This episode wasn’t the “snoozefest” Kim told me it would be. In fact, it was more entertaining than last week’s.
Perhaps the problem was the hour revolved more around NeNe than Kim, though a key moment did happen between Kim and Lisa. They reconciled — more or less.
Lisa was more upfront than Kim. She apologized for making light of Kim’s past illness. Kim, on the other hand, refused to admit she ever called Lisa a “crack whore” per se, that she was reading stuff from a blog describing Lisa as a “crack whore.” Lisa said she heard Kim was talking smack about her from multiple sources. Kim then went on a “I’m a parent, I’d never do that” speech, which Lisa didn’t buy off camera but nodded through with Kim.
“The namecalling, the shouting, it’s stupid,” Lisa said to Kim. “It’s so unproductive.” (Yet… oh, so entertaining.)
Lisa, being the bigger person, decided to just move on. And Kim was satisfied with Lisa’s apology. So they are now at least in truce mode.
Kim’s relationship with Sheree, since the wig-pulling routine, remains awkward though they at least talked later in the episode after ignoring each other at the King Tut trip in a previous show.
The focal point of the episode was NeNe directing the five of them for an “alter ego” shoot courtesy Derek Blank. The concept: play two characters and have them melded together via Photoshop.
NeNe wanted Kim to play a black girl. Kim refused. Instead, she played a Stepford Wife and a mistress. As NeNe said, “She should ace this one because she is a mistress!” (NeNe skipped directing that one portion.)
Kandi decided to play an evil drunk driver and the victim after a nephew of her fiance got hit by a drunk driver and was in a coma. It was quite emotional for her but she got through it and NeNe directed with compassion.
Lisa showed her acting chops by doing a good job playing a girl scout and a wacked out bad girl who had knocked her good girl persona off a bike.
Then everyone except Kim went over to Magic City strip club to do the photo shoots for Sheree and NeNe. Sheree was a bit offended at first that NeNe wanted her to play a bank robber robbing herself as a fashionista. The idea stems from how Sheree wanted to get “seven figures” from her ex husband (which she did not get in the end.)
But she actually enjoyed the play acting. “It felt kind of good to make a joke of it,” Sheree said. “NeNe’s suggestion wasn’t so bad after all.”
NeNe played a prim girl, embarrassed to be at a strip club — and a stripper. As noted in her book (but not directly on the show), she was a stripper for many years at places such as the Gold Club. So she did quite a good job working the pole and letting her friends fall out, forcing Bravo to liberally blur them out.
Earlier in the episode, the tensions between Kandi and NeNe popped up again. NeNe wanted Kandi to play a ghetto girl, which Kandi was mildly offended. NeNe, Kandi said, “is the ghettoist of us all!”
NeNe said, “I’m not from the ‘hood. I’m from Athens. I’m not from the projects.” But she admitted: “I can get hood on you. I will let a bitch have it.”
At the photo shoot, though, they liked how the other person directed them. So all is better — for now. (We know from earlier teases that this won’t last.)
Next week: Sheree thinks Lisa is copying her over fashion and shows up late to Lisa’s fashion show. Passive-aggressive, people?
Locales featured:
Magic City (won’t link to a strip club but it isn’t hard to find).
Oddly, the restaurant where Lisa and Kim ate is not identified. Could anybody in then know tell?
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