Okay so our crazy Atlanta ladies are up. I just can’t get behind Marlo. She is one fucked up broad.
I try to see the good in her. It’s great what she’s doing for the nephews. They seem to love and appreciate her. If it wasn’t for her, that would surely be shuffled around in foster care. And it would probably be hard to find someone tht wants to take in or adopt two teenage boys. I was hoping this sister would have her shit together one year later. She’s out of jail, but isn’t even wanting to see her kids.
But, beyond that, I’m just flabbergasted at her behavior. And this is Housewives! So desperate for a story line, she revives the tragic murder of her nephew that she mentioned two seasons ago, however it never got aired.
I do think Kandi should have been more compassionate about it.
Marlo’s claiming that this shooting at one of her restaurants recently (Atlanta has been a high crime city as of late, is worth mentioning) has stirred up her memory of when Kandi wasn’t super sympathetic of this occurrence when she first told her about it in 2021.
They flash on Kandi and Marlo having better days two – three years ago, and Kandi in her yap goes into this little cheering session, insisting how thoughtful, kind-hearted and sweet she is. Sweet? Are we talking about this Marlo?? Seriously, did Marlo slip her like a couple grand to say that? She is the least sweetest or kind of any Housewife.
And her relentless bullying of Kenya is so tired and pathetic. I realize she’s not the only bullying bitch on Bravo, by far, but her harassment of Kenya is just so fucking disgusting.
I thought this behavior was brought up at the reunion last year, and she seemed to realize she’s coming off as so envious of Kenya, to the point where she has zero control of her behavior. I thought maybe she’d try to tone it down this season. But not seeing that happening.
And this is a woman with a past of violent behavior. I know it was a long time ago, and she gets all extra cranked up when people bring it up, and ‘judge’ her by it, because it was twenty-three years ago, and she paid for it, and wah wah wah… That’s basically how it goes, right? That’s her big never-ending sob story.
But is she really not able to see that it usually gets talked about when she acts like this uncontrollable, irate over nothing, imbecile. It’s not like it’s brought up out of thin air.
She’s not smart enough to figure that out? Call me crazy, but I think the ladies have every right to be – let’s say – concerned for their safety when she gets in her zone.
Okay I know, we have to remember that this is a TV show, and bad behavior gets the ‘camera time’ which leads to ‘first chair’ and of course brings in the ratings and popularity. The women that don’t act like a ninkempoop get deemed as boring, with no invite to return. And of course that dreaded last seat on the couch. The nerve!
I personally could do without so much of the over the top need to garner all of the attention, to the point of acting like a maniac, but I guess that’s unpopular opinion.
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We’re opening with a recap from way back in 2011 when Marlo was first a housewife, or a friend, or whatever she was, focusing on the evolution of her and Kandi’s friendship over the years.
Last season is when there was this scene edited out between her and Kandi about her nephew being killed, that had worked in her restaurant, by a dude that he met there. So I feel like I’m being repetitive, yes Kandi should have given it a little more attention. Even if Marlo wasn’t that close with him, that doesn’t matter.
In the text, Kandi just says “damn I’m sorry” and didn’t even seem to ask any questions. And then also unseen footage of Marlo bringing it up verbally, the next day, and again Kandi’s reaction was “damn I’m sorry.” (at least she’s consistent) I agree with Marlo that she didn’t even seem to recall the text message, and this was the first she was hearing about it, and it was the next dang day. Like woman how bad is your memory? It does come off like she really didn’t give a shit.
Having said that, Marlo using it as a ‘story line’ this season is fucking so foul. Right ?
Her excuse is that she was reminded (I refuse to keep saying triggered) of it it when there was this shooting at Old Lady Gang, and Kandi is refuses to discuss it. I guess, she’s just embarrassed by it, even though it’s not really her fault necessarily. Atlanta is now a high crime city, and there’s more crime nowadays, but that’s a whole separate issue.
So Kandi in her yap, goes on and on and on some more, about how she understands this is a terrible loss since she doesn’t have kids, and treats her nephews like her own, and seems really sincere and sad for her.
Maybe she wasn’t putting it together that this was the same kid that worked for her. I don’t know.
So not sure why Marlo is making it this whole big thing now, two years later. And she’s pissed that Kandi didn’t send flowers, call the family, didn’t do this, didn’t say that… It seems like a reach for something to stir up trouble over, honestly. And he no longer worked at the restaurant at the time. Which doesn’t make it any less tragic. It’s still her nephew, and still an awful thing to have happen.
They flash on last season’s screaming match between them, which birthed the now famous line “bitch I’m world wide” when Marlo referred to her as small town, or only being known in Atlanta. Whatever. Typical Marlo jealousy. She really came in guns blazing last season spewing hatred at everyone.
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Okay here we are back in present day, Marlo meets friends of hers to explain why she went nuts on Drew, for first off, calling the restaurant shooting an ‘incident’ and secondly, then letting Kandi off easy, when she tried to brush it off, and not address it. Marlo wanted her to squirm.
And we have Drew, which the ladies ridicule later, for this insistence that she cannot say the word ‘shooting’ because she’s from Chicago. I see where she thinks she’s coming from on this, however it’s just really stupid and the more she repeats it, the more fucking stupid she sounds.
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Here we are in Sanya’s kitchen, where they’re bickering and arguing over food. There was only one of something that was bought (a food or a dish of some sort) that Sanya seems perturbed about.
This whole set-up is just such a weird dynamic, and you can’t even say it works for them, because it doesn’t really seem to be working for them. I don’t get why they all want to stay when they now know, that Ross wants them out. I guess it helps that he’s rarely home, so they don’t have to be confronted with that awkwardness every day, but still, it just seems like really moochy.
There is definitely tension with Sanya and Shari, as Shari sits in the kitchen making constipated faces at her.
Sanya sort of apologizes for offending her, when she nicely gave her the boot. Sister tells her that she was ‘shocked’ hearing that would come from Ross. It seems like like he put Sanya up to his dirty work, and maybe should have had this conversation with them himself. Maybe man to man with the brother-in-law.
The sister complains she doesn’t want to leave, and she feels this situation works best for them, well yeah, a free big ass bougie house, I can see whre she’s coming from. I am sure she doesn’t want to leave. With an unemployed husband, and she does hair on the side, and has two little ones, guess their housing budget would be zero.
Now Sanya is acting like it’s all Ross, and she’s not on board, and wants this arrangement to continue, when that’s not really how she came off when she was telling them to get the hell out, or when she was talking to Ross.
Sister doesn’t seem to mind being referred to as live-in ‘help’ they’re not paying for. To me that’s kind of degrading, but okay.
Shari tells Sanya, “we’re leaving regardless” as mom says “Dad wants to stay.”
Shari then reminds her that when they leave their absence is going to be a big gaping hole. Sanya’s like “well if you’re leaving, why are we fighting about it?” I think she wants Sanya to beg her to stay. I also doubt she has any intentions of leaving.
Shari asks her to look in the oven for her kids mac and cheese, and Sanya is tells her eff off, since you’re living off me, get your own shit. She didn’t really say that, but that’s what she wanted to say.
So awkward. I could never live under these weird and demeaning**** circumstances. Like clearly they’re not welcome here any longer. They should have worked out all of these details when the arrangement was made. ‘One or two years’ seems a little vague. I think Ross expected within a year the sister and brother-in-law would have been capable of standing on their own two feet, and would want to, like normal adults, with two children. And if Shari’s husband isn’t even working or earning an income, that is frustrating.
And how hard could it be to be her assistant? Make calls and answer emails all day, run errands, in exchange for a paycheck and free room and board??
And the dude got all pissy, and cried like a little bitch over her asking him to do things in the evening when it’s ‘family time?’ Well then maybe, get your own fucking house and stop mooching, then you won’t have your boss under the same roof?
And the fact that they both quit their positions with her, after Sanya had the discussion about them getting their own place, what a couple fucking babies. Like for real.
I carried on too long about this, I sort of watched this scene Sunday in disbelief.
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Kenya is opening her own hair salon, and discusses dating and this new dude with someone, I don’t know who.
She claims that she’s feeling awkward hitting the dating scene again. Calling bull shit on that, it’s not like she was married for twenty flipping years, it was like – what two years?? She mentions how they got married seven months into dating. Yeah let’s not make that mistake again, Kenya. She was a little desperate to marry that dude, when there were red flags everywhere.
She constantly defended his fucking bullying and terrible treatment of her, and didn’t she keep referring to him as an ‘alpha male?’ Whatever. Alpha male my ass. Code for a fucking asshole.
She complains about Marlo.
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Sheree’s grand baby is so cute. I didn’t watch the early Atlanta years, so this isn’t as fun you guys that have been watching her son grow up. Not sure that hand print ornament thing is going to turn out, but it was cute watching her sound asleep as they wet her hand and shmushed it into the mold.
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I still can’t stand Ralph, as I could not last year, and the year before. He’s so cringy and gross.
And we already know how they race each other to the courthouse at some point this season, in a nasty divorce filing competition. One beat the other by like a half hour or something. So adult.
So it seems to me that this lovey- dovey act is completely fake. I’m assuming that he’s trying to play for the cameras, since he’s come off in a pretty shitty light the past two seasons. And he has Drew is corrobbing his story, that he’s now a stellar guy, and their marriage is perfect.
Drew claims she was a ‘child star.’ What was she in, is my question. Like what did she star in?
“I’m from Chicago, we don’t use that word.” (shooting)
Okay Drew no one thinks you make any sense. She fills Ralph in on the latest Marlo event and how she’s confused why Marlo came at her.
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Courtney is hosting some paint ball thing, and what in the world can go wrong with that??
Okay I feel so repetitive, but to quote Kandi, DAMN!! This is the only fucking thing that they are talking about!
Kandi calls Kenya, and lets her know that Marlo is on this huge rampage about her not sending flowers when her nephew died, which really isn’t what she’s mad about.
I guess it’s part of it, but the not sending anything for condolences, represents her complete disregard for the whole thing.
Kandi argues that she didn’t really think that she needed to acknowledge it, because the shooting had nothing to do with her. Well he did meet his killer at her restaurant, which doesn’t make this her fault, or responsible. but the she does have her business tied to the incident.
And I would argue, when you send flowers, or reach out to someone to express condolences, when they lost a family member, it doesn’t mean that you’re taking responsible for their death, does it? Am I wrong here???
I can’t even take anyone’s side in this. They both suck. Marlo for exploiting the tragic murder of a thirty year old kid, and Kandi acting like she doesn’t really give a rat’s ass. Because it’s not HER fault, and HER problem.
This poor guy. This is awful. If you believe in any type of after life, what the hell is he thinking – people throwing around his horrible death, shot by someone that he thought was his friend, that these dumb hags are arguing about, like they argue over *****
She’s just so defensive. No one said the actual occurrence was her fault. I’m assuming she’s so defensive because of this latest shooting, which was actually AT her establishment, that also involved her cousin, who works there.
Marlo likes attention. Just validate this dumb bitch already. How hard is it express sympathy about her nephew’s death??
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Okay, so we’re at this event that involvs paint balls, and is to be a ‘team building’ event, because those always turn out so well. ‘Team building’ with a bunch of pissed off drunk broads that hate each other. Remember the ‘team building’ thing on Jersey last year?
Kandi arrives, and wants to address this all with Marlo, which she quickly does. Just not sure why Marlo has to drag Drew along? It’s really between Kandi and Marlo. And she keeps calling her nephew her cousin. Does she seriously have no recollection of this discussion a few years ago? She was all in her yap expressing how sorry she was, and how hard this must be for her.
Kandi goes right for the flowers comment, and again refers to him as her cousin. Marlo goes right for being pissed that Drew said ‘incident’ and not ‘shooting.’
Which means we’re going to hear the ‘I’m from Chicago’ thing for the 800th fucking time.
Marlo goes on to explain that when it comes to her, nothing gets sugar coated, and she feels like Kandi gets tiptoed around. You can already tell Kandi has checked out of this. She’s just waiting for her turn to talk.
She’s not even going to try to see that Marlo’s feelings possibly being hurt (for the sake of argument, let’s say they are.)
She gets to the part of Kandi’s nonchalance, at the whole thing. Kandi literally doesn’t even remember that convo, that really did take place, it was documented, so we can’t cry crazy lying Marlo here.
And the kicker is that heartfelt sorrow that Kandi expressed in her yap two years ago. How dumb is this woman?? If they were friendly at that time, shouldn’t she recall this?? Is she just pretending to forget about it? I’m assuming at the reunion they’ll roll this tape, and she’ll be like, “oh yeah I do KIND of remember it now, I didn’t realize this was the same incident.”
And then her “it had nothing to do with me” which is just so, what you don’t say. She thinks she didn’t need to express any type of sympathy to the family, or to Marlo even, because he wasn’t employed there at the time of the killing.
Sounds like I did have a fact wrong, the killer dude did not work there, but he met him there. Well this just adds to Kandi’s feeling of “what the hell does this have to do with me?”
Which adds fuel to Marlo’s fire, and then there’s a lot of incoherent hollering and name calling. Marlo mimics her crying.
Marlo, who has this kind heart, and is continues to taunt her and call her character awful. And whatever.
Kandi is outside with Drew, Monyetta and Kenya, where she pulls up this text from 2020, where it did not seem like she was that concerned or upset.
How do you just pull up a text from two/three years ago??
Everyone calls BS on Drew’s ‘don’t say shoot.’
Marlo is being called ‘aggressive’ even though she had her hands behind her back, which she was clearly doing, as a way to prevent herself from being aggressive. Baby steps.
