ecological and bodily destruction<\/a>. You don\u2019t do a vow renewal for the sake of your relationship, and you don\u2019t do a gender reveal for the sake of humanity. Anyway, it\u2019s a boy and no one died. Phew.<\/p>\nMyka films her puppet show, Mini Manners and, well, I have notes. First of all, it looked like she had her assistant as one of the puppeteers, and the other was, I don\u2019t know, one of Sonja Morgan\u2019s interns? Can\u2019t we get some pros here manning these muppets? She\u2019s trying to get the puppet to hold a fork correctly, except the puppet can\u2019t actually hold the fork. What good is that? Also, can\u2019t we make a pun with manners and manors? Can\u2019t it be called Minding the Manors, and there\u2019s a stately English home full of kids running amok, and Super Nanny comes in and shows them how to behave correctly? I\u2019m just spitballing here, but I feel like what took Myka years to do took me about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
Margo finally moved into her house in Notting Hill, and it costs $60,000 a month to rent. I understand that she\u2019s not going to be in London full time, but couldn\u2019t she put a deposit down on a two-bed flat with that money and be done paying off the mortgage in a year, and then rent that flat out and be a landlord for the rest of her life? I don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t study economics. I also didn\u2019t study design, but I know better to move into a house where each room is themed around one color. There is an all-yellow hallway, an all-pink living room, and an all-green bedroom. It\u2019s like living inside a Starburst. Who designed this place? The Museum of Ice Cream?<\/p>\n
Margo has Myka, Miss\u00e9, and Lottie over to see this box of Crayolas she calls a house for a dinner that she didn\u2019t prepare and still struggles with. Relatable. Not relatable (and this comes from a non-drinker) is not having any real alcohol to serve her two guests who drink. Instead, she had 19 varieties of nonalcoholic wine. What is the point of that? It\u2019s like serving vegan desserts. It\u2019s just taking the best things out of there. Why not make them some dirty sodas or some interesting juices? Why not make them an American delicacy like lemonade or sweet tea? Margo, my sober sister, I expect more.<\/p>\n
There is a dueling dinner party across town when Emma hosts Mark, Martha, and Kimi at her London flat, which looks like it is ensconced in the most gorgeous private garden in all of West London. The opposite of Margo, Emma has no problem preparing a nice dinner, having a number of different drinks for her guests, and regaling them with stories of the dinner parties she threw with Diana Ross riding a hippo or some shit. I don\u2019t know, I wasn\u2019t paying attention. I was dreaming about her real estate.<\/p>\n
While the dinners are different, the topic is the same: Kimi\u2019s ongoing feud with Margo and Miss\u00e9 and how Martha is stuck in the middle. Kimi says that Margo is like Martha\u2019s bird, that she\u2019ll get close to you and then peck your eyes out. This is why, no matter how you feel about the fight, Kimi is kind of winning. Margo only wishes she could be that witty. Martha says Kimi is just upset that Margo outmaneuvered her by sitting on the couch while she apologized to Miss\u00e9 in the last episode, and that Kimi is mad she was bested. This is an excellent point, and I feel like it definitely has something to do with Kimi\u2019s feelings. She thinks that if only she could have talked to Miss\u00e9 just the two of them, she could have resolved it.<\/p>\n
Then Kimi does what any slighted person in a friend group would naturally do: She starts making fun of Margo\u2019s clothes. Is it juvenile? Yes. Is it a little mean? Certainly. Is it the best part of the episode? Absolutely. Kimi especially hated Margo\u2019s velour jumpsuit, which we didn\u2019t get to see properly in a scene but is as hideous in person as it sounds on the page. Even Martha, who dresses like the person about to be murdered in an Agatha Christie special, thinks it\u2019s ugly, but she says Margo came from Los Angeles, where people only wear Lululemon, and, well, she\u2019s onto something. Mark says she should learn how to dress, but he also has some gossip for the group. He talked to someone at his garden party, which kicked off the series, who has known Margo for decades and said that ever since she got married, she\u2019s become narcissistic and obsessed with money. But is that, I don\u2019t know, new? Maybe that\u2019s something that his friend just missed the first time around? And, even if it is new, do we care? To me, this seemed like the meanest thing said all episode. Leave it to a gay.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at Margo\u2019s Prismatic Palace, Lottie is saying she doesn\u2019t like Kimi\u2019s aggression and would want to know if her friend was talking shit about her like Kimi was about Miss\u00e9. Margo tries to follow up with Myka about what Kimi and Martha were saying about her at lunch the day before, and Myka is far too polite to get right there in the much and roll around in it. Where is the University of Florida sorority girl inside her? Can\u2019t she come out with a too-short skirt and a red solo cup to mess around a bit? Margo leaves it by saying that she has no issue with Kimi, per se, and \u201cIf she wants to bark at me like a deranged Corgi,\u201d then she can\u2019t stop her. Okay. Good insult. Point for Margo.<\/p>\n
In the final scene, Kimi goes for lunch, and we\u2019re waiting to see who is going to join her. I thought it would be Margo traipsing in wearing a jacket so large it could fit all the colors of the rainbow just like her house. Instead, it\u2019s Miss\u00e9 wearing her accent like a cunty little hat. Just as I predicted after the last episode, Kimi is pissed at Margo and ready to move past things with Miss\u00e9. She said she didn\u2019t expect her comments to get out of the car and that she didn\u2019t like that Margo was sitting next to her at the naked painting party when she tried to apologize. She says that Margo, like a bad pair of panties, was creating friction when there shouldn\u2019t have been any. Miss\u00e9 seems willing to bury the hatchet after letting Kimi know that her feelings were hurt and she didn\u2019t like it when Kimi said she was only telling the story of her brother\u2019s death to get attention. But they laugh and cackle and try to get to know each other. They sit back in their seats, the tension gone, gathered up by Kimi, like a witch in the woodlands, and transformed into a bird that flits off through the door of this infernal fish-and-chip joint, over the trees and terraced houses, over the roundabouts and byways, over the parks and the swans and the fountains and drains of the city, as far west as Notting Hill, where Kimi\u2019s enchantment will find a way to peck Margo\u2019s eyes out.<\/p>\n
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