The Real Housewives of Atlanta

  1. Episode 23 Reunion Part 3
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Part 3 Recap: Devils Don’t Regret Season five comes to an end. This was a great one. We laughed more than ever, and cringed only slightly.
  2. Episode 22 Reunion Part II
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Two Recap Kim came back last night. It was supposed to be a highlight, but it just sort of fizzled.
  3. Episode 21 Reunion Part 1
  4. Episode 20 Divas Into Icons
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Five Finale Recap: Malice Content If you’re supposed to dress up as B*A*P*S-era Halle Berry for a costume party, don’t show up as Dorothy Dandridge–era Halle Berry.
  5. Episode 19 Donktabulous!
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Booty Pop, Drop, and Roll For all the nonsense, at least last night’s episode had a happy ending.
  6. Episode 18 He’s Stalking, I’m Walking
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Enemy of My Enemy A party is thrown! A men’s health awareness party.
  7. Episode 17 Strip is a Trip
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Strip It Bare Off to Vegas! Why are they traveling so much this season?
  8. Episode 16 Peaches Don’t Grow in Hollywood
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner So it’s NOT all right to show up three hours late for dinner in Los Angeles?
  9. Episode 15 Prayed Up
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Ground Rules for Dummies Finally, we’re moving away from Bootygate 2012 and into more serious matters like pageantry and potentially life-threatening illnesses.
  10. Episode 15 Praise the Pageant
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Pure Pageantry Cynthia sold front-row seats to a train wreck and Porsha stole a baby, and it would all have been better with more Nene.
  11. Episode 13 Make an Ass Out of a Donkey
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Sweet Revenge These past two weeks of boring booty talk were just prepping us for the return of the off-the-wall craziness this group of women does so well.
  12. Episode 12 This Donkey Kicks
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Battle of the Booty We do not understand how we’ve come to write about asses every single week now.
  13. Episode 11 This Donkey Kicks
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: To the Butt Cam! Or, how many times can we type the phrase “donkey booty”?
  14. Episode 10 Off the Hook
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fishing for Compliments NeNe and Gregg got engaged, so the will-they-won’t-they get back together of this season has become a moot point.
  15. Episode 9 Dress Down and Strip Bare
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: On the Outs Nene tries to discern whether or not Kenya is “real”; Cynthia and Peter go to a strip club; everyone drinks.
  16. Episode 8 Fools of Engagement
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Crying and Lying Back to Anguilla for some tropical fighting and dashed wedding dreams.
  17. Episode 7 I Do…But, I Won’t
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Wedlock and Headlocks A secret wedding goes down, though everyone seems to know about it.
  18. Episode 6 Hold on to Your Weave
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Thrilla in Anguilla Vacation means marriage pressure, donkey booties, and the occasional bathtub tragedy.
  19. Episode 5 No Excuse for Excuses
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Short Cervix Makes a Bad Friend Chances are great that Kim will no longer be on the show, and we are feeling all of our feelings about it.
  20. Episode 4 Unmoved
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Butt-Dialed and Busted Much to our dismay, this is a Kim-heavy episode.
  21. Episode 3 Call Me Miss USA
    RHOA Recap: Our Civil Rights Legacy Is … We finally get to meet the last new housewife.
  22. Episode 2 Excess Breeds Success
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Parties, Parades, and Living Pets I think we’re contractually obligated to start each show with Nene, and so we do again this week.
  1. Episode 24 Reunion Part 2
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta ‘Reunion Part 2’ Recap: Respect Is Earned The aftermath of the Porsha Rip Down was very entertaining on part two of the reunion.
  2. Episode 23 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Part 1 Recap: Gloves Off Is this the first time a physical assault has happened at a Housewives reunion?
  3. Episode 23 Reunion Part 3
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta S6 Finale, Part 3 Last night, one thing became abundantly clear: These people hate each other.
  4. Episode 22 The Final Curtain Call
  5. Episode 21 Mess Rehearsal
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Mother’s Love We’re one episode away from the season finale, so last night was a good time to rehash old fights and bring on fresh pain.
  6. Episode 20 With Friends Like These
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Return From Bitch Mountain The one where the B word gets thrown around a lot.
  7. Episode 19 Mexi-Loco
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Women’s Business Here’s the real business: Apollo is a punk and we cannot stand him.
  8. Episode 18 He Said She Said
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Malcontents in Mexico On this, the 746th trip of the season, the Housewives go to Mexico.
  9. Episode 18 Flirting With Disaster
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Caving In How are we still on this vacation?
  10. Episode 16 Twirling With the Enemy
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Let the Games Begin NeNe really shouldn’t be on this show anymore, right?
  11. Episode 15 Dropping the Ball
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Stanky Leg, Stanky Heart There have never been more forced interactions than there are this season, and it’s starting to break everyone down.
  12. Episode 14 Divided Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Aftermath This week we finish the fight, start a new one, and recover from the fight. It’s basically all about the fight.
  13. Episode 13 Pillow Talk or Pillow Fight?
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Porshasexuality This season is full of relentless get-togethers, but this one ended with a fight. An actual fight!
  14. Episode 12 Sour Grapes, Sour Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Vicious Vineyard This episode was a slow burn to greatness — when these people fight, they fight well.
  15. Episode 11 Crunk in the Trunk
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Trunk Show, Oh No Phaedra declared war on Chuck’s penis, NeNe declared war on friendship, and Kenya’s dad declared war on her taste. 
  16. Episode 10 A Trip Down Memory Lane
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Two Months Too Long Cynthia has a “come to Jesus” talk with Peter.
  17. Episode 9 Midnight in the Garden of Tea and Shade
  18. Episode 8 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap In which someone thinks the Underground Railroad was an actual railroad.
  19. Episode 7 Savann-No
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Late Arrivals A vacation to Savannah started the way it will probably end — with seven women screaming at each other.
  20. Episode 6 The Old Lady and the Shoe
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Mama Joyce Is the Worst In which one person tries to beat another person with a shoe.
  21. Episode 5 Save the Drama for Mama
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: If Mama Ain’t Happy Mama Joyce is definitely drunk all the time, right?
  22. Episode 4 Too Late to Apollo-gize
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Whorish Tendencies Is it possible we’ve been dragging this “did they, didn’t they?” Apollo-and-Kenya thing out for a whole year?
  23. Episode 3 All in a Day’s Twerk
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Twerk Your Pain Away NeNe would rather chew tinfoil than revert back to her non-Hollywood self.
  24. Episode 2 Girl Code Breakers
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fibroids and Fighting Our goodwill toward Porsha lasted an entire week.
  25. Episode 1 Bye Bye With the Wind
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta S6 Premiere Recap It’s the first episode of the season and we’re already riveted.
  1. Episode 25 Reunion Part 3
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Roughest Season Ever It’s over! And jeez, what an ending. Did you buy it? Did you shout, “Oh, come on!” at your TV and then eat a fistful of Red Vines like I did?
  2. Episode 24 Reunion Part 2
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Tensefull of a Fellatio I’ve needed some kind of cereal-box decoder to understand Phaedra since last year.
  3. Episode 24 Reunion Part 1
    RHOA Recap: Reunited and It Feels So Awful This reunion just got great — or completely awful, depending on your tolerance for yelling.
  4. Episode 22 Atlanta Twirls On
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Make Up or Break Up We ended the season as we began it: with most of the cast trying to figure out how to be friends, and with NeNe on the outs.
  5. Episode 21 Chasing Nay-Nay
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: New Money Issues Why in the goddamn hell are we finding ways to give men more control of our vaginas?
  6. Episode 20 From Zen to Sin
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Peace Treaty What good is charity if no one sees it? Isn’t that the first chapter in Dianetics?
  7. Episode 19 Drama Detox
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: No Booze, No Meat, No Drama We only have psychology to blame for whatever happens in the next two episodes.
  8. Episode 18 Housewife Interrupted
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: License to Ill “We can’t even have dinner together, how are we going to fly around the world?”
  9. Episode 17 Fix It Therapy
  10. Episode 16 Southern Discomfort
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: ‘Not the Ebola, Girl!’ Do you know how many friendships could have been salvaged if half of these women just left conversations halfway through?
  11. Episode 15 Chocolate Does a Body Good
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bless This Mess The winner and still-champion: Kenya, surprisingly.
  12. Episode 14 Hello Mr. Chocolate
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Apollo Landing Listen: This was an uncomfortable episode, but we have to get through the craziness of the beginning before we can address the craziness of the end. 
  13. Episode 13 The Countdown Begins
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Not Begging, Dying, or Trying It’s a good thing it’s so big, because Porsha’s ass is being handed to her left and right this season!
  14. Episode 12 Beauties in the Fast Lane
  15. Episode 11 Divide and Ki-Ki
    RHOA Recap: The He-Man Woman-Haters Club Honestly, what’s so hard about apologizing?
  16. Episode 10 Puerto Read-Co
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Master of Puppets It’s time to take a trip to Puerto Rico.
  17. Episode 9 50 Shades of Shade
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Sexology, Party of 10 Are they trying to make Demetria happen as a housewife or something? We’re already full up!
  18. Episode 8 Tea With a Side of Squashed Beef
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Is this really the best way to squash beef?
  19. Episode 7 Nice to Metria
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Reel to Real Video-release parties are apparently a thing.
  20. Episode 6 Make-Ups and Breakdowns
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Around-the-Way Girls Oh, the glory that is Sharon yelling, “I will punch her in her mouth!”
  21. Episode 5 Friend or Faux
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Self-Centered Shine “You’re not a liar or a whore, but you are cray-cray and a little ashy.”
  22. Episode 4 Burying the Ratchet
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bawl So Hard We now live in a world where women are afraid to try on shoes because they’re between pedicures.
  23. Episode 3 All Tea All Shade
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: All Apologies New housewife Claudia was added to the roster last night.
  24. Episode 2 No Moore Apollogies
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Apollo Oh No One of our favorite Housewives pastimes — throw a party for your minor accomplishments!
  25. Episode 1 Bye Bye & Bon Voyage
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 7 Premiere This entire season is going to be about Apollo and Phaedra the way New Jersey was all about Teresa and Joe.
  1. Episode 20 Reunion Part Three
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: That’s a Wrap! Kandi and Phaedra are pretty much over.
  2. Episode 19 Reunion Part Two
    RHOA Recap: Stop It, Porsha All this stuff about Kim’s husband is ugly and unnecessary.
  3. Episode 18 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Real Kim Fields Stands Up Kim finally defends herself. Deal with it, Kenya!
  4. Episode 17 Who’s Been Naughty Who’s Been Nice
    RHOA Finale Recap: Phaedra’s Winter Wonderland Phaedra trying to clog is a perfect metaphor for this season
  5. Episode 16 Turning Over a New Peach
  6. Episode 15 Read School Is in Session
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kim Defends Her Husband If Kim doesn’t leave this show by the end of the season, I’ll be shocked.
  7. Episode 14 Peaches of the Caribbean
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kenya Spreads Rumors About Chris Sheree, you are a national treasure. I love you.
  8. Episode 13 Jamaican Beef Catty
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: ‘Kenya? Who Dat?’ Cynthia, a.k.a. Human Plot Device, refuses to let this Kim/Kenya fight end.
  9. Episode 12 Beauties and the Beat
    RHOA Recap: Where’s the Beat? Who wears makeup to a makeup-free brunch? It must be opposite day in Atlanta.
  10. Episode 11 Ms. Parks Goes to Washington
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: NeNe Returns! I like this slightly nicer side of Miss NeNe Leakes. Let’s see how long it lasts.
  11. Episode 10 Trouble on the Family Tree
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kenya Confronts Her Mom I’m all for “reality” television, but this shouldn’t be captured on camera.
  12. Episode 9 Shade for Days
    RHOA Recap: Are Porsha and Kandi Still Friends? I’m not sure what anything means anymore. Is up now down? Is left now right?
  13. Episode 8 There’s No Business Like Friend Business
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Step Up, Cynthia! As much as I love Cyn, her hair doesn’t make a good hour of television.
  14. Episode 7 Miami Spice
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kim and Kenya’s Showdown Fruit is sliced tensely, and fake smiles are thrown.
  15. Episode 6 Bienvenido a Miami
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kim’s Miami Tears I’m really concerned about Kim Fields.
  16. Episode 5 Where Is the Love Boat?
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Those Who Brunch Together … God, Cynthia is insufferable in this episode.
  17. Episode 4 Rocky Boat Horror Story
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Porsha and Cynthia’s Crazy Fight A non-problem at the boat party becomes a very big problem.
  18. Episode 3 Party in a Sweatbox
    RHOA Recap: Cynthia Fights for Her Marriage All I have to say about this episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta is: “Woof.”
  19. Episode 2 Duking It Out
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Kim Fields Makes Her Debut! I’m going to go ahead and say it: I don’t miss NeNe. Sorry!
  20. Episode 1 The Shades of It All
    RHOA Season 8 Recap: The Return of Sheree We maybe have lost a NeNe, but we gained a Sheree, who is injecting some much-needed life into this aging series.
  1. Episode 24 Reunion, Part Four
  2. Episode 23 Reunion, Part Three
  3. Episode 22 Reunion, Part Two
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: Focus on the Truth It’s difficult to talk about this reunion in a fun, snarky way.
  4. Episode 21 Reunion Part One
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Ready to Pop Off There is a whole bunch of mess here and it is all covered in a layer of psychosexual obsessions.
  5. Episode 20 Chateau She Did That
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Unfinished Basements Here it is: the unveiling of the infamous and unfinished Chateau Sheree.
  6. Episode 19 Side Dishes and Side Pieces
    Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Keepin’ It Moist This episode was a damn delight.
  7. Episode 18 Baby Nups & Breakups
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Possibly Evil There is a surprising lack of shade this week.
  8. Episode 17 Aloha & Goodbye
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Peter Principle This Hawaii vacation was a bust. Do better, Real Housewives.
  9. Episode 16 Maui Mayhem
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Maui-Motional This episode was an emotional roller coaster.
  10. Episode 15 Lei It All on the Table
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Maui Fever Kandi shows the receipts in full multicolor, one-sided, collated, triple-ply glory.
  11. Episode 14 Loose Lips Sink Ships
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Rumor Has It Who’s excited to hear the same conversation repeated six times?
  12. Episode 13 If These Woods Could Talk
  13. Episode 12 Into the Woods
  14. Episode 11 Thelma and Louise Take Flint
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Cabin Fever I can’t with Kenya right now.
  15. Episode 10 Uncharitable Behavior
  16. Episode 9 Char-lotta Drama
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Matt Problem This is going to end terribly and it’s not fun.
  17. Episode 8 Bosom Buddies
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Cute and Cordial Mama Joyce’s pettiness cannot be stopped.
  18. Episode 7 Model Behavior
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Foolish Decisions You can’t babysit in a white mermaid dress, Porsha.
  19. Episode 6 Tastes Like Trouble
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Messy Can we just stop with Matt?
  20. Episode 5 Shade Grenade
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: I’m With Her Representative Frederica Wilson needs her own show.
  21. Episode 4 Another Spin Around the Block
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The End of Men Everyone needs to be more like Leon.
  22. Episode 3 Ghosts of Boyfriends Past
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Blockhead Oh, goody! Rigid gender roles!
  23. Episode 2 Housewife House Wars
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Great Escape Bertha, Nora, and Mama Joyce are the greatest.
  24. Episode 1 House of Shade and Dust
    RHOA Season-Premiere Recap: Manners in the Manor Kenya throws a housewarming party without lights or chairs or walls.
  1. Episode 21 Reunion Part 3
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Finale Recap: The Roach Metaphor If Kim wants something positive, she should stick to Don’t Be Tardy reunions.
  2. Episode 20 Reunion Part 2
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: Petty Drama I’m not enamored with the latest Kim and NeNe feud.
  3. Episode 19 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: Bone Collector Is Porsha sorry? Is Kenya pregnant? Can Marlo pronounce the word “bond”?
  4. Episode 18 Nightmare on Peachtree Street
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Finale Recap: The Exterminator and the Roach This finale provided us with some of the best images in Real Housewives history
  5. Episode 17 ReMarcable
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Children and Mothers Did Kenya marry a sexy mannequin? It’s possible.
  6. Episode 16 Driving Miss Kim
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Problem With NeNe NeNe is everything that is wrong and right about the Real Housewives franchise.
  7. Episode 15 Let There Be Light and Love
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Love & Ham What did Shereé know? When did she know it? What exactly is a water bug?
  8. Episode 14 Barcelona Breakdown
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Barcelona Nights Are we going to lose two Housewives this season?
  9. Episode 13 Livin’ la Villa Loca
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Wisdom of the Elders Is the biggest drama this season really between two people on different continents?
  10. Episode 12 Peaches Be Trippin’
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: No Beef Vegan Dinner This show really doesn’t work when the ladies get along, does it?
  11. Episode 11 Tea Is of the Essence
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Tea Time The one and only Eva the Diva has arrived.
  12. Episode 10 Storming Out
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Houston Strong Kenya is on a mission to prove that she’s the most charitable.
  13. Episode 9 The Peaches of Wrath
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Elephants on Parade We’re all cheering for Shereé and her prison boo.
  14. Episode 8 A Mad Tea Party
  15. Episode 7 Rock the Boat
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Dating Game Shereé is living my Goodfellas dream relationship.
  16. Episode 6 All Aboard the Shady Express
  17. Episode 5 Petty Party
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: San Francisco Memories “When you go on a trip with a bunch of bitches who don’t like you, you better slay every occasion.”
  18. Episode 4 All White Never Forget Showdown
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Never Forget Give Kim Zolciak the peach back, Bravo!
  19. Episode 3 Chateau Get Down
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Disco Fever What kind of filler episode is this?
  20. Episode 2 Say Yes to Distress
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Wedding Bells If I don’t see some part of this wedding, I’m gonna be furious.
  21. Episode 1 50 Shades of Cynthia
  1. Episode 21 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: Friend or Foe? Almost every single topic on this reunion comes back to NeNe and her complete and total lack of fucks to give.
  2. Episode 20 Caught in the Middle
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season Finale Recap: A New Light Kenya Moore Daly herself limbos into the finale to cause an 11th-hour rift between NeNe and Cynthia.
  3. Episode 19 No Money, Mo’ Problems
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Rumor Has It The chaos of this season just will not stop, and we must acknowledge that the majority of the drama has revolved around NeNe and Eva.
  4. Episode 18 The Model Bride
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Wedding Bell Blues The combination of Eva’s wedding and the aftermath from the Bye Wig party does little to alleviate NeNe’s troubles. But the gowns
  5. Episode 17 Welcome to the Dungeon
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Dungeon Master Has Kandi finally reclaimed “dungeon” after the Porsha drama? Sure, Kandi. Sure
  6. Episode 16 Bye Wig, Hello Drama
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Closet Drama Nene’s Bye Wig Party builds to a vomit chain reaction — and, somehow, that’s just the beginning of the night’s drama.
  7. Episode 15 Let’s Make It Official
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Proposals and Stuff For someone so incredibly focused on getting engaged, Porsha sure is missing all the clues.
  8. Episode 14 Lost in Translation
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Tokyo Roses The Japan trip comes to a lively close with samurai training, pickle sex positions, and multiple deliveries of gigantic bouquets.
  9. Episode 13 Tempers in Tokyo
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fight Night This Japan trip is delivering.
  10. Episode 12 The Peaches of Tokyo
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Tokyo Story Literally zero of these people are skilled at conflict resolution, which makes it a great time to head overseas together!
  11. Episode 11 Texts, Lies & Therapy
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fire Escape This Porsha/Kandi feud is wearing thiiiiiiiiiiin.
  12. Episode 10 The Wrong Road
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Hibachi Fight Night Don’t tease me with a pregnant Porsha going after Kandi, RHOA.
  13. Episode 9 A Mother’s Love
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Empty Nest Cynthia sending Noelle off to college is the emotional centerpiece of a mother-centric episode.
  14. Episode 8 Final Destin-ation
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bitch Stole My Talent The forecast for the Housewives’ rainy day in Florida: partly shady with a some organized fun peeking through.
  15. Episode 7 Sisterhood of the Traveling Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Truth or Dare Eva needs one of those things quarterbacks wear on their wrists to track plays, but for her lies.
  16. Episode 6 Whining and Dining
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Boobs and Bourbon (and Wine) NeNe must have a bag of words she uses when putting together her party themes.
  17. Episode 5 Tatted Tales
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Mama Tried All the hookah sessions in the world can’t make the difficult mother-daughter conversations in this episode go down easier.
  18. Episode 4 Pass The Peach, Throw The Shade
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Living Legends Shamari makes the most of her limited screen-time in an episode that’s high on family drama.
  19. Episode 3 A New Addition
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Holistic Approach In resetting from the Miami trip, RHOA whips emotionally back and forth between Gregg’s cancer battle and Eva’s attempts to start a shade war.
  20. Episode 2 South Peach
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Miami Heat As Nene is occupied with a comedy show and the Swagalicious opening, Porsha steps in to fill the drama void.
  21. Episode 1 To Love and to Cherish
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season Premiere Recap: Just Peachy Porsha and Kandi’s relationship is … strained.
  1. Episode 20 More Love More Problems
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Mother Nature For a brief, shining moment, after returning from an all-expenses trip to Greece, the Housewives are just some moms trying to get by.
  2. Episode 19 Ruined Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Goddess of War At this point, the energy required to keep Nene and Kenya’s feud going could power a small city. Aren’t they tired?
  3. Episode 18 A Greek Tragedy in 6 Acts
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Negative Betty NeNe and Kenya are incapable of maintaining any level of kindness for more than 20 minutes at a time, and we should stop expecting them to.
  4. Episode 17 Greece Is the Word
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Baggage Check There is a volcano brewing with NeNe and Kenya, and it’s going to ruin baby Brooklyn and baby PJ’s dream vacations.
  5. Episode 16 In the Name of Charity
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: End It Kenya really lives in the darkest timeline possible.
  6. Episode 15 Kenya vs. Ken
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Blame Game There are so many reasons why Kenya definitely should divorce Marc, but forcing her to hang out with NeNe is positively criminal.
  7. Episode 14 Lions and Tigers and Shade
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: NeNe Leakes and the Sad Lunch Bunch Let Kandi muttering, “Who are these random ladies” sustain you through these cold winter nights.
  8. Episode 13 Hot Tea With a Side of Cookies
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: One Tough Cookie It takes a bold woman to make an argument about her fiancé’s fidelity look fun, and Tanya, well, she did that.
  9. Episode 12 A Hairy Situation
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Bag of Weave and a Whole Pot of Tea Anyone who can get under Kenya’s skin as much as Tanya does deserves to be in contention for a peach.
  10. Episode 11 Snake Bye
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Snake Pit SnakeGate may be standard Housewives fodder, but that doesn’t mean everyone can’t react in a completely over-the-top way that solves nothing.
  11. Episode 10 Living on the Edge
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Apology Tour We’ve been setting the table for what feels like half the season. It’s time to sit down at the table and then flip it over.
  12. Episode 9 A Whine of a Time
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Carnival Night Some episodes just exist to set up a larger, bigger fight.
  13. Episode 8 Head Over Hills
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Chill Proposal This is the platonic ideal of a RHOA episode, and Kenya is its MVP.
  14. Episode 7 What Would Michelle O Do?
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: When They Go Low … Trying to find meaning or a coherent system of logic in Marlo’s opinions is a fool’s errand.
  15. Episode 6 Where There’s a Wig, There’s a Way
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Grand Entrance We need Kenya and the unmitigated gall she brings to the table because NeNe sure isn’t bringing it anymore.
  16. Episode 5 The Regift That Keeps on Giving
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: All Dolled Up It’s time for the Bailey-Que, and Eva brought bean dip and a doll with bad energy.
  17. Episode 4 Love, Marriage, and Sour Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Keeping Up Appearances Is this the season of RHOA where we discover that the tenuous bonds keeping these women together are as fragile as a Forever 21 bralette?
  18. Episode 3 The Float Goes On
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Baby of the House Kenya, jealous of the attention Brooklyn gets from her father, asks her husband to rank how much he loves her and their daughter. Oh. Oh Kenya, no.
  19. Episode 2 Cheatin’ Heart
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Truth Hurts The real emotional thrust of this season appears to be watching Porsha pick herself up after Dennis “the Hot Dog King” betrayed her.
  20. Episode 1 The Moore the Merrier
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Premiere Recap: Dennis the Menace Oh, our dear, sweet Porsha is going through it.
  1. Episode 18 How the Wig Stole Christmas
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Not-Quite-Friendsmas Drew’s final altercation with Latoya is the haphazard centerpiece of a lackluster conclusion to a frustrating season.
  2. Episode 17 A Whole Lott of Mess
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Blocking Your Blessings We finally get to the root of the church caper that has been vexing Drew, and the girls make a U-turn right back into Bolo Court.
  3. Episode 16 Hurricane Housewives
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fakeration in this Dancerie It takes a while, but Porsha finally gives the interrogation of her sex life by a co-worker the level of respect that it deserves.
  4. Episode 15 Cajun Peaches
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap:  A Healing Twerk Center The ladies are off to the Crescent City for some po’ boys, zydeco, and failed attempts at conflict resolution.
  5. Episode 14 If You’ve Got It, Haunt It
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Snakes on the Terrain Firmly establishing her brand as a chaos agent, Toya systemically dismantles Falynn’s Halloween “party,” one confrontation at a time.
  6. Episode 13 10.10.20
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Pandemmy Weddy #CHILL officially ties the knot (amid a global pandemic)!
  7. Episode 12 Front Page News
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Page Six Shin Ding Kenya opens up in therapy as the rest of the women try to figure out who leaked Cynthia’s bachelorette party to Page Six.
  8. Episode 11 The Usual Suspects
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Muffins and Mimosas We leave South Carolina on a rocky note and head back to Hotlanta, where memories of Bolo continue to loom large.
  9. Episode 10 What Happened in the Dungeon?
  10. Episode 9 The Hostess with the Least-est
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The People Versus Kenya Moore Kenya Moore’s terrible hosting has finally caught up with her.
  11. Episode 8 Beach, Please!
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Aunties vs. Nieces Who’s a worse party host: Kenya or Jigsaw?
  12. Episode 7 The Jet Set and the Upset
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Allow Me To ReintroDrewce Myself New housewife Drew finally takes center stage at a dinner party where she effectively meets all the ladies for the first time.
  13. Episode 6 The Giving Peach
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Daddy Issues Cynthia wrestles with whether or not to invite her father to her pandemic wedding, while Kandi gets the girls together for a good cause.
  14. Episode 5 Don’t Come For Me Unless I’ve Invited You
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Ice, Ice, Bailey The ladies arrive (quite late) for Kenya’s all-white winter wonderland surprise pandemic engagement party for Cynthia.
  15. Episode 4 From One Surprise to Another
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Surprise, Surprise The cracks in the fourth wall begin to show as both Cynthia and Kenya receive rude awakenings.
  16. Episode 3 Ten Ten, Twenty Twenty
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Head Over Hills Porsha lets her hair down and has a little well-earned fun, while Cynthia inches closer and closer to “bridezilla” territory.
  17. Episode 2 New Peach in the Orchard
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Horner Men We meet newcomers Drew Sidora and LaToya Ali, and get a little glimmer of the old Kenya Moore.
  18. Episode 1 No Justice No Peace
  1. Episode 17 A Fashion Show With Fashions
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Finale Recap: Spring, Summer, or September Fourteen years later, we have closed the beginning chapter of She by Shereé.
  2. Episode 16 It’s Expensive to Be She
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: She by Shereé, 4,692 Days Later The longest-running Housewives business that never was creeps ever closer to possible existence.
  3. Episode 15 Not Michelle Obama
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: How Low Can You Go? Kenya rebukes the accusation of being shady by … being even shadier.
  4. Episode 14 Montego Baes
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: She’s a Runner, She’s a Track Star Since becoming a full-time housewife, Marlo has gone from chronically messy to totally intolerable.
  5. Episode 13 A Rum Punch to the Gut
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Mrs. Worldwide Welcome to the party, Ms. Burruss!
  6. Episode 12 Trust (Planning) Issues
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Throwing Rocks and Collecting Bones Kandi and Todd have differing parenting styles.
  7. Episode 11 Cabin Fever
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Icons vs. Ex-Cons Well, that’s a wrap on the Blue Ridge trip.
  8. Episode 10 Guess Who’s Coming to Blue Ridge
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Battle of the Aquarians What we have here is the battle of the Aquarians.
  9. Episode 9 Midnight in the Chateau of Good & Evil
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Nude Interlude Pt. 2 (Atlanta Edition) Shereé hosts a sleepover-themed night filled with copious amounts of alcohol, food, coochie incense, and plenty of drama.
  10. Episode 8 Healthy Glow and Low Blows
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Drop It With Drew & Co. An investigation into Drew’s weight-loss program.
  11. Episode 7 Who Gon Check on Me, Boo?
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Hand Me Downs Sanya has been fully baptized into the Housewives Kingdom.
  12. Episode 6 Don’t Be Sea Salty
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Many Faces of Marlo The ladies are choosing teams and firing their first real shots.
  13. Episode 5 She by Herself
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: You Better Call Tyrone The last episode of the NYC trip gives the entertainment, shade, and drama we’ve been missing this season.
  14. Episode 4 Big Apple Squabbles
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Legs and Hips and Broadway The ladies and their men head to New York City at Kandi’s very characteristic invitation.
  15. Episode 3 The Tea Is Served
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Let the Games Begin Playing games with the RHOA cast more often than not ends in orchestrated chaos.
  16. Episode 2 All Aboard the Gaslight Express
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: A Master Class in Gaslighting If Shereé and Kenya are going to be friends, I’m happy to get Kenya versus Marlo early in the season.
  1. Episode 16 Art Imitates Life
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Finale Recap: The Emancipation of Drew Finally, RHOA dismantles the fourth wall for the most authentically dramatic moment in the last two seasons.
  2. Episode 15 Sip & Spill… The Tea
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bob’s Big Reveal We’re reminded once again that Bob’s villainy know no bounds.
  3. Episode 14 Peach Passion
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Ghost of Nene Leakes Nene’s recent words haunt this week’s scenes.
  4. Episode 14 Wreck-it-Ralph
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Booked, Busy, and Boring It’s the beginning of the end as Ralph ditches marriage counseling, says absolute nonsense, and gives Drew the cold shoulder.
  5. Episode 13 Sex, Lies, and Video-Phones
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Holistic Hell As entertaining as this episode is, it’s further proof that the wives need to stop holding back in front of the cameras.
  6. Episode 11 Make Ups, Slip Ups, and Cover Ups
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: And Scene! Drew is genuinely giving an outstanding, dramatic performance.
  7. Episode 10 Healing By Shereé
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Portuguese Pettiness Would it even be a Housewives international vacation without dinner-table tears?
  8. Episode 9 Better Late Than Ugly
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Blast From the Past The future of RHOA is more uncertain than ever.
  9. Episode 8 Rollerstakes and Blind Dates
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: She Not by Shein This season’s drama continues to circle the drain, but at least things are looking up in the weeks to come.
  10. Episode 7 Keeping It Gucci
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Gucci Grievances Getting the wives back on the same page goes utterly awry.
  11. Episode 6 Rap Sheets and Old Beefs
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Escape Room Explosions Seasons worth of baggage bubbles up for Kandi and Marlo.
  12. Episode 5 Drama for Yo Mama
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Door Is Closed RHOA is on life support. We need some star power to save it.
  13. Episode 4 The Buck Stops in Birmingham
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Alabama Blues The Peaches take on Birmingham to experience the Magic City Classic and maybe ignite some new beefs.
  14. Episode 3 A Star Is Reborn
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Off-Camera Behavior An off-camera confrontation oddly reminds us of what used to make RHOA so compelling in the first place.
  15. Episode 2 Sisters Before Misters
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bullets, Biscuits, and Bros In the year 2023, we should know better than to call each other ghetto, but here we are.
  16. Episode 1 Who’s Gonna Check My New Boo
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season-Premiere Recap: The Streets Are Talking You already know Atlanta wastes no time getting into the drama.

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