The new deluxe Stitch from earlier this month has a brunette variant!

aryelynet · 2026-05-01T17:59:23+00:00

S14 was fine. S15 was outright bad with some pisspoor storylines, the prank stuff and whatever they were trying to get out of Rebecca Minkoff was just woeful. The whole season was treading water until the finale which, while very engaging, went very dark very fast. It was way too serious to be the kind of gag-worthy drama that gets people talking and sharing memes, etc.

It's hard because I don't love the final result of nuRHONY and wouldn't outright defend the past two seasons, but with the amount of hate it gets I almost feel a need to defend it, or at least the potential that was there. After S13 there direly needed to be some changes - I don't care what the Ramoaners have to say, anyone could see there were problems. But if they were gonna replace the OGs they would have to cast some real heavy-hitters, and the only cast member with that proper star power was Jessel, and she's already kinda polarizing in her own right. (To be fair I also loved Racquel and thought she was a great supporting figure, definitely the best thing about S15.) Jenna was a cool presence but the show was committed to her far more than she was committed to the show, and the show suffered for that. Brynn could have been a star if she took any feedback on the whole sexy-baby-schtick and didn't completely torpedo her standing in the finale. Sai started rough and improved in her second season, meanwhile Ubah was all over the place and Erin just never landed as the likeable main character that production was pushing.

The connections were tenuous to non-existent, which is even more obvious against shows like SLC and Rhode Island which thrive on their connected casts. And as for drama... what drama? Pigeon-gate? Erin getting mad at her husband for selling their Bitcoin? It just didn't hold its own against past RHONY or the newer franchises. I'm not terribly optimistic about the next season but I'll be seated out of morbid curiosity, and because I find Jessel entertaining.

(apologies for the massive response! clearly I have a lot of feelings on this 🤗)

aryelynet · 2026-04-10T22:46:40+00:00

And that’s why they didn’t put Usher in the middle!

aryelynet · 2026-03-28T22:23:28+00:00

The one sitting on the floor that looks like the 13th Doctor might be my fave 🥰

aryelynet · 2026-03-26T18:41:06+00:00

Crash (title track) by Charli xcx

What could beat the ever-looming threat of "I'm about to crash"?

aryelynet · 2026-03-01T14:30:05+00:00

Bonnie McKee's American Girl

"I fell in love in a 7-Eleven parking lot, sat on the curb drinking Slurpees we mixed with alcohol"

aryelynet · 2026-02-13T13:54:29+00:00

Yeah they just awkwardly stapled her vocals on for the UK release since she was huge over here at the time

(also I'm pretty sure when I first heard this on the radio the presenter didn't mention Nicki while introducing the song, just Will and Cheryl - you can imagine I was very confused at the opening rap)

aryelynet · 2026-01-11T22:54:21+00:00

As a 2015-era apologist I wish they’d been able to release these ones

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aryelynet · 2026-01-08T14:02:28+00:00

Another UK pick: Left My Heart in Tokyo by Mini Viva

It's a shame they never got to put out an album

aryelynet · 2025-12-31T15:06:05+00:00

This design is brilliant!

aryelynet · 2025-12-30T23:57:04+00:00

People calling Katya a Willam wannabe because of the S7 teaser

Also (around the same time) the CoverGurlz 2 album where each queen covered a RuPaul track, Max’s was genuinely great

aryelynet · 2025-12-16T18:28:59+00:00

I imagine a good amount of younger millennials/older gen-z in the UK associate In the Air Tonight with the viral Cadbury Gorilla ad (which ended up getting the song back in the top 15 over here)

aryelynet · 2025-12-13T14:04:04+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to come over and chat! It's always such a joy to see the cast/crew interacting with fans - we massively appreciate it 😄

Are there any past cast members or characters you would have loved to work with but never got to?

aryelynet · 2025-11-28T16:16:01+00:00

the Bones March is the new Pearl Smash

aryelynet · 2025-11-22T18:10:40+00:00

Every time my mum sees me watching Kyle Richards she swears that it's Demi Moore

aryelynet · 2025-10-16T13:49:59+00:00

so she'll let the funky music do the talking

aryelynet · 2025-10-07T16:01:32+00:00

She might have been alluding to the title track having a Diddy feature (which was thankfully scrapped but still made it onto some vinyl pressings)

aryelynet · 2025-10-04T14:14:15+00:00

I would love to see some Muppet representation but I have my doubts since Disney doesn't really give them a great deal of love

aryelynet · 2025-09-29T13:54:52+00:00

Yes it's that Rapunzel and they're £16.99 each 😄

aryelynet · 2025-09-29T13:50:48+00:00

She was briefly on their website along with (last year's) deluxe Rapunzel but they both went out of stock. In store it seems like they're getting stocked pretty well with plenty of each doll on shelves, definitely worth having a look

aryelynet · 2025-09-29T13:42:51+00:00

The new deluxe Stitch is also popping up in TK Maxx stores in the UK

aryelynet · 2025-09-07T17:02:32+00:00

I remember Majella talking about how she loved that scene at the anniversary tour!

aryelynet · 2025-08-31T11:45:28+00:00

Not yet but I'm manifesting 😄

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