Real Housewives of Beverly Hills:  "Left Unsaid"

 

This was one of those what I call "filler" episodes.  In other words, nothing really occurred which was integral to any of the story lines.  Instead, we got a series of disconnected scenes.  I'm not complaining; it just wasn't an episode worthy of the usual blow by blow storytelling.  So I'm going to just basically bullet point the different scenes in the order they were presented.  

 

Garcelle has just purchased a dilapidated beach house in Ventura County.  Her sister, Chantel, is visiting from Miami, so she decides to give her a tour.  This is not "The Colony" in Malibu by any stretch, but anything near the water in California is nothing to sneeze at.  Garcelle is completely renovating the place (building up and out), so it's going to be quite spectacular.

 

Dorit and Erika meet for lunch.  They discuss Dorit's "EMDR" (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) therapy, which basically  turns a traumatic event into a positive by reprogramming the brain.  They discuss Lisa's mother, Lois, who is now on her death bed after suffering a stroke.  Lisa and her bratty daughters are in Modesto, Oregon tending to her, and presumably surviving on "gross" McDonalds. 

 

Meanwhile, Crystal Kunt Foo and Kyle meet for lunch. Kyle is becoming increasingly annoyed with Crystal's gaslighting of Sutton.  You will recall in the last episode, that Crystal told the ladies that Sutton made some kind of dark comment to her last year, and that is the real reason she was/is so upset.  To Kyle's chagrin, Crystal makes it "crystal" clear to her that she is NOT telling Kyle what the alleged dark comment was.  This of course leaves Kyle (and everyone else) to believe that Sutton made some kind of racist comment.   For me,  the scene comes off as not only scripted, but does anyone believe that Kyle would be having lunch with this annoying snowflake? 

 

A few days later, Kyle has Dijana to her home for a small kiki and fabulous Charcuterie spread that neither of them touch.  Dijana arrives rather frazzled because the GPS in her Bentley apparently short-circuited trying to find its way around "the Valley".  Obviously total strangers, they engage in some awkward small talk, from Paris Hilton's wedding the weekend before, to Dijana's relunctance in leaving her baby for the first time (for upcoming girl's trip to Mexico).  Speaking of babies, Dijana then gives Kyle the gory details of a 14 week miscarriage just a few months prior.  For two weeks, she was carrying a dead baby which eventually just "fell out of her".  Her words.

 

Garcelle and Sutton meet up for dinner.   Garcelle brings up Crystal's kuntiness and asks Sutton point blank, what she said to Crystal that was so GD dark?  Clearly confused as everyone else, Sutton says that the only thing she can think of was that she told Crystal that she once recalled looking out her window and seeing her daughter in the hot tub with a black girl, an, Asian girl, and a red-haired Catholic-Protestant White girl, and thinking "That's the way it's supposed to be".   Garcelle is flabbergasted, and says "That's it?", then warns Sutton to watch her back (with Crystal). 

 

Lisa Rinna tells us that her mom has died, but she was able wrap things up while she was in Modesto, and decides to make the girl's trip to Mexico.  It's the morning of the gir's trip, and all the ladies are meeting at the terminal where Dijana houses her private jet.   One by one, the women greet Lisa, offering their condolences, even Sutton who has apparently learned a hard lesson in showing a little empathy.

 

 

The ladies arrive the Conrad in Punta de Mita, Mexico.  Again, Dijana has sent her "team" ahead to prepare her living quarters at the hotel (the Presidential Suite), and it's lucky she did, because her team discovers that there isn't enough hanging space in the closet for long dresses!  Her assistant, Lia, wonders if they can "make the closet taller".

 

That night at dinner at the hotel, Dorit arrives late because she also had a minor issue with her room.  It seems they put the hostess of the trip on the ground floor, with at least ten sets of prying eyes right outside her door, and in her current state of mind, this was rather triggering.  I get it, because I too have an aversion to ground floor rooms, as well as non-carpeted rooms with cold tile floors and hotels with ((loud)) spring-loaded slamming doors.   Speaking of sound, I can only stay at hotels where there are solid concrete floors between stories.  Anyway, on with the episode.

 

 

They all toast Lois, and Lisa shares what a gift it was to have a completely cognizant mother make it to 93.  Of course in the grand scheme of things, Lisa is right, but it doesn't make it any easier; in fact, sometimes it makes it harder because you weren't able to mentally prepare.  But enough with mourning; onto the proverbial housewife dinner table fight. 

 

Right on cue, Lisa blurts out, "So what did I miss?".  After a moment of awkward silence, Sutton gives the greenlight to start "the conversation".  By now, virtually everyone in the group have been in Sutton's ear and gotten her all riled up, so she's coming in hot.  Erika of all people, get's the ball rolling and asks Sutton what she specifically said to Crystal that was so "dark".  Again, Sutton repeats the story she told Garcelle about her daughter's diverse group of friends, and like Garcelle, the group almost in unison says, "that's it?".  

 

 

Now really pissed off, Sutton pulls out the big guns, telling Crystal (and the group) that she is well aware of Crystal's reputation for losing friendships because she makes up lies about people.  Rinna chimes in and says that she has heard this too.  Interestingly, Crystal doesn't even deny it to the group, but in a talking head plays the victim by saying that they (these racist white bitches) wouldn't be giving anyone else shit for their choice of the word "dark".  

 

For me, watching this cast feed into Crystal's snowflake tendancies is maddening.  She obviously has no ties, let alone relationships with anyone on the show, and at this point, her mere presence annoys me.  Like RHOD's Tiffany Moon, Crystal is the token Asian, and in my humble opinion, Bravo's (disingenuous) woke bullshit is ruining the HW series ... a series which is already struggling with enough authenticity and realness.  Once again, I don't know when the morons at Bravo (yes bitch girl Andy, we're talking about you) are going to learn that you cannot mandate "diversity"!