'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Season 1, Episode 9 Recap
['The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'- 'Dinner Party From Hell']On this week's episode of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' Camille tried to unite her sisters in superficiality by throwing a dinner party at her house. To round out the group she invited her BFF Deidre and the real woman behind the TV show 'Medium.' As if we needed a psychic to predict how this meal would play out.
Camille claimed from the start that she wanted to make amends, let bygones be bygones and fire up her pizza oven. And before the crazy sh*t-slinging commenced, the party looked divine. There were cocktails and a wait staff and Camille's friend Allison, who can sense the presence of your dead grandmother and the M.O. of your standard serial killer. Allison is creepy and maniacal-the perfect addition to an already fraught dinner party.
The ladies pulled up to Camille's house in stretch limos and passed around swimming pool-sized cocktails before sitting down to eat. Everyone seemed intent on getting along, especially Kyle, who came bearing gifts and her longtime friend Faye Resnick, of the OJ Simpson trial fame.
The medium insisted throughout the night that she was off the clock, but it quickly became clear that she was providing the evening's entertainment. "It's Saturday!" she announced, raising her glass as the women sat down to eat. "You see, I'm still young, so when Saturday comes I'm like yeah!" Starting the evening out with a snide comment? It's easy to see how this woman's is Camille's friend. Then Allison complimented everyone on being alpha females, her favorite types of females. "You're, like, intelligent and pretty. You're like, alpha." And how.
Even as the medium's eyes began to turn into evil black holes, I wanted to believe Camille's good intentions-she plays the part of the happy hostess so well. But why invite two outsiders into a group of women you're trying to get in good with. Why invite a psycho, wannabe mob boss/Dr. Evil/Cruella de Vil character to what's supposed to be a nice, relaxed event?
And so sure enough the pleasant conversation turned venomous and the party unraveled. It was like the verbal equivalent of the blur you see out a zooming train window-almost impossible to decipher where things began and how they would end. Let's try to break down the breakdown:
Camille took the first shot by zeroing in on Faye Resnick. Who is this woman, she wondered aloud? Where do I know her? Is she a personality like the rest of us? Kyle explained that Faye is her bestest friend, but Camille knew better than that: "Oh, you know how I know her," she said brightly. "I saw her naked in Playboy. She posed naked after the O.J. trial," she said pointing at the woman like a witness picking out the defendent. Camille accused her of spreading her legs and being morally corrupt. Of course, Camille has posed for Playboy as well, except she was carefully covered in lingerie. Camille is fond of claiming that women are jealous of her, but I have a feeling she dreams of getting naked for Hef.
Then we met the surprise dinner party guest, Mr. Electronic Cigarette. The medium was all over this device like it was the source of all of her powers. I don't know about you, but I didn't think for one second that she was trying to quit smoking with the help of technology.
The ladies were easily seduced by Allison's effortless cool, and they begged to sample her psychic abilities-especially after she said she had been on Oprah and studied by a scientist. Lisa wanted to know if her grandmother was in the room, but Allison warned that she, like a cigarette, is a drug. Once you get one taste, you want more. Oh Allison, you're such a tease!
"If somebody's husband is cheating on them, she'll know," Camille said about Allison's superpowers. Ugh, Allison must not be very good at her craft. But she is super skilled in mean girl rhetoric. She turned to Kyle and announced that Mauricio will never fulfill her and as soon as her kids grow up they'll have nothing in common. Them's fightin' words, and so they did.
Everyone started screaming about the events in New York and what Kyle and Faye could do with their two legs (walk away) and the purpose of bringing Faye to the party (Camille and the medium insisted it was an ambush). The medium smized and squinted at the women. Sometimes she looked like she had gunk in her eyes, other times I'm pretty sure she was saying 'who gonna check me boo!' with her retinas.
Finally, Taylor had had enough. "Enough!" she shouted at housewives as she got up from the table to signal it was time to go. Everyone seemed relieved to see the evening end, except for Camille, who I caught grinning with pleasure at the catfight that had erupted around her. Something tells me this was the result she had wanted all along: more proof that women are made crazy with envy by her.
Highlights:
• "Now that I have an American driver's license, every time I get stopped I'm going to have a much harder time talking my way out of it." -Lisa channeling Alicia Silverstone in 'Clueless'
• "I hate to leave you tonight you little sex monster!" -Lisa saying goodbye to her dog Giggy
• "I collect lingerie. For me it's like candy. Then I can prance around by myself in front of the mirror and make myself feel really good cuz I'm alone all the time anyway." -Camille
• "Lingerie? I thought the whole point of Playboy was no lingerie." -Lisa, after hearing about Camille's photos
• "Faye was like a panther prowling through the jungle." -Lisa, on Faye's studied entrance into the fight
• "I have books written on me and by me and a television show based on my life-so you can just take a flying leap!" -Allison
• "I can tell her when she will die and what will happen to her family-I love that about me," Allison says about how she has one up on Kyle.
• "It was a few clowns short of a circus." -Lisa, on the party
• "She came into my home and insulted me. Fool me once-oh pshwa." -Camille channeling George Bush
• "Their friend? They can't even spell friends." -medium Allison on her newest enemies
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What did you guys think of the episode? Was Kyle crazy to attend Camille's party in the first place? Was Camille setting a trap for the housewives by inviting her lunatic friend Allison? And how badly were you lusting after Camille's closet, which looked to be the size of a small house?
'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' airs Thursdays,10PM ET on Bravo

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