RECAP: Real Housewives of Atlanta “Shade for Days” [Season 8, Episode 9]

Happy New Year! Hope everyone has recovered from celebrating. We are at the Kandi Factory when Shemea stops by to recap last week’s drama on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Kandi, DonJuan and Carmon (or as Porsha calls her, Camera) discuss the “fallout over da money.” Kandi is tired of Porsha sticking her nose in her business. Flashbacks are shown of Porsha and all of noses in other people’s business.

Over at Phaedra’s office, Todd stops by to pick up his check. Spoiler alert: he’s not getting one – but you already knew that. Phaedra goes over her excuses for not finishing the workout video project; she had a baby, her baby-daddy went to prison, and other priorities like purse and shoe shopping, but she’s really ready to get this project back on track. Todd just needs a photo of Phaedra pregnant and the rest of the money. File this under – ain’t gonna happen.

Porsha has the gig of her life. She will be standing on the red-carpet at the Emmy’s in Los Angeles as a rep for Dish Nation. Her sister Lauren is with her, but pregnant, tired and unwilling to get out of that robe. She informs Porsha she will be taking a two-month maternity leave. Porsha informs her there is no maternity leave for indentured servants. Hopefully Lauren will find a competent replacement to help manage the business of being “Porsha.”

Kenya’s dad, Ronald, drops by. She is taking him to visit Moore Manor, but before they go, they talk about her dating life. Kenya recently went to a relationship seminar and learned that due to the broken love affairs with her parents, she has severe trust issues. Apparently dad previously met the dude he wanted for Kenya but she dumped him for lack of butterflies. Ronald gives great advice, he says, “Sometimes you gotta say, hey man, this is the best side of the book.” When Ronald sees Moore Manor he tells Kenya that she doesn’t want to know what he thinks of it—and he has to pee. 

At Bailey Agency, Cynthia is setting up for a customer appreciation party she is throwing the next day and Marlo stops by to help set up – and nothing happens. 

Jetting back to LA, Porsha is ready for the Emmy’s and looks like a picture-perfect Cinder-ebony in her ball gown and braided hair. And girl, Porsha has done her homework for this event. She has prepared questions to ask the celebrities. Her go-to questions is, “What’s the most embarrassing thing you did to get ready for tonight?” Interesting choice. The most creative answer was: put on deodorant-but they didn’t say where. Fascinating. Girl is ready to move on to covering politics, don’t cha think?

Kandi and Todd and Peter and Cynthia meet for dinner. At this point, Kandi is 6 ½ months pregnant, but still wearing regular, stretchy clothes. She catches Peter and Cynthia up on the ratchetness from the music release party involving the DonJuan tiff. How Phaedra didn’t pay Todd no $30,000 and how Porsha needs to keep her donkey ass out of Todd’s business. Btw, did you know Porsha had a single? It “Flatlined.” Ba-dum-tisk.

The conversation moves on to the restaurant business. Peter has lots of advice to give, but Cynthia cuts him off to say she is not a fan of this idea. Peter cuts her off to explain the business runs better when you are there all the time. (And paying special attention to the ladies.) The Bickerson’s go back and forth with the is’s and ain’ts of running a successful restaurant – something they really don’t have the recipe for just yet.

Yay, it’s time for Cynthia’s eyewear event. It’s hopping. Kim drops by and I feel like saying, “Where have you been?” but then I realize I didn’t notice she wasn’t there until she showed up. Cynthia tells Kim and Kenya that she needs to shoot a commercial and is interested in their directing and producing services – though she doesn’t know which one should be in charge of what job. It’s real simple. 

Porsha arrives fresh off her Emmy trip to support Cynthia. Not really, she’s there to stir it up with Kandi. But here’s the thing with Kandi, she comes with the Kandi Koated backup, and they join the conversation. DonJuan gives Porsha a “sorry I’m not sorry” apology for coming off like an aggressive queen at the music release party. When Porsha says she doesn’t want to have this conversation if they can’t speak privately with just the two of them, and the film crew, and the producers, then maybe they just shouldn’t speak at all. Kandi says, bye, bitch.

Porsha sashays out of there and Shamea and Carmon follow for more airtime. Porsha’s got nothing to say to them – only to Kandi – so she sashays away again. Interesting note, this whole mess is because Phaedra didn’t finish paying Todd, and she ain’t even showed up to this shady event. Score one for Phaedra. Every southern belle should know when to keep her broke ass home.

Kenya and her dad are together again, walking through the park. She’s trying to have a real conversation with Ronald, but it’s not easy, and Kenya struggles through her tears. We learn that at age 12, “Kenny” ran away from H-town, and her dad, back to Detroit. Father and daughter didn’t speak for five, long years. Ronald chokes up as he shares with Kenya that her running away made him feel like a failure. All he wanted was to have his family together. He gives great advice again telling Kenya to do the best you can with the cards you’re dealt. Kenya asks him to attend a family reunion back in Detroit, but Ronald doesn’t want to go because he discarded those cards long ago. He gives in to Kenya and they hug it out. Kenya hopes her mother will show up – and so do we.

Across town, Porsha has invited Kandi to have soda, without backup. Both ladies received the, wear white, memo and begin discussing where things took a left turn. Kandi explained that DonJuan and Shamea were there when the shit went down and had a right to be there to discuss said shit. Porsha thinks Kandi ain’t cool with her because she’s now cool with Phaedra. Kandi is mad Porsha’s taking sides and jumping on band wagons. Porsha says Phaedra needs her a little more right now than Kandi. So there. Porsha sticks out her tongue and stomps her foot. Not really, but really.

Kandi thinks Porsha is drinking the Phaedra Kool-Aid. She is a lawyer, ergo, a master manipulator, according to Kandi. Porsha explains that when she hated her ex, she needed her girlfriends by her side, hating on him too. That’s all she was doing. Now with that all cleared up, Porsha wants to help get the Phaedra and Kandi underground railroad back on track. Luckily Kandi recognizes she has bigger things to attend to instead of this trainwreck.

 

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