I didn’t get this episode that Craig said he had planned to take Paige to Jamaica for a romantic getaway, then decided to make it a group trip, for her to get to know everyone, but never even mentioned it to her. He finds the time to invite like fourteen people, but not Paige. He sort of mentions it to her in passing, when the whole trip is (supposedly) to be about her.
I’m guessing this was planned this way, and she wasn’t meant to go. Maybe they thought she may interfere in the drama they were trying to create. Or she really just didn’t want to go. I can’t fathom Paige being a social media whatever and, ‘influencer’ not a 9 – 5er, that she couldn’t tear herself away form her ‘work’ for four fucking days
It was giving me Housewives on the last episode, when Shep was harassing Craig, “we never see her!”
Well, maybe she doesn’t want to see YOU Shep. Not every bitch finds you charming and irresistible.
Venita’s nor Madison’s new men can attend the trip. That’s not surprising. They would screw up the dynamic, and Madison couldn’t act like an embarrassing sloppy mess, taunting Austen and bullying Taylor.
Craig makes the official call to Paige to find out that, due to her ‘work’ she is forced to decline the invitation.
I’m not even going to say anything about Craig painting his nails purple.
He does acknowledge the stupidity, and ass-backwardness in his yap of planning the trip, and telling everyone about it, except Paige. Whatever Craig.
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You know, I just did not think that dudes went shopping for new outfits before a trip or occasion, but in Charleston they do, apparently. The dude lives in South Carolina, but JT doesn’t have any warm weather clothes and MUST go to the local man boutique to shop??
He tries to walk in, looking all cool, asking the girl for help. He brags that he’s going on a “last minute trip to Jamaica.” Dude, she doesn’t give a shit. He acts clueless as to what he wants to buy.
I can’t even imagine how hard her eyes roll back in her head at these prima donna’s that walk in here.
Of course he has prima donna renforcement, and Shep shows up, who also has absolutely nothing to wear. Dude shopping trips, yay Bravo, you always know exactly what the viewers want to see!
They gossip, as girls tend to do while shopping for new outfits, about Taylor. She’s apparently working some OT at trying to ‘get Shep back.’ Why she wants this abusive pompous fuck, I do not know. Since things after their boozy lunch date didn’t work out as planned, Shep passed out, or pretended to, she tried to get with him again after the Beef Wellington party at Patricia’s. She wanted some beef too.
What is she doing? She’s coming off as desperate and pathetic by constantly begging Shep to bang her.
Thought she had a vibrator??
Anyway, he shares with JT that Taylor tried to make her jealous by saying she’ll call Austen if he didn’t want to hook up. She needs to try to find some dignity. She’s setting us back like a hundred years. We don’t beg dudes to be with us. That gives them the upper hand. And when they’re ALREADY a self-centered disrespectful piece of shit, you’re just creating more of a fucking monster.
Don’t make it worse for the next fucking victim!!
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Austen gets therapy. Why do these mother fuckers go to therapy and waste people’s time? They never change, nor try to grow at all. It’s all stupid. People just like to say “going to therapy” or “my therapist” because it makes them sound bougee, or as if they plan on bettering themselves, or changing, but they never ever do. They will keep taking your money, and not really helping you, nor giving two fucks. Also they don’t hold you accountable, at all, so how much incentive does that really give people to change, and work on their issues that they know to be wrong, that are hurting themselves, as well as other people. It’s a racket. I’m tellin’ ya. It is.
I’m sure they laugh at you the second you walk out of the door.
Anywho, sorry about the rant. He tells her about the Jamaica trip, and the Taylor ‘entanglement.’
I hate to say this, but I kind of feel for Austen, in being pissed off about being USED to make some ugly hag, I mean Shep, jealous. That sucks, and it’s a shitty feeling to know someone you think cares about you, and genuinely wanted to spend time with you, is just using you, and dangling you around like a toy, to get attention from some whore across the lot. It feels like shit. But shitty people treat others shitty. They need everyone to be as miserable as they are.
I guess with Taylor, it’s excusable, because she’s so young. She should know better, and it’s still unbecoming. She’s better than this. But can you imagine people in their 50’s and 60’s behaving this way? I sure can’t. Wait, yeah I can. How embarrassing for them.
The therapist seems taken aback that Taylor would be this overtly trying to make Shep jealous by using Austen. Can you imagine her face if the freaks I referred to above, admitted to THEIR seedy disgusting behavior to a therapist? . I’m so glad I am free of the manipulation, and their ghetto fucking games. I only needed smacked in the head with a fucking boulder to realize I was being used, and cheated on, AGAIN, by this diabolical desperate disease.
She advises him to go with his gut feeling, and intuition, and if something doesn’t seem right, it’s probably not.
Actually good advice. Let’s see if he follows it.
They flash on that scene with Olivia that’s really bugged me, because he did elude to the fact that he wanted to get involved with her again. He even said he loved her. But in a weird way that didn’t seem like he meant it. And this was all was shortly after her brother passed away. And then he was just sort of – “oh wait, never mind, just kidding” when she tried to get in touch with him, to talk or make plans.
Like how much of a creep do you have to be, to be capable of something like that. Austen is complicated to me, because he does come off to me as a decent guy, and not a complete heartless fucking turd like say, Shep, or someone I know personally. But then he does such crappy shit like this.
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I think Madison should not procreate again, at all, ever. And let’s just leave that there. I wouldn’t want her pelvis to shatter again, or anything like that.
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Taylor fills in judgmental Leva, on her desperate attempts to hook up with Shep. Leva looks like she’s cringing, as we all are.
I’m sick of it too. I’m nauseous. I can barely watch her making a complete fucking fool out of herself by groveling to him like this. It’s gross. We, as women, don’t do this! Ughhhhhh!! I want to smack her. Shep is NOT WORTH THIS. I don’t even care that he’s loaded. Still not worth it. NOT WORTH IT. It’s all mommy and daddy’s money anyway. He doesn’t do shit.
She even refers it a booty call. She’s not sugar coating it, at all.
In her yap she defends herself, as not being slutty, because they had been in a relationship (HAD been is the operative phrase.) I get what she’s saying, it makes it a little better. And she does still have feelings for him. It’s not some random dude she’s picking up in bars and meeting in hotel rooms. Like a skany ho would.
I’m not judging that she wants to hook up with him. I think she thinks if they start having relations, they may get back together. I’m judging at the humiliation of begging him to fuck her.
I hate to agree with Leva, and I hate to sound like a fuddy duddy, but I do agree with her. As women, we’re held to a different standard. It’s not cool, it’s not cute. As I said she’s young, she’s pulling it off without looking like a skank, for now, but she needs to not be groveling to Shep anymore. And what’s funny, not humorous funny, but you know ironic, is that I am totally sure he wants to hook up with her too. However, he’s enjoying her begging. He’s stretching it out as long as possible.
How is she not seeing this?
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Craig and Austen are working out. If that’s what you want to call it. At least they’re not shopping. Craig says he’s not putting a top on in Jamaica. A top?? Never heard guys say ‘top.’ Guys wear shirts. Girls wear tops.
He lets Austen know that Paige is a no-show for the trip.
Austen does this shit that he’s been doing, making him feel so studly I guess, bitching about Olivia calling him, when he told her this is what he wanted.
He’s such a shit. Austen and Craig lift this ‘dumbbell’ if you want to call it that, it looks more like a pole, that may weigh like ten pounds.
Maybe it’s heavier than it looks, and I’m being a troll. Craig’s trying so hard to look like a tough guy.
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They leave for Jamaica Mahn!!! Shep notices about how many times Whitney’s passport’s been stamped.
Craig acknowledges all of the ex couples in the group, and how it’s not normal. Craig is a good one to weigh in on this, since he had to spend all last season with NaHOmie, and he willingly admits it was difficult. We already know there will be drama. Austen is already flirty and suggestive with Olivia the second they land, as he claims in his yap to keep her friend zoned. Even as they arrive at the hotel, he’s still making sexual comments to her. That’s how I’m taking them, anyway.
They convene on the beach for dinner. Why does Madison think she needs to talk to Taylor? She doesn’t. Girl, just sit this one out. Madison is nobody, to be doling out advice on this topic that Taylor is struggling with.
Twenty minute discussion about where everyone is sitting. And it soon gets awkward.
Shep’s had some cocktails, which for some reason causes him to act extremely arrogant and abusive towards Taylor. He makes fun of her saying she likes food in different countries. Well yeah, American food is shit. His reason for ridiculing her, he’s trying to make fun of her for not being to like a zillion other countries.
I was confused by that though, because didn’t they travel to Europe together, last year, or did that not really happen? But she just named various Caribbean Islands, as to the other countries she’s been to.
You know that big excursion, he made her quit her job, so she thought she was getting proposed to, but instead he came home, cheated on her, and dumped her??? Kind of the same. Just skipped over the whole marriage, cheating, and divorce part. Saved a lot of money and aggravation.
The dress code for the following day is ‘adventure chic’ Craig announces. Good thing the boys all went shopping.
Austen and Madison end up having a moment of actual adult convo, not even bickering and calling each other names. Yeah, well that’s because Madison is being fake as fuck.
He confesses to her that he is in love with Olivia, not Taylor.
But I thought he was just complaining about Olivia bugging him?? And he just wanted to be friends. Whatever, Madison is just trying to stir up a shit storm by encouraging him to go after Taylor on the trip, so Olivia and Shep lose their shit.
I don’t know why the hell he would be confiding in her. She’s a snake.
Olivia is unraveling at seeing them chatting. It bothers her that she’s bothered. I can relate. I mean I could relate, now I don’t give a shit. I was mainly just bothered because I felt used and humiliated, and stupid for trusting people.
He claims to Madison that he ‘loves’ Olivia. Does he even know what he’s saying? Is this because they had some fun flirty laughs? How many drinks did he have?
Do we believe him? I’m leaning towards, no.
