The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Ends On a Low Note With Kyle Screaming & Kim in Tears

Well, the first season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is now history.

Almost.

We still have the two part Reunion to "fight" through.

I found watching these housewives both amusing and annoying.

As in some of them are very annoying housewives. And in a different way of being annoying than annoying housewives on some of the other Bravo Real Housewives franchises.

I think it was the extreme shallowness of so much of some of these BH Housewives lives that annoyed me. To live such privileged existences and then to spend your time on such petty personal bickering is a sad sad thing.

Of the BH Housewives I liked Lisa VanderPump and Adrienne Maloof the best. With Adrienne seeming, by far, to be the most grounded and normal of the group.

My opinion of Lisa slightly altered in the final episode. Why is it that that strange upset in New York City can not just be forgotten? It really was a big brouhaha about nothing. Why did Lisa feel she needed to get to the bottom of it? To get the "truth" out of Taylor. Why did it matter so much to Lisa? To the point that Lisa had deduced that it was Taylor who had triggered Camille into the outburst in New York that so dominated the weeks that followed.

It was Lisa who caused Taylor to confront Kim at Taylor's birthday party ahout what was really said about Camille during some airport or airplane conversation. It all seems so trivial and inconsequential it is hard to remember what these Housewives are all twisted up about.

So, at Taylor's birthday party, Kim is a bit drunk. Does not take well to Taylor confronting her. Soon it escalates, til all the Housewives are putting on a Shouting Show for the party guests, to the amusement and befuddlement of their husbands.

Again, it seemed Adrienne was the only adult in the group.

Kim left, somehow ended up in a limo with that creepy Brit guy who Lisa keeps trying to hook her up with. Then Adrienne gets in the limo to conduct a therapy session. And then Kyle gets in the limo and soon the interior of the limo exploded into Kyle F-bombing Kim and eventually dropping the shocking, shocking, I tell you, revelation that Kim is an alcoholic.

Which apparently is true, due to the fact that soon after this incident Kim Richards spent a week in alcoholic treatment rehab type center.

I really don't get how these Housewives can be so fabulously wealthy, living in such fabulous homes, driving such fabulous cars, or being chauffeured in fabulous limousines to fabulous parties and other fabulous events and yet somehow can not simply enjoy their fabulous lives and instead wallow around like low-class, un-educated, trashy miscreants with bad manners.

For the most part.

And another thing, I was late to the Beverly Hills Housewives, finally starting to watch about 8 episodes ago when one of The Real Housewives of Camano Island, Carlotta Del Rio, told me I was missing some good stuff. Including this character named Camille.

At that point in time I did not realize Camille was the wife of Kelsey Grammer. And I had trouble understanding the high level of contempt Camille was held in by viewers. Eventually I sort of got it. But then, by the end, I sort of actually like Camille. It is Kyle who seems a villain to me, more than Camille.

But, really, all these Housewives should learn it is a wise thing to listen to what Adrienne is saying.

And one more thing, regarding Kim Richards. On the Watch What Happens Live episode which followed the RHOBH finale, Adrienne and Taylor were Andy's guests. At some point someone asked if anyone knew what Kim's source of income was. No one knew, with Adrienne properly opining it was no one's business.

Which had me a bit curious about Kim Richards. From the Wikipedia article about Kim I was surprised to learn how extensive Kim's TV and movie career has been. Much more extensive than sister Kyle.

I also learned from whence Kim's children came. She's been married twice. First to G. Monty Brinson, having one daughter, Brooke, from that assignation. Then in 1991 Kim was engaged to a commodities salesman named John J. Collett who was murdered by a hit man. Kim then married someone named Gregory Davis, with whom she had Whitney and Chad. Both marriages ended in divorce. At some point in time Kim had another daughter, Kimberly, courtesy of ex boyfriend John Jackson.

I was unable to learn at what point in time Kim took to the bottle to help soothe her many sorrows.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Raise the Tax Rate of the Upper Bracket

When Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey came on to my TV screen, I avoided them. I did not want to get hooked on any more of the Bravo Housewives. Atlanta and New York City were enough. And I've never been able to watch much of the OC Housewives due to the fact that the one named Vicki Gunvalson bugs me bad. Watching that Vicki girl discomforts me.

So, when the D.C. Housewives came along, I did not look at a single second of them. Same with the Beverly Hills Housewives.

Well.

Carlotta Del Rio, she being one of The Real Housewives of Camano Island, informed me that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was being highly entertaining. And that the Beverly Hills had one particularly despicable Housewife in the form of Kelsey Grammer's (now ex) wife Camille. Who has managed, even before the Beverly Hills Housewives have finished their first season, to become the most reviled Housewife in Bravo Housewife History.

So, I saw my AT & T U-Verse On Demand had the latest 4 episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills available for viewing. And so I viewed them.

Not knowing anything about these Housewives, except that one was married to Frasier, I found them instantly very entertaining.

And zipping all over Beverly Hills highly interesting.

Watching so much conspicuous consumption made me conclude the Bush tax cuts for the upper bracket need to go, and the upper bracket needs to be taxed more.

I had to go to the Bravo Real Housewives of Beverly Hills website to find out how these women managed to live these bizarrely privileged lifestyles.

Taylor Armstrong married a skeezy looking venture capitalist named Russell. This explains how she can afford massive amounts of collagen injections, or whatever it is that causes gigantic swollen lips.

Lisa VanderPump is a Brit. What a name. VanderPump. I like Lisa. She seems to have come by her money by working hard and being creative, opening a lot of bars in Europe and restaurants in America. She has a live-in houseboy named Cedric. And a cute little dog named Gigolo she sleeps with.

The Richards sisters, Kim and Kyle, were child actors, both appearing in the Disney movie, Return to Witch Mountain. I'm pretty sure that's the name of the movie. Both have reproduced multiple times. Kyle is married, while Kim is not a wife. And it really does not appear that she actually lives in Beverly Hills. Both are aunts to Paris Hilton, because Paris' mother, Kathy, is the sister of Kyle and Kim.

Adrienne Maloof is like Lisa. Normal. And she seems to have come by her money the honest way. By earning it. Her family owns the Sacramento Kings, the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, a film, television and music producing business and the world's biggest skateboard competition. Adrienne does a lot of charity work. And she has really pedestrian tastes. I saw her spread Peter Pan Peanut Butter on white bread. Yuck.

And then there is Camille. What is wrong with Frasier, I mean, Kelsey Grammer, that he picks such awful women to mate with? This one makes Lilith look like a catch. I have not seen all of what has made the viewers despise Camille. But, today I saw a part of an episode I have not watched. Camille was planning a trip to Hawaii. Basically she had all this help to make the trip work, including a couple nannies. Camille acted as if planning this trip was extremely hard work. Very taxing for her. But she basically did nothing except ask questions, like if the pool would be heated. what cars will be there to drive, that type stuff.

Anyway, new episode of RHOBH tonight. I have my DVR set to record it.

I don't know when The Real Housewives of Camano Island starts up. I wonder if Carlotta Del Rio will be the Camille of that series?