The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Episode 13: "Spaghetti Western & Meatballs"
You can take the Housewives out of Jersey, but you can't take Jersey out of the Housewives and their significant others. If there is one thing that we have learned from watching these ladies travel, it's that. There is nothing I love more than watching these people leave their natural habitat and have to deal with something that they are utterly unfamiliar with. The Housewives go west to a retreat for Melissa's birthday and do a lot of stuff they don't want to do and complain a lot. It makes me wistful for vacation myself.
Before teh group leaves, there is a lot of rehashing of what has happened so far this season. At a cooking demonstration, Teresa gives Kathy the lowdown on what went down at the Milania Hair Care product party with Melissa, Penny, and Jan. Kathy's reaction of "Who's Penny?" was priceless. I'm right there with ya, sister. Teresa thinks everything is good, but over at Casa de Gorga Joe is not convinced. He still thinks that Teresa has her hand in the Penny situation. Jacqueline is not sure if Teresa is sincere in their reconciliation. Going to Arizona makes Jacqueline think of how they made up in California last year only to hear Teresa talk shit about her later on.
The Gorgas, Giudices, and Wakiles travel together, while the Laurita's and the Manzo's head out together. The Laurita's and Manzo's experience some plane delays so they get there five hours after everyone else. Richie has basically ruined any goodwill that the staff at Miraval has for the cast by ignoring the sanctity of the "Quiet Room" and complaining about pretty much everything. He also makes a pretty nasty comment about Melissa's camel toe while she is laying out in her bathing suit. Good times, ogling your cousin-in-law in front of your wife. You're a class act, Richie.
Melissa is getting sick, so we are treated to her complaining and shouting orders to Joe every five seconds. It looks like Joe is completely ignoring her and drinking with everyone else, but that could also be an editing trick. Either way, I like it.
After dinner, Melissa invites Tina the Energist to do a reading. Apparently, Tina can see or read energy from other dimensions and use it to talk to the dead John Edwards style. Everyone is pretty disdainful of the energist, except for Jacqueline, not a huge surprise there. Eventually, though, she starts to break them down one by one. Richie is the first as she brings up some vagueness about a wedding video. It turns out Richie was super close to his dad and that he hadn't watched his wedding video since he passed. Kathy lost it when she thought Tina the Energist was talking about her dad. I don't know, you guys. I'm still not buying it. I can understand how people would fall for it though. You want to believe that the people you love are reaching out to you and that way you can finally get some closure.
The next day everyone minus Melissa goes hiking. Melissa is just not feeling up to it. She can barely swallow. Tarzan is very upset. She is not too sick to tan though, thank God for that. Apparently the Miraval staff didn't get the memo that people from Jersey don't hike. There is a lot of bitching and moaning as they hike to their final destination. That final destination was just as bad as the energist as a faith healer asked them to write things down on a piece of paper and give that to the fire. Egads. For once, I'm totally with Al on his decision not to participate. Jacqueline, again, is one thousand percent on board with this and afterwards she talks to Teresa and the two are seemingly having a good conversation. Could the dynamic duo of Jersey be getting back together? Not so fast. Teresa makes a comment about karma coming back around and if it doesn't get you, it'll get your children. Jacqueline wonders if this is a comment about Nicholas' autism. Here we go.
So, what did you guys think? Did you buy the energist stuff? Is Richie the worst? Is it about to go down with Jacqueline and Teresa? Let me know in the comments.
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