The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: When Is a Memoir an E-Mail or an Essay?

The Real Housewives of New York City, Episode 2: "Give Up the Ghostwriter"

Carole hit the nail on the head at the end of this episode when she made the comment that "The woman (Aviva) is literally deranged."  I don't make a habit of calling women crazy.  I think it's a low blow and a way to really make a logical woman fly off the handle.  In this case, though, I think Aviva might be nuts.  More likely, she is embracing the role of villain and she has decided to make Carole, someone she fawned over and idolized all last season, her arch nemesis.  I've watched it twice and I'm still not sure what is going on.  Let's dive deep into #BookGate.

RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Drag Queen Idols

RuPaul's Drag Race, Episode 4: "Shade: The Rusical"

As soon as it was revealed that two of this season's contestants had appeared on some version of Idol, you just knew that thre was going to be some sort of singing challenge that pitted them against each other.  I just had no idea that it was going to be this soon.  Ru had the ladies  split up in groups and perform the world premiere of "Shade: The Rusical," written by her frequent collaborator, Lucian Piane.  So, who emerged triumphant?  Let's take a look.

The Real Housewives of New York City Sixth Season Premiere: Back in the City

The Real Housewives of New York City, Episode 1: "If You Can Make It Here"

It's been almost two years, but Tuesday night marked the triumphant return on the ladies of the Big Apple.  If you read this blog, you know that I am an avid viewer of the various Real Housewives franchises and I have to say the NYC ladies are my favorites.  They don't take themselves too seriously and they are funny.  I was worried when I heard about their salary disputes with Bravo and I was worried that for the second time in two seasons there might be another dramatic cast overhaul.  Luckily, the ladies got their shit together and we are finally getting to enjoy their craziness.  Speaking of craziness, can we talk about those new taglines.  They are everything!  All the franchises should just embrace the ridiculata like the NYC wives have done.  Now, let's check in with each of the ladies and their fabulous new tag lines.

RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Choosing Sides

RuPaul's Drag Race, Episode 3: "Scream Queens"

You can count on certain things with reality shows.  American Idol is going to have theme weeks.  Project Runway has unconventional challenges.  There is going to be an auction on Survivor.  RuPaul's Drag Race is not different and this week they trotted out one of their tried and true challenges: a movie parody.  This year the dolls divided up into two teams to shoot movie trailers for a horror film called Drag Race Me to Hell, one set in the 1960's and one set in the 1980's.  The lines are still pretty clearly drawn between the two groups of queens.  They aren't fans of each other and they are sticking pretty closely with their original groups.  This challenge showed that one set is clearly superior to the other and there was some surprising choices made by Ru and the other judges.  Let's take a look at how everything shook out.

Catching Up with… The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Everybody Hates Lisa

The fourth season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills came to a close last night.  It was quite the ending with queen bee Lisa Vanderpump at odds with all the ladies except for newbies Joyce and Carlton.  The whole thing seems ridiculous and a tad staged to me.  I mean, not a big surprise that something on a reality show would be staged, but this whole vendetta seems like the the original ladies conspired to bring down Lisa because they are jealous.  So, what led up to and what went down when the ladies gathered together to celebrate the 100th anniversary party for the city of Beverly Hills.

RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Is This America's Next Top Model?

RuPaul's Drag Race, Episode 2: "RuPaul's Big Opening, Part 2"

RuPaul continued his two part premiere Monday night by introducing us to the other seven queens that will be vying for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar."  This was more like it!  I felt that the first part of the premiere was a little lackluster.  The queens didn't impress much and it was a little bit of a letdown.  These new queens were head and shoulders above the first six.  Seriously.  Bring over Ben DeLaCreme and the other bitches can get to steppin'.  There were quite a few contenders for the crown and only a couple of out and out and duds.  So, just like we did last week, let's rank the queens from least to most likely to win it all.  

RuPaul's Drag Race Sixth Season Premiere: 7 Queens Enter, 7 More Enter Later...

RuPaul's Drag Race, Episode 1: "RuPaul's Big Opening"

RuPaul's Drag Race launched it's sixth(!) season premiere on Monday night and Ru went a different route.  Instead of introducing us to all 14 queens competing for the title of America's Next Drag Superstar all at once, she divided the group in half, so no queen got lost in the shuffle.  This is a good idea.  RDR has become something of a cultural phenomenon and it makes sense to spread the premiere love a little.  My issue was that the first seven queens they showcased were boring, annoying or both.  Only a couple showed the uniqueness, charisma, nerve and talent needed to snatch the crown from season five winner Jinkx Monsoon.  It was an interesting challenge with the queens tasked with serving face while flying through the air for their first photo mini challenge and then serving up some reality TV realness on the Main Stage.  It was kind of funny to see one of the categories being Duck Dynasty after their anti gay brouhaha a few months ago.  As Ru pointed out in an interview, they certainly don't agree with the Robertson's views, but it was much too late to do any sort of edits.

Now, I know it's ridiculously early, but let's judge!  After the jump, I've ranked these first seven queens from least to most likely to win it all.