The Real Housewives of New York City

  1. Episode 17 Reunion 3
    Real Housewives: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby Our recap of the final installment of the reunion tour.
  2. Episode 16
  3. Episode 15 Reunion, Part 1
    Real Housewives of NYC Recap: No Resolution Our recap of the first installment of the ‘Real Housewives’ reunion bonanza.
  4. Episode 14 Rebuked, Reunited, Renewed
  5. Episode 13 Shunburn
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Return From ‘Poison Island’ Last night’s episode was even more confusing than ‘Lost.’ Let’s deconstruct.
  6. Episode 12 Sun, Sand and Psychosis
  7. Episode 11 Housewives Overboard
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Sloshed Who won last night’s drunken episode?
  8. Episode 10 Leap Before You Look
    Real Housewives of NYC: Alex in Chains This show is killing us.
  9. Episode 9 Shoot the Messenger
    Real Housewives Recap: Here’s the Poop Once again, fecal matter was front and center.
  10. Episode 8 Let’s See That Ring
    Real Housewives Recap: She Panicked and She Pooped Our weekly recap of the hot mess that is ‘RHONY.’
  11. Episode 7 New Girl, Old Money
    Housewives Recap: The Straw That Stirs the Drink Can you believe we’re still watching this?
  12. Episode 6 Bridge Over Troubled Water
    Real Housewives Recap: Hell Over the Water This show is beginning to harm our souls.
  13. Episode 5 Real Heartache
  14. Episode 4 Fashion, Fighting, and Free Booze!
    Real Housewives Recap: ‘It’s Amazing What We Can Endure’ Hell is a dinner at Saks where no food is served.
  15. Episode 3 Fall in Manhattan
    Real Housewives: Only Gay During the Day Our weekly recap of this show is beginning to get us down.
  16. Episode 2 Dueling Labor Day Parties
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Is Verbal Rape a Crime? Or merely a misdemeanor? Find out who won this week’s episode.
  17. Episode 1 New Alliances
  1. Episode 18 Reunion Part 2
  2. Episode 17 Reunion Part 1
  3. Episode 16
  4. Episode 15 Video Killed the Countess
  5. Episode 14
  6. Episode 13 Your Tweeting Heart
  7. Episode 12 16 and Skip the Sweet
  8. Episode 11 Debt Becomes Her
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bankruptcy Sport This week the ladies returned home.
  9. Episode 10 Last Call, Morocco
  10. Episode 9 A Riad Dvided
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Drunk, in the Desert This week the ladies finally ventured into the open air of Morocco, and it served the show well.
  11. Episode 8 Misfortune Teller
  12. Episode 7 Travel Reservations
    Real Housewives of New York City: Pinot Egregious This week’s episode had a thug in a cocktail dress.
  13. Episode 6 A Mask for Two Faces
  14. Episode 5 Following Pecking Orders
  15. Episode 2 Here Come the ‘Wives
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: All About Alex It’s hard to figure out who won this episode. Not hard to figure out who lost.
  16. Episode 1 Grin and Bare It
  1. Episode 20 Reunion, Part 2
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bring Back Jill Zarin And thus does our season comes to a close.
  2. Episode 19 Reunion, Part 1
    RHONYC Recap: Let Us Gather, Reunion-Style In which our intrepid recapper gets a shout-out.
  3. Episode 18 All’s Well That Doesn’t End Well
    RHONYC Recap: The Past Ain’t Through With Us So, what have we learned? Who are we now? Did Heather win the season? Did Luann
  4. Episode 17 Don’t Make Room For Daddy
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Return of the George In which ish goes down at a fund-raiser.
  5. Episode 16 What Happens in St. Barts Doesn’t Stay in St. Barts
    RHONYC Recap: Can’t They Go Back to St. Barts? Look, this show sucks when the ladies are in their natural habitat.
  6. Episode 15 Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
    RHONYC Recap: St. Barts Pt. 3: The Last Chapter Just when this show starts to get good, it begins to wind down.
  7. Episode 14 Slutty Island
    RHONYC Recap: Keep These Ladies on St. Barts Last night’s crazy-thon was bursting with rewindable moments.
  8. Episode 13 Pirate Booty Call
    RHONYC Recap: A Pirate Always Gets His Booty The ladies go to St. Barths and one brings a guest back to the house.
  9. Episode 12 All How You Spin It
  10. Episode 11 This Party Is Toast
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Finally, Some Crazy Time Finally! These chickens are acting like the cuckoo birds we need them to be.
  11. Episode 10 You Want to What Me in the Where?
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Poopy the Pig “You Want to What Me in the Where?” That’s actually the name of this episode.
  12. Episode 9 Dirty Ol’ Dad
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Dirty Old Man So, is George a castmember now? Is that happening?
  13. Episode 8 Blinded by the Wine
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Pinot Trick Seriously, how much vino can be consumed in one episode?
  14. Episode 7 Good Trip, Bad Fall
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Ramona Wars Last night, all but two of the Real Housewives of New York City decided to re-enact the movie Heathers.
  15. Episode 6 I’m U.K., You’re U.K.
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: London, Finally We’re six episodes into the revamped RHONYC and pretty sure the show sucks now.
  16. Episode 5 The Cool Girls
    RHONY Recap: Where the Fashion Players Play Just don’t mess with Ramona, ok?
  17. Episode 4 Diss-Invite
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Ramona Crazy In which our ladies continue to talk about this trip to London.
  18. Episode 3 Boozy Brunch
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Brunch and Baby Talk “Fertile Myrtle has taken a little wander into the pasture.” What an elegant turn of phrase!
  19. Episode 2 Say What You Mean, Just Don’t Say It Mean
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: So Cool! There’s a lot of talk about a phone call that we never get to see.
  20. Episode 1 A New New York
  1. Episode 23 Reunion — Part 3
    Real Housewives of NYC Reunion Part 3 Recap It’s increasingly impossible to abide Aviva.
  2. Episode 22 Reunion — Part 2
    Real Housewives Reunion Part 2 Recap: Ramona Singer Finally Shuts Up Surprisingly, there was a book-related brouhaha.
  3. Episode 21 Reunion — Part 1
    Real Housewives of NYC Reunion Part 1 Recap Now with two bonus reunions.
  4. Episode 20 The Last Leg
    Real Housewives of NYC Season 6 Finale Recap Aviva Drescher threw her leg. That’s all there is left to say.
  5. Episode 19 There’s Something About Harry
  6. Episode 18 Something to Sing About
  7. Episode 17 Bury the Hatchet
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Their First Time at the Rodeo Do we really want “glamping” to be a thing?
  8. Episode 16 Go Yell It on the Mountain
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: That’s Repelling All the ladies went to Montana and complained about how boring it is.
  9. Episode 15 Ten Gallon Spats
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Go West, Old Woman This was certainly the tamest Housewives vacation in recent memory, right?
  10. Episode 14 Sex, Lies, and Facials
    The Real Housewives of NYC Recap: Miss USA Let’s start with the Miss USA lunch.
  11. Episode 13 Win, Place or Sonja
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Off to the Racists Aviva throws an engagement party for her father … at the Museum of Sex.
  12. Episode 11 Requiem for a Poodle
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Ashes to Ashes This week’s episode gave us one of the most absurd and saddest things we’ve seen on TV.
  13. Episode 11 The Ramona Trap
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Monsters Inc. What do these women hope to accomplish by confronting Ramona?
  14. Episode 10 Bon Voyage Ramona
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Escape From Which Mountain? Let’s give it up for Ramona, who crafted her plot to escape the Berkshires to perfection.
  15. Episode 9 The Last Splash
    Real Housewives of NYC Recap: The Berkshires Heather invites everyone to her house in the Berkshires.
  16. Episode 8 Unforgivable Debt
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: There’s Something About Sonja For a minute, all seemed to be quiet in the land of the Real Housewives.
  17. Episode 7 Fireworks
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Baby, You’re a Fire Jerk This is just one of those Real Housewives fights that might never be resolved.
  18. Episode 6 Unhappy Anniversary
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Escape From Beverly Hills Last night was the first time that Real Housewomen from two different cities have appeared onscreen together at the same time.
  19. Episode 5 Everybody Thinks We’re Drag Queens
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Little Barn of Horrors This week, Aviva goes back to the site of the accident that stripped her of a foot.
  20. Episode 4 Holla in the Hamptons
    Real Housewives of NYC Recap: Hamptons, Holla! Sonja performs a caburlesque show. What is that, you ask?
  21. Episode 3 Model Behavior
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Here’s Mud in Your Eye We have to finish dealing with Hashtag BookGate.
  22. Episode 2 Give Up the Ghostwriter
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Murder, She Wrote Aviva is going around town accusing Carole of having her first book ghostwritten.
  23. Episode 1 If You Can Make It Here
    The Real Housewives of New York City S6 Premiere Aviva just wants to be friends, okay?
  1. Episode 22 Reunion Part 3
    RHONY Reunion 3 Recap: Corned Beefs, Rehashed Ramona Singer fell asleep on television.
  2. Episode 21 Reunion Part Two
    RHONY Reunion Part Two Recap: Pointers, Sisters Don’t these women ever realize that these things are taped and preserved for future researchers at the Real Housewives Institute?
  3. Episode 20 Reunion: Part 1
    RHONY Recap: Carole, LuAnn’s High-School Reunion This has turned into such a nasty volley of mutual slut-shaming.
  4. Episode 19 New Beginnings, My Ass
    RHONY Finale Recap: The Beginning Is the End Like a computer virus that replicates its own mistakes, Ramona is Ramona, always and tautologically forever.
  5. Episode 18 Rumble on the Runway
  6. Episode 17 London Calling
    The Real Housewives of New York Recap: From Ashes to Bashes I cried real tears last night while watching The Real Grave-Robbers of Piccadilly Circus. 
  7. Episode 16 Awfully Charitable
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Fleek Don’t Fail Me Now This episode contains one of the best scenes in Real Housewives history.
  8. Episode 15 Don’t Be All, Like, Uncool
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Girl Code Red Looking for hope where none is to be found.
  9. Episode 14 Conch Blocked
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Turks and Cuckoos The Housewives’ metabolism for drama is increasing exponentially.
  10. Episode 13 Sonja Island
  11. Episode 12 Lord of the Manor
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: You Broke the Girl Code So much tension could have been avoided if only the Countess’s single had dropped earlier.
  12. Episode 11 Fashionably Fired Up
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Sexual Fantasy Island This is our least favorite episode of any Real Housewives franchise: the before-the-trip episode.
  13. Episode 10 Pop of Crazy
  14. Episode 9 Birthday in the Berks
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Berkshires Hath a Way You know something is going down when an episode of The Real White Walkers of Essenden’s Cave ends with a “To Be Continued …”
  15. Episode 8 The Cavi-art of War
    RHONY Recap: Champagne Wishes, Caviar Screams I’m not entirely sure what happened in this episode, but I know that I really enjoyed it.
  16. Episode 7 Family Matters
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Feed the Clown Almost an entire episode fixated on Bethenny Frankel, Our Lady of Perpetual Squabbles.
  17. Episode 6 Double Down on Delusion
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Casino Battle Royale This was one of the most insane, action-packed episodes of the show possibly ever.
  18. Episode 5 Mind Your Business
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: President of Business, Affairs It seems like the tectonic plates of the Real Mink Stoles of Grandma’s Cedar Closet are shifting.
  19. Episode 4 The Art of Being a Cougar
    RHONY Recap: The Cradle Robbing of Civilization I’m enjoying this season of the Real Cradle Robbers of Kumon Algebra Tutoring Services.
  20. Episode 3 Battle of the Brunches
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Tale of Two Brunches We go back so far with these women, which is odd because this show is really only about the squabble of the moment.
  21. Episode 2 New House, Old Grudges
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mind Your Manors I knew it’d be hard for Bethenny Frankel to return to The Real Ice-Cream Churners of Talenti Gardens, and this episode made it clear why.
  22. Episode 1 The B Is Back
    The Real Housewives of New York City Premiere Recap: Let’s Be Frankel Seriously, what is wrong with all of these women?
  1. Episode 23 Reunion Part Three
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Recap: Scream Queens There are no more sides. There is no one to root for. There are no #teams.
  2. Episode 22 Reunion Part Two
    RHONY Reunion Recap: Tom, Dick, and Scary It’s the same set, the same people, the same outfits, the same yelling.
  3. Episode 21 Reunion Part One
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Recap: Old Yellers Sonja T. Morgan is a wish that your heart makes.
  4. Episode 20 Say It Ain’t So
    The Real Housewives of New York City Finale Recap: Fiesta Forever Why on earth would anyone put $10,000 of jewelry inside a piñata?
  5. Episode 19 Tomfoolery
  6. Episode 18 Body of Evidence
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: There’s Something About Tom Of all the people in this episode, I feel the worst for Sonja.
  7. Episode 17 And Away We Finally Go
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bum Voyage It’s hard to blame Sonja for the way she feels about Luann.
  8. Episode 16 The Countess Bride
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Otherwise Engaged Everything about this episode is a little sad.
  9. Episode 15 All Bets are Off
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Rocco and a Hard Place Sonja Morgan is once and forever my favorite floozy.
  10. Episode 14 The Benefits of Friendship
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: You Can Countess on Me Luann is playing a very dangerous game with Bethenny and Carole.
  11. Episode 13 Steel Calzones
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Twilight Calzone With each passing week, I love Dorinda more and more.
  12. Episode 12 Always the Bitch, Never the Bride
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Tale of Two Vaginas Bethenny’s big trip to Mexico is cancelled for lady-part problems.
  13. Episode 11 Invitation Interrupted
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Rules of Engagement God, guys! I think I like Jules. Is there a cure for this?
  14. Episode 10 Unhappy Holidays
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Oy to the World Who is the Carrie? Help us figure out the Sex and the City–ization of RHONY.
  15. Episode 9 December: Berkshires County
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Slaughter Party Rarely has a Real Housewives cast so shamelessly played the show for the fictional soap opera it is.
  16. Episode 8 All the Countess’s Men
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Talk of Shame I am loving the Countess and Sonja show.
  17. Episode 7 Airing Your Dirty Laundry
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Death of a Saleswoman This is one of the best Real Housewives episodes of all time.
  18. Episode 6 Tipsying Point
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Medium At Large Against my better judgment, I’m starting to like Jules.
  19. Episode 5 Birthday Bashing
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Run the Jules Hear ye, hear ye! A judgement shall be passed on Jules Wainstein.
  20. Episode 4 BBQ, Brunch, or Bust
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Shrimp at the Barbie Bethenny Frankel is good at many things, but not birthday parties.
  21. Episode 3 The Biggest Boob
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: John D’oh We finally have a reason to root for Bethenny again.
  22. Episode 2 An Intimates Affair
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Going to the John Dorinda defends her boyfriend, again: “He’s part of my life.”
  23. Episode 1 Start Spreading the News
    RHONY Season Premiere Recap: Jules of the Nile Ramona and Bethenny are clearly the producers’ favorites.
  1. Episode 22 Reunion Part 3
    RHONY Reunion Recap: That’s What Friends Are Floored For the first time ever, the Housewives actually enjoy each other’s company.
  2. Episode 21 Reunion Part 2
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Recap: Lower East Snide Remember when Bethenny was a lovable underdog?
  3. Episode 20 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Recap: Fairy Tale Dream Luann’s divorce has pushed reality TV to a new level of meta.
  4. Episode 19 Thank You and Good Night
    RHONY Season-Finale Recap: Divorce, New York Style I’m sorry about this, but we need to talk about Tom.
  5. Episode 18 Make Out, Make Up
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Hook, Line, and Stinker Sonja Morgan is living her very best life.
  6. Episode 17 Tequila-thon
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Patrón Saints I haven’t liked Bethenny this much in a while.
  7. Episode 16 Three Tequila … Floor!
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Oh No, Mexico Luann falls down drunk twice in this episode.
  8. Episode 15 Oil and Vinegar
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: I’m With Stupid Luann’s collection of statement necklaces is incredible.
  9. Episode 14 A Slippery Slope
    The Real Housewives of New York City: The Slopes Trial For the first time in a long time, all of the Housewives seem to be enjoying each other.
  10. Episode 13 A Bronx Tale
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Vermonsters The Housewives just need to chill the hell out.
  11. Episode 12 Regency Reunion
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: They Snooze, We Lose The most boring episode of any Real Housewives franchise ever.
  12. Episode 11 A Countess No More
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Tying the Not Luann’s wedding is a completely absurd comedy of errors.
  13. Episode 10 Black Out and Get Out
  14. Episode 9 Two Week’s Notice
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Pre-Wedding Critters This episode finally shows us the Bethenny Frankel of old.
  15. Episode 8 Return of the Berzerkshires
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: O Come, All Ye Unfaithful I will never not delight in watching Sonja.
  16. Episode 7 Bidding on Love
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Hand That Robs the Cradle It’s none of our business if Luann and Tom have an open relationship.
  17. Episode 6 Wishful Invitation
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Toppers and Bottomers Sonja Tremont Morgan is a national treasure.
  18. Episode 5 The Politics of Friendship
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: I’m With or Without Her Like it or not, the election episode is finally here.
  19. Episode 4 The Etiquette of Friendship
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Dawn of a New Bidet Sonja Tremont Morgan washes her thongs in a bidet. Just let that fact wash over you.
  20. Episode 3 A New Low
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Hag Harbor The Housewives don’t seem to enjoy each other’s company at all.
  21. Episode 2 It Girl Interrupted
    The Real Housewives of New York Recap: Florals and Fauna I will go out on a limb and say that I think Tinz is going to be a good addition to the cast this season.
  22. Episode 1 Talk of the Town
    The Real Housewives of New York Season 9 Premiere Recap: Still About Tom Welcome back to the Big Apple everyone, where we have nearly a decade of shouting and acrimony to build on.
  1. Episode 22 Reunion Part 3
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Recap, Part Three: Wonderful Poo Carole has a rough night in the final, season-capping reunion special.
  2. Episode 21 Reunion Part 2
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Part 2 Recap: Behind Frenemy Lines Fights break out and drinking problems get discussed and denied as the season 10 reunion continues.
  3. Episode 20 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Part One Recap: Original Sin The first of three reunion specials features amazing fashions but can’t hide what a problem Bethenny has become.
  4. Episode 19 Life Is A Cabaret
    The Real Housewives of New York City Finale Recap: Cabaret of Light The Countess has a cabaret and, of course, there’s drinking and fighting in the season finale.
  5. Episode 18 There’s No Place Like Home
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Let’s Talk About Poop, Baby This show has not a modicum of decorum left, and I couldn’t be happier about it.
  6. Episode 17 Ship Happens
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Boat Ride From Hell Still squabbling, the Housewives take a boat. The boat hits a storm. It’s chaos!
  7. Episode 16 Who’s Arguing At Dinner
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Margarita Madness The Housewives dine, drink, and fight then drink and fight some more.
  8. Episode 15 Wigging Out
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: They Be Trippin’ The Housewives go to Colombia where Bethenny makes a terrible mistake in her choice of soup.
  9. Episode 14 Dating Wishes and Caviar Dreams
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Dating Lame A cabaret legend makes an appearance and the Housewives have an eventful evening speed dating.
  10. Episode 13 Arrest and Relaxation
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Down for the Countess The visit to the Mayflower continues, and so do the arguments.
  11. Episode 12 Every Mayflower Has Its Thorn
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mayflower Power A trip to Connecticut’s Mayflower Inn leads to some jockeying over who gets the best room and jail stories.
  12. Episode 11 Faux Weddings and a Funeral
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Good Grief The housewives say goodbye to a truly decent-seeming man on an unusually somber episode.
  13. Episode 10 You Broke the Penal Code
  14. Episode 9 Holidazed and Confused
  15. Episode 8 A Frittered Friendship
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Kill Me Dead The most boring hour of reality television ever recorded.
  16. Episode 7 On an Island
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Life, Cabarets, Old Friends What starts as a genuinely heartwarming episode takes a nosedive pretty quickly.
  17. Episode 6 Grief and Relief
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: That’s a Relief Effort Bethenny helps the Puerto Rico relief effort, and I would rather watch months of this than see one more Skinny Girl logo on television ever again.
  18. Episode 5 Tea for Tat
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bendel Like Beckham Sonja is really, really bad at expressing herself.
  19. Episode 4 War and P.O.S.
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: ‘Til Death Do Us Party Ramona’s dinner party is the ne plus ultra of Real Housewives events.
  20. Episode 3 Til Brunch Do Us Part
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Thx for Nothing I will never not be amused by Sonja Tremont Morgan.
  21. Episode 2 Running Your Mouth
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Age of Aquaria Sonja has really taken it too far this time.
  22. Episode 1 Gouls Just Wanna Have Fun
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Diana Loss This is going to be one hell of a season.
  1. Episode 17 Jesus, the Countess, and Joseph
    The Real Housewives of New York Finale Recap: Ho, Ho, Hoes Which is the bigger bust, the turnout at Luann’s Christmas cabaret show or Bethenny’s weird S’mores and Whores party?
  2. Episode 16 More Than a Feelin’
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: 12-Step Aerobics With the drama and tears of Miami behind them, the ladies seem to have an actual blast at Dorinda’s ‘80s-themed jazzercise class.
  3. Episode 15 Life Is Not a Cabaret
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Cabaret of Light A series of petty slights and a whole lot of narcissism light the fuse on a truly spectacular dinner-table blowup.
  4. Episode 14 Caught Between an Ex and a Hard Place
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Moons Over My Hammy Luann counters the other women’s criticism that she’s annoyingly self-absorbed by … talking about herself.
  5. Episode 13 It’s Not You, It’s Miami
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Miami Hurricanes Who even lets these women leave the tri-state area?
  6. Episode 12 Luann Land
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Upstate, Up Yours This argument is not about Luann being wronged. It’s about everyone telling Luann that she’s wronged them and her still hearing that she’s a victim.
  7. Episode 11 Upstate Girls
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Upstate of Mind Of all the Housewives fights in all the land, this one between Bethenny and Luanne is the easiest to adjudicate.
  8. Episode 10 Shalloween
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bye, Bye Bridie We will always love Ramona for her dedication to the reality television arts and sciences, but her heart just doesn’t seem in it this year.
  9. Episode 9 Tears of a Clown
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Don’t Hustle a Hustler Tinsley makes her big debut as the guest ringleader at the Big Apple Circus and gets shown up by Sonja’s antics.
  10. Episode 8 Birds, Broads and Breakups
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: It’s Me, Mario This may not be a RHONY season for the ages, but at least it’s giving us some fun trips down Housewives memory lane.
  11. Episode 7 It’s Kind of a Phone-y Story
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Sparkle Party Pooper In an episode where pretty much everyone seems to be really having fun, Barbara K sticks out as a bad sport.
  12. Episode 6 Sleeping With the Fishes
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: No Holds Barbara Barbara’s alignment with the Countess is throwing the natural balance of RHONY all out of whack.
  13. Episode 5 Shark Bait
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Sleep With the Fishes Look, we all want the nice room. But sometimes you just gotta take the shark room and get over it, Luann.
  14. Episode 4 Making Up Is Hard to Do
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Gangster Crap Bethenny’s attempt to broker peace between Dorinda and Luann at a “gangster lunch” goes about as well as you’d expect.
  15. Episode 3 It’s a Clam Shame
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Anti-clam-actic There are Housewives’ weddings that have been approached with less anticipation than Barbara K.’s yawn of a clambake.
  16. Episode 2 Things Are Going Southampton
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mermaids of Honor The bifurcation of the group while in the same small beach community after Labor Day is completely ridiculous, and exhausting.
  17. Episode 1 Divided, They Summer
    The Real Housewives of New York City Premiere Recap: Suddenly Last Summer Dorinda being Dorinda, she is now going full scorched-earth on her former bestie Luann.
  1. Episode 21 Viva la Dysfunction
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season Finale Recap: Bingo Was Its Lame-O Appropriately, Dorinda goes out snapping at her friends and raging over something completely insignificant.
  2. Episode 20 No Party Like a Mob Party
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mob Mentality Leah knows what makes a moment, and she is not one to shirk from confrontation, even if it means her sweatpants party is going to be ruined.
  3. Episode 18 Hitting All the Wrong Cenotes
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The French Canadian Connection This may be the closest to MILF Island we’re ever going to get on reality TV.
  4. Episode 17 Back on the Hump
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Humpty Dance There are people who refuse to admit they’re wrong and then there is Dorinda.
  5. Episode 16 Not Very Merry-achi
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Flash Point RHONY has a Ramona problem, and Leah just might be the solution.
  6. Episode 15 Sheer Madness
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Petty in Pink Ramona has been at this long enough to know that she wasn’t going to have a Housewives party without there being any drama.
  7. Episode 14 Remember Your Blue Stone Manners
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Stinky Situation The lengths to which Ramona goes to unclog a toilet so as not to anger Dorinda says a lot about Dorinda’s recent behavior.
  8. Episode 13 Not Feeling Jovani
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Proxy War Ramona is pissed because she brought Elyse onto the show and now she is not paying proper fealty.
  9. Episode 12 Eat, Drink, and Be Scary
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The scariest thing about Luann’s Halloween dinner isn’t Dorinda’s behavior — it’s these new confessionals.
  10. Episode 11 Love Him and Leave Them
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Post Mortimer I was not expecting Tinsley’s last episode to play out like this.
  11. Episode 10 Something’s Brewing
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Holy Ravioli! Throwing pasta at another person is awful and uncalled for, but also, a round of applause for Leah, our new MVP.
  12. Episode 9 Hurricane Leah
    The Real Housewives of New York Recap: Newport in a Storm Leah doesn’t want to raise the roof; she wants to tear the house down.
  13. Episode 8 If You Can’t Take the Heat Get Out of the Russian Bath House
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bathhouse Betties The orchard trip must be acknowledged, and so must Dorinda’s cruelty.
  14. Episode 7 How Ya Like Them Apples?
    The Real Housewives of New York Recap: Cider House Fools This is an episode full of thoroughly enjoyable Housewives buffoonery wrapped around a very uncomfortable and frustrating center.
  15. Episode 6 Just the Sip
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Downhill Slide Essentially Luann is hanging out with her drinking buddies again and they’re getting her back into old, destructive habits.
  16. Episode 5 Not So Model Behavior
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Fashion Roadkill The SONJA by Sonja Morgan fashion show is the exact beautiful disaster you were hoping for.
  17. Episode 4 Ain’t No Party Like a Hamptons Party
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Let’s Have a Tiki Ramona Singer, the worst host on the East End, is definitely an accessory in the destruction of her own house.
  18. Episode 3 Don’t Mansion It
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Lowest Level The only things to say about Luann’s stealth exit are, of course this happened, and of course it’s one of the best things to ever happen on camera.
  19. Episode 2 Stooping to a Lower Level
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Just Tattoo of Us Well, if Dorinda isn’t going to adhere to the Eileen Davidson Accord when it comes to Leah, then neither can we.
  20. Episode 1 Back in the NY Groove
    The Real Housewives of New York Season Premiere Recap: Bethenny Who? Can the other huge personalities on this show fill the vacuum left behind now that their alpha has skedaddled? Signs so far point to yes.
  1. Episode 17 The Doppelgang’s All Here
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season-Finale Recap A season full of ugly moments and little entertainment mercifully ends on a dull note.
  2. Episode 16 Be Mine, Galentine
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Tom, Dick, and Harry Dubin A very special recap (of a very grueling episode).
  3. Episode 15 B…ing and Ramoaning
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Challah at Your Girls Despite Ramona’s attempt to make the Black Shabbat dinner about herself, Eboni has a spectacular episode full of poignant observations.
  4. Episode 14 Hanger Pains
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Shiksa Godless Ramona’s performance at the Shabbat dinner is horrendous.
  5. Episode 13 Ho Ho Holidays
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Land of Make-Out Believe I’m sorry, but when did Sonja get actual employees?
  6. Episode 12 Baby It’s Cold Inside
    Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Nuclear Mistletoe The holidays are approaching, which means that Luann has another middling single to record and Ramona has yet another birthday to celebrate.
  7. Episode 11 The Witching Hour
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Read Sonja Maybe it was always going to take a séance to get through to Sonja.
  8. Episode 10 Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Bored
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Salem’s a Lot Sonja is making for an increasingly tedious dinner guest and an increasingly tedious television character.
  9. Episode 9 The Salem B… Trials
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Hex and the City Ramona and Leah come together to demonstrate the worst possible way to navigate conversations about race in America.
  10. Episode 8 A Harlem Night
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Harlem Shake What Eboni’s attempting to do is noble, but it also risks becoming boring.
  11. Episode 7 Electile Dysfunction
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Vote of No Confidence It’s time to breathe a heavy sigh of resignation and relive Election Night 2020 with the Housewives.
  12. Episode 6 Stop and Throw the Roses
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Terrible Twos After becoming a fan favorite for being herself, Leah is being even more herself, which turns out to be, well, way too much.
  13. Episode 5 How Nude
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Eboni and Irony Eboni can argue circles around these reality-television practitioners, and they do not care for it.
  14. Episode 4 Putting the Tiff in Tiffany’s
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Get the Shuck Out of Here Leah brings her dependably chaotic energy to an uncomfortable ambush of Heather “Holla!” Thomson.
  15. Episode 3 A High Rate of Interest
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Cancel Consolation Why does Leah care so much about getting a confession out of Ramona that we all know will never come?
  16. Episode 2 Burning Up
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Burning Sensation This is what happens when Ramona gets to spend the season’s entire event budget in her own backyard.
  17. Episode 1 Back in the Big Apple
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season-Premiere Recap: Grey Garden Party Sometimes you just need some new blood to see how much we take the behavior of our favorite ladies for granted.
  1. Episode 14 Connecticut-ing The Dots
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season-Finale Recap: The Masked Avengers Brynn isn’t going to let the season end without giving the pot one last, giant stir.
  2. Episode 13 A Night at Swingers
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Vietnam War Sai continues to paint herself as the ultimate truth teller, and yet she can’t be honest about one crucial fact: she simply hates Jessel.
  3. Episode 12 Well Healed
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Enjoy Your Staycation The first real stumble of the RHONY reboot.
  4. Episode 11 The Case of the Missing Phone
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Phone a Friend Or Erin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
  5. Episode 10 Naughty-ical by Nature
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Hold the Phone In the hardship backstories and PrankGate, everyone is right and wrong, which is the mark of a true Housewife.
  6. Episode 9 Nothing Vanilla About Anguilla
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Switching Teams Brynn and Erin are forcing us to pick sides. It’s not an easy choice!
  7. Episode 8 Business Classy
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Business Casualty Jenna’s “I don’t know how to have friends!” faux pas continues to put her in the crosshairs of the women.
  8. Episode 7 You Wreath What You Sow
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Exit Wounds Erin has this awful talent to take whatever people are talking about and make it about her grievances.
  9. Episode 6 Anniversorry, Not Sorry
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Cease Fire The Real Housewives of New York City finally becomes RHONY.
  10. Episode 5 Fashionably Absent
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Princess’s Gambit Is it too early to say that Jessel has the makings of a top-tier Housewife?
  11. Episode 4 The Most Brynnteresting Girl in the Room
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Brynn Is Giving It looks like we have a new villain in our midsts.
  12. Episode 3 Two Truths and No Shakshuka
  13. Episode 2 Oh Christmas Tree!
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Caviar Dreams Let’s break down the outfit math for a Housewife’s three-day weekend, shall we?
  14. Episode 1 New Era, New York
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season-Premiere Recap: Say Cheese! The new housewives barely know each other, and we’re already launching into a fight about weird cheese.
  1. Episode 8 Birds of a Feather Gossip Together
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: For the Birds Becky and Erin’s pregnancy prank was a complete flop and totally pointless.
  2. Episode 7 Dodging Rumors
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Pregnant Pauses Can we trust whatever is going on with Becky Minkoff?
  3. Episode 6 A Shot of Mess-Cal
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Personal Victories An episode low on drama but high in character development still makes for a good episode at this point in RHONY’s reboot.
  4. Episode 5 Without a Clue
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Utterly Clueless Erin’s vendetta against Jenna makes no sense whatsoever. Even worse, Erin ruined the vibes at a perfectly good Clueless-themed party.
  5. Episode 4 Match Point of No Return
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Roach Motel When the women aren’t fighting over imperceivable slights, they have a lot of fun interactions and develop fascinating dynamics at Erin’s house.
  6. Episode 3 Dramamine Drama
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Hamptons Inn The wives seem too allergic to confrontation. You can’t have a TV show just about words — there must be action!
  7. Episode 2 You Can Run But You Can’t Ride
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bit by Bitcoin This is so obvious, so astonishingly, disgustingly basic that it could only have happened to Erin.
  8. Episode 1 Apple of My Lie
    The Real Housewives of New York City Season-Premiere Recap: Poor Judgments Now with a season under their belts, the ’wives are adjusting and figuring out what they want to fight about.

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