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In Which We Try to Explain Real Housewives of Atlanta

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Carol Gardens
08/11/09

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I miss Richard!
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gladys_kravitz
08/11/09

@Carol Gardens: Sing it, Sister!
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peperony and chease
08/11/09

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I don't think Kim is a pathological liar. She's evasive about the origins of her wig (the attention paid to which, among this particular be-weaved cast, is both remarkable and puzzling) but otherwise has been generally accurate in her claims. She does know Dallas Austin (even if dude doesn't wanna know her), NeNe did start the beef in the limo, and the other women are having financial problems. None of those things are lies and the other women are just scrambling to cover their own asses re: their foreclosures and debts. It's clearly none of Kim's business, and Kim's guilty of making them look bad (even if it would have come out sooner or later), so they're turning on her. If it's between believing Kim or Sheree, I'd go with Kim.
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WretchedGnu
08/11/09

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But Brian -- does anybody actually believe that each of these women is not ad-libbing a role that the producers have made clear to her they expect her to play?
I'm seriously asking here. Who falls for this nonsense?
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Brian Moylan
08/11/09

@WretchedGnu: That's actually a very good question. I agree that the producers set up events and situations for them to interact. However, I think whatever comes out of their mouths is all real. You just couldn't prescript the instant classic "Who gonna check me, boo?" And they deserve some credit for taking it to the extreme.
Do you agree?
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WretchedGnu
08/11/09

@Brian Moylan: Well, I guess I find it hard to be impressed by "extreme" behavior when the actor knows everybody's cheering her on and a crew will step in to bail her out of any situation. To me, it's like wrestling with worse acting...
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Don Servillas
08/11/09

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I left Atlanta for NYC almost a decade ago. The show really is kind of a reflection of the nouveau riche and the pretend rich mentality in Atlanta that almost always crashes and burns. It is a big city that pretends to be cultured and chic, but the result is garish and pretentious. Every now and then I go back to visit hoping that it has changed, but everytime I leave, I am happy that I moved away a long time ago.
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WretchedGnu
08/11/09

@Don Servillas: Yes... except these women don't live in Atlanta and have nothing to do with Atlanta.
Otherwise, good point!
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pssshwhatever
08/11/09

@WretchedGnu: Ha, yes, exactly. These women all live out in the remote suburbs. As with all the other RH franchises, the people with the most money and status are never the ones that want to be displayed on TV for it.
But go ahead and continue to pat yourself on the back for moving to NYC, that's one less car on the downtown connector.
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LutherHonduras
08/11/09

@pssshwhatever: Whatever. These trifling-ass bitches are not exclusive to some Suwanee-esque "remote suburbs." Anyone should be patted on the back for winning the lottery and leaving Atlanta for NYC.
I love Atlanta, and have lived here most of my life. That said, Atlanta is plagued by ignorant motherfuckers. I wish I could say that it's a classy city, but it isn't. I wish I lived someplace special like NYC.
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Trulymadlyme
08/11/09

@LutherHonduras: Oh, Lord. You haven't spent much time in New York, have you? Because there isn't a more racist and classist city in this country. Because seriously. It was everywhere when I lived there and worked for Conde Nast.
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pssshwhatever
08/12/09

@LutherHonduras: Have you ever been to New York? Know anyone that lives there? Because you're talking like someone that's never set foot in the place.
The same ignorant fucks exist everywhere. No place is special, no matter what it looks like in the movies. New York is rife with racism, classism, and bridge-and-tunnel halfwits that are just like the women in this show. You don't have to win the extra-special life lottery to move to NYC, I know dozens of people that do it every year. It's not Narnia. It's just a city.
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LutherHonduras
08/12/09

@pssshwhatever, @Trulymadlyme: Oh I've been there, and have friends who live there, and I get that it's got epic levels of crazy. Psssh makes the key point, "The same ignorant fucks exist everywhere."
My lament is that we get a hot, steaming plate of constant bs down here without any of the culture or 24-hour society that you get in NYC. Granted, I own a house in downtown Atlanta that I'd never be able to afford in most cities considering my field of work, and that's essentially what keeps me here. It doesn't mean that I don't long to have the choices and culture available to me that other metropolitan cities offer.
I guess what I'm really trying to say is don't even get me started on Florida.
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RandomLunatic
08/11/09

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Seriously now (speaking as a native Southerner), the South has to be home to the world's largest number of drama queens. Atlanta really should have been the first choice for a show like this if they were going for pure theater.
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PatricianAtlantan
08/11/09

@RandomLunatic: These women live in Atlanta the way the real housewives of New Jersey live in New York. They are all totally OTP (outside the perimeter), miles from the city.
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LUV_TRUK
08/11/09

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Oh Christ, these women are broke as a joke. Nene got kicked out of her rental. Sheree lost her house. Kim lost her condo, and now Lisa has been foreclosed on.
These people don't actually have any money. What they do have is leases on expensive cars and a passion for mediocre new restaurants like everyone else here in Atlanta.
Atlanta: Home of the $40,000-a-year Millionaire.
I even hesitate to say they live in Atlanta. They live all the way out in north Gwinnett County.
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tigolbitties
08/11/09

@LUV_TRUK: that's true, i'd be shocked if they finally had a housewive who lived, i was going to say in atlanta, but i'd take just fulton county!
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LUV_TRUK
08/11/09

@tigolbitties: I think Sheree was in Sandy Springs before she got evicted. The rest are all in Duluth/Suwanee.
If you want to show real Atlanta money you would do Buckhead, but those people are far too Southern proper for this nouveau riche crap.
You could also do CC of the South, but those people are actually rich.
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Heneage
08/11/09

@LUV_TRUK: Buckhead: rich white conservatives. Ansley Park: rich white liberals. Duluth / Suwanee: 5 bedroom McMansions for $150,000 with a side of strip mall.
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RandomLunatic
08/11/09

@Heneage: Damn, I had no idea there this many Atlanta commenters on Gawker. I need to check these recaps more often. (Hanging out in Roswell myself, where the housewives are all way too uptight to ever think of doing a show like this.)
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Trulymadlyme
08/11/09

@Heneage: Druid Hills anyone? Those bishes are moneyed.
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Heather White Sorensen
08/11/09

@RandomLunatic: Roswell represent!
There is no way that anyone from here would dare be on such a show. We'd be shunned from the local Kroger.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
08/11/09

@RandomLunatic: @Heather White Sorensen: Roswellian here too!!! Dang, there is 3 of us, we just need one more to have our own show.
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ShanghaiLil
08/11/09

@RandomLunatic: Tucker here, temporarily, while recovering from an illness. I just stay at home. After 20 years in NYC, I might as well be speaking Ancient Phoenician or something. Plus the pleated khakis shorts. Just shoot me.
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meg9
08/11/09

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you aren't " a little late to the game" you are Tardy to the Party! ;)
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Carol Gardens
08/11/09

@meg9: And so many on Reality TV are "Tardy to the Ed Hardy".
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Brian Moylan
08/11/09

@meg9: HA! You are so right!
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The Lone Scout
08/11/09

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Have you never read Faulkner?
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missneeraja
08/11/09

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i foresee some delusion-soaked heartbreak or deception happening for Kandi...everyone in her life is dumping all over her man and she's in hysterics about it? if she didn't see a little bit of truth in what everyone was saying she wouldn't be sobbing all the time...
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bytememehard
08/11/09

@missneeraja: Don't you just know it. Her mama knows too well the kind of guys she picks.
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mfnher
08/11/09

@bytememehard: I loved how her mother warned her about the potential complications of dealing with multiple baby mamas.
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Conchie Birdie
08/11/09

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I must say, I wasn't really a believer in RH Hotlanta during the first season, but the first two episodes of this season have got me thinking that this may be my new favorite. Blasphemy, I know, but RHNJ started to seem a little too staged for me at the end.
Don't get confused, though, I still love me some Strega Nona.
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Smitros
08/11/09

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Which one is the PROSTITUTION WHORE? After RHONJ that seems like a requirement.
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Conchie Birdie
08/11/09

@Smitros: Kim, duhhhh!
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Smitros
08/11/09

@Conchie Birdie:
Thanks. I only read reality show summaries, so I miss the texture.
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pmarble
08/11/09

@Conchie Birdie: To quote NeNe: "Don't open your legs to married men."
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bytememehard
08/11/09

@pmarble: If I had to close my legs to married men, I'd never get laid.
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Conchie Birdie
08/11/09

@Smitros: I remember when I used to read reality show summaries - there were fairies and different realms and happiness and ponies and Strega Nona and...
*sigh*
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DaveDavies
08/11/09

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If you don't like your party planner then fire him and get another. Geez, no need to yell at each other for an hour.
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bytememehard
08/11/09

@DaveDavies: Yeah, but he was doing it for free.
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JaviDecimal
08/11/09

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I thought tonight is a rerun of last Thursday's episode(@11) and that the second half of the NeNe/Sheree/Kim all-out brawl was a new ep on Thursday.
Also the ATL housewives could be as broke as dogs, I would still watch them.
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okaykoko
08/11/09

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I was under the impression that Atlanta came in third because of it's large population of well-off black people. So for many black people, including myself, Atlanta IS known as a place of opulence and importance, but above all, tackiness.
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Heneage
08/11/09

@okaykoko: Agreed, as evidenced by the sheer volume of Ed Hardy paraphernalia seen outside of Primal on any given night - not that I consider Ed Hardy opulent, mind you.
If it's shiny and expensive, someone in Atlanta will buy it.
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TabithaIapetus
08/11/09

@Heneage: I live in Midtown and have never heard of Primal... Atlanta is a fine city if you just step around the trash (and by trash I mean anyone in Ed Hardy gear). Y'all have a great day!
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Heneage
08/11/09

@TabithaIapetus: Primal is in Midtown, by the ghetto gas station on the corner of 10th and Spring. There was a shooting there last weekend, did you miss the police choppers circling the neighborhood?
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tigolbitties
08/11/09

@okaykoko: yes y'all! (said in the best drawl i can muster) that's what i was going to say... atlanta is all three of those. and where else can you see celebs sans the paps?!?! i also think it's the best place to see what happens when the blue bloods and nouveau riche have to mix it up (hint: hilarity). but i do have one bone to pick - those real housewives are not mixing it up with black society, and i think bravo tries to make it look like they are...
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tigolbitties
08/11/09

@Heneage: down the street from the varsity?
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Heneage
08/11/09

@tigolbitties: Yep. Also, I'm pretty sure Kim is a tranny, 'cause she was at the drag show at Blakes on Sunday. And NeNe is doing a book signing at the Buckhead Barnes & Noble. Yes, she has a book. It's all about how to overcome obstacles and achieve your dream (of starring in a Bravo reality show?).
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Trulymadlyme
08/11/09

@tigolbitties: Exactly. Seeing Whitney & Bobby Christina in a Target. In matching pink sweat suits. And no one giving a damn. Priceless.
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ShanghaiLil
08/11/09

@Heneage: It has been my experience that there is no tchotchke so tacky that SOMEONE in Atlanta won't buy it and display it in all seriousness. It reminds me of Edie and Pats at the art gallery.
EDIE: What, what, what is that?
PATS: It's Art, Sweetie.
EDIE: How much does it cost?
PATS: A thousand pounds.
EDIE: It's BRILLIANT!
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TabithaIapetus
08/11/09

@Heneage: OH! Where Wetbar used to be... Der... Thanks!
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gladys_kravitz
08/11/09

@Trulymadlyme: I want to hear about the time Whitney was spotted in the middle of the night at the 7-11 in a fur coat and a dirty wig in the summer. Or is that urban legend?
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08/11/09

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HERE is the real scandal and you heard it from me first:
A friend at Bravo told me that whenever they film NeNe Leakes "at home" with her family she is in a house that Bravo is renting specifically for the show that NeNe and her family only use for filming...they don't really live there. NeNe and her husband got thrown out of their rented home before the show started for not paying rent for months and Bravo has no idea where they really live....NeNe just shows up at this house to film episodes now and then.
So three out of four housewives have been evicted from their homes (in NeNe's case her rented home). And Bravo is completely faking that NeNe still lives in a grand home. Pretty crazy.
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