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In The City<\/a><\/p>\n Caught in the Crossfire<\/p>\n \n Season 1<\/p>\n Episode 8\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 3 stars<\/p>\n ***\n <\/p>\n \n Lindsay\u2019s insistence on getting her way is starting to wear thin on the rest of the group. It\u2019s shocking that a decade into her tenure on Bravo, we have never seen Lindsay Hubbard go on a trip other than the five-hour schlep out to the Hamptons every goddamned weekend. However, it is not at all surprising to anyone paying attention that we have a full-blown Ramona Singer room-snatcher on our hands. It was textbook Singerian tactics: Get in there before anyone else, claim that you deserve the biggest room because you\u2019re voluntarily sharing with your girlfriend, and when confronted, come up with a bullshit excuse as to why you deserve it and never back down under pain of death. The crazy thing is it works better than Vicki Gunvalson at a MetLife insurance conference.<\/p>\n This all happens on a group trip to my home state of Connecticut. Well, kinda. They\u2019re not in the gross part of Connecticut where I\u2019m from, where the only exports are closed factories, Aaron Hernandez, and third-rate reality-television bloggers. They\u2019re in Washington, a darling little town where the old-moneyed New York WASP elite have weekend homes where they tend hydrangeas and scour their goldendoodles for ticks. (Another of Connecticut\u2019s great exports: Lyme disease.)<\/p>\n Before they can get to their accommodations, an enormous house that looks like a witch was burned in it at some point, they have to make a stop to play paintball. As shocking as it is that we have never seen Lindsay hog the best rooms, it\u2019s shocking that in all of our decades of Bravo, we don\u2019t see more paintballing. How many times have we had to watch them all drink wine and make horrible paintings? How many beach outings where they all freeze in the breeze because they won\u2019t let them go during peak season? How many Roaring \u201920s nights?<\/p>\n The reason I think we don\u2019t see more paintballing is that it isn\u2019t very compelling television. It\u2019s all there, dividing the group into teams, subtle conflict becoming overt, forced merriment in a forceful friend group. But something about it just doesn\u2019t click. As far as side quests go, I think this one should go outside, walk to the house where the cast is staying, and get burned in the same spot as the witch.<\/p>\n Once they arrive at the house, it isn\u2019t long before Georgina and Lindsay plant their flag in the primary and decide it is theirs. Kenny, who is nominally cohosting the trip with Lindsay, thinks they should offer the best room to Yvonne and Nick since they collectively ruined their wedding dinner the week before, and this is something like their honeymoon, even though they\u2019ve been married longer than Jen Shah was in prison. Kenny\u2019s biggest mistake is telling everyone this plan before telling Lindsay or putting it into action. Lindsay and Georgina\u2019s excuse is that they\u2019re mothers away from their kids for the first time. I\u2019m sorry, but that should confer no benefits. Maybe it\u2019s because I am a person without kids, but why should I have to suffer for their lifestyle choices? That\u2019s like me saying I deserve my own room because, like Amanda, I need weed to fall asleep. Why are kids and a weed habit any different?<\/p>\n I would almost be a little bit more sympathetic to the two of them having to share a bed and not being in a couple. Like Lindsay says, no one wants to spoon a friend. (Well, if I were friends with Kyle Cooke, I would be volunteering to take the smallest queen bed possible with him, but I am a perv.) That is until we find out that Gavin is in a queen bed and Kyle and Amanda are in the same room with two twin beds. Wait, so there is a room built for people not in a couple to share it. Sorry, Lindz. I don\u2019t care how many babies are at home, I don\u2019t care that you planned the trip, based on logistics, it\u2019s the two of you in there or spooning in a queen. That is your choice. You can\u2019t penalize people for not having children, but you can penalize them for not wanting to share a bed with a friend when there are twins available.<\/p>\n Whitney is just as annoyed with Lindsay and her tactics. She says that Lindsay is always playing the \u201cmom card\u201d to get what she wants. Are you ready for some mental gymnastics, because this is when I explain that Whitney is both right and wrong at the same time. She\u2019s right to be annoyed with Lindsay for hogging the best room for seemingly no reason. If she\u2019s annoyed about that, she should say it, challenge Lindsay, and come up with some other way to settle who sleeps where. (Bethenny Frankel, finally sick of Ramona\u2019s shenanigans, devised the first-ever housing lottery on Bravo.)<\/p>\n Where Whitney is wrong is by extrapolating this instance into saying that Lindsay does this all the time. Lindsay says that she\u2019s too busy to attend events or have petty drama with her friends, and that is something that I will give her. Having a kid is obviously her priority, and she can\u2019t be as present in her friendships as she once was. However, we haven\u2019t seen any evidence that Lindsay is throwing her motherhood in everyone\u2019s faces the way that Whitney says she has. Lexi reports this back to Lindsay, and it is the only thing she has done all season, but I have a feeling it will be one of the best things to happen in this nine-episode season. (How is next week already the finale?) Oh, that and she brought her hot-ass husband, who brushed his teeth wearing just briefs, and for a moment I thought I was watching Italian Heated Rivalry<\/a>.<\/p>\n Instead of fighting with Whitney, Lindsay has a talk with Yvonne about how Lindsay ruined Yvonne\u2019s wedding by making it all about her. Now that we\u2019ve warmed up with my mental gymnastics, let\u2019s limber up for Lindsay\u2019s, where she somehow wants Yvonne to apologize for Lindsay ruining a dinner. Yvonne says all she wants for Lindsay to do is say that the dinner sucked and she\u2019s sorry for getting into so many fights on a night that was important for her. Instead, Lindsay says it sucked but because everyone was piling on her. Then she doubles down and points out why it shouldn\u2019t be that important to Yvonne, because she\u2019s already had a wedding, an engagement party, and a bachelorette. I love Lindsay and all she contributes to the reality-television arts and sciences, but this is why Danielle isn\u2019t friends with her anymore. If the experience isn\u2019t centering Lindsay, then she doesn\u2019t care about it. When someone disagrees with her, she can\u2019t try to see their point or apologize; she needs to change their mind to show why she\u2019s the biggest victim. Hmmm. Wait. Does Whitney have a point? Do I have to ungymnast my own gymnastics?<\/p>\n As much as this episode is about Lindsay, the Rebecca Lobo of In the City (real Connecticutians know), the last fight belongs to none other than Kymanda, who are trying to get along in their twin beds and matching tiny bathrobes. At dinner, Gavin, whose left arm must be a ladle because he is always stirring that pot, congratulates DJ Kyle Cooke on his burgeoning tour where he\u2019s slated to make $250,000 across a dozen dates. The problem is, Amanda does not yet know about this. \u201cNot only is he committed to this tour and all these gigs, something we didn\u2019t even talk about, but he\u2019s excited about it,\u201d she says in a confessional. \u201cThis man is planning his future without me in it.\u201d I\u2019m sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy for Amanda. She moved out of the damn house! What is he supposed to do? She wanted space; now she\u2019s getting space. Now she\u2019s mad that she has so much space that he\u2019s making decisions without her. I want to launch her into space like one of Jeff Bezos\u2019s defective rockets. What about when she decided to get a one-year lease without clearing it with Kyle first? Did she ask him about that? Sure didn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
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