Love and Hip Hop days.<\/p>\n
The tweets include \u201cI\u2019ll sit there and smile clock it. I\u2019m not with none of that bullshit,\u201d and simply the word \u201cactivated\u201d in all caps. My favorite is the one that reads, \u201cBimbos are the loudest and most confident. Shut your face.\u201d Since K. Michelle didn\u2019t react in real time, no one knows who the bimbo in question is until she explains her anger to Cynthia and Pinky. Cynthia, knowing Porsha best, immediately clocks that the situation is another case of a Porsha-ism gone wrong. Cynthia says, \u201cEverybody knows Porsha speaks before she thinks,\u201d and that while Porsha does owe K. an apology, she\u2019s sure there was no malice behind the comment. I concur \u2014 this mishap is like Porsha\u2019s forever funny delivery<\/a> of \u201cyour injured son and hoe daughter\u201d to Kim Zolciak. My guess is that Porsha was playing up her reaction for the camera, ad-libbing whatever crossed her mind upon hearing about the blood, to aid the scene.<\/p>\n Despite Cynthia knowing Porsha\u2019s inappropriate comment was an innocent slip of the tongue, K. Michelle isn\u2019t having it, because, according to her, Porsha knew about her medical complications before they showed up at the nail salon. She therefore interpreted Porsha\u2019s actions as a calculated shot like the one she witnessed when Porsha confronted Kelli over tea. I also think that, due to the bad experiences with her old castmates K. Michelle briefly talked about in the premiere, combined with RHOA\u2019s reputation, she\u2019s entered this space slightly defensive, overthinking every move, and assuming people are out to get her for the sake of a storyline.<\/p>\n Both Pinky and Cynthia urge K. to give Porsha a chance to share her side. Their conversation is a productive exchange in which K. admits the tweets were about Porsha, and Porsha promises she would never mention a miscarriage in a shady way, considering her own experience having one. They exit the conversation with a fresh start, but it definitely leaves a bad taste in K.\u2019s mouth. I have a feeling this won\u2019t be the last time Porsha\u2019s lack of a filter will activate the self-proclaimed \u201cformer crash out,\u201d and I\u2019ll be waiting patiently for K.\u2019s next reaction and the tweets it\u2019ll produce.<\/p>\n \u2022 I understand Drew\u2019s reluctance to be honest about her relationship with Blakk, as she doesn\u2019t want to give her demonic ex more ammo in the divorce, but that dinner scene did not help her case. It looked like the Atlanta date night special to me as they flirted over hookah flavors while he looked at her adoringly with his bare stomach exposed in a fully opened leather button-down.<\/p>\n \u2022 Another thing I love that K. Michelle is bringing to Atlanta is the type of gift of gab that\u2019s specific to Southern women. From calling Porsha a dingbat and a bimbo to her imitations of Phaedra\u2019s laugh, her delivery and commentary add a flavor of comedy that\u2019s been missing since NeNe left.<\/p>\n \u2022 The more Pinky divulges about her business and relationship, the more questions I have. Filming a scene crying in a lawyer\u2019s office while taking the first steps toward filing for personal bankruptcy before telling your husband (who you don\u2019t have a prenup with) is definitely an interesting choice.<\/p>\n The Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/p>\n Entertainment news, for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n