Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Brandi Glanville Watches Eddie And LeAnn’s New Show & The Ladies Say GoodBye! [Episodes 9]

​”The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” begins with Lisa catching us up on what her son Max has been up to. Music college has been a bust, and Max struggles with confidence and an ambitious  spirit, so Lisa has plunked him into Sur, because at least he isn’t lying around saying “I can’t” all day.  It’s time to make it on his own, and being dropped into an environment of 30 somethings acting like oversexed high schoolers will surely bring the “YES I can!” out of this unmotivated young man. Lisa reminds us in the same breath of her dazzling gem of a daughter, Pandora, who is pretty much the opposite of a Sur employee in every way. 

The Umanskys are traveling to Arizona to drop Alexia off at college and lucky for us, the pre-blubber fest has already started. Kyle wants to let Alexia spread her wings, as long as she makes sure to come home for her weekly laundry lesson accompanied by a side of sniffle time. Kyle feels secure, because she knows that if anything goes wrong with her beloved daughter, the Tuscon police will tweet an SOS, and she can jump on one of her luxury private jets and be by her side in a flash. Kyle hates that she didn’t go to college, and squarely blames her mother for forcing her to be a quasi-famous child actress instead of back staging her into law school.

We skip across the country where Yo and Bella are unloading her junk at her new NYC pad.  Yolanda feels insecure about letting Bella go, blows her a kiss, and secretly hopes that her amazing daughter doesn’t turn and wink at the camera then rush to befriend the first 21 year old that crosses her path.

Back in Cali, Brandi has broken out her best grimy look for a meeting with her lawyer. Eddie wants a hefty refund, claiming that he overpaid child and spousal support. Brandi wants Eddie to get a job already so they can all sit around and eat a motherfu**in’ Thanksgiving dinner and be done with it. The timer goes off on her smart phone and she scampers away before the pro can charge her for another 15 minutes….fingers crossed that it’s in the direction of a shower.

We sit in on a family dinner at Eileen’s, highlighted by a special guest appearance of Gigi Hadid’s prom date, and it’s a cute scene. Back at Bella’s pad, Yolanda is arranging the furnishings, fur rugs, and accessories, while Bella is nowhere to be seen.  Back in Arizona, Kyle and the family meet up with Farrah, check into the hotel, while

Kyle continues to whine, cry, and ramble on about leaving Alexia, who is  off having fun, away from the clingy misery.

Lisa Rinna is headed to an acting gig, and she is excited because she loves to do anything, especially when you get a check. She launches into a startling series of voice exercises, her lips take over the screen, and it is a bit frightening.  Penn Gillette has summoned her to the harrowing task of playing Harry Hamlin’s wife, and because she loves being an actress, she is all over the challenge. Lisa believes that it’s really weird to act in a non porny way with her own husband, and doesn’t appreciate being type-cast as herself.

Back in NYC, Bella arrives home to a perfectly staged apartment, and presents her mom with a letter of apology for her drunken whoopsie.  It is sweet, but I found it odd to do it on camera, and half expected Yo to look at the camera and say “SEE!  I TOLD you she was perfection!” Hopefully this will put an end to all of Yolanda’s endless ultimate mother parenting lectures.