Sister Wives S5E3 S5E4 The Big Decision & Vegas Surprise Recap Review

Above is my video vlog recap review thingy which is really fun and you should totally watch , share and comment on.  But if you are like "Oh my gosh, I hate videos GAH!" then you can instead read the blog below which is still funny and you can also share and comment on. 

Instead of one hour long episode they did two 30 minute episodes.  Since the second one was pretty boring I just covered them both in one recap...  Review.... blog?  What is the correct terminology for this thing I am doing where I cover the episode, tell you what happened, and made fun of the people in it?

Episode 3 opens with us discovering that the venture capitalists have made a decision about investing the $2.5 million in My Sister Wives Closet.  What did they decide?  Well, we don't find out until the end of the episode. Oh the Humanity.

Next up is the most popular sister wife, Janelle!  Her trainer has decided that Janelle should climb a rock wall which looks way easier when you on the ground than when you are actually on it.  She climbs about 4 feet off the ground and decides this was an awful idea.  Logan (her son and the oldest in the family) is there and with the trainer's help they convince her to try again.  They pick out a particular spot and she try again with touching that green rock as her goal.  Janelle nails it and the internet rejoices.  I think we relate to her struggles and have cheered her on to place more value in herself.  She has been a rock star with working out.  When all the wives (Robyn in specific) go on and on about the Family, Janelle kinda seems over it, which I love.

Meri on the other hand is off to the old family home in Lehi, Utah.  They are having it redone to sell.  So they have just been holding onto the house for years while they struggle to afford their new Vegas homes?  Is anyone confused on how they can afford all this?  TLC must pay their reality stars really well.  Hey, TLC are you interested in doing a show about a family of Californians who move to Wyoming to work on a cattle ranch?  Lots of wacky scheenagans and cute dogs? 

Sorry, back to the Sister wives.  Meri visits some old friend from when she was four.  Enthralling.

Finally we get to find out what the investors decided.  First they take some talk about how awful the presentation was, how much trouble the company is having and what a poor investment this is.  But lets be honest even though no one mentions it the company, My sister Wives Closet, gets free publicity on tv so they are going to invest.  They are offering $250-500k for 5% of the company.  In 6 months they were reevaluate.  I have no idea when this was filmed but the website is still crashing all the time and the inventory seems about the same as what we saw that the presentation so I am anxious to see how the 6 months evaluation goes.

They asked about why there is 15 million hits and so few sales.  Let me tell you, because the viewers are nosy and cheap.  It is not like people are googling "Silver jewelry" and ending up at the website.  Viewers are sitting at home saying "I wonder what kind of junk they are trying to sell" so they go to the website then post on twitter "OH my goodness, that jewelry is expensive"

Ep 4 was the wives planning a surprise part for Kody to say thank you for moving them to Vegas.  One of the kids pipe up with something like We already have too many parties.  The kids are awesome.  They have a Vegas themed party with costumes and food then everyone stands around and tells Kody how awful the move was but they are glad they are here.  I wonder if they really HAD to move.  The courts did overturn the law against cohabitation so Kody would not have been arrested after all. It was a pretty boring episode unless you are really into hearing everyone talk about how awesome Kody is.

Marriage Bootcamp : Reality Stars S3E4 Tip Your Bartender Recap Review

Above is my amazing, life changing (please watch it) video blog about the episode.  But I also wrote the recap review blog below.

The morning starts with all the couples waking up and emerging from their bed cocoons except for Slade who is so depressed from the exercise that he refuses to get up.  Every time Slade talks on camera I am overwhelmed by how fake it feels.  Like watching a badly acted play.  They have a one on one with the counselors and both talked in circles.  Slade keeps mentioning: I can't give you want,  I want you to be happy, Find someone else.  She needs to take his advice and move on.

The first exercise of the day is Tocix Reality where the castmates get to pick which 3 of the ten of them should be saved in the event of a gas world war event or something. It doesn't really matter the scenario, really it is just about telling people their faults.  Since each person has to address every other person that means there was 81 interactions and probably lasted for hours.    Traci goes down the line sniffling and we see all her picks (Ryan, Kevin and herself) but after that the editors only hit the highlights which is mostly the negatives.  Gretchen does not bother to give herself a gas mask and when asked she claims it was because she wants others to be happy but Jim calls her out on "Stop trying to make yourself look good" Big round of applause for Jim. 

Tanisha is told by her castmates that she has a chip on her shouldar, emotional, not very sure of herself.

Roger is told that he is stubborn, selfish and should be more supportive.

Jenni is told that she is selfish and that she doesn't need to broadcast everything she does. She gets a bit snarky back at Tanisha but Jim tells her that she is just supposed to listen. 

Kevin gets nailed for his infidelity but Ryan gives him a gas mask saying that he has a rare combination of Wisdom and Compassion. I thought that was a really sweet comment but Kevin didn't seem to even remember it later in the interview. 

Gretchen is seen as selfish and struggling with the truth (which later clarification means that she is unwilling to accept the truth in front of her)

Ryan is seen by a lot of people as caring, nice and worthy of living.  I think the fact that he is a fire fighter and has actual life saving skills helped.



But the highlight of the whole thing was when Clive told Slade that he was hiding something.  Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

Now the whole group broke into two groups (each couple was separated) to talk about an event from their past that still affects them.  This was a heavy time and we got some real insight into where some of these issues come from.  Slade's parents divorce, Gretchen was never good enough, Kevin's dad was in jail and Ryan's old girlfriend was caught in bed with another guy.  Trista had a friend that tried to kill herself in Trista's bathroom using her razor and now she feels responsible for everyone's happiness.  Roger had a friend that committed suicide. Then Jenni shared her story about getting fired from a job as a kid which everyone demeaned as a bit underwhelming and unemotional.

When they get out of the exercise Roger is really upset to hear that Jenni didn't share any of the stories from her childhood.  He feels that she is just phoning this in to get a pay check.

We head into final evaulations. Trista/Ryan - they are lacking intimacy from trying to be too nice
Clive/Tanisha - Clive is perceptive about people ;  Traci/Kevin - they have allowed their resentment to build up  ; Slade/Gretchen -  Gretchen is a successful woman and codependent

Jenni and Roger get pulled into a one and one.  Roger is still mad and says he is there for their future marriage if she is not then he might as well go home.  He pulls off and mic and storms out.  END OF EPISODE!!

Will he stay? Will he go? 

Real Housewives of Orange County Ep 10 Skunk in the Barnyard recap / review

Above is my video recap and below is a short written recap. 


There are a couple of story lines this episode.  Vickie and Brooks went to Mexico to her Condo.  We get the joy of hearing Vickie talk about Sex and we get to see pixeled nudity of both of them during a couples massage.  TADA!  Shannon and David are scheduled to come join then but that won't happen until next episode.

Tamra even has a mini storyline.  For some reason she decided they (herself and Eddie) need a mechanical baby despite the fact that she has raised 4 children already.  Now I know why housewives go broke, they buy needless junk to stay in front of the camera. 

But let's get to the main storyline. The episode opens with the Shannon at Tamra's house. Shannon is very upset about David's email.  While she is sniffing her phone beeps and she is sure it is just her kids goofing off.  Instead it was David (her husband) saying that he heard that Heather knows about the email and was gossiping about it with friends.  Tamra immediately says that she has not said a thing to Heather and Shannon believes her completely.

While this is happening David comes home and apologizes.  We see them the next day where Shannon takes cheap shots of him in front of their kids and he responds in kind.  It is awful to watch.  I want to shake them both and tell them to let some of this stuff go. 

Shannon has given it some thought and she is sure that Tamra said something to Heather about the email but she feels like she needs confirmation from Heather.  They have not seen each other since Christmas Eve where Shannon and Heather got into a huge fight.  Shannon shows up at Heather's house to ask (grill) her about where Heather heard about the email.  Heather thinks Shannon is there to apologize.  Let's just say that things go progressively downhill  until Heather asks Shannon to leave because her kids are in the house and she doesn't want to fight in front of them.  Shannon says that these rumors are hurting her kids.

Can we address the fact that Shannon is on a reality show but it so concerned about her kids hearing rumors when she fights in front of them all the time and soon after this was filmed the footage was internationally aired?  I really think that RHOC was a horrible idea for Shannon. 

Shannon has a holistic essence oil lady over to hang out with Lizzie and Danielle.  We didn't hear much about oils but we did hear more about Heather.  Shannon retells the story and somehow it transforms into Heather calling her an alcoholic rather than Heather repeating what Tamra told her.  Lizzie and Danielle seem skeptical of the story, that there must be more than was told.  Danielle makes a joke about drinking vodka and Shannon calls her judgmental. Shannon is just winning friends left and right.  Lizzie summarizes the situation well by saying in an interview that Shannon is so hurt that she is lashing out.

Heather and Terry meet up with Lizzie where they discuss the fight.  Heather says that she did text Shannon after the fight that she was sorry that Shannon is hurting but that her problem is not with Heather.  Shannon meets up with Tamra and Tamra admits she lied.  She did talk to Heather but only to tell Heather to back off Shannon because Shannon is having a tough time.  Turns out that Whatever Heather knew was pretty vague.  She knew Shannon was upset about an email that David sent her and that they are fighting.  I am pretty sure Heather already knew about the fighting given that they are fighting all the time. 

Thoughts?