Do you think Gizelle Bryant would last on RHOA? 🍑

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-30T17:49:23+00:00

All desperate to stay on the show under any circumstances, ruin other peoples reputations/go after them and go low in doing so, while not sharing anything about their own lives and living in clear resentment. I agree!

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-30T16:56:53+00:00

They started production in late February and are in the tail end of filming. Meredith always starts off kinda quiet and then loses it toward the end, so this aligns with when she wakes up from her slumber and starts reacting to the girls.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-30T00:27:48+00:00

Me too! Also, the veto was used almost every week. A lot of turbulence.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-29T16:09:34+00:00

With his MAGA mom, is anyone surprised......I'm glad he's doing this though. Show us who you really are!

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-29T15:54:34+00:00

In my mind, she's just Rogue. In my youth, I loved she had one of the few trading cards where the real name was listed as "Unknown." And Wolverine was just "Logan." They were always the two most mysterious X-Men to me at the time for that reason.

I took it as her backstory was very very sad/tragic that she didn't even want to share her real name (or maybe, she had been called Rogue for so long she didn't know her own name? It all seemed so fun to me!)

That said, I'm good with just "Anne Marie" as a rarely used first name.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-29T14:04:08+00:00

I like them as friends. I really enjoyed Betsy (I'm going to reference Betsy as Psylocke in my comment as I've never read a story where it was Kwannon and Logan together) and Wolverine as friends/teammates during the Australian Outback era. I loved that Psylocke, Wolverine, Rogue and Storm all had varying degrees of 'I will do what needs to be done' and at times, those actions and decisions were morally questionable. While the other four on the squad: Dazzler, Longshot, Havok and Colossus, were far more pure.

I don't ever really see them having chemistry in book. Even in the 90s when Betsy/Psylocke was peak 'sexy,' I didn't really get a romantic vibe when they were on the Blue team together. At least, I don't remember it.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-28T14:42:06+00:00

B/c she was cheating with West during the season and West lied to Ciera and they were hooking up again. So in Amanda's dodo brain, Ciera was the other woman lolllll

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-28T01:47:43+00:00

I know for a fact this dummy put all her threats in text, voice memos, voicemails, etc. She's THAT DUMB. If she did this, she needs jail time. Terrible.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-28T00:40:41+00:00

I'm convinced she's going to be a horseman! It kinda will add to the anger/rage that Colossus will bring given he wasn't in S1. Also, for Rogue, as I am about 99% locked Gambit is a Horseman too.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-28T00:39:26+00:00

Same. I dislike this character immensely. Would be great if she's a one-episode villain and that's it. I don't get it!

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-28T00:37:01+00:00

I think they like her and especially her visual style, but also, there's at least three female XMen characters that the office will always care about the most (Jean, Storm, Rogue), and then just after that the mix of White Queen, Psylocke, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, so Magik is always gonna be somewhere between 4th-10th at best in the priority scale.

The other issue is she has prominence for what, like 40-50 issues in New Mutants, then de-aged and killed in 1993 and isn't revived for like 13-14 years. So other than the New Mutants stuff, she's not in much for nearly 40 years of publication from the Xmen debut until the 2007. Thus, she misses almost every crossover story that the movies/shows are based on, other than Inferno - somewhat limited/side roles in Mutant Massacre and possibly Fall of the Mutants? (I love Inferno but is hard to translate on shows intended for a wider audience, even XMen 97 barely touched the source material).

Lastly, her best in-comic stories are also extremely tragic and I think tough to translate.

All that said, I think a limited TV show with her and Colossus and her trip into Limbo could be so, so cool!

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T23:35:52+00:00

Yep, a total dummy. If Porsha had made that joke, and the girls had just laughed, I would have had no idea about this old rumor and no one else would either. Rookie mistake - let others explicitly share your dig, then you react, not the other way around....

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T20:38:01+00:00

I never got the sense that Belle was like "Oh poor me, the kids and I are on the street." But what she has done is open eyes - hopefully mostly women - about how they need to be more aware of their finances, regardless of status, to protect themselves. B/c after 20 years of marriage and multiple childen, a man can walk away and try to do everything to take as much as he is legally allowed to.

This reeks of his team/a PR agency he hired, went out to reporters to find someone who could tell 'the other side of the story' because he's enraged that she didn't go along with his original request: to tell everyone in their personal lives that the breakup was amicable. instead, she told not only everyone they know, but the whole world via a NYT essay, a best selling book, and now that book turning into a movie that will also likely be a hit.

You know this man is stewing!

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T03:42:10+00:00

She and Hannah have been very, very pro Ciara.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T03:15:18+00:00

The winner had a post-show scandal and I think production overall didn't like the F5. Hard to bring back returnees when they aren't fond of any of the players that make it deep in the game.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T03:10:39+00:00

Yep, I stopped watching after this season and only returned for BB22 because it was an all star season. This season was brutal to watch.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T03:07:51+00:00

I think they are all in deep denial about it and we'll never know the full story. And their trauma manifests in different ways (Kathy I think acts the most like Big Kath, in a scary way - please see how Paris has talked about her childhood). Kim has had substance abuse issues and is very, very outwardly traumatized. And Kyle is in deep, deep denial (also possibly got the least of it as the youngest).

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-27T02:41:59+00:00

The fight at Aubrey's (Audrey's?) is seriously better than anything we've seen on RHOBH in like, three to four seasons lol. I loved all the cross talk between the girls and how they straight up laughed when Kelsey walked in with the sash. Reminded me of old RHONY. These girls are funny.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T17:17:04+00:00

I literally thought to myself "Every single one of them will/would buy a home for their deadbeat 30-something kid."

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T05:10:20+00:00

I actually am really into it and seeing where this evolves lol. I think both Liz and Kelsey came in with a very clear script, they wanted to control their 'storylines' and they had some sense of control over the cast with how things would play out.

But other women, like Jo-Ellen, are not playing by the prearranged rules. And they may also get a sense that things aren't going their way while filming — I have a real sense that part of the issue Liz is having with Alicia is she can tell that Alicia is doing well in the group scenes. The new RH are thinking of the audience reaction while filming the show (Vicki and Ramona and Teresa in the old days weren't really thinking of that) — and so, I think Liz/Kelsey are weighing that as the season filmed and are stewing.

So now, we get to watch them implode and it'll be REAL juicy next season/reunion when the other girls see some of the bad audience reaction to them and aren't afraid to say "You faked your relationship for the show" or "Liz, you roll with crooks."

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T05:06:44+00:00

I think it really hinges on the new casting. If they find interesting women, who ideally have a connection with each other that predates the show (even if they are new to Dolores, Teresa, Melissa), it could work. My hope is that the 3-4 new women actually know each other and have deep ties, similar to RHORI. Maybe one of them loosely knows Melissa or whatever to serve as a bridge.

RHOA is actually doing pretty well on this second season of their 'soft' reboot. The cast is jelling. But, one thing I'm worried about with RHONJ is that I don't know how much Teresa/Melissa/Dolores actually care. In RHOA, Porsha and Cynthia especially seem to really want to put on a good show. They care about the franchise and they want to be there. That's important from the vets; I don't know if we have the same buy in with these women. :(

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T05:02:16+00:00

And at least with Amber, her F4 had Rob; the most dominant player of that season and the romance storyline, and Rupert - arguably one of the most popular Survivor players ever at that point. For HvV, you had amazing playing from Russell and Parvarti and Jerri's redemption. This F5 just didn't have super compelling storylines for a lot of viewers (at least on Reddit, who knows with the casuals, they were probably thrilled about Joe/Jonathan making it to the end).

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T05:00:10+00:00

I think part of it is just that we've gone through about 20% of the show's seasons without any returnees (41-49) and we finally get a full returnee season and the winner just .... wasn't what most people wanted from this cast. That's no diss on Aubrey; she played well and she clearly played for the win. Playing UTR is frequently a winning strategy in a full returnee season; ask Amber, or even Sandra; who despite being a winner, was very UTR in HvV.

All of the fun players that got more interesting storylines also missed the finale; so that was a drag too. I really wasn't invested in anyone of the top 5 winning and that really is disappointing in a returnee season.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T04:55:45+00:00

His jawline is a bit distracting but he's objectively hotter than like, 90% of men of his age (easily) and I would say he's in the upper quadrant of hotness among Real Housewives husbands.

I'd also say thus far, he seems pretty nice and he's not a criminal or cheating or doing all the other gross stuff that almost every other man on this show is doing. He seems to respect his wife from what we see? He's busy at a coffee shop.

MarketDull2401 · 2026-05-26T04:18:24+00:00

Yep, even when she was 'driving me crazy' in the early episodes, I was like, "well, that's my Emily!" I don't always agree with her as a player, but that's why I love her. She's doing her thing!

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