‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ season 6 reunion (part 1) review: The Yolanda Hadid story
The thing about Tuesday night’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” reunion show is rather simple: You probably did not even need to watch it in order to get some sort of proper understanding as to what was going on. This was a case of there being mostly one linear storyline most of the season, and you knew that it was going to be hammered home like nobody’s business.
Of course, we’re talking about Yolanda Hadid and everything from her illness to her eventual divorce, which made us very sad for her. From a TV standpoint, of course we appreciated her candor on the show when she talked about some of what she and David Foster have been through. We’ve never felt like she has been disingenuous at all about it, which is why in turn the remainder of the other stories this season have been so frustrating.
At this point, do we really care that much who brought up Munchausen for the first time? Honestly, we don’t. It doesn’t matter if it was Lisa Rinna, Lisa Vanderpump, or a producer somewhere, everyone’s complicit in keeping it going since they seemed to realize, maybe through watching this last season of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” that beating the dead horse on it would make for a lot of screen time. It was boring screen time, and screen time we didn’t even believe, but screen time nonetheless.
This first part of the reunion was to us mostly another reminder that we really do need a fundamental shake-up at the core of this show to spice things up and give us some new personalities. Maybe we’ll change our mind after the second part of the reunion, but for now Yolanda, Eileen Davidson, and Erika Girardi are the three ladies whose stories we find compelling right now. Everyone else, meh. Grade: C.
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