The Real Housewives of Orange County

  1. Episode 11 Frozen Assets
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Pregnant Pauses A walk-in closet with a bar is a very bad idea.
  1. Episode 21 Reunion: Part Three
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: Conflicting Reports One of the least interesting reunions in Housewives history.
  2. Episode 20 Reunion Part Two
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: Behind the Screams A lesson for Kelly: Bad behavior is not excused by more bad behavior.
  3. Episode 19 Reunion Part One
    RHOC Reunion Recap: Orange You Glad It’s Almost Over? Oof, this is going to be a long reunion.
  4. Episode 18 Vicious Lies and Broken Ties
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Finale Recap: Being Callow I don’t want to talk about these stupid fights again.
  5. Episode 17 Puppet Strings and Tamra’s Wings
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Give Me Strength Heather Dubrow needs to be cut from the show.
  6. Episode 16 Bringing Up Old Ghosts
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: When Irish Eyes Are Crying How, logistically, is there no footage of the big fight?
  7. Episode 15 Shamrocks and Shockwaves
  8. Episode 14 Secrets, Lies, and Vicki’s New Guy
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Candles in the Wind Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump and Vicki Gunvalson in the same room?
  9. Episode 13 Bye Bye Beadors
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Separation Anxiety Enough is enough: The hashtag hats must be destroyed.
  10. Episode 12 Stage Moms and Dropped Bombs
  11. Episode 11 The Moral Minority
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Visitation Rights We need to talk about Tamra’s “#ClassyAF” hat.
  12. Episode 10 Shock and Roll
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Trailers Trashed Tamra’s dune-buggy accident is pretty darn scary.
  13. Episode 9 Woo Hoo Weekend
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Statue of David “This is what you wanted to see. Breasts.”
  14. Episode 8 Shannon Gets Her Groove Back
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Prince-less Bride A vow renewal is the death knell of a marriage.
  15. Episode 7 Something’s Fishy
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Prostitution Bore Kelly Dodd is the new Brandi Glanville.
  16. Episode 6 Frenemies of the State
  17. Episode 5 Boogie Fights
    RHOC Recap: The Days and Nights of Kelly Dodd God, what a mess of a party!
  18. Episode 3 Lies in the Air, Sand in My Hair
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Car Sick Hell is being trapped on a road trip with Vicki Gunvalson.
  19. Episode 2 Making Friends But Not Amends
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Demolition Women There is no one for Vicki to blame but herself. Period.
  20. Episode 1 When the Ship Hits the Fan
    Real Housewives of OC Recap: You Look Gorgeous Tamra Barney Judge is an excellent Housewife.
  1. Episode 21 Reunion Part 2
    RHOC Reunion Finale Recap: Orange You Glad It’s Over Is Vicki and Tamra’s longtime feud finally over?
  2. Episode 20 Reunion Part 1
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: The Cries Have It Other than Vicki Gunvalson’s Icelandic ordeal, this season gave us absolutely nothing.
  3. Episode 20 Reunion, Part Two
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Victim Mentality No understanding is reached and everyone is just trying to advance their own agenda in a series of maddening reunion confrontations.
  4. Episode 19 Candle Wicks and Lunatics
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Finale Recap: Apology Whiz Next year, the cast should just be Kelly, Shannon, and Linda the office manager.
  5. Episode 18 The Real Vikings of Orange County
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Prelude to a Diss A decade of treating people like trash is finally catching up to Vicki.
  6. Episode 17 A Case of the Vickis
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Total Non-clipse of the Heart Everybody knows this isn’t a real medical emergency.
  7. Episode 16 An Unexpected Thaw
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ice, Ice Babies Did Vicki suffer a heart attack in Iceland?
  8. Episode 15 Mystic Mistake
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Show Me Your Aura In the words of Peggy Sulahian, it’s time to stir the feelings pot.
  9. Episode 14 Armenian Rhapsody
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Vicki vs. Tamra This episode is the nadir of a really bad season.
  10. Episode 13 Don’t Rock the Boat
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Balls to the Wall It’s official: Doug McLaughlin is without his balls.
  11. Episode 12 Farm-to-Table Manners
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Dodd Gets Frank This episode tries to paint Kelly in a whole new light.
  12. Episode 11 Breast Intentions
  13. Episode 10 Loose Lips Sink Friendships
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Son of a Gun Do these people really need weapons?
  14. Episode 9 Drag Bingo Bombshell
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Mary’s, Queens, and Scotts No one expects you to dress in drag for drag bingo.
  15. Episode 8 Run for Your Wife
  16. Episode 7 Un-Noble Women
  17. Episode 6 The Sip-N-See Stand Off
  18. Episode 5 Moving In, Moving On, and Moving Fast
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Turds and the Bees We still haven’t gotten the entire cast in the same room this season.
  19. Episode 4 We Have a New Puppet Master
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Snatch Me If You Can Haven’t we seen enough vaginal rejuvenation on this show?
  20. Episode 3 The Not So Quiet Woman
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Tectonic Plates None of these women actually want to spend any time together.
  21. Episode 2 It’s Either My Way or the Feng Shui
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Relationship Corner Was the water supply in Orange County dosed with LSD or something?
  22. Episode 1 The Great Divide
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Premiere Recap: Swear to God Why are the taglines especially terrible this season?
  1. Episode 21 Reunion, Part 3
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: The Long Twerk Begins The season closes out with a reunion that’s fixated on arbitrating disproportionate responses.
  2. Episode 19 Reunion, Part One
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion Recap: The New Coke It only took 19 episodes for the ladies of the OC to finally bring it, and bring it they did.
  3. Episode 18 Femme Finale
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Finale Recap: Fatale Attraction A weird, sad party is the centerpiece of a weird, sad episode that closes out a weird, sad season.
  4. Episode 17 Friends and Enemas
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Enema of the State There are two very different groups of women on this show right now.
  5. Episode 16 Twin Tweaks
    Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Face Off A pair of trips to the plastic surgeon unearths some comedy gold this week, courtesy of Vicki and Kelly.
  6. Episode 15 The Day After
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: All Twerk, No Play The trip to Jamaica concludes with some gratuitous attempts at twerking.
  7. Episode 14 Blow Up
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Cool Runnings The Jamaican excursion takes a dramatic turn thanks to, of course, Shannon.
  8. Episode 13 Heat Waves and Hot Flashes
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Jerks & Chicken A trip to Jamaica brings out the worst in everyone in an episode that fails to rescue this season from its funk.
  9. Episode 12 It’s Nice to Meet You… Again
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Mop Goes the Weasel Season 13 continues to struggle to make much of an impression one way or another, despite the best efforts of its cast.
  10. Episode 11 8 1/2 Minutes of Success
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: QVC You Real Soon Vicki rides a motorcycle and can’t stop screaming. Shannon takes a trip to QVC to sell some not-so-appealing looking frozen meals.
  11. Episode 10 Italian Night Fight
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Italian Scallions Gina’s divorce, already a hot topic, gets hotter when Gina outs herself as an atheist.
  12. Episode 9 A Peace Treaty, a Blind Date, and a Divorce No One Understands
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Over the Moon Vicki enjoys a birthday party and some of Dr. Moon’s medical opinions raise issues about his credibility.
  13. Episode 8 Seeing Red
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Heart On Eddie gets a questionable themed birthday party and we get a glimpse of Vicki’s past.
  14. Episode 7 She Said/She Said
    Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Swinging Sisters A golf outing turns ugly in an episode that features the stupidest fight in Real Housewives history.
  15. Episode 6 Rumors
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Photo Shoot to Kill A dangerously uneventful episode is almost redeemed by Gina, this season’s best new addition.
  16. Episode 5 Orange County Hold ‘Em
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Emily’s List Poker night doesn’t do much to liven up an episode that also finds Kelly and Shannon burying the hatchet.
  17. Episode 4 Judge, Jury, and Gina
    Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Bones to Pick Tamra continues to heal as Vicki continues to be intolerable.
  18. Episode 3 Tres Amigas
    Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Boozy in the Jacuzzi A trip to Mexico takes a predictably nudity-filed turn when the Housewives decide to drink like they’re on spring break.
  19. Episode 2 One Apology, Another Betrayal
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: No Apologies Vicki is very, very sorry. Sort of.
  20. Episode 1 The Next Chapter
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Premiere Recap: Ropes and Dopes Season 13 returns with an episode that focuses mostly on catching up with the cast (with some time thrown in for rope climbing).
  1. Episode 20 Whooping It Up for Wedding Bells
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Finale Recap: Boot Scoot Boogers As we arrive at the end of the season, one thing has become clear: It’s time to say goodbye to the Tres Amigas.
  2. Episode 19 Some Fences Are Made to Be Broken
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: For Whom the Kell Tolls The Vicky-vs.-Kelly thing has become a black hole that swallows the rest of this season.
  3. Episode 18 Wild, Wild Key West
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Throw Away the Key Remember when Housewives vacations used to be fun?
  4. Episode 17 Florida Fun and Fury
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Enemy Engagement Tamra and Kelly’s big confrontation ends with them both being wrong, both being right, and both acting disgracefully.
  5. Episode 16 Viral Videos and Vendettas
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Throw Momma Down the Stairs A leaked video has resulted in a line being drawn between Tamra and Kelly, and everyone has to choose sides.
  6. Episode 15 The Orange Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Puppet Master and Servant The women are mostly off on their own this week but manage to come together to accuse Tamra of being a master manipulator.
  7. Episode 14 How the Tamras Have Turned
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Best Frenemies Forever Maybe Tamra’s getting sloppy. Maybe she just doesn’t care. Regardless, thank God we have her.
  8. Episode 13 Spilling Tea and Throwing Shade
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Fit to a Tea The costumes aren’t the only things that are all wrong at Vicki’s tea party–themed birthday.
  9. Episode 12 Fashion Show Faux Pas
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Going Overboard Say hello to Kathy, the president of OC Fashion Better Part of an Afternoon and Booze Cruise and the savior of this season.
  10. Episode 11 Hot Mess Express
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ms. Conductor Tamra’s own story lines may have dried up, but that doesn’t stop her from driving all of this episode’s action.
  11. Episode 10 Big Os and Broken Toes
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Save the Date Gina and Emily’s fight seems less about a “pity date” and more about the show itself. But most of all it seems dumb.
  12. Episode 9 Miracle at Miraval
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Surrender at Miraval Ultimately, this episode isn’t as much about fighting as it is about healing — but there’s still plenty of fighting.
  13. Episode 8 Let’s Get Metaphysical
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ding to the Dong I don’t know what kind of energy maintenance is going on at Miraval, but that crystal whisperer needs to work overtime on these women.
  14. Episode 7 Dance Like No One Is Watching
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Having a Bowl Nothing ruins Zen Time like a bonk on the head.
  15. Episode 6 Family Affair
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Mommy Queerest This episode is just littered with family fights that will never end.
  16. Episode 5 Liar, Liar, Friendships on Fire
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Braunwyn or Lose Braunwyn is jumping into Housewives with both feet and all 18 consonants in her name, and when her cravenness is laid bare, she can’t take it.
  17. Episode 4 Breakdown in Beverly Hills
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Their First Rodeo Kelly is not about an eye for an eye. If you try to take her eye, she’ll cut off your whole head.
  18. Episode 3 All Aboard the Rumor Train
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Train Has Left the Station For a “friend of,” Vicki sure is doing a lot of the heavy lifting of creating Housewives drama this season.
  19. Episode 2 (Not So Happy) Housewarming
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Be the Pigger Person Vicki refuses to acknowledge the new world order where she is not a major part of the show and, honestly, it’s a little sad.
  20. Episode 1 New Friend, New Flames
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season Premiere Recap: Son of a Gunvalson The specter of an absent Vicki looms over a disjointed premiere that finds the Housewives oddly isolated from each other.
  1. Episode 14 Making Waves
    RHOC Season Finale Recap: Sex, Lies, and COVID-eotape As the pandemic season draws to a close at least Braunwyn finally opened the closet door.
  2. Episode 13 Trouble In Newport Beach
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Friends and Lovers Is this the backdoor pilot to some spinoff series for Braunwyn?
  3. Episode 12 The Unmasking of Elizabeth Vargas
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Fish in the Sea The COVID story lines this episode raise many questions, but we do finally get some answers from Elizabeth.
  4. Episode 11 A Submerged Secret
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Speaking in Tongues What the hell is Elizabeth talking about?
  5. Episode 10 The Great OC Escape
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Brought to You by Peach Vodka The producers are trying their best to salvage this coronavirus season, but this Lake Arrowhead trip really isn’t doing it.
  6. Episode 9 The Lies That Bind
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Anti-Social Distancing An odd, insightful episode centered on life in lockdown gives us a glimpse of the ‘wives as we’ve never seen them before.
  7. Episode 8 The Calm Before the Storm
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Lockdown and Out Each one of the Housewives handles preparing for the pandemic exactly the way you think she would.
  8. Episode 7 Renewals and Regrets
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: One Tequila, Two Tequila Shannon wants everyone to think she’s a great person, without doing the actual work to be a great person.
  9. Episode 6 The Vow Renewal
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Apocalypse Vow Braunwyn’s vow renewal slash super-spreader event sure is something.
  10. Episode 5 An Unexpected Guest
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Little Red Corvette The all-cast events have been in short supply this season, but at least we get some good small group scenes this week.
  11. Episode 4 The Aftershock
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: When Life Gives You Lemonade Boy Yes, we should all be empathetic for what Braunwyn is going through, but it’s no reason that Gina should give her a pass.
  12. Episode 3 The Splash Heard Round the OC
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Lemon Isn’t Braunwyn going through enough right now without subjecting herself to this fight with Shannon again?
  13. Episode 2 Tequila Truth Serum
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: I’ll Be the Judge Let’s look at the drama that Tamra hath wrought, shall we?
  14. Episode 1 An Unexpected Secret
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Premiere Recap: New House, Who Dis? The 15th season offers a nod to Housewives history before kicking off a parade of new houses, new men, and new friends.
  1. Episode 17 A Band of Housewives
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Finale Recap: Rock Bottom Everything about this finale is weird and off-kilter.
  2. Episode 16 Mountains of Lies
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Phony Versus Thirsty The war between the phony (Heather) and the thirsty (Noella) has finally risen to the surface.
  3. Episode 15 When In Aspen…
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Attitude and Altitude It’s good when a Housewives fight consists of everyone being both right and wrong, but what they’re fighting about is utterly unappetizing.
  4. Episode 14 The Exorcism of Gina
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Failure at Launch Is anyone else interested in a spinoff called Gina and Emily: Ghost Huntresses?
  5. Episode 13 Mind Blown
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Singing in the Brain Is this whole season just a backdoor trailer for this 7 Year Stitch show?
  6. Episode 12 Apples and Oranges
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Naked Chefs The return of Heather Dubrow continues to be completely baffling.
  7. Episode 11 Wined, Dined, and Ryned
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: C-Ryne Me a River Dr. Jen and Ryne’s blandly unhappy marriage is the last thing that makes for compelling television.
  8. Episode 10 Edible Derangements
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Divorce, California Style Weed edibles and Noella’s ability to make everything about herself somehow save this episode from being boring.
  9. Episode 9 Runaway Husband
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Stack Attack Dr. Jen commits the housewife cardinal sin of being both annoying and boring.
  10. Episode 8 Sweat, Lies, and Pornography
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Porn on the Fourth of July Emily Simpson is rapidly rising the ranks of favorite Housewives. Watch your back, Sonja Tremont Morgan!
  11. Episode 7 Wild Cards
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Passport Control The Cabo trip is about to be ruined by Hurricane Noella.
  12. Episode 6 Straight Questions, Straight-ish Answers
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Notella Noella The scene between Noella and Heather? Chef’s kiss.
  13. Episode 5 A Tele-Noella
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Thirst Thing’s Thirst The beef between Noella and Dr. Jen is currently simmering.
  14. Episode 4 Judge and Jury
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Bar None Noella could use a friend. But that friend isn’t Nicole.
  15. Episode 3 Day of Truth
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Day of Truth A fairly dull episode consists of a bunch of warmed-over feuds and Noella’s man taking off in the middle of the night.
  16. Episode 2 Loose Lips and Lawsuits
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: The Sit Hits the Fan Anna Delvey learned everything she knows from Nicole.
  17. Episode 1 Fancy Pants Is Back
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Premiere Recap: Fancy Pants on Fire The returning and new cast members of RHOC assemble.
  1. Episode 16 Welcome to the Freak Show
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Finale Recap: Cirque du So Lousy And with an argument in contention for Dumbest Fight in ‘Housewives’ lore, another so-so season is in the books.
  2. Episode 15 The Tipping Point
  3. Episode 14 Viva Tres Amigas
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Whoop, There She Is Vicki arrives with a classic Real Housewives jump scare.
  4. Episode 13 Big News, Bigger Secret
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Now in HD The Emily and Heather feud is starting to really devolve.
  5. Episode 12 Pumpkins and Paparazzi
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Small Dick Energy At this point, it’s hard even to remember what the wives are fighting about. Is it just vibes?
  6. Episode 11 It’s My Fiesta and I’ll Cry If I Want To
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Taco Bruise-Day This episode blessed us with a fourth wall so shattered there’s no hope of plastering over it.
  7. Episode 10 A Doppelgänger Disaster
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Dressing Up, Dressing Down What we talk about when we talk about Shannon Beador.
  8. Episode 9 Loose Lips and Relationships
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Boats and Woes Heather painstakingly built her massive OC house just to sell it and go into business with Mark Cuban?
  9. Episode 8 Backyard Bikini Clash
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Strip ‘N Slide The Tres Amigas are back and all is right in the world.
  10. Episode 7 Oh Nobu You Didn’t
  11. Episode 6 Big Trouble in Big Sky
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Boy Troubles You know what we say: chicks before dicks.
  12. Episode 5 Campfire Confessions
  13. Episode 4 You Can’t DB Serious
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Big Sky Malibu Country It’s all feeling a little too familiar, isn’t it?
  14. Episode 3 We Cut It Close(ed)
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Let Them Cut Cake The secret to enjoying this season? Lowered expectations!
  15. Episode 2 Friendship Overboard
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: What the Duck? The Tamra and Shannon fight feels like they finally got fed up with ignoring how awful the other one can truly be.
  16. Episode 1 Here Comes the Judge
    The Real Housewives of Orange County Premiere Recap: Judge, Jury, Executioner We have reached the final frontier of Housewifery.

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