Real Housewives of Atlanta: Eh, You Can’t Win ‘Em All

If this week’s episode of Real Housewives was a Jeopardy category, it would be called Potpourri, as in “I’d like random unrelated Potpourri for $800, Alex.” Damn, I guess the producers had nothing better to work with so they tied a bunch of odds and ends together into 1 hour of programming and the only common thread was the zip code. In any case, here’s what the ladies were up to when we last saw them.

Lisa, you’re still boring. Even with the whole impending trip back to LA to see her family that is steeped in drama because she hasn’t come to terms with the loss of her brother, I still don’t really get excited by her air time. Her own mom must be bored of her, too, because she didn’t even want to hang out with her alone – she insisted that Lisa bring NeNe along for the trip. See? Uninteresting. I’m curious to see what NeNe does next week though in a room full of vertically challenged Asian relatives, I don’t know about anyone else but I smell comedy a’ brewing…

Kim apparently shops at Crazy Nannies R’ Us because she fired her kids’ nanny after the girl left her kids all alone to go buy tampons. Um, ok – this story line was just bizarre, frankly. Also that nanny insulted her kids by telling them they were going to hell for mocking some prayer that Brielle said. If you’re going to insult her kids, I’m sure you could come up with something better than that – the fact that their mom wears a wig is reason enough to tease. Anyway, speaking of wigs, Kim also went to her ‘hairdresser’ (*coughs*) and got her faux locks styled. Is she ever going to lose the wig and show us what the Good Lord gave her? I doubt it. But that’s one episode I would definitely tune in for. Oh, and then Kim finally met Kandi and they bonded over both being totally irrelevant in the music business. Fine, Kandi’s only half irrelevant – at least I’ll give her that.

Prior to meeting Kim, Kandi met with a photographer and stylist to plan a photo shoot for her new album cover/press photos as well as some family pictures for her wedding announcement. After dragging her mom out of bed to come to the shoot (literally, what is it with her mom anyway? Lady gives me the heebie jeebies), her mother refused to pose in a picture with her soon to be son-in-law. Like I’ve said before, that wedding should be totally drama free. Apparently Momma isn’t a big fan of the fact that AJ impregnated half of Atlanta prior to meeting Kandi. Details, details.

NeNe spent most of her time with Dwight this week, which I of course approve of entirely. First they went to the nail salon, then he came to her King Tut exhibit cocktail party/preview, and then they topped it off with some fabric shopping for her new house where they made fun of everyone they knew. Love it. Speaking of her party, NeNe thought (read: the producers suggested) that it would be a good idea to put all of the ladies into one room together even after they almost drew blood last time to see a preview of the exhibit and get a steady level of buzzed while they’re at it. Nothing says culture like open bar, kids. Maybe the producers thought since their kids would all be there it would discourage any physical fighting – but we all saw what happened with those New Jersey chicks and the table flipping when their kids were present, so I’d say they took a big risk this time. Nothing really exciting happened though, despite the potential for blow up. Basically Sheree and Lisa made fun of everyone and then Dwight showed us that despite his lovely backup singers, he can’t sing to save his life. It’s alright Dwight; you’re still fabulous even if you’re vocally challenged. Oh, and that’s the only time we saw or heard from Sheree all episode, which suited me just fine.

This is usually the part where I’d put in some sarcastic musings about the action this week, only there wasn’t really any. All in all it was a snore-fest, so I’ll save my good material for a good episode. Deal? Deal.

Season 2, Episode 4: Mummies, Mommies and Baby Mommas (originally aired August 20, 2009)

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