{"id":37916,"date":"2017-08-01T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=37916"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:30:59","slug":"real-housewives-orange-county-recap-new-puppet-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/tv\/real-housewives-orange-county-recap-new-puppet-master.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives of Orange County recap: ‘We Have a New Puppet Master’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Housewives of Orange County recap: ‘We Have a New Puppet Master’<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Real Housewives of Orange County recap: ‘We Have a New Puppet Master’:- We\u2019re only four episodes in, but I\u2019m ready to make an early verdict: I don\u2019t love Peggy. I think she is probably a nice person. Her family seems quite nice. And I think it\u2019s admirable that she is letting cameras into her life as she deals with a very sensitive health issue \u2014 maybe her story can help people! But, oh my God, as a Housewife? I\u2019m a little over her already.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just that she\u2019s so reserved in group settings that she makes Meghan\u2019s boring baby scenes feel like Homeland. It\u2019s that she refuses to play the game, to get involved \u2014 she is keeping the rest of the Housewives and their drama at an arm\u2019s distance. And, sure, maybe you would also steer clear of a a feud between a group of friends you\u2019ve only just met in a very contrived, artificial way. But then again, it\u2019s television. Bravo is not the place to try to be Switzerland, Peggy! Have some feelings on the matter! Weigh in! Pick a side!<\/span><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s episode picks up with the two tribes of warring Housewives recapping their own version of what happened at the not-so-Quiet Woman. Tamra invites Shannon over to debrief, and they seem to have a pretty solid handle on the whole thing. Shannon, avoiding the blame game, admits that she\u2019s not thrilled with her own behavior. Sure, Kelly appeared to be wasted and totally pushed her buttons, but Shannon took the bait, and for that she\u2019s embarrassed and ashamed. Luckily, Shannon seems to shake off the stress of the evening quite quickly, because later in the episode, she has something far more stressful to worry about: teaching her eldest daughter how to drive. \u201cYou have to be aware of the people around you because they\u2019re the ones that are going to hit you,\u201d Shannon warns Sophie at one point, which feels like a fairly on-the-nose metaphor if you ask me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelly is \u2014 surprise! \u2014 far less charitable in her retelling of the story, practically bragging to her husband about the things she said to Shannon while concluding that Shannon owes her an apology. Kelly repeats the \u201cKeep eating!\u201d line like it was funny or something, and at no point does her husband seems fazed by her behavior. You\u2019d think someone would point out to Kelly that if she really doesn\u2019t \u201cwant to have conflict with people,\u201d as she says, maybe she shouldn\u2019t go for below-the-belt remarks every single time. But instead, she and her husband start reminiscing about all the times she\u2019s been kicked out of parties, which for most people would be a red flag, not a badge of pride.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the episode, word of the party makes its way to the other Housewives. First, Vicki gets the lowdown from Lydia, who is throwing a big movie-premiere-themed birthday party \u2014 complete with a red carpet and photographers \u2014 for her son Stirling. Based on the cardboard cutouts at this party, the kids apparently all watched a very early screening of The Emoji Movie? How long ago was this filmed? Did The Emoji Movie arrange for this conveniently timed promo, even though I don\u2019t think anybody directly referenced the movie itself? (Now think about how many times we heard the Quiet Woman mentioned.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The real purpose of the party, of course, seems to be getting Vicki and Peggy together. Given the giant rift fracturing the Housewives this season, Vicki seems eager to scoop up an ally, and she hovers over Peggy like she sees an opportunity. After hearing about the Quiet Woman dinner, she offers to teach Peggy how to be tough, warning her that the Housewives will \u201cbe your friend, then turn on you.\u201d She also asks about Peggy\u2019s cancer scare and seems quite interested in finding out whether Peggy actually had cancer in her body or whether it was strictly preventative. It\u2019s a weird line of questioning \u2014 I don\u2019t know, Vicki, maybe let\u2019s put a few seasons of distance between you and the Brooks debacle before we start asking questions about whether someone really has cancer or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

While we\u2019re on the subject: Like Lydia in her first introduction with Peggy, Vicki too asks about Peggy\u2019s health issues and then acts like Peggy just overshared, telling the camera in her one-on-one interview that she thinks health issues are private matters. Then why ask about it? The totally cynical argument would be that it gives Vicki an opportunity to win over Peggy\u2019s loyalty by offering to run errands for her or on-call for Peggy whenever she needs it. Vicki and new Housewives don\u2019t always get along, as a helpful Bravo supercut reminds us, but it\u2019s funny how quickly that attitude changes when you\u2019re trying to outnumber your enemies! For what it\u2019s worth, Peggy seems genuinely moved by the offer and talks in detail about how when you go through something like what she did \u2014 something that maybe your friends don\u2019t know how to talk to you about or handle \u2014 friendship, hugs, and human touch go a long way. And when they do finally meet up, they don\u2019t spend the whole time talking about other Housewives \u2014 they talk about losing parents and family in a way that feels genuine. Maybe I should give Vicki the benefit of the doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Word of the party makes its way to Meghan via Kelly, who drives out to see her and patch up their friendship. Apparently during the off-season, Meghan heard that Kelly had a boyfriend who was not her husband, but when she asked Kelly about it, Kelly didn\u2019t appreciate the inquiry. So, according to Meghan, Kelly retaliated by texting Meghan and telling her that her husband was having an affair. Hold up \u2014 I thought we learned from last season that spreading rumors about other Housewives\u2019 husbands was just a recipe for disaster? Let alone doing it to someone who\u2019s seven months pregnant?! Kelly shrugs it all off, though, telling the camera, \u201cI have a hard time controlling myself.\u201d Um, no duh!<\/span><\/p>\n

So Kelly fills Meghan in on the Quiet Woman dinner, and once again I\u2019m surprised that no one really takes Kelly to task for the things she said. Does everyone think Kelly making fun of Shannon for her weight is okay? Or when you\u2019re dealing with someone like Kelly, is it just not worth it to start a fight? While they\u2019re discussing what went down, Meghan\u2019s nanny \u2014 her cousin, whom Meghan apparently hired willy-nilly because she didn\u2019t know nannies were supposed to have, you know, qualifications or experience \u2014 lets Meghan know that her baby is crying and probably hungry. Meghan starts breastfeeding, but how do we know the baby wasn\u2019t crying because she could detect Kelly\u2019s presence? I mean, if Meghan thinks her baby can see ghosts because she just came from \u201cthe spirit world,\u201d as she just said last week, surely this baby would know if a vengeful soul has entered her home?<\/span><\/p>\n

Meghan\u2019s house isn\u2019t the only stop on Kelly\u2019s O.C. tour this week. She also brings the cameras into her vaginal rejuvenation appointment, which mostly seems like a ploy to freak Vicki out. Ostensibly, Vicki came along for moral support and\/or a ride home, as one does when your friend is going in for a procedure. But she spends most of the episode squealing in a corner while Kelly gets awfully frank about the inner workings of her body and makes a lot of jokes about how the tools being, uh, inserted into her are the most action she\u2019s gotten in a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tamra, meanwhile, is having a far less lighthearted week. First, she has a heart-to-heart with her son Ryan, and Ryan\u2019s terrible beard, about his relationship with Simon, Tamra\u2019s ex-husband. She quickly starts crying \u2014 but wait, it\u2019s actually for kind of a good reason! She\u2019s crying because she\u2019s happy to hear that even though Ryan and Simon didn\u2019t always get along, Ryan\u2019s grateful for his tough love and knows that Simon was only hard on him because Simon wanted to see him succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason Tamra\u2019s been thinking a lot about family, divorce, and strained relationships: She has to go speak at a dinner for Erasing Family, a documentary about estranged family members and \u201cexposing corruption in divorce courts.\u201d It\u2019s a topic that hits close to home for Tamra, as regular viewers already know that Tamra has been somewhat estranged from her daughter Sidney ever since Tamra and Simon divorced. But Tamra, joined by her brother and her dad \u2014 her mom, who is divorced from her father, didn\u2019t attend, to Tamra\u2019s dismay \u2014 offered the event\u2019s attendees a message of hope. Even though she shunned her father after he divorced her mother, they\u2019ve managed to patch things up. And she\u2019s confident that she and Sidney will also find their way back to a relationship one day, just as she did with her father. There are already promising signs: Tamra reveals in the episode that she and her daughter recently ran into each other unexpectedly and had their first non-courtroom\/non-counselor\u2019s office hug in four years.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of a heavy way to end the episode, sure, but I\u2019m just glad the episode ended with someone crying happy tears for a change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/ew.com\/recap\/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-season-12-episode-4\/2\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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