Blog Posts by Joe Reid

Watch what happens!With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

We didn't even want to have Taylor be the most awful and uncomfortable housewife of the episode. And she had serious competish this week. But despite our mixed emotions about what Camille said at the tea party (more on that in a second), Taylor's enthusiasm about shutting Camille out was just unseemly. Like Taylor was so happy to have the moral upper hand over someone that she was really enjoying twisting the knife.

Camille Grammer: crouching tiger AND hidden dragon.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

Taylor Armstrong. I know we all entered this season wanting to give Taylor as much leeway as possible. But eleven episodes into the season, our defenses have been worn down: Taylor is the worst. Can you imagine knowing her in real life?

Fulfilled emotionally. (Bravo)With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing
"And he swings in the right direction." ...Okay, even the psychic is now making fun of Kelsey Grammer? Not that it hasn't been fun watching Camille re-assert her independence by slamming her ex with the full blessing of the show, but now that the spirit world is getting in on the ugliest aspect of the Kelsey-bashing — specifically, the "bet he's gay!"

A place where nobody dared to go. (Bravo)With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing
Sure, Kyle was being a little bit of a drama queen during the whole thing, but the entire escapade with her mother-in-law's face-lift ranges from depressing to horrifying. Not only is Kyle right in worrying that Estella's naturally wizened face will now become just another Beverly Hills catwoman mask (look no further than that bloaty-faced nurse who

They don't even listen to the Crystal Method.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

Ugh. There's just such a depressingly high volume of crap to work through with this whole Brandi-goes-to-Witch-Mountain-Part-Two mess.

Baby Jane, eat your heart out.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the Beverly Hills Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

The spillover from last week's God Damn Bitch of a game night managed to get even harsher, as Brandi's voice got squeakier and squeakier, while Kim resumed her hieroglyphic-like finger-pointing style.

No escape from witch mountain.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the Beverly Hills Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

Well, Kim Richards was back to being a mess this week.

Kyle Richards, inscrutable as ever.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the Beverly Hills Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

It's never easy to be the new tacky housewife on the tacky housewife block, and Dana does have the kind of earthy, lite-cigarette-smoking demeanor that comforts us.