The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Unlucky Stars - Vulture

This week on our favorite show Rich Women Doing Things the rich women did things.

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.

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.

I say it’s between the rest of the women and Kyle, but really it’s just Erika, Lisa, Dorit, and Denise against Kyle.

The new women, as Garcelle points out, are sidelined by Kyle.

(She looked amazing, though.) Garcelle even agrees with Denise that Kyle doesn’t talk to them, she talks over them.

The most interesting readings belong to Denise and Teddi.

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.

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.

Why won’t Kyle acknowledge it?

That doesn’t mean I love any of you less.” I think what she’s afraid of is appearing impartial in fights, or the other women not thinking she would have their backs if they have a problem with Teddi for some reason.

As soon as anyone disagrees with her, she calls them an “asshole” and tells them to “shut the fuck up.” At least at this party she doesn’t get up and storm off like she did at the last one.

Dorit points this out to a teary Kyle, who can’t handle any criticism.

In the first few seasons it was her sister Kim, whose often chemically induced rage made Kyle seem like the softer and more reasonable one.

If she took the blame for the behind-the-scenes machinations, then Kyle came off scot-free for protecting the group.

Now Kyle is laid bare, her obvious favoritism and outsized reactions on full display for everyone to openly critique, and she obviously does not like the scrutiny.

The fight doesn’t so much resolve itself as fizzle out with the end of the episode, possibly to continue next week.

So Dorit told the women that she’s investing in one Buca in the Valley (which will be the first institution I visit once lockdown is lifted), but it seems like she’s just redecorating one room in the Buca.

So one room will look like the inside of an Italian grandmother’s knicker drawer and the other room will look like, what, a downmarket boutique hotel lobby in need of a refresh.