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What better way to ring in the new year than to watch Angie walk into a platter of glasses face-first? Opa! I\u2019m eternally grateful for the mounted camera that happened to catch that run-in, which shattered several glasses, stained the walls, and left Angie with a busted lip. But as Bronwyn points out, her lip filler probably saved her from chipping a tooth. I\u2019m just worried that, between this and her broken finger on the yacht, Bravo\u2019s insurance policy isn\u2019t going to cover her for next season\u2019s trips.<\/p>\n
Once Angie pulls herself together and stops the bleeding, the women all don matching gowns to do a photoshoot in front of their scenic Greek view, on the way to which Heather briefly has what she refers to as a nip slip. But slipping a nip is putting it lightly \u2014 her entire boob was out. And rightfully so, it\u2019s vacation! And it\u2019s yet another example of how closely related this show is to the golden days of RHONY, which similarly gave the edit bay\u2019s blurring department a run for their money. Meanwhile, Lisa doesn\u2019t understand why every trip has to involve matching outfits or costumes, which she (of course) only enjoyed the time they all dressed up as her.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s at this little photoshoot that Heather and Whitney have a whispery debrief about how remarkable Meredith\u2019s 180 has been. She went from raging at them all to being happy as a clam in no time flat. But why question these things? Shouldn\u2019t they just enjoy this newfound peace and joy? Heather seems down to just ride the wave, but when Whitney gets lunch with Bronwyn and Mary, she insists on investigating this change of mood, which is a pretty typical pattern for Meredith. \u201cShe has too many highs, too many lows, too many mediums, and it\u2019s not adding up,\u201d Mary says, and I\u2019m immediately gripped by the concept of having \u201ctoo many mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tone that this conversation takes is so serious that it\u2019s almost jarring. I thought this was a fun, silly girls\u2019 trip, and now suddenly the whole table is crying out of genuine concern for Meredith and her mood swings? Ultimately, the driving force behind this concern, particularly for Mary and Whitney, is the experiences they\u2019ve had watching their sons\u2019 and fathers\u2019 addiction, respectively, and how that behavior mirrors what they\u2019re now seeing with Meredith. Mary even says that there were patterns that she missed the first time around with her son, that she now doesn\u2019t want to miss with Meredith. But are these fair comparisons to make? Or are their intense personal experiences with addiction making them perhaps hypervigilant now when it comes to Meredith?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve watched a lot of people on these reality shows who have genuinely been struggling with very real addictions, but we\u2019ve also watched addiction be thrown around as an unfounded dig time and time again. But what is it this time around? Ultimately, the behavior we\u2019ve seen from Meredith (who we\u2019ve been watching for six seasons now) doesn\u2019t seem all that crazy or remarkable enough to warrant such a serious conversation. Sure, we didn\u2019t get to see what happened when she allegedly almost downed a flight during Crazy Rich Asians, but generally speaking, Meredith seems to be the same way she\u2019s always been. Her two modes are either disengaged or bellowing \u2014 and that\u2019s not really enough to tearfully deem someone an addict. But if they want to see a real mood swing, I can only imagine how she\u2019s going to react at the reunion after seeing the implications being made in this scene.<\/p>\n
And if that conversation wasn\u2019t enough, Bronwyn chimes in to pile on, saying that a few months ago she was in New York and ran into Seth out to dinner with a female \u201cinvestor.\u201d She said she thought nothing of it at the time, but now feels that Meredith is acting so defensive and fearful that there might have been more to it. I\u2019m yawning. When I die, I want a comprehensive report of how much of my life was spent listening to people accusing Seth Marks of cheating. I fear it will add up to days, if not weeks. Enough already. If there were anything there, we would have gotten to the bottom of it by now. All respect to Seth, but he doesn\u2019t necessarily seem like a discreet mastermind. Bronwyn even says he\u2019s the one who came up to them at the restaurant! Why would he do that if he were with his mistress? And besides, people who live in fart-filled glass houses shouldn\u2019t be throwing stones.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, as all of this is happening, Meredith is cutting up with the other ladies at the spa, without a care in the world. At least until Britani takes the fun time a little too far with some playful splashing, and they decide that they have no choice but to kill her. Well, sorta kinda. The jovial camaraderie comes to a screeching halt as they all scold her for getting their hair wet, even though, as Britani points out, on the last trip, they poured an entire pitcher of water on her and she didn\u2019t make a fuss. But my favorite part of this fight, which largely feels like the other women just hazing Britani to entertain themselves, is that they\u2019re all whispering because they have to be quiet in the spa.<\/p>\n
Angie complains that her hair now feels crunchy because the water probably had people\u2019s piss in it (alright, sure), and laments how long it took her to do it, despite Britani countering that it shouldn\u2019t take her an hour for it to dry because she\u2019s a hair expert. \u201cYour hair is synthetic, it doesn\u2019t take as long,\u201d Lisa fires back and you can catch a glimpse of the childlike joy in her eye as she says it.<\/p>\n
After a brief digression on the way to dinner in which Lisa waxes poetic about her love of trees and how she tells them that \u201cit\u2019s okay to tap me on the shoulder\u201d because \u201cit\u2019s their way of giving hugs,\u201d she returns to tormenting Britani for sport. With a gleeful Regina George-like cadence, she casually asks Britani if she\u2019s an alcoholic because she heard that she was alternating between throwing up and downing drinks the whole yacht trip. Where could she have heard this, you might wonder? Cut to two hours earlier, where we see Meredith submerged in a bubble bath relaying the rumor to Lisa. \u201cI honestly don\u2019t know who said it,\u201d Lisa says when pressed for a source. Eventually, it gets traced back to Meredith, who heard it from Bronwyn. But again, there\u2019s no weight to these allegations \u2014 they\u2019re simply passing the time, like a couple of bored cats terrorizing a little mouse.<\/p>\n
But eventually it feels icky, and the table points out how hypocritical it is that Meredith got upset at being called an alcoholic, and now they\u2019re doing the same thing to Britani. \u201cNobody called her an alcoholic,\u201d Lisa says, and the show immediately flashes back to her saying, \u201cI outed alcy!\u201d mere minutes earlier. Perfect television. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re an alcoholic,\u201d Lisa eventually says, after her fun little game started to get too real.<\/p>\n
Heather tries to restore some balance by pivoting the conversation to compliment Britani instead, which naturally brings up her star turn in the 2012 ABC Family original movie The Mistle-Tones, alongside Tia Mowry and Tori Spelling. Lisa even chimes in to acknowledge her Broadway bona fides, but things take a turn when Heather casually says Britani has accomplished more than a lot of them. \u201cWhat?\u201d Bronwyn snaps, and suddenly the whole table takes that throw-away compliment to Britani as a dig against all of them, and they accuse Heather of being her mouthpiece the same way Lisa is Meredith\u2019s.<\/p>\n
When Whitney starts saying this is a false equivalency because Britani is an underdog, Lisa snaps at her, and they start yelling back and forth, during which wine is spilled. \u201cThat was an accident! That was not on purpose!\u201d Lisa quickly says, as if she\u2019s worried that the reality television police are about to swarm and take her away. And in a sense, something like that does happen.<\/p>\n
In fact, it was one of the most beautiful things I\u2019ve ever seen. A member of the staff approaches the table and not only informs them that the restaurant is now closed and they have to leave, but doubles down when he can tell that they\u2019re intent on finishing their conversation. \u201cWe\u2019ll leave in five minutes,\u201d Angie tells him in Greek, but no, he tells her that they have to leave immediately. Her face upon hearing this will forever be burned into my brain. She was shocked, appalled even, upon the realization that she was being thrown out of a Greek restaurant of all places by one of her fellow countrymen. \u201cThis is my country, sir,\u201d she tells him, echoing the infamous dash cam footage of Reese Witherspoon\u2019s wrongful arrest. But the restaurant had simply had enough of these women, and with food still on the table, they were forced out. \u201cThank god they left,\u201d the server says in Greek.<\/p>\n
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