The Apollo Moon landing… Pink Floyd at the Berlin Wall… any number of royal weddings…there are certain moments in history that you simply have to participate in as a collective society; that you have to watch live in front of your television, lest history move on without you.
The “TO BE CONTINUED” card has been cleared, the door to Sutton’s Parisian Luncheon has been dramatically opened and shut, the crucifix in her foyer has somehow not clattered to the ground behind Erika’s smirk, and there’s simply no more delaying what’s owed to us – for Erika and the RHOBH editors.
I cannot believe this is finally happening; men landed on the moon, the Berlin wall came down, and Erika Girardi was forced to talk about her divorce from Tom on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Erika says that she left her marriage because Tom was pushing her further and further out: “The conversations that I used to have were now reduced down to a sentence or two.” As the editors push the cameras through her empty Pasadena mansion once more, Erika says that she had to make the choice that was right for her because she couldn’t live like that anymore.
After Erika made her decision, she spent about 30 days organizing her life in order to leave Tom.
Erika offers two negative Tom anecdotes up throughout the episode, one wherein he told her “thanks, hun” after she told him she loved him on the day she was leaving him, and another where he told an associate, “If you think you can afford her, you can have her,” in front of Erika.
But it’s hard to offer up emotion and affirmation when Erika is holding back so much… emotion and information.
She says in her testimonial that she filed on Election Day in hopes that the news would get buried among more important things, but that’s not what happened.
(The editors helpfully offer some points of comparison like that her old house was 16,000 square feet, four bedrooms, and nine bathrooms, and her new house is 2,150 square feet, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. It’s totally gorgeous and has a pool – this is not exactly Yolanda Hadid moving into an efficiency apartment in season 6.
And the final word from Erika – that I won’t be able to shake until we get some actual answers – as she sits in her glamorous testimonial look, is this: “Look, is it great to be able wear this jacket? To live in a big house? Yes.
It’s hard for her to trust that anyone would truly have her back, but a dating coach with a portable whiteboard and an ability to bring tears to the surface in two minutes flat is her first step toward trying.
I’ve been impressed with how much wreckage that one little Tahoe trip caused, but one of the Beverly Hills Housewives’ worst traits is their inability to let anything go – let the mouse go, if you will – and I do think a lot of that comes down to Kyle.
We see Dorit and Kyle have yet another conversation about what happened on the plane , but the bottom line is that Dorit talks too much, Kyle inserts herself in the middle of conversations too much, and they’re never going to change that about themselves.
Everyone has a different opinion on this, no opinion is fact, and the only way to stop talking about it – and not ruin a completely adorable dumpling-making party at Crystal’s house – is just to stop talking about it.
First, they talk about it in private when Crystal pulls Sutton aside to say that she’s aware people are still talking about what happened in Tahoe, and she’s sure it’s annoying Sutton as much as it’s annoying her.
Sutton draws everyone’s attention, recaps their awkward moment in Tahoe, and Crystal wraps the speech up with: “It’s important for us to let you know it’s truly over.” To which, Sutton says, if it’s really over, Crystal needs to stop talking about it to other people.
Just kidding, it’s enraging nonsense.