What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

General Hospital

Jason asks Carly if she’s okay. She says, no. She’s been around violence, but what happened to Mary Pat was horrific. Whoever did it is a monster.

Jordan looks like she has a headache when Curtis comes into her office with a big box. He says he can come back later. Jordan realizes she forgot they were supposed to meet with the wedding planner. He says he explained she was busy, and was given samples to look through. They still have time. He starts to leave, but she asks him not to go. She needs him right now.

At the gallery, Ava hears something. She says they’re closed. She picks up a sculpture with a pointed end, and stands beside the doorway. She nearly clocks not-Doc, and says, thank God.

Laura is distressed, and flashes back on when not-Doc told her that he’s not feeling the same anymore, and he’s thinking they should separate. She’s about to call him, when Spencer comes in, saying, hail to the mayor! He asks if she’s all set for her political upset. She’s not sure if she can pull off a write-in campaign, but he says if it pays off, then his fearless grandmother will be the next mayor.

Margaux walks through The Floating Rib, recording details of Mary Pat’s murder. She says she has to follow-up with Carly and Sonny. Sonny says it’s her lucky day; he’s already there be. He’s offended, since she hasn’t returned his calls. She says she’s busy, but can always make time for him, especially if he’s here to confess. He’s sorry to disappoint her, but has nothing to confess. He and Carly were interviewed by the commissioner, and he’ll tell her the same thing. He hated that sadistic nurse; she made life a living hell for Carly. He’s not crying over her death, but had nothing to do with it. Margaux says, maybe that’s one murder he didn’t commit. He asks if it isn’t unusual for a DA to investigate a crime scene. Margaux says she’s hands, but Sonny says some people would say she’s obsessed. She needs to take a step back. Things like that eat at your soul. She asks if he’s concerned or that’s a veiled threat. He says he’s giving her the benefit of the doubt that she has a sou. She asks if his wife didn’t discover Mary Pats’ head. He says Mac uncovered the barrel, and unfortunately, Carly was close to it. She’s strong, but it shook her up. Margaux promises they’ll get the person who did this. She always gets the bad guy, no matter how long it takes.

Jordan tells Curtis that she could use a sounding board she can trust. She says they have Mary Pat’s remains, both the body and head, but there’s a detail he needs to keep quiet about. There were strands of blond hair in one of her hands. Obviously, there was a struggle. Curtis thinks the M.O. is unique, and the showmanship is especially troubling, and meant to terrify and shock. He asks if there was a sexual assault, and Jordan says she’s still waiting for the report. Why? Does he think it’s personal?  Curtis says maybe the killer wants them to think they’re a homicidal maniac, and Jordan finishes, but maybe they were looking to settle a score. Curtis says maybe it’s not insanity. Maybe it’s the oldest motive known to man – revenge.

Jason tells Carly, sorry; he got her voicemails. He knows she and Laura went to Ferncliff. She says they were looking for anything suspect, and didn’t see anything serious. It was unsettling, but that’s understandable. She left with questions though. Jason asks what kind, and she says when they were there, they ran into Mary Pat, who’d just gotten fired. Words were exchanged. Mary Pat said Carly almost killed her, and Carly says she regretted not finishing the job. Jason asks, who heard? and she says, Laura. She tells Jason even if she hated Mary Pat, that doesn’t mean she killed her.

Lulu visits Laura, bringing campaign buttons. She gives Laura one for Doc, but Laura says he’s not going with them. Lulu doesn’t mean to be critical, but tells Laura that she seems distracted, and she has to be focused on the message when they arrive at the polls. Spencer tells her that she doesn’t want to disappoint her constituents. She says if people want to write her in, it’s up to them, but she doesn’t think she’s doing any more campaigning. Lulu asks, why not? and Laura says she doesn’t think it’s the right moment in her life for going into public service.

Ava apologizes to not-Doc for being on edge. She found a dead body at the gallery. He says that’s why he came by. He was concerned when she missed her appointment; then he heard about the poor nurse’s mutilated body that Ava found. He thought he should check on her. She says she thought it was a Halloween prank. Then the jack-o’-lantern fell down. He tells her to sit. He can only imagine how jarring it was for her. He can only imagine her shock and awe… fullness. She says she thought she’d seen everything, but it was so random and disturbing. The police said the body had hair in its hand; blonde. Everyone was looking at her like she was an ax murderer. She was going to see her lawyer today, just in case. Not-Doc says there’s no need for that. She asks, why not? He says for the simple reason that he knows she didn’t do this. Ava says, she knows, but the other people don’t, and he doesn’t either. Why is he so sure?

Not-Doc tells Ava that he’s never seen evidence in her of this kind of savagery or dark sinister humor. She doesn’t think there’s anything humorous about it; it was brutal. He says if they knew her like he did, they’d know it isn’t her style. She says maybe he doesn’t know her as well as he thinks. She has a rap sheet that’s not for the faint of heart. He says he’s aware she’s made mistakes; who hasn’t? He’s also aware that it’s human nature. With her beauty, brains, and self-confidence, she’s bound to be the target of spite and petty attacks. This isn’t the essence of who she is. Ava is flattered, but not-Doc says he means it.

Lulu asks Spencer to check on the exit polls from his computer. He gets the hint, and leaves the room. Laura knows Lulu is going to say the people are counting on her. Lulu says what’s going on is depraved and sickening, but no one is linking it to Laura’s camp. The body was found this morning. People are shocked and horrified, but they still believe in her. Laura blurts out Doc left her. When she caught him in a lie about where he’d been, he finally admitted he’s been avoiding her since she got back. He was afraid to share his feelings, and it’s her fault. Lulu asks, what feelings? and Laura says she’s not sure. He just said he doesn’t feel the same way about her, or them. He’s not blaming anybody; he’s grappling with it too. Lulu says, poor baby. She’s blaming him. Laura says that doesn’t help right now. Lulu says, sorry, but Laura doesn’t deserve it. She asks if Laura thinks there’s someone else. Laura says she asked, and he said there wasn’t. He says he wanted time to himself, apart from her, to sort out his feelings. Lulu says that doesn’t mean she should drop her life and wait for him. He needs to remember the woman he fell in love with – who he was lucky enough to have fall in love with him. Laura doesn’t understand how things changed so fast. She had no hint when she was in France; not in his phone calls or when he visited. She knows it wasn’t a normal life, and they weren’t together all the time. Lulu tells her not to waste her emotional energy figuring out what’s wrong with Doc. It’s his problem. Hers is getting elected. She tells Laura to get ready for a photo op. If Doc doesn’t appreciate her for who she is, there’s a whole town full of folks who will.

Jason tells Carly, everything is documented in the lawsuit. Carly says he thinks she shouldn’t have talked to Jordan, and he says he wouldn’t have without lawyer, and would have been arrested. Instead of wasting their time, the PCPD should be figuring out who the real perp is. Maybe she’s right to cooperate. She asks if he really thinks that, or he’s trying to make her feel better, and he says, both. She has nothing to hide. It makes her easy to eliminate as a suspect, and they can move on. Whoever killed Mary Pat is sick and twisted, and still out there.

Margaux tells Sonny she’ll use her full force to pursue justice, whether it’s for Mary Pat or her father. He says what he has to tell her has nothing to do with him, but her and her father and mother. She tells him to leave her parents out of it. He asks who told her that it was mob related? She says he left, never returned, and his bones found under the pub. Sonny says it’s an assumption. She says they wanted to keep him quiet. She knows how it works. They have to earn their stripes, and Sonny killed her father. He says, more assumptions. She says, facts, and it’s only a matter of time. He wants to offer her a deal, but she says she thinks she’s the only one in a position to make one, and he’ll never get one. He says she’ll never get him. There’s a cemetery full of people who tried and failed. Here’s his offer; stay away from him and his family, and he’ll do the same. She asks if that’s a veiled threat, and he says, it’s a prediction. Keep pushing, and she’ll end up getting hurt.

Jason says Carly’s physical attack on Mary Pat led to her escape. Carly says, self-defense. Mary Pat was jabbing her with a needle, and she turned the tables. Mary Pat also coerced her into an illegal medical procedure, and forged the consent form. She’s lucky Jason arrived at the opportune moment. He says he had a bad vibe from Mary Pat from the start; when they met. When he and Sam… Carly tells him to keep going. He’s just getting to the good part.

Not-Doc tells Ava that he sees the real her, not what others project; that she’s a wanton woman, heartless, and a bad mother. He looks beyond labels people put on others and themselves. He recognizes projections. Ava says he’s sensitive and intuitive, and she’s glad he’s there. She’s glad he wasn’t there when she discovered the body at her desk. He was thinking the opposite. He wishes he had been there to help her cope. She says if he wants to help, get out of there. He asks if she wants to go to his office. She tells him, no offense, but it’s the last place she wants to be. She needs people, laughter, and life. Anything to keep from thinking about the literal horror show she witnessed. Or does he think it will blur the line between therapy and friendship. He says, some lines are made to be blurred. and they leave.

Spencer comes back, and tells Laura the exit polls are still her way. She can’t quit. Laura thinks if she’d come home earlier, and had months to campaign, she could have created an upset. It’s too late to make a different. Spencer says, it’s never too late. Her public awaits. Lulu agrees, and tells Laura to get camera ready to announce she’s the new mayor. They leave, and Spencer gets on his laptop.

Carly tells Jason that she keeps dreaming about Mary Pat. He knows how hard it is before going to sleep, having jarring memories, but she has to stay on track. It’s just a bad memory; it’s in the past. She tells him about her mantra in Ferncliff; stay strong, stay focused, go home. He likes it, and asks if it worked. She says until they drugged her. She could change it to stay strong, stay focused. She knows he understands. She needs to stay vigilant, but she hates that Mary Pat haunted her in life, and now in death. Jason says she used what little power she had to make people’s lives miserable, but Carly beat her. Carly says Mary Pat was just a cog in a large, rotten machine. There’s a mystery locked up in Ferncliff, and she wants to solve it.

Laura and Lulu return to the apartment, and Spencer says the exit polls are trending on his grandmother. Lulu says standing up for what you believe is important. Spencer asks to come along so he can watch democracy in action. He takes the flashdrive from his laptop with him.

Margaux tells Sonny that threatening a public official is a felony. Sonny laughs, saying she’s making assumptions again. There are different kinds of hurt. If she keeps going down this path, trying to find out the truth about her father’s death, her world is going to come crashing down. She asks if he expects her to believe he’s worried about her. He says he is. He knows she doesn’t believe him, but it’s true. She says her world is firmly in place. He says he’s straddling the Faultline. He tried. He says she likes clarity, so let him be clear. She has no idea what she’s going to find, but he does.

Curtis asks Jordan if he should take the wedding samples or leave them there. They have to make decisions on the menu and stuff, starting with the flowers. Jordan says they were talking about him and Sam getting entry to Ferncliff. He wonders what if someone who knew Mary Pat had a flair for the dramatic. Jordan thinks it would narrow the pool.

Carly tells Jason, when they toured Ferncliff, she wanted to see the condition first hand, but also wanted to find out what happened with the patient next door. Jason says Doc asked them to steer clear because the patient was dangerous. Carly says he spent hours tapping in Morse code – SOS, and that he was being held against his will. When they were there, the room was empty, and they got the run around from the new head nurse. Maybe they have something, or someone, to hide.

Not-Doc and Ava have a drink at Charlie’s. Not-Doc tells her that he did see Mary Pat before her untimely demise. She says he must have been one of the last people to see her. He supposes so.

Outside of Charlie’s, Lulu says she’s proud of Laura. She’s not just casting her ballot for Charles Street, but for all of Port Charles. Laura tells her not to get her hopes up. Spencer says it’s still trending in her favor. It’s her lucky day. They walk inside, and see not-Doc and Ava. Doc tells Ava that he believes in complete transparency.

Ava asks if not-Doc wants to join his wife for an election day photo op, but he says it’s her big day, not his. Even though it’s a not a therapy session, she’s his priority. Laura decides she doesn’t want coffee, and Spencer says he’ll meet them outside. He’s get a coffee to-go. He walks over to not-Doc’s table, and Ava says he must be excited. He tells not-Doc, if it was 1776, he’d challenge him to a duel. He had Spencer fooled. Spence thought he was a real pillar of the community, but like some pillars, he’s hollow inside. It’s all an act. He has nothing; no loyalty or soul. Not-Doc says Spencer is still too young to understand. Spencer says he understands betrayal. Looking at Ava, he adds, doesn’t he? He says not-Doc and Ava deserve each other. They’re two of a kind. He leaves, and not-Doc says no one could accuse him of being inarticulate. Ava says, it was quite a dressing down.

Jordan tells Curtis that she’s hoping for a crossmatch, but it’s a long shot. Curtis says he’s dealt with sickos, but this is next level. Jordan says maybe now she’ll get some answers. The report is back.

Carly tells Jason that she thought she saw him once, but it was after she was drugged up. Jason says, maybe he was discharged, and Carly tells him, that’s what Laura said, but she can’t let it go. It’s driving her crazy. Jason asks what if he’s as dangerous as Doc said? Carly says then they’ll back off. She has to find the answer. What if he didn’t belong there as much as she didn’t?

The only thing Margaux wants from Sonny is the truth. She says his whole enterprise is incapable of that; he’s of no use to her. He says he came with a desire for peace, and she spit in his face. All right, here’s the truth. He’s feeling good today. When first came to her, they were strangers, but her mother wasn’t. He knew her back in the day, and has every reason to believe she was involved with Joe Skully. Margaux starts to smack him, but he grabs her arm, saying, don’t even. He says he used to visit the Skylight Club, and Skully had an apartment upstairs. He thought Margaux’s mother was his girlfriend, but he had many. It didn’t make sense then, but it does now. Her father wasn’t killed because he was trying to get out of the mob. Her mother is a widow because she wanted to be.

Jordan says the weapon was something with a metal spike or hook. The head was severed clean, so it’s someone who has skill with a blade. A hunter, or someone with military training. Curtis says, or a chef, or a butcher – or a surgeon.

Not-Doc tells Ava that, sadly, he and Laura are separated. She’s sorry to hear that. He says he’s managing. He’s sorry Spencer lashed out; saying their the same and deserve each other. She says she’ll take it a compliment. She’s glad she found a kindred spirit.

Spencer meets Laura and Lulu at the polling place. He says he didn’t get coffee because the line was too long. He wanted to see the historic vote. When Laura and Lulu step away to get their I Voted stickers, Spencer puts his flashdrive in the computer there. He asks if they have a sticker for him, but the lady says they don’t have any future voter stickers. As he walks away, Spencer says, sooner than she thinks.

Carly tells Jason that she has a gut feeling. She didn’t get anywhere with the visit, so she’ll arrange to go back. Jason says, bad idea. Carly says she can bring Diane, but Jason says they’ll just cover up whatever they’re hiding. She says she’ll find another way in, but he says he’ll find out for her.

Margaux says Sonny is a damn liar. He’ll say anything to cover up, even accuse her mother of wanting her father dead. Sonny says she conspired with Skully to kill Margaux’s father, and he can prove It

Tomorrow, Lucas says someone is terrified, Finn tells Britt that she won’t be healthy for long, and Spencer says it’s a trap – Quartermaine chicanery.

The Real Housewives of Orange County

Vicki asks if Steve missed her. She tells him about bobsledding, saying the sunglasses he gave her went flying, and she wasn’t even drunk. She swears she didn’t overserve herself, because she has surgery coming up, but we flash back, and maybe a little. She says it’s her and Shannon’s last hurrah; Shannon is having her eyes done. Steve asks if she’s done after this. In her interview, Vicki says she’s insecure, and had a lot of procedures. Her nose, chin, boobs, tummy tuck, boobs, eyelift, boobs. She tells Steve it’s an easy surgery, but he says always risk with anesthesia. She mentions a brain issue she has, saying she hasn’t told the doctor. It’s an inner ear tumor that goes to the brain that she’s had her entire life. Steve suggests she call the doctor now. Vicki is excited, but Steve wants this to be the last one.

Tamra talks to Eddie about having backyard party. She’s still tired from Jamaica. Eddie asks if anything weird happened. Tamra tells him that Emily and Gina thought Shannon was snubbing them. He says Shannon thinks her sh*t doesn’t stink, but Tamra says she’s insecure; she feels bad. Eddie says Shannon sucks her dry. She has to want help; Tamra can’t do it for her and keep enabling her. She says she’s been frustrated, and unloaded to other people. She wonders if she’s a bad friend, and Eddie thinks she should keep it between her and Shannon, or people will make it into something it’s not and feelings will get hurt. In her interview, Tamra says she’s like a drug addict. Shannon calls, and she sneaks downstairs and whispers, because her husband is over it. She asks about his doctor’s appointment, and Eddie says he’s supposed to be a rock star surgeon. If he can’t fix Eddie, no one can. Hopefully, the surgery works, and he’ll be back to normal. Tamra says she’s given him a pass on sex because of the medication, but he has a lot of making up to do.

Shane and Emily go to therapy. Emily’s doctor suggested they talk it through. The therapist ask how many years the journey has been as a family. Is this Hobbit therapy? Emily says she was thirty-two when they got married, and she got pregnant quickly, but lost it. In Emily’s interview, she says she had five miscarriages, and carried twins for four months. When she went into labor, she knew they wouldn’t survive. She thinks it’s easier for Shane. He didn’t go through the physical and emotional things needed to have an embryo. Like the clueless dude he is, he says he was with her the entire way. The therapist thinks they should close the chapter, and Shane tells her, whatever he says, he seems heartless. In her interview, Emily says Shane is stoic, and didn’t talk a lot when they lost the twins. It’s emotional for him in a different way. Emily feels that when you miscarry, then carry a baby and lose it, it’s a profound sense of loss. She says the hospital made her a box after she lost the twins, but she never looked at it. The therapist asks if Shane has. He says no, but kept it stored away. Emily isn’t sure she’s ready to open the box. The next step scares her.

Tamra says she’s been drinking a lot, and Eddie says she came home drunk yesterday. She says she’s planning a birthday for son Spencer; something for the family. He just graduated high school and turned eighteen. We flash to when he was seven, which might have been the last time we saw him. Maybe he was upstairs, polishing his skis. (All My Children fans will understand.) Tamra picks Eddie’s nose, which is possibly the most disgusting couple’s activity I’ve ever seen.

Vicki checks in for surgery. She tells Steve, if anything happens, there’s a black box in her office that holds her entire life. She tells the nurse to resuscitate her if she dies. She has a lot of stuff to do.

Shannon checks in for her surgery, and Kelly meets her there. In her interview, Shannon says she’s having eyelid surgery because she’s a single lady, and might date someday. Kelly is excited. They discuss eye creases. In Kelly’s interview, she thinks this will give Shannon a boost of confidence. Kelly goes in with her. Shannon signs the consent form without even reading it. In her interview, she says if she thinks about the negative complications, she’ll panic. They talk about Vicki getting full face lift.

Vicki is getting a steroid that has a side effect of her feeling like there’s a blow torch on her crotch. What? Don’t sign me up.

I don’t think I can watch Shannon’s eyeballs get propped open. She feels good about how the trip ended with Tamra. She thinks an argument turned to a positive is an absolute moment of growth. Kelly leaves before Shannon goes under.

Vicki gets a map drawn on her face. We flash back to her first procedure, when she had her chin done, and looked totally different. She says a facelift doesn’t make you look different. It makes you look like you did twenty years ago.

Shannon’s doctor tells her to pick a dream. She’s going to sleep soon. We go back and forth between Shannon and Vicki getting anesthesia.

Going into recovery, Shannon asks if she snored, and gets a no. She says in a perfect world, she’d have a partner waiting for her, saying everything is going to be okay, but she has a driver, and kids waiting for her at home. It’s all she can ask for right now.

After a five hour surgery, Steve waits for Vicki. When she wakes up, Steve tells her it’s the quietest she’s been in months. He says all went well, and Vicki asks if she’s pretty. He says he loves her outfit, and she tells him that she has no panties on.

Shannon looks like she has black eyes. Her daughter helps her wrap something around her head to hold pads in place. She says she looks like she was in a fight. She looked good right after the surgery, and she wonders what happened.

Tamra says her mom has a thing for Franks. Her dad Frank is there for the party, as well as Sandi’s current boyfriend Frank, and she was also married to another Frank in between. Tamra says there was also a mystery Frank, and thinks maybe Sandi should go to a Steve. Tamra is wearing the most beautiful tiny hat with feathers. I love a tiny hat. She says Spencer is her youngest son, and it’s crazy to think he’s eighteen. He’s going to be studying psychology, but she’d been hoping for plastic surgery. In her interview, Tamra says he’s like an old man. He’s has his life planned out, he’s into history, and likes to communicate. He’s so not her.

The rest of the family arrives, and Eddie takes pictures. Spencer is hoping to get into UCLA. He’s never had alcohol, and Tamra calls him straight edge, but he says he doesn’t identify with any group. In Tamra’s interview, she says it was different when Ryan was a kid. She was young, worked two jobs, and their electricity was turned off most of the time. We flash back to Ryan getting various tattoos. She says Spencer had a totally different lifestyle than Ryan did growing up. Tamra talks about getting matching tattoos with Simon, and having it removed. Sandi says she could have gotten a tattoo that said Frank, and it would have worked for all of her relationships. In her interview, Tamra says her relationship with Simon is the same as it was nine years ago. They make progress, and then go back again, repeating the pattern. It’s not good. She says Spencer was her golden child, and tells him to continue to be a good kid. He wants to change the world, and she tells him that he’s her best work. Did Ryan just hear that? Nice.

Emily’s kids play with their toy cars. Emily tells Shane that she’s going to work, but she thinks she’s ready to open the box. He says he’ll take it out, and she palms the kids off on the nanny. She understands they need to come to a resolution about having another child. She looks through the box, and finds the tiniest handprints ever, and cries. She finds a note from her grandmother, saying she grieved with them, and perhaps some gifts weren’t meant to be. In her interview, Emily says they were close. Her mother was dealing with her own issues, so her grandmother became a surrogate parent. She’s making herself feel better by thinking her children are all in heaven together, and her grandmother is watching out for them. She didn’t feel any closure, and doesn’t know what to do with that. And she still wants another child. She thinks closure is a bullsh*t term that people use, but it doesn’t mean anything. You never really have closure. She says Shane is right. She does have a lot to celebrate. She has three beautiful children.

Gina and Kelly visit Shannon, bearing food and a bedrest pillow. In her interview, Gina says that in the OC, the minute you get off the boat, you’re met with an injection. Kelly asks if Tamra has come by, and we see a clip of her visit. Gina says it obviously got ugly on the Jamaican trip, but she felt she had a breakthrough with Shannon, and she’s glad they’re friends. She feels obligated to tell Shannon what she’s hearing. The day she wasn’t around in Jamaica, there was a lot of talk about her mental health, and if she was okay. Shannon says so many people pipe in about her life, but no one is living in her shoes. Preach it, sister! In Gina’s interview, she says Shannon’s friends are concerned about her mental stability, and she feels a sense of responsibility to come from a place of concern. Kelly admits that Tamra kept talking about it. Gina says she’s not trying to talk sh*t; she’s concerned. In Kelly’s interview, she thinks Tamra and Shannon are co-dependent, in a SWF way. When they’re drinking, it gets exacerbated. Gina shouldn’t get involved. She’s not going to win. Shannon thinks for what she’s been though, she’s been strong. In her interview, Shannon says it’s day one of her recovery, Gina comes over to make her feel like sh*t, and she shouldn’t cry after surgery. Gina tells Shannon that she’s coming from a genuine place, and Shannon can call her.

Vicki and Steve go to a resort. Vicki wears a scarf over her head, as Steve wheels her in. She says the doctor is strict about not going home right away, so they’re on a mini vacation. By the time they get home, everything will be tweaked. She has the greatest man. She’s in love, and can be completely honest. She gets into bed, and says she wants to take her head off of her body. Steve takes a picture, and shows her. She says she looks ugly, and he says she’s just recovering. He says she forgot to tell the doctor about her brain issue. We see a clip of Steve talking to the doctor. He tells her that’s why it took an extra hour. She asks if he’s happy he met her, and he says she’s a handful. In her interview, Vicki says there’s no rhyme or reason why Steve came into her life at a charity event. She thinks her parents were spreading love to her. She tells Steve that she wants a bell.

Tamra is meeting some of the girls for lunch. On her way there, Shannon called, saying Gina claimed Tamra had said horrible things about her. Eddie was right. She should just shut her mouth. She’s the first to arrive, sitting in the outdoor area of the restaurant. Emily is next, followed by Gina and Kelly. Tamra is frosty to Gina, rebuffing a hug. How mature. In Gina’s interview, she says that validates everything she thought about Shannon. She’d clearly called Tamra, and got her pissed. Emily says she came home from Jamaica whiter. She asks how Shannon is, and Kelly says she and Gina paid her a visit. Kelly says Shannon called her afterwards, and Tamra suggests they talk about it. Tamra wants to hear Gina’s side before she loses her sh*t. She demands to know if implied Tamra was a bad friend. Gina says the topic was concern for Shannon, as her best friends were concerned. In Gina’s interview, she says clearly Shannon is trying to cause a fight between her and Tamra. They’re Jedi mind trick masters. Shannon is Yoda. Maybe she should get together with the Hobbit therapist.

Tamra continues to ask if Gina painted her in a bad light. Gina says Tamra was talking about Shannon, but Tamra claims it was nothing she didn’t say to Shannon’s face.  In Tamra’s interview, she says it’s New York Gina, all about loyalty. She didn’t expect to get thrown under the bus. I think the only thing Gina has ever said about being from New York is that she’s opinionated. Tamra asks why Gina is stirring the sh*t, if she wants to show concern? Emily thinks there’s more to the story. Kelly says Shannon called her after she left the restaurant. Gina says Shannon told her a sob story about possibly losing her children, so she thought she should know what’s being said. In her interview, Gina says Shannon is calling everyone, frantic, in the middle of the night, crying. She’s throwing tantrums. We flash back to her flailing around and yelling in Jamaica. She sleeps all day; she’s up all night. We flash back to Vicki saying David takes the kids to school, and she walked in one Shannon pouring vodka. Gina thinks Shannon is deflecting. Tamra – who is often like a broken record – asks if Gina said she was a sh*tty best friend. Gina says, no, and Tamra asks if she insinuated it. Omg. Gina says, no. In Gina’s interview, she says a minute ago, Tamra was questioning Shannon’s mental state, and now she’s believing some cockamamie story.

Emily says what’s resonated with her, is that she’s legit going through an issue with her mom, who has a legit mental illness. There are a lot of patterns she’s seen in her mom that she’s seeing in Shannon. In her interview, Emily says her grandmother’s biggest regret is that her mother didn’t get help sooner. She’s hoping Shannon is willing to have the conversation, so she can get help. Tamra is concerned, but now she’s been labeled a sh*tty friend, because she just can’t drop it. If she said too much, she’s sorry. Kelly says sometimes she takes a lot on. Tamra starts to cry, saying she’s trying to be a good friend. In Gina’s interview, she says she tries to be a good person, but it beats you down. When you’re being truthful and honest, you get in trouble. She tells Tamra that it’s a normal reaction to being backed into a weird place. Tamra doesn’t want to talk about Shannon.

Next time, an old lady party, Michael and Kelly meet, Tamra tells Vicki about Shannon, and Tamra doesn’t show for dinner.

😵 I Am Anyway…