March | 2013 | Tess Explains It All

Totally forgot to discuss Faye Resnick in the Housewives blog below. She is not a cast member but clearly needs to be discussed after this season.

My thoughts on Faye are this: she is a very strong and confident person. I do believe Kyle when she says Faye is a close friend who has always been very kind and loving. I do believe Faye has a normal and nice side, but on the show we just get to see her crazy side. If I believed that some girl with a bitchy personality (Brandi) was talking shit about one of my super close friends ( Adrienne) and ruining their marriage, if I saw her out in public damn right I’d speak my mind and defend my good friend. And I think that’s all Faye is doing. She’s the only one really strong enough to stand up to Brandi and have smart enough comebacks. I think Faye believes Brandi is evil and a bully and when she sees a weaker woman on her own, taking on Brandi, she feels that she has the right to stand in and defend that woman. I get her. I think a lot of viewers didn’t get her. And a lot of people hate Faye now. But I dont mind her. Yes she should probably stay out of other people’s business and yes she should definitely not gossip about Brandi having sex in the bathroom unless she saw insertion with her own two eyes. But I don’t think shes a crazy bitch like she was made out to be this season.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is really the only housewives I’m passionate about these days. And tonight on Bravo they showed the finale and Part 1 of the reunion. As I watched these women bicker with one another and accuse each other of awful things I got so much anxiety. I just wanted to yell at the television, “Youre doing it wrong!!”
Here are my thoughts on each cast member:

Taylor: she was pretty boring this season. And any time she ever spoke to someone she started to cry. I’m not sure what that’s about. Is that such a deep depression or weakness that any time she speaks she cries? I dunno, but it doesnt make me a hater. I dont mind Taylor and I think the show is making her a stronger person so I hope they keep her. (and can we discuss the fact that she started dating her married attorney? They quickly just breezed over that tonight on the reunion. But that is scandelous!!)

Lisa: Lisa is pretty much perfection. Still my favorite on the show. She really has her head on straight and knows what to say in any battle with confidence and clarity. Keep doing you Lisa! You’re successful and have been in love and married for 30 years for a reason.

Adrienne: Good riddance! Not a fan at all. I dont think she’s a bad person. But I do think she’s not very intelligent and puts on a fake front to come off as likeable to viewers. I think the reason she didnt show up to the reunion is because she had nothing she could say to defend herself or her actions this past season. If you can’t keep up with these women, you will drown. Adrienne has drowned.

Kim: I truly feels Kim contributes nothing to show at all.

Yolanda: I dont know if I love or hate Yolanda. At first I hated her, then I liked her, then I hated her again. I like her in the moments where she calls out the women when they are trying to gossip and be catty. On tonight’s finale she said “We’re women, we’re supposed to stick together and defend each other. Not gossip behind each other’s back and bring one another down” (Okay I totally made that quote up, I don’t remember it work for word, but that was the idea). I do think women get caught up in being catty and sometimes it’s refreshing to see another woman be like “Hey stop. That is not necessary at all. Just confront the person face to face and stop talking shit behind their backs.” Her love for David Foster makes everyone roll their eyes. You can love your husband and take care of him without being so over the top. But that’s who she is so you can’t really hate on it too much. I dont’ appreciate how all through the reunion she attacked Kyle and tried to make Kyle look like a bad person. She needs to get off her high horse and realize that she isn’t perfect either so stop pointing the finger. I think she’ll be back for one more season and then just be exhausted from it and quit. Just wait!

Kyle: I watched Watch What Happens Live after the reunion tonight and the therapist on the show called out Kyle perfectly. She said “by avoiding conflict, you’re actually creating it.” And that is SO true. Somehow Kyle always acts like she doesn’t take sides and stays neutral but by doing so she has caused her friendship with Lisa to weaken and all the girls to question her loyalty as a friend. But I do not think it was necessary for her to be made out to be the bad guy on tonight’s reunion. I think she did a great job at defending herself but I wish she would have said something more like “youre all sitting here acting like you’re so perfect and have never talked about someone behind their backs. But if we just asked Bravo to play back each of our confessionals we would realize how much of a lie that is.”
I think Kyle just likes to have fun, be everyone’s friend, and talk about the other girls business. But I dont believe her to malicious at all.

Brandi: I like Brandi. I love her 90% of the time. She has strong comebacks, she knows how to call people out and she is not a bullshitter. I think that’s why viewers have taken to her so much this season. People can see right through fake people. The more real you are on this show, the more viewers will be drawn to you. Though I love her, I do think it was cruel and malicious to call out Adrienne’s secret this season. And that makes me question and fear Brandi’s character. I think Brandi wants to be a good person but she has this bad girl side and she can’t bite her tongue. It’s working in her favor now but it won’t always and one day that malicious side will be the end of her. Everyone thinks not so nice things about people, but usually you never say it out loud. Brandi ALWAYS says it out loud. And it’s just too much. It’s too cruel and over the top. She needs to reel it in for sure.

I think I got everyone? Phew! What a season! Sad to see it’s over.