I really feel like this season has jumped the shark. The thing that makes these shows work is authentic, REAL friendships, which create authentic and real conflicts and resolutions. Even if the people are abhorrent, like Thomas Ravenel, you still feel the warmth and connection and affection between the people, and you can find the humanity in them. Something to root for. It never works when you add new people just to add them. Leva, Venita, Olivia, and Pringle are the new Charli, Max, and Dana.

This show has gone downhill. The only likable/person to root for is Venita, and to see the cast ice her out feels awful. What is Olivia’s problem?!

Im clearly not rooting for Austen or Craig; Kathryn is a hot mess as always but at this stage in the game, you’d think she’d know better; Madison’s shadiness is fun but isn’t really bringing what it used to; Naomie is just blah and Leva… kinda a non player at this point (besides when the producers clearly asked her to ask everyone at the birthday party what their problem was with everyone else). 

Shep’s schtick is played out and Pringle? Who is he in this world if he’s not trying to get between Austen and Madison. 

And the fact that they teased a dog wedding in an upcoming episode… snooooooooze. Desperate. 

Who are we rooting for?

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