Ooooooooh chile! The Real Housewives of Atlanta are back, and so far, this season has been hilarious. Turns out dropping Lisa was just what this franchise needed to get in the groove again. Don’t get me wrong — I always liked Lisa and her affable husband Ed, but they didn’t add too much to the mix, aside from some good old fashioned “Drinks and Dialogue.” Credit, however, does go to Lisa for threatening to flip Kim over the couch during the season one reunion. Ever since that moment, each Housewives reunion has been successively more crazy — a legacy that will always be remembered. So for that, Ms. Wu-Hartwell, I say thank you.
Nevertheless, with Lisa gone, we’re able to have a fully crazy cast of ladies, including newbies Phaedra and Cynthia. We don’t know much about the latter yet except that she likes to remind us that she’s a supermodel (allegedly) and that she’s been engaged, like, twenty times. Cynthia, it turns out, loves being kept but not possessed. Oh, and sometimes she has really spiky hair.
Less runway-ready is Phaedra, who not only boasts about being a lawyer, but also a lady. She’s spent most of her screen time quietly refraining from nastiness, but we know she has it in her. Also in her is a baby, and prior to that, her boyfriend Apollo, who spent formative years in the clink and may or may not be gay (Shereé seems to think he is). No one really knows how Phaedra and Apollo wound up together, but one thing’s for certain: between their two names, they are now the most Grecian-themed couple in Housewives history.
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