Real Housewives Recap: Salt Lake City

  Episode 5: Gin and Bear It This whole episode just feels like damage control from the past few episodes. There are some important events that happen but overall, a pretty tame.  The fallout from casino night is carried on as Lisa continues to try and clear her name after being accused of sabotaging Angie's event. Whitney is still not buying that Lisa was not involved. However, in a surprising turn, Lisa and Whitney meet up over a meal and agree to start fresh, move forward, and build their friendship (I don't think this truce will last very long). Meanwhile, Jen Shah meets with Merideth's son Brooks to finally apologize for her shady behavior on Twitter. After months of denying and deflecting, she acknowledges that liking tweets mocking his sexuality could actually be harmful to his character. Brooks didn't seem fully convinced with her apology and honestly, neither would I. At this point, only time will tell of Jen is going to change her behavior moving forward (prob...

  Episode 4: Friendship Roulette This episode picks up where last week's episode ended with Merideth and Jen still arguing on the ice fishing excursion. Jen threw a tantrum, ranted to her assistant, and then finally gave Merideth a very half-ass apology before they hugged it out.  This episode introduces us to Angie Harrington, a new friend of the Housewives who is almost an official member of this season's cast. She was not in the previous episodes but has her own confessionals in this one. She is friends with Lisa, a newfound cousin of Whitney, and is hosting an upcoming '70s-themed casino charity night. Angie first meets with Lisa for lunch and invites her to the casino night. Then later, Whitney meets up with Angie and Angie tells her that her caterer for the casino night suddenly canceled after Angie had mentioned to Lisa that she is friends with Whitney. Whitney tells Angie that is it not a coincidence and is convinced Lisa is sabotaging the event out of jealousy.  ...

  Episode 3:  Fishing for the Truth Introduction: This episode had a lot of filler moments, so I'll share some of those before we get into this week's main event when the girls go ice fishing. Heather talked about her growing business, Beauty Lab + Laser Jennies husband still wants more kids Mary had lunch with her son The Lead-Up to Ice Fishing: Jen decides to plan a day of ice fishing for all the women in an attempt to move forward with the group and smooth some things over with Merideth. She meets up with Lisa to share her plans and Lisa vents to her about having issues with Whitney (there's literally no reason for her to have any issues). Also before ice fishing, Merideth has Mary over to gain some insight into the situation with Brooks and how to move forward because Mary has past involvement being on Jen's hate train. Mary encourages Merideth to use the ice fishing trip as a chance to set boundaries with Jen. Breaking the Ice: When Merideth shows up at the ice fis...

Episode 2: Icey Apology Introduction: To be honest, not much happened in this episode. It was basically the housewives discussing what was talked about in the last episode, and that was about it. However, I love watching Jen Shash dig herself deeper and deeper into the hole she has created, so to me, that was a win. Now I’ll be breaking down the housewives and sharing my opinions on each of them from this episode: Jen Shah Jen had a conversation with her nephew about how she needs to work on bettering her relationships. From that conversation, she decides to call up Heather, after not speaking with her for almost 2 months after last season's reunion, and asks her to meet so they can catch up. Later Jen has Lisa and Jennie over and Lisa tells Jen that Merideth is still upset with her about liking tweets about her son Brooks. Then, Jen and Heather have their meet-up in some random ice caves and Jen says she misses their friendship. Heather, however, confronts Jen with screenshots of ...