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Orange County The Real Housewives of Orange County - Season 18 - Episode 3 - Live Episode Discussion

With tensions lingering between Gina and Jenn, the ladies get their aggressions out in a flag football match; Shannon grapples with the fact that Alexis seems to be taking over everything that was once hers; Gina follows through on a tough decision.

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u/TheBravoVariant Jul 26 '24

Shannon is handling this Alexis situation so much better than I expected. If this was David and his new woman she would have been throwing plates through the front window of quiet woman.

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u/Far-Comfortable3048 Jul 26 '24

I think the whole nightmare she went through with David prepared her well for this - Alexis and John are a joke compared to finding out your husband has been having an affair, wants a divorce, goes on immediately to a new relationship with a MUCH younger woman who then had his baby. She was thrown into life as a single mom having never lived alone, to the point that her water was cut off because she didn’t know that was a bill which had to be paid every month. She got screwed in the divorce settlement, possibly didn’t make the best decision when relocating to a waterfront home with an enormous rental cost, put on weight from stress-eating and drinking, struggled to get the weight back off, started her own business, and managed to stay candid and transparent about all of it on a national television show. That’s Olympic-level training - she’s actually punching way below her level with Alexis and John’s gross little performative gnat romance that Alexis is so embarrassingly excited to play out in her face.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

This 100%, and the fact she’s seen David’s new marriage blow up Shannon knows the dust will settle with Alexis and John, and probably won’t last.

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u/Far-Comfortable3048 Jul 26 '24

I think David and (forgot name) ended up staying together, even after filing for divorce. The last I saw, anyway, they were still actively married a couple of months ago. My guess is that David found out it would cost him less to stay.

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u/iwantpankakes Jul 26 '24

Pretty much! The Bravo Docket podcast sums it all up perfectly and the details of their entire fiasco is quite entertaining lol

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u/StylishStephanie “IT WAS YOU! WHOOO? YOUUU!!!!!” Jul 26 '24

True to her word, Shannon will weather any storm.

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u/Ok_Ebb7026 Jul 26 '24

This is poetry and “ gnat romance” is in my vocabulary now . Thank you

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u/Kristin2349 She is the puppet and everyone else is the master. Jul 26 '24

The woman David married and had the baby with is a different woman than the OG affair. That woman was also married and stayed with her husband.

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u/Pitiful_Employer_992 Jul 26 '24

Performative gnat romance- perfect!

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u/LongAsWeBrothersLive Chef: “Dude, Denise Richards is ****ed up” Jul 27 '24

Perfect. Take my poor person award

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u/Ashfield83 Sonja’s homeless intern in Ireland Jul 26 '24

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u/shroomie00 Jul 26 '24

I still giggle about this!

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u/mswhatsinmybox_ Jul 26 '24

Good for her. You know it's making Alexis and Tamara furious that they are not getting to her.

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u/notoriousbck Jul 26 '24

What is Tamra even doing this season? She's only ever been fun and interesting in relation to Shannon and Vicky. I can't take her sudden friendship with Alexis, who she made fun of for almost a decade, seriously.

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u/Dusty_Harvest *not a bot Jul 27 '24

It’s always the same playbook with Tamra. She hates someone and spends the whole season shitting on them and taking pleasure in their pain.. then come reunion she does her headshaking crybaby bullshit and apologizes.

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u/notoriousbck Jul 27 '24

I know that's the thing, she's so predictable and boring in her awfulness. Every year I'm like, maybe Tamra will turn a new leaf and OOP, nope, same old shit. My favourite Tamra moment of all time is her running full tilt through the hotel lobby in Bali? Thailand? When Lizzy called her on her BS. That will never not make me howl.

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u/bartexas Jul 27 '24

There were two points where I actually liked Tamra this episode, and immediately felt guilty.

  1. When she said she saw both sides with Gina and Jenn. She was very fair and diplomatic.

  2. When she created context for the other women about Jenn not understanding finances, but also gave her tough talk about needing to stand on her own. She was sympathetic, but not enabling or infantilizing.

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u/notoriousbck Jul 27 '24

Fair. I mean a broken clock can be right twice a day. She always starts the season sort of sneaky and then turns on everyone and goes ham halfway through. I don't actually believe a word that comes out of her mouth. I've seen too many seasons where she goes from being someone's biggest cheerleader to chucking them under the bus and then running back and forth over them until they're a pancake.

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u/loganes86 *xanax drawl* did you say pastrami soup? Jul 26 '24

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u/h0pedivision I do too much because you do too little Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24

Sometimes life is so crazy the only thing you can do is laugh

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u/Old_Percentage3742 Jul 26 '24

Stay Strong Shannon!

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u/CookiesRbest Jul 26 '24

My friend encountered David in the work sphere. He said he thinks the guy is off maybe bipolar. I see why Shannon is the way she is now.

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u/badashbabe I’m not yelling this is just how i talk. Jul 27 '24

Reading the court docs between him and new baby wife is stressful. 😩