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    Real Housewives Recap

    Real Housewives of Dallas must be a throwaway for Bravo

    Elaine Liner
    Jun 6, 2016 | 11:40 pm
    Brandi Redmond Real Housewives of Dallas
    Brandi does two things at warp speed in every episode: get drunk and start weeping.
    Photo courtesy of Bravo

    On other, more glamorous Real Housewives shows, the ladies often jet off to Bali or Banff or the Bahamas for a super-glam on-camera vacation. For Real Housewives of Dallas, the Bravo network has seen fit only to schlep the gals down to Lake Travis for two nights. On a bus.

     

    Away the women roll to a sprawling lake house built by cast member Brandi Redmond’s husband Bryan and pal Stephanie Hollman’s husband Travis. It’s a big, bland pile of bricks with a pool and a lake view, which the cameras don’t ever bother to feature.

     

    The centerpiece of episode nine of this 10-part series (the finale is next week, followed by a “reunion” special) is a catered birthday dinner for three of the wives. Rambunctious party scenes are a staple of Housewives shows. Remember Teresa Giudice flipping the table and yelling “prostitution whore!” at the multifamily meal on RHONJ? Or Camille Grammer’s psychic pal spilling nasty predictions over that boozy dinner with the RH’s of Beverly Hills?

     

    Those episodes were full of fireworks. RHOD’s lakeside slumber party merely lights some damp squibs. The title of this week’s hour is “Killing Time in Austin.” It feels as if this version of the series is doing just that, ticking off minutes until it can clear the time slot to make way for the return of the ratings-pulling crazypants shenanigans of the New Jersey franchise.

     

    Down at Lake Travis, it’s charity-mad LeeAnne Locken in the center ring, as usual. LeeAnne is a gorgeous woman with a heart for good causes and the temperament of a trapped wolverine. This week she’s more than a little miffed that her fellow housewives keep circulating a story about that time she took too many laxatives, had a dram too much alcohol, and didn’t make it to the ladies’ room in time.

     

    Scatology is the dominant theme of RHOD. You have to wonder what the women did during the filming to tick off the crew and editors of this show so badly that every hour ended up loaded with references to pee and poop. This week they include the moment Brandi urinates into a red plastic cup on the bus trip from Dallas to Austin. Cut right to a commercial for a “bladder support” device.

     

    Back at the dinner party, Brandi, bless her sodden heart, gets snockered, does a backward somersault over the tabletop, and then tumbles off her chair onto the floor. Brandi does two things at warp speed in every episode: get drunk and start weeping.

     

    “Brandi and Jesus juice [her nickname for wine] make a lot of decisions together,” observes Brandi’s best friend Stephanie, a pretty blonde who laugh-cackles like an evil sister in Macbeth.

     

    The plan for the weekend in Austin appears to be to hang out at the pile of bricks for a night, pick at chef-prepared scallops, drink too many fireballs and glasses of Pinot Noir, and then wake up early to enjoy a spa day at Austin’s Four Seasons. And here’s where it’s really clear that Bravo has treated RHOD like a throwaway: After the camera crew has left for the night, a major brouhaha breaks out between LeeAnne and the nearly silent Marie Reyes (the one who wore the twiglet hat a few weeks back).

     

    No footage of this contretemps makes it to the small screen; just audio clips of LeeAnne shouting at Marie, captured on Cary’s phone. There’s also a secondhand retelling of the argument by Stephanie in her to-the-camera post-production confessional.

     

    What might have been the high point of the series (or low, depending on how you measure awful behavior among adult women who fancy themselves cultured and privileged), happens off-camera. Viewers only get the tell, but not the show.

     

    So all that’s left on episode nine is the aftermath of blow-up. LeeAnne again explains her hair-trigger temper with references to her crappy childhood. Marie looks terrified as she tries to explain that she’s not the one who revealed the story of LeeAnne’s loose bowels. Tiffany Hendra, LeeAnne’s constant enabler, begs the others to walk in LeeAnne’s espadrilles and try to understand her.

     

    Apologies. Hugs. Cary Deuber (the plastic surgeon’s wife) rolls her eyes under perma-arched brows.

     

    Another tense dinner unfolds at the Austin location of Bob’s Steak & Chop House. LeeAnne drills her death-stare into Cary and Tiffany. Brandi babbles some nonsense about her fear of sharks and then disappears into the restroom. “Worst girls’ trip ever,” snaps Cary.

     

    Previews of episode 10 feature the Byron Nelson golf tournament, two of the housewives falling into a swimming pool, and a revolting close-up of rabbit feces on the carpet at the Redmond home.

     

    On this show, even the pets are party poopers.

     

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    Real Housewives of Dallas airs at 9 pm Mondays on Bravo. You can also watch episodes online.
     

     
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    Movie Review

    Lazy 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' remake hooks nothing but nostalgia

    Alex Bentley
    Jul 17, 2025 | 1:45 pm
    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer
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    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

    When the original I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1997, it was riding the coattails of Scream, which came out in 1996. Like that film, it featured hot young actors of the time, albeit with a story that was much more standard than the inventive Scream. Still, it made enough of an impact for some studio executive to think it was worth reviving nearly 30 years later with its own legacy-quel.

    In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of five high school friends - Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers), and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) - have reunited at the engagement party for Danica and Teddy on the 4th of July. While on an impromptu trip to watch fireworks on a twisty road in the nearby hills, Teddy goofs off in the middle of the road, causing a truck to swerve and drive off the cliff.

    A year later, having sworn to each other to not speak of the accident to anybody, they start getting stalked by a mysterious person in a fisherman’s slicker carrying a hook. With Teddy’s rich father, Grant (Billy Campbell), actively trying to cover up what his son did (as well as the fallout), it’s up to the group to figure out who is coming after them and how to stop that person.

    Written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and co-written by Sam Lansky, the film doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel; in fact, it barely builds something that can roll. It might just be the laziest and most incompetent attempt to capitalize on an existing piece of intellectual property. There is almost zero effort put into establishing a connection between the members of the friend group, making them feel like strangers for the entire film.

    It doesn’t help that the young male actors in the film - which grows to include Wyatt (Joshua Orpin), a new fiance for Danica - serve no purpose other than to be generically good-looking. The most impactful of the men in the film is the returning Freddie Prinze, Jr., who - along with Jennifer Love Hewitt - has his old character from the first two films shoehorned into the new story. The filmmakers undercut any good feelings from their return by giving them hardly anything to do and then having Hewitt deliver the line, “Nostalgia is overrated.”

    The film as a whole never has a sense of momentum. The inciting incident is so tame - they even attempt to save the driver before the truck goes off the cliff - that the guilt they feel and the anger of the person going after them doesn’t feel warranted. Once the attacks start, it is shocking at how low-energy the sequences are, providing no sense of suspense or thrills. The filmmakers resort to the lamest of horror movie tropes, turning the film into a paint-by-numbers affair.

    Cline (one of the stars of Netflix’s Outer Banks) and Wonders (The Studio on Apple TV+, Bodies Bodies Bodies) are the clear stars of the film, but their characters are made into inert scream queens, negating any acting talent they possess. Hauer-King, Withers, and Pidgeon don’t bring anything interesting to their characters, existing merely to have someone else for the killer to go after.

    Even the worst films can have some kind of redeeming value if you look hard enough, but the only thing I Know What You Did Last Summer has to offer is that it becomes so comically bad by the end that you can’t help but laugh at its ineptitude. Both fans of the original and fans of horror movies in general will feel cheated by the experience.

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    I Know What You Did Last Summer opens in theaters on July 18.

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