So sorry that I missed doing the recap for the premiere. But I did watch it, and have some thoughts of course.
James’ new girl is the exact same personality type as Raquel. Younger, sweet, naive, accommodating, people pleasing, etc etc, you get the idea. The type of girl that James’ controlling and dictatorial personality demands. Because a chick that stands up for herself would put up with his dumb shit for about five minutes. From previews, it looks like his drinking gets out of control again. So we have the exact same James story line from two seasons ago, just a different chick. He needs to stay sober.
And Lala, don’t even get me started. Okay, fine, I’ll start, but I’ll try to be brief-ish.
Not to brag, but I predicted this type of attitude of Lala, about her split from Randall. She can’t just be humbled, and admit Randall made a fool out of her, when there were about 847 red flags before she had a child with him, that she ignored, for a certain ‘lifestyle.’
She’s a gold digger. Let’s be honest.
I knew she would be bullying and blaming certain others, and taking her frustrations out on them, such as Schwartz, whom she thinks she can boss around and intimidate.
I liked how he stood up to her! I was so proud of him! I agree with him, this shit about calling a meeting to discuss her plight (that she got HERSELF into) and order people not to talk to Randall, was extremely egotistical of her. And very Lala. And I’m in no way defending Randall! YUCK!!
But, please explain how Schwartz playing pickle ball with Randall has any bearing on her daughter and custody issues? Grow up girl! Take responsibility! Schwartz is NOT the problem, Randall is! You are! Focus!!
Schwartz and Sandy’s is still not open, BUT it’s looking close. You can’t really blame these guys for trying to capitalize on their Vanderpump fame. At least they’re trying to do something concrete, that takes money, and effort, not doing a stupid fucking podcast, or starting a ‘skin care line’ of some generic shit they slap their name on, and call it a day. Could they possibly be in over their heads? Yes, they possibly could be. It should have been open by now. But they’re trying. And no I’m not big huge Schwartz and Sandoval fans, (especially not Sandoval) but I respect the effort. I’m not feeling this décor. At all. What is this exactly? Anybody know?
They’re interviewing for staff, and getting prepared for this ‘Daily Mail’ party, which kind of surprises me if you know anything about the Daily Mail news site. It’s not very ‘California’ if you get my drift.
This event is not the grand opening, it’s just to “create excitement” as they put it.
I’m sure most of these potential servers and what not, interviewing for staff positions, are hoping to be featured on the show. They scold one of the dudes for his resume that focuses his personal training career. He explains “it’s not fully updated.” Guys calm down, he’s interviewing for a busser position. He doesn’t need a degree in clearing tables. I’ve been doing that since I was seven. It’s kind of entry level type of thing. Experience not required. Plus he totally looks like he just wants to be on TV.
Schwartz says he’s “taking personality over experience” for the staff. Just when I try to take them seriously, and give them applause, they say something stupid like that. Like sure, let’s have a staff full of bartenders and servers, with super fun personalities, and no clue how to make a drink, or take an order correctly.
I think they should totally hire the personal trainer dude that likes Schwartz’ bucket hat, and the chick that feels like a “bad bitch” because she has six-inch neon fingernails.
Greg, their partner, the dude that actually has a clue, tells them he thinks they were all a bunch of losers, (paraphrasing) while the Toms “liked all of them.” And there you have it. Not only are these two not very intelligent, they seem to have no common sense.
Raquel and Peter are going on this date that Racquel didn’t want to go on, but she is trying to be nice. I think Peter has been through all of the staff, that is part of the cast at this point, with no love connection yet, or anyone else.
I assume he does try to date other girls outside of the restaurant? I feel for him a little that he’s still single. He seems like a good guy. He’s not bad looking. Maybe lose the pony tail though? It was fine ten years ago, but now not so much.
Didn’t he have a serious girlfriend like a few seasons ago? I think she had a kid, so it kind of stands out to me. It was before any of them had kids. I get the feeling he’s one of those classic ‘nice guys’ as in too nice and maybe gets ran all over.
And seeing him on this date, he clearly has no game. Unless Raquel is just making him nervous, because she’s Raquel.
She is not into this date at all. Just as we saw on previous week’s episode, when he was asking her out, and obsessing over getting her nachos, as she was acting extremely disinterested. When she said “let’s keep it casual” she meant that she wanted it to be friendly, and not romantic. He made a joke about not wearing a suit.
Maybe he was trying to pretend he didn’t know what she meant. He’s way too old for her anyway. It’s coming off a little creepy.
But I will say after James, she does need a nice normal dude. However, she’s probably the type of girl that goes for these controlling and manipulative dudes that need to make you feel like you’re doing something wrong constantly. When you’re actually doing everything right, and they hate that, due to their insecurity issues. Which is why she has zero attraction to Peter. He’s 38, she’s 27. I know eleven years isn’t like creepy or outrageous, but at this point in their lives, it makes a world of difference. I can see WHY he wants a chick in her twenties, and not one pushing 40, like him, obviously.
Okay so back to the date, again with the “let’s keep it casual” comment. He immediately starts discussing his shirt, and whether it fits the ‘casual’ description. So he for reals didn’t pick up on the
message that she’s just not into him. Why did she even accept this date? I almost feel really bad for him. Well no, I do feel bad for him.
She looks at him like he’s an idiot, and she wants to be anywhere else but here.
That scene on the previous episode outside the loo, with her and James, you can see, even though she is the one that broke it off with him, she’s still hung up on him. You can see how that makes sense, they were together for a long time. I think she was forced to have to end things, with all of the tension with him and her family. Her dad fucking hated him. Even though he wasn’t drinking, he was still James.
Peter seems completely oblivious. He’s attempting to impress her with his wine tasting skills (it’s a $10 Rose, like calm down) and she looks at him like he’s a dumb ass again.
She’s used to a dude that chugs fireball directly from the bottle. She doesn’t care about this shit.
She admits in her yap she accepted this date in an effort to get over James, since he has clearly moved on. Not to keep harping on James, but his type, usually does move on very quickly to the next victim, after a breakup. They usually are charismatic, and can get a new partner pretty quickly. It’s keeping them that’s the problem.
She cries to him about being now too old to participate in pageants. Apparently Donald Trump decided this as President, or as the Miss America dude? I’ll have to google that. (Sorry, Mary.) At any rate, I do think pageants are something there should be a cutoff age, if nothing else, you should feel kind of silly parading around a stage in a bikini and an evening gown, by a certain point. I would say 27 is about right, 30 tops. Not that women are “out of their prime” at 27, or at any time, not that. It’s just kind of juvenile. Time to move on. So don’t come at me. I don’t need a bunch of beauty queens trying to cancel me. She actually should be trying to pursue a modeling career, before she’s too ‘old’ for that.
She’s tall, she’s stunning.
This date takes a more awkward turn, if possible, when she starts doing this laugh/cry combo, claiming to be “in a deep depression” about being a washed up pageant girl.
Peter is not sure if she means actual deep depression, or just sad and disappointed. These are different. The laugh/cry is now a full on cry, and it seems somewhat forced, or is that just me? Poor Peter does NOT know what to do. Dudes typically don’t know what to say to a crying girl. He’s fucking pushing 40. He doesn’t need this shit. Raquel is a child compared to him.
He gets up and hugs her, although awkward, kind of sweet. They end of laughing.
He’s very kind and understanding, which really is why he’s still single. And I’m not even being facetious. Nice, non-bitchy girls really do want dudes that treat them like shit. Duhhh. Maybe we just like something to complain about? I don’t know. I personally didn’t like getting treated like crap, but I did continue to go back for more, thinking and hoping there would be change, but there never is.
I can’t get on board with the Lala and Katie friendship. I like Katie, she’s fine, I cannot stand Lala though.
First of all, she reminds me of a young Erika Girardi. So, that’s not good. From the way she speaks, that stupid thug talk, explicit sex talk, to the way she even dresses, her entitlement. Everything. Mini-Erika.
Erika always sports this gangsta style clothing, and Lala does too. And you know what other Housewife she reminds me of? Ashley Darby on Potomac.
With an older rich (or so she thought) creepy guy purely for monetary reasons. Fucking trampy little gold diggers.
Katie is attending the not so grand opening of the bar. She and Lala briefly discuss Tom’s and Katie’s separation, then it’s about Lala of course. She wants us to feel sorry for her, and I just don’t. However, I will give her props that she has maintained her sobriety through all of this Randall drama. And that’s probably the last nice thing I will say about Lala.
I wish Sandoval would lose that fucking porn stache already.
Lala pays a little casz visit to Lisa. Lisa asks about her and James’ past fling, and she jokes about her and James getting drunk, and fooling around back in the day. She makes a “sitting on his face” comment, because she’s Lala and that’s how she talks, when describing some of their drunken sexual antics. Lisa didn’t really ask for details. Lisa asks “was he awake?? were you trying to suffocate him?”
Didn’t Ken and Lisa like, EVER have sex?
Lala starts her typical belly-aching about Randall and the custody battle. I assume she’s trying to keep him from seeing the child at all, I guess that’s what the ‘battle’ is.
LVP ain’t havin her blubbering, croc tears and woe is me shit, (again, so Erika) and asks her how she couldn’t have seen any signs that Randall was doing all of this sketchy shit. Then she kicks up the ‘poor Lala – the victim’ a notch or two, but LVP still isn’t letting her off. Go Lisa.
Right at the beginning though, when there were like a kazzilion red flags?? She asks. I paraphrased. I kinda love that Lisa is giving her this tough love right now, and telling her like it is. All of the other chicks are tip toeing around her like “ohhhhhhhhh poor Lalaaaaaaa – how COULD you have knowwwwwnnnnn?”
Fuck that shit. She was banging a married dude, and she didn’t care, and the only reason she was even with him was because she thought he had money and was successful. I mean he had a plane, and bought her a Range Rover after their first date (as long as she fucked him) so I can see the money assumption. What did she care about the red flags?? I was discussing on chat groups about this scene, and some people thought she was being too hard on Lala, and to that I say, well, doesn’t Lala tell people like it is? She doesn’t mince fucking words. Do we recall how she spoke to Brock last year? But OH!! We don’t dare upset Princess Lala, and tell HER like it is. She should have never gotten involved with that man, and we all know she would never have even glanced his way, had he not been showering her with expensive gifts and taking her on vacations in his PJ. BJ’s for PJ’s. That was her proud proclamation. Was that even his plane?
Lisa knows she was just using that dude and wants her to say it. She looks like an idiot through all of this, because she is an idiot. A gold digging tramp, just like Ashley Darby on Potomac. It’s just sad they need to bring innocent children into this toxic environment, so they can REALLY seal the deal.
If you’re going to be a successful gold digger be smart about it. And pick a dude that actually does have money.
What in the actual fuck is wrong with this woman that is now with Randall, is whatta hell I want to know? I wish I could read that LA Times article. You have to have a subscription though. He was even involved in drug dealing? I guess this was to compensate for the fact that his movies weren’t exactly successful.
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Looks like Racquel won Graham in the break-up.
Scheana and Ariana visit, and want to hear the
highlights about her date with Peter. Which shouldn’t take long. They’re all three dressed exactly alike. Sweatpants and cropped/tube tops.
I don’t want to hear how this bar was the demise of Schwartz and Katie’s marriage. Those two never got along, and never even seemed to have any attraction to each other. They were like friends, who fought all the time.
James and *** have a date, and you can see James already doing the love bombing with this poor girl. He bitches to her about Raquel not letting him see the dog, while also acting like he doesn’t really care, and ridicules Peter, and his “saggy old dick.” He claims to have no animosity and bitterness about Raquel. As he sounds really bitter.
Don’t we think it’s a bad idea for Katie to attend t his bar function? So they’re a very newly separated couple, everything is raw, all of the hatred and disappointment is fresh. They’re blaming this bar as the nail in the coffin of their relationship demise, but she feels the need to attend this opening function?
Lala says she can appreciate hard work? Since when? What does she know about hard work? Her idea of hard work is a hard dick. That sounds harsh but I don’t care. You don’t make a comment like that when you have no idea whatsoever about actually working hard.
It’s not a red flag (I need another phrase for red flag) at all, for James’ new victim, that he immediately greets Lisa, and begins to complain that Raquel is dating Peter. He refers to them as “inseparable.” Which is not accurate. He clearly is dropping random words because he’s jealous. Raquel can barely stand to be around the dude. The girlfriend adds, “they just make out when they’re drunk.” Why the hell is she chiming in? As the new girlfriend, she should be annoyed that this is a talking point, and a concern for James.
Peter immediately stakes his claim on Raquel when she walks in, and insists on getting her a drink. She tells him she doesn’t want him to, which is also a subtle queue that he should be picking up on that she’s not interested. When a dude buys you a drink, that sort of obligates you to now be with him at the event.
After James info share with Lisa, she confronts Peter that he can’t date Raquel due to the ‘Me Too’ movement thing. So after that wonderful news, Raquel confronts him, and lets him down easy, and tells him she doesn’t foresee a future and thinks they should stop now before it gets weird. He agrees. She complains that he was too agreeable.
She walks away and I kinda feel bad for the dude. Someone get this guy a nice girl!
The guys’ business partner tells Lisa that the Toms “know nothing about this business.” Guess they haven’t picked up anything by being partners with Lisa at Tom-Tom for like four years or whatever? And being involved in the inception and opening? They picked up nothing.
I guess we shouldn’t be completely surprised. Do they come off as the sharpest knives in the bar? Sandoval couldn’t even spell Schwartz’ name name for crissakes. If it were a contest as to who is the dumbest, it hands down goes to Sandoval.
Katie and Schwartz get together for a serious chat. Which this is not the time nor place for in real life. But for a TV show, it’s perfect since this bar has been a source of a lot of their arguments over the past year.
She’s right that Schwartz never really acted like he likes her, and wanted to be around her, because he never really liked her. That’s the cruel reality. They never had any type of ‘wow’ factor with each other. Like they were both just settling. I think he proposed to her because he felt like he had to.
Schwartz legit cries in his yap as he describes watching The Notebook, and comparing a dramatic scene to him and Katie. He wishes he could be more like that dude, with her.
These two should have never gotten married. Schwartz always manages to say all of the wrong things.
“I’m so madly in love with … this bar.” Who all thought he was going to say “…with you.”
Like of allllllllllllllll the fucking things to say right now, that’s what he chooses. As she is sitting here crying how she never felt loved or important to him, he professes his love for —– his bar. What the hell more is there to say?
