What I Watched Today

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

General Hospital

Carly looks at a photo of Bobbie from the Nurses Ball, and elsewhere, Felicia does the same. Lucas arrives and Josslyn hugs him. She says, they’re so glad he’s here, and Michael says he’s so sorry. He hugs Lucas, who says, him too.

Maxie says, it was really nice of Cody to ask James to help him in the stables today. Promise her that when he gets home, no fighting with his sister. He promises, and Felicia comes in with Anna. Maxie hugs them both, and Felicia cries.

At the hospital memorial wall, Laura kisses her hand and touches Bobbie’s photo. Spencer comes along and they hug.

Dante and Sam meet Sonny in the apartment building hallway, and they get in the elevator together.

Carly hugs Lucas and asks how they’re going to do this. He says he doesn’t know, but they will. Carly’s phone rings, and she answers it.

Carly goes to Kelly’s where Elizabeth is waiting. Elizabeth says she didn’t want Carly to come. She just wanted her to know what happened. Carly asks, what did happen? and Elizabeth shows her the broken Kelly’s sign. She says, last night’s storm must have knocked it down. (How did they know it was going to storm last night?) Carly says, her mom told her that Aunt Ruby had this made. It was hand painted. This thing’s lasted for decades. Elizabeth says she can handle this. The funeral is soon. Carly should go be with her family. Carly says, today of all days, and Elizabeth says she can paint a new sign. It can be something similar or Carly can pick something new. (This is kind of weird, since the sign isn’t smashed to bits, and could be fixed.) Carly says, Elizabeth doesn’t have to do that, but Elizabeth says she’d be honored. Kelly’s means so much to this community, just like Bobbie did. Just like she always will.

Carly arrives at the church, telling Josslyn, sorry. She had to take care of something. Josslyn asks if everything is all right, and Carly says, it will be. Michael asks how she’s doing, and she says she’s taking it minute by minute. Lucas tells her to take it second by second if she has to. He knows he is. Carly asks if she told him how good it is to see him, and Lucas says, once or twice. Drew says he’s going to check in with the priest and make sure everything’s set. He leaves, and Michael asks if Carly is ready, but she says, no. Josslyn says, they’re here for her, and Carly says she’s here for Josslyn too, for all of them. They go into the church, where Bobbie’s photo is prominently displayed.

We see Bobbie in the credits one last time.

Drew says, everything is set, and Lucas thanks him. Drew says he wishes he could do more… for all of them. Sam, Dante, and Sonny come in, and Sam hugs Carly, saying, she’s so sorry. Carly thanks her and Dante asks how she’s doing. Carly makes a face, and he says, sorry. Pretty dumb question to ask. Her mom was an incredible person. He knows Lulu thought pretty highly of her. Carly says, her mom felt the same about Lulu and thanks them for coming. Sam says, where else would they be? and sits with Dante. Carly takes Sonny’s hand, and he asks how she’s holding up. He knows it’s a dumb question (a lot of that going around). She says, hanging in there, and he says he loved Bobbie. He’s going to miss her. She says, her too.

Felicia, Anna, and Maxie look at some memorial photos, and Felicia says, Bobbie’s with Barbara Jean and Tony now. She knows that should give her comfort. Anna says, but she wishes Bobbie were here, and Felicia says, so much. Maxie tells them, Bobbie always said she felt like BJ and Tony were her guardian angels. She feels that way too, especially with BJ. Sometimes she has what she feels is a memory, but she knows it can’t be. She wasn’t even conscious. Anna asks, what kind of memory? and Maxie says, being in the hospital. Uncle Tony listening to BJ’s heart in her chest. It feels so real. She can even feel the weight of his head on her chest. Felicia says she thinks Maxie does remember, and Maxie says, how? Anna says, doctors and nurses tell them this all the time, don’t they? She’s sure Bobbie would have agreed that even if the patient is out, they’re not unaware of their surroundings. Felicia says, that’s why they encourage us to talk to them. Tony did listen to that beautiful heart of hers. What a blessing that she carries that moment with her. Anna asks if they should go in, and they do. Maxie notices an unknown woman sitting in the back.

Willow walks in and tells Michael, sorry she’s late. Monica wasn’t feeling well, and it took her minute to convince Monica to stay home. He says he’s glad she’s here, and she says, of course (🍷) she’s here. She loved Bobbie very much and she knows he loved her even more.

Laura takes Carly’s hands and says she’s going to miss Carly’s mother so very much. They hug, and Carly thanks her for offering to give the eulogy. It means so much to them. Laura says, Bobbie was like a sister to her. She just hopes she can do Bobbie justice. Doc says, she will, and Carly agrees.

Trina hugs Josslyn and says she’s so sorry about Josslyn’s grandmother. Josslyn thanks her, and Spencer says, they weren’t technically related, but Bobbie was always good to him. Josslyn says, Bobbie was good to everyone, unless you got on her bad side, then watch out. Spencer says, loyal to the core, and Trina says, sounds like somebody else she knows. She and Josslyn hug again.

Tracy says she’s so sorry for Carly’s loss. It’s Port Charles’s loss really. Carly thanks her and says she’s really glad Tracy was helping her mom handle Luke’s affairs. Tracy says she doesn’t think Carly’s mom thought it was helping. She thought it was just getting in the way. Carly says she’s really glad Tracy was there, and Tracy says, then she is too. Her mother was a force to be reckoned with. She was loyal to the people she loved, Luke especially. Her voice breaking, Tracy says she admired Bobbie immensely for that, and walks over to the memorial photos, where Lucy is standing.

Lucy says she’s not getting into it with Tracy. Not here, not today. Tracy says, that’s not why she approached Lucy. Whatever’s going on between them, Bobbie transcends that. Lucy says, yes, she does, and Tracy says, Luke loved his sister. Lucy says, she was his rock, ride or die, and Tracy says, and he was hers. So how about if just for today, they hold a truce for Bobbie. Lucy says, for Bobbie.

Alexis lights a candle, and Sam says she never pegged Alexis as the religious type. Alexis says she’s not. She’s honoring Bobbie’s spirit, which was incandescent. She was an angel on this earth. Kristina says, the way Bobbie helped her with all that Keifer stuff. It was a nightmare, and she wouldn’t have gotten through it without her. Alexis says, that makes both of them, and flashes back to Bobbie saying her father physically abused her. Eventually, she pulled herself out of that pit, and she became a nurse and got married. And it was respectable, except her husband beat her too. Alexis says she’s sorry, and Bobbie says, it became a pattern, and she didn’t recognize it. Alexis says, how could she possibly have not known that? and Bobbie says, we all do the best we can. However, Alexis’s daughter needs that smart, positive, independent woman to look up to. In the present, Alexis says, it’s a good lesson for all of them. Pay it forward.

Laura asks what Scotty is up to, and he says he was trying to jot something down to say. He speaks for a living and he wants to ask Laura something. Why is it that someone he cared so much about, he’s just coming up empty? She takes his hand.

Maxie asks if Anna knows that woman, but Anna says, no. She doesn’t recognize her at all. It’s not really a surprise though, is it, given the amount of patients and people Bobbie helped over the years. Maxie looks at the woman again.

The casket is brought in, and everyone stands. The priest says, God, we are gathered her today as friends and family of our loved one, who departed from this world recently and came into Your presence. Let the love You showered upon Bobbie in her life fill this service. Help us to learn how to love others unconditionally, as Bobbie did when she was with us here on earth. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Laura says, when she first met Bobbie, she was just a candy striper and Bobbie was a nurse at General Hospital. Over the years, they went through an awful lot together. They were not just sisters-in-law, they were friends. Real friends, the kind that would always show up for each other. And getting to know Bobbie, getting to be in her orbit, was truly an honor, because she touched so many lives. Laura can feel the love in the room Bobbie shared with them. She thinks it’s fair to say Bobbie Spencer was someone who led with her heart, and she loved without the obstruction of skepticism. She also believes that Bobbie was the most unfailingly optimistic (Felix is here!) person she ever met in her life. She always had a smile on, right? For everyone, no matter what kind of day she was having. Also, she was not afraid to fight for the things she believed in. She thinks when they were young, Bobbie had more of a tendency to fight with people, but that changed as Bobbie got older, and she began to fight for people. She had the knack of seeing the good in absolutely everyone, even if she had to dig really deep to find it. Do they know how special that is? How rare that is? And they all got to experience it; they all got to experience her. And Bobbie Spencer was an experience. One that she’ll truly miss.

Scotty says he’s at a loss for words, which is rare for him. How do you memorialize someone as complicated as Bobbie? Hell, look at her friends. The Aztec princess over there – we see Felicia – a ragtag lawyer like him, and fitness guru Richard Simmons. Bobbie was the best of everything. She was kind, she was sweet, generous. She was a nurse. He loved her. It’s only today he realized they were meant to be best friends. She did that. He puts his hand on the casket and says he’s going to miss her, with everything he’s got.

Elizabeth says, it’s no secret that Bobbie grew up with a lot of trauma. But instead of letting that break her or hold her back, she harnessed it. She took all of that negative energy and turned it into strength and wisdom and ultimately into something healing, because that’s who Bobbie was. She was a healer. Bobbie helped her through some really difficult times, and she knows for a fact she’s not the only one. They can ask anyone at the hospital. They can ask anyone in this church. If you were new, or lost, or just struggling to find your path, who was the first person to offer their hand to help? Everyone says, Bobbie, and Elizabeth says, right, Bobbie. It’s a legacy she’ll do her very best to continue. And she hopes to make Bobbie proud.

Carly thanks everyone for being here today. Her mom was a wonderful woman. They had a very unique relationship in that they didn’t meet until they were adults. Don’t get her wrong, her mom was a wonderful mother, but she wasn’t the mother who raised her. She wasn’t the mother to check for monsters under the bed. She was the mother who mentored her and understood her. Who made room in her heart for Carly and taught Carly how to make room in hers. When Carly came to Port Charles, she was a mess. She was a schemer and not in a good place. There were two people who changed that in her. Bobbie was one of them. She didn’t realize how powerful true acceptance was. Bobbie gave her forgiveness, but acceptance… Bobbie said Carly was her daughter and that she was a Spencer, and that she was going to love Carly and that she’d believe in Carly no matter what. She said she was never going to take Carly’s crap, but she was always going to be by Carly’s side, and she was. She knows on the surface they were very different, but you didn’t have to scratch too deep to see they were very much alike. And she sees Bobbie every time she sees her kids. The way they stand up for themselves. The way they accept and care about the people around them. How they try so hard not to go after the bad, but they go after the good. I’m still working on that one, but I’m going to keep trying, mom. She looks up, then looks at Bobbie’s picture and says, I love you, Bobbie Jean Spencer. The world’s a very different place without you.

After the service, Maxie asks Felicia if they should head out, but Felicia says she’d like to stay a little bit longer if that’s okay. Maxie tells her to take all the time she needs. She’ll be right back. Maxie follows the unknown woman out to the vestibule, and says, hi. She saw her in the back of the chapel. Was she friends with Bobbie? The woman says, more like they worked together. Angela Brighton. She’s a reporter for the AP. She’s doing a story on Maxie’s friend. Maxie asks, what kind of story?

Lucas lights a candle, as Felix approaches. They hug, and Felix says he’s so sorry. Lucas thanks him, and Felix says, Lucas’s mother was one of the best people he ever met. Lucas says, she was pretty great, and Felix says, she was more than great. He keeps thinking about the Nurses Ball. How much fun he had performing with her every year. Bobbie was tireless. The choreographer would physically leave the building, and she’d be like, we don’t need him. Let’s do it one more time. Lucas says he’s sure they loved that, and Felix says, they did, because she wasn’t annoying or obnoxious about it. She was just her usual upbeat and energetic self. Lucas says, she wanted everybody to be their best, and Felix says, every year, something would inevitably go wrong, convincing them it wasn’t going to work this time. But Bobbie would insist that it would, and of course (🍷) it did. A real team player, Lucas’s mom. He’s really going to miss her. They all are. Lucas says, yeah, and thanks Felix for sharing that with him. Felix says, thank you for sharing her with us, and puts his hand on Lucas’s shoulder.

Felicia says, it was a beautiful service, and Carly thanks her. She thanks Felicia for being such a great friend to her mom. She was really lucky to have Felicia. Felicia says she’s the lucky one, and Maxie says she’s sorry to interrupt. Felicia says, Maxie never interrupts, and Angela tells Carly that she’s sorry for Carly’s loss. Carly asks if Angela was a friend of her mom, and Maxie says, yes, and they have something important to tell her.

At Kelly’s, Carly says she doesn’t mean to offend Angela, but she doesn’t want the press making a mockery of her mother’s death. Angela says she totally understands that, and Maxie says, just hear her out. Trust her. Carly says, okay, and Angela says, first off, Bobbie told her a lot about Carly. Felicia says, back up. How does she know Bobbie? Angela says she was recently stationed at the AP Bureau in Amsterdam. That’s when she started writing the profile on Bobbie and the work she was doing there. Carly says, the work she was doing there? She was helping settle her brother’s affairs. Angela says, she was doing that, but she was also devoting herself to charity work at the organization. Felicia asks, what kind of organization? and Angela says, a rescue one. Carly’s mother was helping young women escape human trafficking.

Carly says, human trafficking? That’s dangerous. How did her mother get involved in this? Angela says, don’t worry. She was volunteering at a non-profit. She wasn’t out on the front lines, but she did use her time and resources to help women all over Europe travel to the states and apply for asylum. Carly says, to get a better life, and Felicia says, just like Bobbie did. Angela says, Carly’s mother did confide in her about her teenage years, and Carly says, when she was a prostitute. Angela says she also knows Bobbie was too young to make that choice. Bobbie herself was trafficked. Of course (🍷) they weren’t calling it that back then, but it’s finally being acknowledged for the abuse it was. Bobbie told her that she had her reckoning with her past, and she played a pivotal role in helping those women escape, which is why Angela wanted to write the article. Carly says, so her mother agreed to speak with Angela? and Angela says, unfortunately, she couldn’t say much without risking exposing the victims and her contact. There was a point person with an organization that aided in the actual journey to the US. However, right before she passed, Bobbie did tell her that she was in the process of arranging asylum for someone. Maxie asks if that’s usually very complicated, and Angela says, normally, no. She would just find a safe place for them to stay while the paperwork was being completed, but in this case, she was really worried for the girl’s safety. People were looking for her, so Bobbie was trying to find a way to get her to the states sooner. Carly asks if Angela knows if the woman got here, and Angela says she wishes she knew. Carly says she’s sorry. She needs some air. She goes outside and Felicia follows her. She asks if Carly is okay, and Carly says she knew something was going on. Why would it take so long for her mom to settle Luke’s affairs? Why? Felicia says, leave it to Bobbie to save the world as her side gig.

Back home, Carly thanks Tracy for coming. She knows it’s been a long day. Tracy says, especially for Carly. It was a lovely tribute to Carly’s mother, and she hopes Carly found some peace in it. Carly says she did. She’s really glad Tracy was there. Tracy says, Luke thought the world of Carly’s mother and she wouldn’t have missed it, and Carly says, at least they’re together now. Tracy laughs and says she’d like to think so. So what’s this about? Carly says she needs Tracy’s help.

Outside Kelly’s, Felicia flashes back to telling Bobbie that there’s no way she can make this easy for her, but she loves Bobbie so much. They hug, and Felicia says, if Maxie makes it through this, she and Frisco have Bobbie and Tony to thank. In the present, Felicia cries, and Maxie comes out of Kelly’s with Angela. Maxie asks what Felicia is doing out in the cold, and Felicia says she was just thinking about Bobbie and how Bobbie was always there for her and never expected anything in return. She hopes Bobbie knows that she would have done anything for her. Angela says she’s sure she did, and Maxie says she knows she did. Felicia says, Angela has really kind eyes. Has anyone ever told her that? Angela says, empathy is part of the job, and Felicia says she’s going to walk home. Handing Felicia her bag, Maxie asks if she’s sure. She can give Felicia a ride. Felicia says she just wants to spend some time by herself, and Maxie says, text her when she gets there. Felicia hugs Maxie and says she loves her. Maxie says she loves Felicia too, and Felicia says, Maxie is her everything good, just like Georgie and James and Baily Lou are Maxie’s. Maxie says she knows, and Felicia says, nice to meet Angela. Angela says, her as well, and Felicia leaves. Angela says, Maxie and her mother have a really special bond, and Maxie says, yeah. She’s the best. Angela says she feels the same way about hers.

Tracy tells Carly, wow. Here she thought she was taking something off Bobbie’s plate by going to Amsterdam. Little did she know, Bobbie had a whole other platter. Human trafficking? Carly says, it makes sense, given her mom’s history and her complicated relationship with Ruby and Luke. Tracy says, Luke loved Carly’s mother, and Carly says she knows. Tracy says, he went above and beyond to always protect her, and Carly says, yes. He protected her in his own way, but come on. He didn’t go to the police. He could have stopped it. Tracy says, back then, the person who would have gotten into trouble is Carly’s mother. They didn’t know better back then. Carly says, they did deep down, and if they didn’t, they sure as hell should have, and Tracy says she can’t argue with Carly there. Carly says she just wants to know the woman her mother was trying to help is safe, and Tracy says she can see this is important to Carly. Carly says, it is, because she didn’t get to say goodbye to her mom. She just wants to finish what Bobbie started. Tracy asks what she can do to help, and Carly says, Tracy was with Bobbie for a month. Did she mention her contact at this organization? Tracy says she told Carly, she knew nothing about this other life Bobbie was leading, and Carly asks if a name kept popping up, something she just passed off as other business. Tracy says, she didn’t confide anything. She did mention some cabin in Ontario that Luke had, but really, Bobbie just couldn’t wait to get rid of her. Now she knows why. Carly asks if she went off on her own a lot, and Tracy says, she did, all the time. Actually, she followed Bobbie, and she was at a café up the street from Luke’s. She thinks Bobbie went there often. Carly asks, what was the name of the café?

Drew says, Carly is going to Amsterdam? and she says, uh-huh. He says, tonight? and she says, yeah. Josslyn says, grandma’s funeral was just a few hours ago. Isn’t she exhausted? Carly says, if she gets on the overnight flight, she can sleep on the plane, and get there early tomorrow. Drew says, sounds like she’s made up her mind about this, and she says she has. He says he’s going with her, but she says, no. He says, it could be dangerous, and she says she’s only going there so she can find her mom’s contact at the organization. (I guess a phone call is out of the question.) She’s also going to need Josslyn to look out for Donna and Avery too. Josslyn says, of course (🍷), but does she really need to do this? Carly says, come on. Her mom’s upbringing was less than ideal. There was a lot of pain, a lot of abuse, and she worked really hard to break the cycle, but clearly, she was looking for peace. If Carly can help her find that, even in death… Josslyn hugs her and says she’s so proud of Carly. Drew says he’s proud of her too, but no one would be prouder than Bobbie.

At Kelly’s, Maxie says, Angela came all this way to finish her article on Bobbie, and Angela says, it was totally worth the trip. After hearing the tributes at the funeral, and listening to Maxie and her mom talk about Bobbie, she has a more complete picture of who she was. Maxie says she can do better than that, and Angela says, how so? Maxie says, there are countless people in Port Charles who Bobbie has helped. She thinks Angela should talk to some of them. Angela says she would love to talk to anyone who would share their memories of Bobbie with her, and Maxie asks how long she’s here for. Angela says, her flight’s supposed to leave tomorrow night, and Maxie says, come back here tomorrow morning, and she promises Angela won’t be disappointed.

Carly walks outside with her suitcase, when Felicia walks up with her suitcase and asks if Carly has room for one more. She was talking to Drew, and he said she had a lead on Bobbie’s contact in Amsterdam. She’d like to come with Carly. Carly says, that won’t be necessary, and Felicia asks, what’s her plan? To camp out at the café and ask every person who enters if they know who Bobbie’s associate is? Carly says she hasn’t gotten that far yet, and Felicia says, let her help. She knows she’s been out of the P.I. game for a minute and she and Carly have never been particularly close. But Bobbie’s life gave her meaning and Bobbie literally gave life to her daughter. She owes Bobbie everything, and she’d really like to give her this one last gift. Carly says, they’d better get going.

Tomorrow, Maxie feels like it’s something she can actually do; Lucy says she’s one very lucky woman; Felicia thinks they might have just found Bobbie’s contact; and Carly says, there was a side to her mother that she didn’t know anything about. I hope we get more flashbacks with Bobbie. It’s not like they haven’t had the time to get them together.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Kyle has arranged for a day in Ojai for Annemarie’s birthday. In Kyle’s interview, she says, whenever Annemarie is around, it’s been chaos. We flash back to that, and Kyle says she thought they could have a day trip, a girls day with no arguing. They all meet at Kyle’s house, and Garcelle and Sutton ride over together. Garcelle says she and Dorit hashed things out, and in Garcelle’s interview, she says she hopes everybody is good and they can put it behind them and enjoy themselves. She tells Sutton that she’s moving past it. Erika is absent due to covid, but they call her. It’s boring. They drink in the limo bus, and in Annemarie’s interview, she says, she and Sutton got off to a rocky start, but she’ll see how the day goes. Sutton tells everyone that she has very exciting news. She went on date. He’s cute, has a job, and likes karaoke. And he asked her out on a second date. We flash back to the first one, and I actually think they look good together. I’m rooting for this coupling. In Sutton’s interview, she says she’s excited. Steve has been texting her and she thinks he likes her. Kyle says, they’re going to a wine tasting, but there will be tequila and vodka there as well, and Sutton says she brought her own vodka. I think she’s joking, but I’d bring my own if I went somewhere with this group.

They do some shopping, and it’s determined that Kyle is the biggest shopper. In Kyle’s interview, she says she buys something every day. How much money do they have??? They go to Casa Locé Farm and Winery, and oh man, the food porn at this place. Sommelier Blane describes the wines as they taste. In her interview, Kyle says she loves L.A., but doesn’t feel as connected to it as she used to. When Portia goes to school, she wants to move to a place more conducive to making her happy. Kyle announces they’re playing a table topics game, and the first card is an instruction to lick someone’s toe. I’m out, but Sutton volunteers and licks Kyle’s toe. In her interview, Sutton says she regrets nothing. In Garcelle’s interview, she says, everyone is having a good time. It’s fun. Can they keep it like this? My guess is, no. The question of what’s appropriate for husbands and other women on social media comes up, and Kyle says, she doesn’t like it at all. In her interview, she says, Mauricio gets a lot of DMs from women, and they’re the aggressor. There are a lot of a-holes out there. A birthday cake is brought out, and Kyle asks if anyone would ever date a woman. In Dorit’s interview, she asks, where the hell did that come from? and in Sutton’s interview, she says, that’s a weird question to ask randomly. My cousin is a lesbian. Garcelle says she’s thought about it, and Kyle says she would. In her interview, Garcelle says, years ago, Kyle was shocked about threesomes. She doesn’t know much, but she thinks a country song is somewhere in there. Kyle demonstrates scissoring with Dorit, and it just looks awkward. Garcelle says she’s not impressed with these moves. In her interview, Sutton says, they get to the point where they’re having so much fun, they remember they like each other. I might point out, Erika is not on this trip. Just sayin’. Kyle reminds everyone about the Celebration of Life event that she’s having for her friend Lorene who recently committed suicide. She feels like it’s the right way to honor her.

Garcelle makes lasagna for Jaid and Jax, and says she’s got a confession to make. They’re 15, but she’s feeling like they’re going to be gone soon and doing their own thing, and it makes her sad. She wonders what she’s going to do with herself. In Garcelle’s interview, she says, her window with the boys is small. They’re about to fly the coop and she doesn’t know how to handle it. Jaid wants Ashlyn to sleep over, and Garcelle starts talking about sex, which causes the twins much embarrassment. In her interview, she says, seeing them giggle and squirm reminds her that they’re still little boys. Jax says, sounds like health class, and Garcelle says, no means no; yes means, everybody agrees; and she doesn’t want to be a grandma anytime soon. Talk over.

Dorit asks PK to be open and focused for therapist Sarah’s house call, and in her interview, she says, she’s happy he’s agreeable. Her biggest issue after the home invasion is that PK hasn’t been there for her, physically or emotionally. We flash back to some instances of that, and Dorit says, her patience is used up. It’s time for PK to show up. She tells Sarah that she feels like he doesn’t understand the severity of her PTSD, largely in part to the surprise element. She tried to explain it to him, but he had a defensive reaction. PK asks if it requires a discussion then and there, and Sarah asks if he’s saying Dorit’s timing is off. PK says, no husband would have taken kindly to what Dorit said after what he did. It felt like a f*** you.

Sarah says, PTSD is born in anxiety and catches you off guard. Your instinct is to be ready for something horrible to happen all the time. She asks if she’s got it right, and Dorit says, perfection. I agree. PK says he considers some things just obnoxious and not PTSD. When does high maintenance blend with PTSD? In Dorit’s interview, she says, when she met PK, he could let go of things easily, but now he’s more harsh with her. He gets mean. In PK’s interview, he says, Dorit used to be a bubbly, enthusiastic girl, and not as high maintenance as she is now. I’m not a huge fan of Dorit’s, but seriously? She’s a mother now, she’s older, she survived a gun to her head. WTF does this guy expect? Dorit says she’s a totally new person and can’t do anything about it. Does he have any idea what that’s like to live with? Sarah asks what she wants PK to do, and Dorit says, if she tells him that she’s not good, understand she’s having an episode and comfort his wife. In her interview, Dorit says, it’s times like this that test the relationship. And when she needs PK, not the other way around, he’s coming up short. In his interview, PK says, the pressure of a career, a job, traveling, and a wife is a challenge. Maybe he’s not balancing it as well as he should or could, but it’s not one sided. They both need to be wrong sometime, and that’s a challenge to Dorit. PK says, of course he wants to understand, but Dorit needs to articulate it in a calmer, less irritating manner. In Dorit’s interview, she says, what she needs is for PK not only to better grasp the situation, but to want to be there for her. If they do that together, they can succeed. If they can’t, she doesn’t know what the future holds. PK tells her that she takes a long time to say something, but she’s sweet when she’s asleep, and they laugh.

Everyone gets ready for Kyle’s Celebration of Life, and Kyle gets there first, bringing Teddi (ugh) and Morgan. In Kyle’s interview, she says she talks to Teddi and Morgan every day, and they discuss everything. She was drawn to Morgan by her music. Her lyrics are raw, open, and honest. She’s putting it all out there, and Kyle admires that, since she’s struggled with that herself. Teddi tells Garcelle, the gnat’s here, and in Garcelle’s interview, she says, not only is Teddi annoying, she refers to herself as a gnat. We flash back to Garcelle saying Teddi is annoying like a gnat. Kyle’s daughters join her, and in her interview, she says, her daughters are her best friends. They give her the best advice, they’re there for her, and listen to her. She doesn’t know what she’d do without them. After raising them, it’s good to lean on them. Mauricio is out of town on business, but two years ago, she would have relied on him to get through the evening. In Garcelle’s interview, she says, Kyle coming alone says a lot about where her relationship is. Maybe she’s not trying to hide it after all. Crystal, Garcelle, and Annemarie talk about Garcelle’s sons for a hot minute before Annemarie brings up Sutton’s small esophagus. She says she feels like she’s beating a dead horse, and Garcelle asks why she cares. In her interview, Garcelle says she doesn’t think esophagus is Beverly Hills talk. They talk about someone’s jewelry, bags, and ex-husbands, but not their esophagus. Plastic surgery is also okay to talk about. Annemarie says she scoured her medical books, and the professionals she’s talked to said, you could present that to a layperson, but if you said that to a medical professional, you’d sound stupid. She says, if you have an eating disorder or acid reflux, it could cause scar tissue, and Crystal tells her to get off the eating disorder platform. Annemarie insists she didn’t say that, even though we all heard it two seconds ago. In Crystal’s interview, she says, Annemarie is the biggest gaslighter, and she doesn’t need to look up gaslighting in a medical book. Annemarie says, it’s not a diagnosis, and Garcelle says she’s getting a drink. She asks if they need anything, and Crystal says, a bottle of tequila. I might point out that Sutton didn’t say it was a diagnosis; she said it was a symptom. Sutton tells Dorit that her family never addressed her father’s suicide, and in her interview, she says her father was 62 and she’s lived with the guilt. She’s tried to figure out why. They had him hospitalized twice. She needs to learn to let that go. Garcelle tells Sutton that Annemarie is coming for her small esophagus, and Sutton says, not tonight. In Dorit’s interview, she says, Garcelle likes to strike a match, throw it on the flames, and walk away. Um… Isn’t the match used to start the flames? Sutton says she’s an ambassador for NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness, also a sponsor of the event), and Annemarie better stay the f*** away from her. Not tonight.

In Dorit’s interview, she says she met Morgan before Kyle did. She came to a dinner for Mauricio’s birthday, and she stuck out like a sore thumb. Dorit didn’t understand the connection between Morgan and Kyle, but why not? Now that she thinks about it, it was the last time they were together as a couple. Kyle and Morgan eat fruit off a stick, and in her interview, Dorit says, this is exactly how rumors start.

Kyle takes the mic and says, they’re here to honor her best friend Lorene Shay on the one-year anniversary of her death. Nobody wants to talk about suicide, and she wants those struggling to know there are resources to help them. In Sutton’s interview, she says, she was supposed to be home when her father shot himself. She misses him and misses him not seeing her children. But he is proud of her because he’s still with them. Kyle talks about her and Lorene meeting at age seven, and not getting along at first. In her interview, Kyle says, neither one of them could ever apologize, so when they had an argument, they came up with the word babalu instead of sorry. She’d talked to Lorene two days before, and Lorene told her that she should always appreciate her marriage. She said she would. We see photos of Lorene and Kyle together, and Kyle says, now she and Mauricio are having a hard time, and she thinks she’s letting Lorene down. In Dorit’s interview, she says she’s overcome with emotion. She knows how devastated Kyle is and it’s important Kyle knows she’s here for her. Morgan plays a ballad about lovers, which doesn’t seem like the best choice for this event. In Kyle’s interview, she says, since Lorene died, she thinks life is too short. She’s trying to be happy and live her life and doesn’t want to waste a day spending time with people she doesn’t want to or who don’t appreciate her. In Garcelle’s interview, she says, when her mom passed, knowing she’d never see, hear, or hug her again was the hardest part. In her interview, Kyle says, as hard as it was, people wanted to celebrate Lorene, hear the stories, and lean on each other. It’s all we can do. Lorene’s mom, Sugar, says, she should be here, and Kyle says, she is.

This was the kind of episode I like to see, but it’s a shame half of it had to surround a death to get these women to behave. That being said, again I point out Erika wasn’t there, and Annemarie just couldn’t help herself by bringing up Sutton’s esophagus at the most inappropriate time ever. Thirsty much?

Next time, Erika begins dance rehearsal; Crystal tells Garcelle that Annemarie claimed to be a doctor when they met; Sutton grills Annemarie; and Crystal calls Annemarie a bitch.

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