Why won’t Kyle acknowledge it? Why can’t she just say, “Yeah, Teddi and I have a certain bond and we grew really close really quickly. Dorit is closer to a set of CHA and NEL bejeweled barrettes than any human on the planet, including those in this room. Erika and Lisa are closer to each other than anyone else. Why do they care? And why is Kyle so upset about the insinuation? The fight almost doesn’t seem to be that they’re so close, but that Kyle won’t recognize that she has a different friendship with Teddi than with the other rich women. Sutton makes her only good comment of the show and says, “Why do we care?” (This sets off a budding argument between her and Dorit, which Erika shuts down since they are guests in her home.) I echo the sentiment. They’re also harping about how they shared a room together and how, in the group, they’re always fighting the other person’s battles. It is a little strange, but if I were looking for activities to film myself doing with my friends, I could see how this would end up being a suggestion. They did not, they just met with Teddi’s therapist to learn breathing exercises to help them deal with their anxiety. This conversation then turns into whether or not the two of them had couples therapy together. Everyone points out that Kyle is an earth sign.
For Teddi, and this is what kicks off the fight, he says that, in a group, she will gravitate toward one energy she finds comforting, probably an earth sign. While she looks placid on the surface she’s plotting revenge deep down inside, beyond her placid exterior. For Denise he says that she has a very complicated chart and that she keeps a lot of things hidden. The most interesting readings belong to Denise and Teddi. These are all things that we could have guessed just by watching the show. Garcelle, like a girl in a Cyndi Lauper song, just wants to have fun. Dorit is hard to reel back in when she gets upset. Lisa Rinna lets everyone know where they stand, even if they sometimes don’t want to hear it. Kyle gets the most worked up when someone is treated unfairly. When facing Erika in an argument, it’s best to present the facts. He goes around the table and tells all the women about their personalities based on their star signs. Tom goes upstairs, as if taking shelter from a coming storm, as the ladies retire to Erika’s dining room to get their charts read by Shawn, Erika’s hunky astrologer who could put his Scorpio rising in my Taurus moon any time.
It’s all very nice and sophisticated and her husband Tom comes down to tell them stories about having a walk-on role in a John Wayne movie and young Teddi sits on the end of the couch wondering if John Wayne is possibly Lil Wayne’s grandfather. (She looked amazing, though.) Garcelle even agrees with Denise that Kyle doesn’t talk to them, she talks over them.Įverything kicks off at Erika’s house in Pasadena, where the ladies haven’t convened for a couple of seasons. Garcelle takes such umbrage in the car on the way home from Erika’s astrology party that she calls Kyle’s outfit hideous, which is a bold move coming from a woman wearing a pink velour suit. She says she loves them but she’s freezing them out. The new women, as Garcelle points out, are sidelined by Kyle. I say it’s between the rest of the women and Kyle, but really it’s just Erika, Lisa, Dorit, and Denise against Kyle.
I am loath to blame this on her pregnancy, but that is the only thing that changed about her between her last outspoken season and this one, so maybe it is? I don’t know. She’s barely uttered a dozen words this whole season. The fight is between Kyle and the other women and it is essentially about whether or not Kyle and Teddi act like a couple and are a “package deal.” I would say that the fight is between the rest of the women and Kyle and Teddi, but Teddi is being strangely silent. Of all the inscrutable rich women fights that they have ever had, this one is more impenetrable than a vault locked in a fortress covered in two condoms. But the thing they did the most was get into a fight that I can’t possibly understand.
They did their makeup while their stoned husbands demolished sandwiches next to them in their palatial bathrooms. They talked to their husbands, fresh off of plays with Stephanie Powers in Delaware, about their daughters’ mental wellbeing. They wore the same pink velvet dress to the same exact party. This week on our favorite show Rich Women Doing Things the rich women did things.