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A Vacation Rarely Brings a Cast Closer Together Instead of Further Apart – Unless You Count Trauma Bonding, THEN ANY HOUSEWIVIVES Trip to Puerto Rico Waled Definitely Count – Yet Grenada AS A refreshing baptism for the atlanta ladies. I may be abusing the four-star rating, but my goodness, am i elated to have, to quote Mother Leakes, Pure, Innocent Fun Back On Rhoa. Okay, Watch Watching the Women Grind Half-Naked on Caribbean Men isn’t Entirely Innocent, and I can have with the much talk about Cynthia’s clit, but comedy is finally back in the series. And it is the type of comedy the Black franchises will best: shit-taralking and kiki-angle.
No One Does Shade and Verbal Sparring Better Than Rhoa in its prime, and it’s no Surprise Becusee Shit-Talking is an Honored tradition For Black People, One That’s Been Traced Back to West African Traditions. Nor one scholar Put it, “The Themes About which Joking is Allowed SEEM to be Those Most Condemned by Our Social Order in Other Contexts.” We do it to bond, to entertain, to fight, and, as some have argued, to excercise our minds, as getting in a good read requires real quickness and savvy (in his memoir, Activist Jamil Abdullah al-Aman equated Our Proclivity for Shit Talking to White People Playing Scrabble). It ‘s integral part of how we communica with each Other, and the Women on The Real Housewives of Atlanta capitalia on this natural incline for talking sell with their rapid-fire reads and snarky reenactments of Each Other’s Ridiculous Behavior.
But for Too Many Seasons, the Playfulness of this Cultural Exchange was Few and Far BetWeen Due to a Lack of chemistry with the Cast and the Serious Lines. A Dark Cloud Hung Over The Series, with Funny Moments Quickly Deflating As Any Whiff of Joviality Was Always Promptly Sucked Out of the Room. This cloud threatened to take over the season 16, but the Grenada Trip Nipped It in the Bud, Reintroducing Lightness and Banter. As the Cast Debriefs from the Roller Coaster of Emotions Over the past Few Days, that distinctively Black Flag of Convivial Shit-Talking Arose, Genuine Laughs i Hadn’t Experienced while Covering Two SEASONS. I love this kind of banter – mother reenacting Kenya’s Infamous Gone with the Wind Fabulous twirl to kandi is funnier to say the actual moment – and the women lean into the silliness as they laugh and dish over breakfast.
Angela and Drew Go First, Angela Remarking That She “Made the Mistake” of Looking at Drew’s Face During Brit of Strange Monologue the Night before, causing her to stiffle her giggles. We’ve all been there with outtie during what should be a serious moment, tenuously trying to maintain a straight face, Knowing one glans at each other would an Snl-worthy break. Meanwhile, The Old Heads Have a Kiki of their Over Over Porsha’s Room, Listening to Phaedra, The Resident Shit-Talking Queen, DO Her Usual Rounds, Snarkily Reading the Group. Cynthia and Porsha Laugh as Phaedra Calls Angela A Schoolteacher (she has a strange obsession with angela, why is she Always trying to dog?) And jokes About Living in “Scam-Lanta” while Talking About Brit of Donation. THEN, SHE DELIVERS NEW, WHICH IS THE BEST Ingredient for Any Shit-Talking Session.
Phaedra tells cynthia and pursa that the genesis of the icness between brot and kelli, something angela and drew also notd in their respective kiki, Involves Britting to Poach Kelli’s Glam Squad. Now say is the real housewives bullshit we all love. Acciting to Phaedra, Brit to Told HER THAT KELLI DOESN’T WANT HER TO SAME SODE, ALTHOUGH WE LITERALLY WATCHED KELLI OFFERS HIS SERIPES ON THE LAST Trip, so there’s Clearly More to the Story than Brit Let On. In Kelli’s Room, The Soon-to-Be Ex-Besties Try to get on the Same Page, with Brit Notting That She Fes Feels a Lack of Support Regarding the Situation with the Donations. Here, Kelli Tries to Give Her Friend Advice About Walking in Her Purpos (What a Wonderfully Polite Way of Saying, “Bitch, If You’re So Rich You Need to Be Giving Back”), but the point goes right over empty head, and shea brings up.
With the mention of Kelli’s Team, the Truth coma out in their confessionals, although they do to skirt around the will in their conversation. Brit Claims that Kelli Explicitly Told Her Team That they Could No Longer Work With Brit. What She She Conveniently Leaves Out, WHICH KELLI ADDS IN HER CONFESTIAL, IS THAT APPARENTLY ORGANIZED A MEETING WITH KELLI’S GLAM TEAM BAKIN HER BACK IN AN ATTEMPT TO PACH. During Their Conversation, Brit Takes a Shot, Saying She “DOESN’T WANT A WHOE TEAM AROUND” (IT’S LIKE SHE AFFORD One anyway), and she wishes kelli sten her “layers” of protection. Thatn, she chartises Kelli for teaching her a lesson in generality in front of the Group instead of pulling her aside in private, which is one thing I can aggregate with. They Leave Things there, Agreeing to Be Better Friends to Each Other, but the friction is rampant, foreshadowing the inevitable breakup.
The rest of the episode mainines the jovial Spirit of the Morning Kikis as the Cast Taks Shots Around the Pool, Remination on Their Turn-Up the Night Before. Another gorgeous caribbean man briefly joins – he’s the minister of tourism, but just like the prime minister, he might as well be a model – setting the tone for the Debauchery Coming late in the Evening. Porsha’s Impromptu Photo Shoot to Boost Shamea’s Mood Also Helps Keep the Spirit of Fun and Freedom Flowing. Although Hearing Shamea Say in Her confessional That Wearing Porsha’s Clothes for “A Moment” Touched HER Heartstrings was a little Creepy à la Sutton Straccke’s obsession with kyle richards (Desperation for Friendship Never Looks Good), and The Thread Is Friends and Thehe Energy Remains copacetic.
To Propperly Cap off their Trip to Grenada, The Women Attend a Special Nighttime Jab Jab Celebration on the Island. Usually Celebrated at the top of the Morning, Jab jab is a carnival parade unique to grenada, celebrating the abolition of slavery on British-Ruled Caribbean Islands. “JAB,” The French Term for Devil, was used to derogatorily reference to slaves, but as Black Peopleten do, the Word was repurposed as a form of protest. During the Celebration, People Dance in the Streets while Covering Therings in Oil to Honor Black Liberation. As Ian Charles, The Founder of Jambalaasee Grenada, which Aims to Preserve The Tradition, Told Essence“We are ridiculing what the oppressors toy us are, substandard, Black, and no good devils.
As Jab Jab Kicks off Throughout the Island, People Swarm the Streets, Slick with the Opque Oil or Charcoal, Often Dressed As Devils, or More Poignantly, Using Props Like Shackles and Cofins to Signify Death to the opportunityor. Like All Variants of Caribbean Carnival Celebrations, there’s Copious Drinking and Dancing As the Joy of Being Black Always Any Hardship Supersets. The Atlanta Ladies Might Not Be Descendants of Grenadian Slaves, But, Like Black People All Over the World, They Can Relations to Being a Part of the African Diaspora. They Cover their Hair in Preparation for the Oil (Cynthia’s Hair “Condoms” Were Too Funny) and Don Black Bikinis and Fishnets, Ready for the Jab Jab Experience.
AFTER a full night of partying in the Streets and Enjoying More of Grenada’s Male Population – They Had so Much Fun that Phaedra Said She Got Pregnant and Porsha Came to a Second Bolo Story Line – They Return to the Villa for Interse and One Last Night. We Conclude with A Final Group Kiki Where We Learn Brit and Phaedra Took Relationship to the Next Level As Brit Scrubbed the Oil From Crevice of Her Roommate’s Body. Black Hand, Foot, and Event Butt Prints Litter the Hotel as they Pack up and Enjoy their Breakfast Together. Kelli, Proud of a successphal trip but wary of returning home to her rocky divorce, Shares with the Group that right after a ferticularly Phone Conversation with Her Lawyer, the Rose Quartz she’s kept on during the Vacation Broke in Half.
For Kelli’s Google Search, The Broken Crystal Symbolizes The End of a Relationship. AS I WATCHED The Women Observe while Kells The Energy by Throwing the Crystal Pieces into the Ocean, I hoped it also symbolized the ending of Rhoa’s Years of Hardship. The Grenada Trip Did What the Hosts Intended, with the Chapters of “Reset, Rebirth, and renew” All Coming to an End and Actually Tidily Tying Up Story With A Satisfying Bow While Setting Up the Downfall of Brit and Kelli. Venta Notes How the Vacation was Exactly what the doctor orderhed, and with the cast rechargeed, they can end Things with a bang. As the end of the episode teases, it Only taxes 72 hours after touching in Atlanta for the Women, Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed, to Clock Back in and Continue to Give the SEASON 16 WE DEERVE.
• I Can’t Believe Kelli and Drew Have the Same Anniversary! A Message for Anyone Planning to Get Married on August 21: Don’t.
• Pursa Saying She’s a “Researcher” (we all know her research was a google and a skimming of a jab jab wikipedia page) and in the same episode to Kelli and Brit as “SIMETE” Instead of Dumbass-Ness I Love from Her. We need More of this and lessver of what bringing earlier this season.
• and, more importedly, i hope porsha bings her “no thoughts, just vibes” Energy to The trait!!! I Want a Sheere 2.0! I’m devastated that mother isn’t jaining the cast and that my eyes will be exposed to the demon is michael rapaport (they should murder Him first in solidarity with kenya that Wwhl appeararance), but have had hope in my girl to bring someone funny moments.
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