Sabotaging the catering for a wildly lavish event a few days before the event occurs is such a quintessential Housewives move that I actually can't believe we've never seen it proliferate through the franchise before. And now that I've witnessed it happen, it feels as though I'm experiencing the first time a Housewife, say , fed a story to The Blogs, or tweeted that a fellow Housewife was a roach while said Housewife was actively in laborβ¦. Which is to say: this is surely a move that will continue to be employed within the franchise for years to come.
Will we even remember what life was like before catering became a tool in the villainous Housewife's repertoire? Can there ever be a passed app again now that these women know sabotage is as simple as cutting off access to tiny eggrolls and stuffed mushroom caps? Only time will tell. For now, not only did Lisa Barlow make Housewives history with her heretofore unseen levels of alleged party sabotage⦠but she also ushered in Salt Lake City's first-ever "Friend Of," Angie, who brings with her even more wealth and traumatically severed ties to the Mormon Church than ever before.
Where season 1 of RHOSLC gave us a series we never could have expected, season 2 is giving us the Housewives series we deserve: casino nights, and catering fights, and forgiveness on ice β oh my! Given the catering-centric argument that dominated the back half of the episode, it's hard to believe that we started this hour back on that icy pond; fishing aspirations all but abandoned in favor of Whitney and Heather watching the fight between Jen, Meredith, and Lisa unfold like a blonder and more botoxed Statler and Waldorf.
And I can't decide what's funnier: Whitney attempting to be taken seriously in her fuzzy li'l bucket hat, or Heather saying that she can't follow Jen to the weak side of the ice because she lied about her body weight on the ice fishing forms.
As the episode opens, Jen is no closer to taking accountability for liking mean tweets that made assumptions about Brooks' sexuality, and she's attempting every method short of screaming "TROUT! First, she claims she doesn't run her own social media, then she says that Meredith needs to own the things Brooks has done to her β anything to keep from admitting that she's completely ruthless on social media.
