![]() ![]() with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. (Please note that she says this in July 2020, so how can this be even the worst news she’s heard this year?) “Killing my vibes!” Related Articles “This is the worst news I’ve ever heard,” Kelly says. In fact, Kelly is about to fly off to Napa with her boyfriend, but then - insert record scratch here - a contact-tracing nurse calls her at the lake and tells her she’s been in contact with someone who has the virus, and she’s got to lock down for 14 days. The oblivious, in case you’ve not already guessed, being Kelly the Chum Bucket Queen, who spews random thoughts about the coronavirus like “these Marines came to us and told us if you have O blood it’s bulletproof,” or, “I am not going to let some virus get in my way of getting married on ().” Shannon is also Facetiming the Lake Arrowhead gang every day they’re away, giving updates and seeking sympathy from a crowd that ranges from the near-hypochondriac - Braunwyn calls her husband Sean to google symptoms because she’s dizzy and thinks it might be the ‘rona - to the oblivious. “There is dog (doo) out here!” Shannon shouts at the kids when she sees the back patio. Suddenly, the line goes taut, a tiny fish is pulled from the water, and this time, successfully released to swim another day.Ī good omen? Elizabeth seemed to think so, telling the others she feels better having opened up at last about her past.īack in Orange County, Emily Simpson and Shannon Storms Beador each are dealing with the coronavirus.Įmily’s husband Shane came home from eight days in the hospital - good news! Shannon’s boyfriend John more or less bids her farewell when she tests positive and he’s still negative - bad news!Īnd worse news awaits Shannon at home, where her three teenage daughters, who’d been on their own after earlier positive ‘rona tests, had neither put away the laundry Shannon folded days earlier nor picked up after poor Archie the dog doing what dogs do. “That’s (bleepin’) horrifying!” Gina said, and yes, it truly is.Īll this time, Elizabeth had been fiddling with a fishing pole in the lake. ![]() Gina bluntly asked her if she’d been molested. “I’m embarrassed by who I am,” she told them. Later, when she and Braunwyn join Kelly and Gina at the scene of their crime, more slipped out. “It was easier to live in a false world of happiness than to live in my reality of depression,” Elizabeth said. She shared a few more details of the control exerted on her and the others in the cult her grandmother led, and in which her father was a preacher, and said she’d tried since leaving at 13 to block it all out behind a jovial front. We resumed this week at that point, with Braunwyn, the mother of seven, doing some very nice mothering of Elizabeth, talking her down from the anxiety and fear that washed over Elizabeth after she revealed a bit of her trauma as a child in a religious cult. You will recall that the previous episode ended with Elizabeth collapsing into a full-blown panic attack while on a hike with Braunwyn. That is life, Gina, and over the course of the rest of the episode we got a lot more serious bits and pieces of life from our housewives this week. ![]() “You know what? That’s (bleepin’) life, isn’t it?” They’re just swimming around up there all happy, carefree, living the good life.”Ĭut back to the dock in real time: “The poor guy,” she continued. ![]() “I want to believe that there’s fish heaven up there,” Gina said in a camera confessional. They really put a CGI halo on an actual fish.) Cue the sad, slow piano music and a superimposed golden halo atop the head of a still-gill-flapping trout in sun-dappled waters. ![]()
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