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On this episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Angie makes amends with Mary and Britani meets with her estranged daughter. But not even a super yacht girls’ trip can kick a Lisa/Angie reconciliation into gear. Until Lisa starts taking accountability, she’s going to continue being a “risky friend.” And when Bronwyn ‘s past resurfaces, it leaves her wondering if Lisa is the one perpetuating the rumors…
Heather checks in on Angie after the big fight. Angie seems most distraught over the way things ended with Mary and so she has already set up a meeting with her to try and repair their friendship.
Angie admits that her behavior was not great and feels guilty about the way it all happened at the party. However, she claims she did it to protect everyone from Lisa’s reoccurring takedowns. Heather appreciates that Angie is taking accountability for going low, but she knows that Lisa will not be as quick to apologize.
The fractured friendships make things tricky for the upcoming super yacht girls’ trip. After speaking with Captain Jason (love a good crossover), Heather is hopeful that everyone can just have fun despite the recent drama.
Bronwyn has very clearly bribed Todd with ice cream so he can film with her. He doesn’t even feign interest as Bronwyn reports the fighting within the group. Todd gives Bronwyn absolutely nothing, right up to eating her only cherry on her ice cream sundae.
Bronwyn looks for applause from Todd when she mentions she was not in any of the chaos, but all he does is congratulate her for behaving amongst the clowns. Bronwyn wonders if she was too quick to “neutralize” with Lisa, as she has already accepted Lisa’s apology. She then goes on to talk about the psychic who spoke about her mother. Todd brushes the reading off and Bronwyn gets upset because he sh*ts all over anything she finds remotely interesting. Bronwyn understands that Todd is less emotional than she is, but she wishes he would truly notice her feelings.
Lisa begins to pack for the upcoming yacht trip to Canouan, despite not knowing where she is going geographically. Although she throws shade about it being only a 3 day trip, she is excited. In her eyes, the guest list is questionable, but a trip is a trip.
Lisa lets John know the psychic picked up on the communication problems in their marriage. They both agree this is an issue they deal with. Lisa feels like the blurred lines between business, family, and marriage makes her feel taken for granted and like they are on different pages. John claims that Lisa does not want to hear what he has to say and he sarcastically states that everything Lisa does is perfect–he is clearly the issue. This is a repeated theme throughout the episode.
Angie tries to extend an olive branch to Mary by buttering her up because she knows she is in hot water. Angie apologizes and states that she only responded to Lisa because she felt bullied. Mary points out that Angie got too angry and caught up in the drama. When Angie lashed out at Mary, it left Mary wondering if they are really the sister-friends they claim to be. When Angie states she is still her sister, Mary retorts, “No you’re not. Find another one, k?”
Mary believes that Angie is different lately. She then goes on a ridiculous rant about farts. Apparently, Angie made fun of Mary for farting and Mary is angry. Mary claims Angie should know the difference between a smelly dog fart and her fart. Angie does her best to keep a straight face as Mary goes on and on about a fart. Mary reminds Angie that she said she had gas, NOT that she farted. Mary feels a level of disrespect with Angie and it hurts because she does not let many people into her life. Mary threatens to “unmemorize” Angie’s existence, but Angie reminds Mary that she is her person. Angie promises that she will work on herself. They hug and make up. Luckily, no farting occurs.
Heather shops with Lisa for the upcoming trip. When Lisa learns she can’t bring her glam, she nearly melts down. Lord knows she won’t be using Angie for hair help. Lisa starts right up with the shade about Angie: the yacht “will be nice for Angie cuz she’s never been on a luxury trip like that.” Yet Lisa claims to be the one sick of Angie’s attacks. She refers to Angie as a “mean b*tch,” but continues to bash Angie as the nasty one who started it all when she brought up her kid’s brand.
Heather reminds Lisa that Angie is probably sick of HER digs like the infamous soup man. This gets cleared up when Lisa states she said Angie should talk to her SUIT man (the one who allegedly pays for her things) which makes much more sense, but alas, according to Heather, there is still NO man, whether he is involved in soup or suits.
Lisa, waving a huge wad of cash around, wonders if she should even go on the boat trip. When Heather points out Lisa acts just as low as Angie, Lisa gets upset. Heather is simply just trying to hold a mirror up to Lisa and show her that she says mean things, too. But it’s back to what John said: Lisa is perfect (sarcasm)…and until she realizes that she, too, can be better, things will never change. Heather thinks they all feel bullied by Lisa’s antics and calls Lisa a “risky friend.”
After the psychic reading, Britani realizes that she has to make things right with her daughter. They have an awkward meet up (at least this time Britani is not making out with Jared the whole time- imagine the horror as her daughter witnessed this!!) and Britani admits that she failed as a mom. Her daughter wants Britani to take accountability and realize that she wanted/needed her mom. Britani’s priority of dating men over getting to know her kid has greatly affected her daughter, but Britani is not sure how to fix it.
Meredith is (gasp) DRIVING and meets up with Heather to discuss the Lisa of it all. Heather talks about wanting to defend Lisa, but she also sees Lisa’s repeated take down pattern. Lisa digs up dark skeletons and Heather wonders why Meredith let her off the hook so easily.
Meredith claims that she does not have a great track record with Angie and so if Lisa said she never tried to dig up dirt, than that is what Meredith is choosing to believe. Heather realizes that Lisa has done this pattern to most of the women in the group and makes it clear that no friend should be using people’s skeletons against them. This is not something they should overlook and Heather wishes that Lisa would just say she is sorry for once.
Whitney finally makes her debut in this episode. She hosts Mary and Angie and they talk preference sheets for the yacht trip. So long as Mary has 2003 Dom on the boat, she is good. They discuss coffee vs. tea and then proceed to spill the tea about Bronwyn’s recent allegations in the headlines. Yet another friend falls victim to the Utah crime circle…
Bronwyn is facing allegations of identity theft and grand theft. She turns to Todd for support as they discuss the “ridiculous” headlines. Bronwyn shares that some mistakes she made in college and the other stuff happened almost ten years ago. This case was dismissed and later sealed, so she can’t talk about her involvement in that. Boring.
Bronwyn realizes that her name next to any of those words reflects poorly on Todd. Todd thinks that Bronwyn should think twice about going on this yacht trip with Lisa, as there is a “heavy possibility” Lisa started these rumors…or at the very least, perpetuated these rumors. Todd warns Bronwyn that Lisa is not going to change and Bronwyn should not “get down in the gutter and muck around with slime.” IF Bronwyn does go, he does not want to hear Bronwyn complain about a fight: this choice is all on Bronwyn, a very dad-like thing to say…
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