Tuesday on The Real Housewives of New York City Season 7 Episode 5, Bethenny sat down with Sonja to work through their issues, free of drama.
Yeah, right.
Tonight’s episode opened up with Bethenny and Sonja lunching and discussing Sonja’s legal issues.
After her divorce, Sonja wound up on the losing end of a $7 million lawsuit of which she is required to pay every penny. Plus, she filed for Chapter 11, so creditors and collectors are riding her a** for her money and assets.
Bethenny and Sonja talked business. Well, Bethenny, a highly successful entrepreneur, talked business. Sonja faked business.
Sonja claims she is in the “fashion lifestyle brands.” What does that mean???
As she stutters around what her business is—fashion, perfume, jewelry, stuff—she tells Bethenny she is invested in “international fashion.”
Never shy, Bethenny responds, “No one knows you internationally.” Drop the mic.
This interaction between Bethenny and Sonja serves various functions in the episode.
One, it re-confirms that Sonja is bat sh*t crazy. Her business model is a flimsy idea founded on impromptu fantasies and improvisational ideas.
With every sentence she utters about “fashion lifestyle brands,” her hypersensitivity to Bethenny’s questions and half-answers prove she has no idea what she is talking about.
The opening lunch scene with Sonja also helps underscore the tone for the remainder of the episode: Sonja sucks.
Well, she sucks. Sonja herself confirmed that. But according to her, she doesn’t swallow. In fact, changing the subject, she thwarted Bethenny's criticism with a conversation about her sexual preferences: “I don’t swallow, unless you have a black card.”
Later in the episode, Sonja invites Bethenny to meet the Sonja Brands team. At best, the team is sketchy. For every question Bethenny fires, they have no answer. They can't disclose this. They can't disclose that. But don't worry, they "know people."
The meeting was so sketch, Bethenny even jokes, “I forgot I took a hit of acid before I came to their meeting.”
Sure, they don’t have to share trade secrets with Bethenny. But Bethenny seriously banked on her personal business endeavors; she knows her sh*t.
Although she won’t disclose the full amount, Bethenny sold her Skinnygirl cocktail brand for a reported $100 million. If Sonja's team were smart, they would consider Betheny's concerns and heed her advice.
Sonja even ignored her other RHONYC cast members who have a hand in the fashion industry: Heather and LuAnn.
Bethenny argues Sonja failed to invite Heather and LuAnn to the Sonja Brands meeting because “she’s alienated the rest of the women.” But it mostly seemed Sonja felt she had something to prove to Bethenny, in her typical self-indulgent way.
To date, she has a website with “pre-order now” items. She also previewed a red plunging jumpsuit at New York Fashion Week.
However, Sonja has begun business endeavors before and abandoned them—a sexy book, a movie, a movie producer, a toaster oven… So this website doesn’t mean much until the orders are filled.
One of the major questions so far this season is where is Kristen? Five episodes into this season, Kristen has hardly made an appearance.
In the season premiere, she claimed her husband, Josh, was not as much of an a**hole. Doubt it.
Last week, she was briefly shown complaining that Bethenny didn’t invite her to her birthday party.
Tonight, she was only shown for a few moments talking about her new fashion blog. But otherwise, she has been non-existent or a wallflower while the other ladies steal the show.
After her marital problems were exposed last season, Kristen banned cameras from filming fights with her husband. Since then, she has had little airtime. This suggests they might be fighting more than Kristen is leading on.
Sources claim they are doing better, but without seeing her on the show it is hard to say.
There’s been no word about Kristen’s future on the show. But if she doesn’t step up the drama, it wouldn’t be surprising if this is the last season we see her. Time will tell.
Carole finally fessed up to LuAnn that she is dating LuAnn’s very young chef, Adam. LuAnn isn’t happy about this because Adam is LuAnn’s niece’s ex-boyfriend.
LuAnn seemed a little frustrated with the situation, but she ultimately said they will work something out. We can probably expect this love triangle to bring more drama later in the season.
Until then, we will have to suffer through watching Dorinda’s greasy boyfriend grope the other housewives. Yuck.
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