The Real Housewives of New Jersey
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Thank Kim and Kyle Richards for screaming in the back of a limo.
However, the difference between Jackie and the Sisters Richards is that Jackie is doing it intentionally.
Shes talking about her eating disorder frankly and openly on the show.
I cant begin to imagine her motivations to help other women?
For the audience to hold her accountable?
Because she really is tortured and knows she needs to get better?
All of the above?
but the result is something that we havent seen before.
She tells her kids that its so good, and theyre like, Do you really think that?
because she doesnt seem genuine.
But she did it!
For whatever reason, she ate the ice cream and tried to have a normal experience with her children.
(Like Jackie, I hate the word normal.
Not only is it boring, but its a standard I never wanted to be held to.
Just because something is normal doesnt mean I should do it.)
We dont fully understand her feelings until she sits down with her therapist.
Her therapist has to tell her, Actually, most people would not do that.
You dont even want to see my food diary.
This just shows how disordered her thinking is and how hard it is for Jackie to give it up.
The panic that strikes Jackies face is like lightning hitting the ocean far on the horizon.
I wish that were my homework.
I wish that my therapist would be like, You go get some pizza.
Lots of people do, but for Jackie, thats torture.
I dont want to make too many jokes about Jackies struggle.
(Though jokes are what Im here for.
Well, jokes and hating Teresa Giudice.)
Im looking at Jennifer, and she just doesnt care, she says in confessional.
She eats what she wants.
We cant wait for you to do that too.
And youre welcome over to my house for pizzaandice cream any time.
Maybe even at the same time.
The rest of the episode is standard Housewives fare, if not a little boring.
Even I was like, Mooooooooommmmmmmmmmm, cant you go wait in the car.
This is the second year in a row that Melissa has used Antonia for her storyline.
Poor Antonia, where Missy Gs original face lives on for another generation.
She better be getting quite the allowance for giving her mother some relevance.
When Melissa talks to Traci about all this, Traci says, Shes going through normal teenage issues.
The other big story is the birthday party Margaret throws for Marge Sr.
It is very inspirational, and Margarets speech to her mother brought a little tear to my eye.
If anywhere on Earth is the nexus of all evil, it is here.
Buffy should move there.
It is the real Hellmouth.
While theyre getting ready, Jackie asks Evan if he and Bill are all good.
Yeah, we texted.
Its cool, he says.
It must be exhausting to be a straight man.
The same sort of thing happens when they all meet up at the birthday.
Joe Gorga is like, We all good?
And Bill is like, Yeah, and then its kind of over.
Well, it is a bit more complex than that.
Umm, couldnt Joe have made the same call?
His wife was just as responsible for the mess at their house as Jen was.
Why is he laying this all at Bills feet?
He left the boys night because Joe and Evan said his wife was a bad person.
This is why Joe got so violent at that Christening.
At least the ladies can be honest about their feelings.
But its just a place.
Its just a house.
Moving for the first time can be traumatic.
They tell you that you cant take it with you, but they lie.
Those moments are transportable.
Theyre in those pretty heads of theirs, reined in by all of that elastic training.
Wherever they go, bam, the memories are there.
This is just a place, just a shell.
