Episode Ten

I missed episode nine yesterday (sniff sniff). From the recap, Jenn built a necklace out of those bricks in that fort Iyanla made her build, to show her the weight she's carrying around every day with her. Towanda has a hard time trusting men cause her daddy cheated. Kim has a hard time making and keeping female friends, and when her mom dies, her total will be down to zero.

Today's episode started with Kim on the phone worryin to someone about the roommate replacing Deborah that's coming to roost.

GROUP MEETING W/EGGHEAD DUDE: Stannie wants to talk with everyone about DIVORCE. All the girls start goin out about how men suck. He asks them, "Why did the men in your life act the way they did?". Towanda: "Cause they're greedy." Other group input: "They're born to lie." "All men lie and cheat!" Kim breathes with her fire. "Why?" Mr. Katz asks. "100% sex" Towanda hisses.

Heh. Egghead tries to push forgiveness on the bitches. Your dads just needed to fuck, ladies... cut them a break! I'm surprised that for each and every one of them they said that cheating would be an instant dealbreaker for them. It's been awhile since I've heard a chick say that. Egghead tries to loosen their panties some more, what, a guy can't make a mistake or two? Towanda busts a good point why not to take a dude back: "Cause they're gonna be even sneakier next time so they don't get caught."

I guarded my penis even though I was seeing this all through a television screen.

Egghead checkmates them though. "What's they payoff for still being angry about it?" It's been 10, 20 years he says and you chicks are still being all annoying about it. What does it get you? It's time to get ok and accepting about your dad's extra-curricular bonin down. Be supportive, even.

TOWANDA SESSION W/IYANLA: Iyanla has all these paper cutouts stuck to posts nailed into the lawn, all representing members of Towanda's family. Immediately she replaces the one marked "Stepmom" with a new label, "Daddy's wife". Because being called a stepmom is a term of earned respect, she says.

Iyanla tells the audience the goal for today is for Towands to get in touch with her role in her family and the role the others play.

Toni Braxton gets "leader", "successful", "Golden Child" traits pinned to her cutout. The stepmom? "Enemy", "victim". Iyanla backs stepmommy up, saying I guess I'd feel like a victim too if everyone was against me.

Towanda marks herself as "failure", among lots of other traits.

KIM SESSION W/IYANLA: The new roommate coming into the house is an opportunity for Kim to make a brand new female friend. She says she's not going to make any snap judgements this time, as she tends to do with bitches.

Iyanla: "Give and don't expect anything in return." Kim has a problem with this.

TOWANDA SESSION W/EGGHEAD DUDE: Tow's a newywed, and she's been away from her husband for two weeks now. Wait a second, doesn't that mean that hubby's fuckin somebody else right about now?, Egghead asks. She says she trusts her hubby about 80%.

She says she doesn't like to reveal her emotions so she won't appear weak. Egghead dude gets her good again: Towanda says she'll forgive her dad for what he did, but never her new stepmom. The stepmom is the scapegoat. How? Egghead dude points out that it wasn't SHE who cheated out of her marriage contract... HE was the one that had the binding obligation. Yet she'll make up with him, and not her? Ace: Dr. Katz.

The new roommate arrives. Her name is Sommer. Whew, at least the Screwed-Up-Name Quotient of the house isn't going to fall since Deborah (Day-BORE-ahh) had to leave.

Sommer is 26, a talent agent. Awhile back she had some of that gassy bypass surgery. She's lost 75 lbs. in the last four months. Her goal: to learn how to be thin.

She shows everybody a fat pic of hers, the last pic she said she'd allow anyone to take of her: still looks pretty to me.

Her friend was killed in a drunk driving accident. Her boyfriend, he went into the Marines, then one day announced he was breaking up with her and marrying his ex. He comes back, one night with friends Sommer is playing Truth Or Dare with him and their buddies, they dare them two to go make out for five minutes together. Sommer fucked him.

As they cut to commercial, they showed the bitches coming out with the knives on this chick. It looks like The Other Woman is going to be strung up by the end of the group meeting.

Heh, and I was worried they weren't going to be able to find a villain as good as Deborah?

Oh yeah, the dude died in a car accident too.

Meeting's over, Kim in the kitchen telling the others "I have no respect for anyone who lies down with a married man..." Yet not even TWO MINUTES AGO she was in the booth telling the audience she was going to keep an open mind and not be judgemental to this chick! You know, like she's supposed to do as part of her assignment from Iyanla?

SOMMER SESSION W/RHONDA: Rhonda has her draw her perfect body. Sommer says she cant draw, so she puts up some adjectives: "Fit and Strong", "Happy". Rhona then says for her to draw herself when she was a huge fatass. Sommer draws a snowman-esque shape with three big circles.

Then Rhonda has her stand against the board while she traces around Sommer's body. Rhonda wants her to look at it. Sommer's afraid, that she'll look at it and be disgusted, that it'll seem like she hasn't gone that far at all in her progress since the surgery.

Rhonda persists she looks at it. Sommer does. Sommer cries.

Kim's party that she was assigned by Iyanla to throw for Sommer's arrival gets started. They seem to not be involving her too much. She goes outside to smoke.

Many voiceovers from the other housemembers worrying that she's not tryingn to fit in a la Deborah, that they're going to have the same situation on their hands.

Wooh, from the previews for next week it looks like everybody's going to be hating each other soon enough. I guess Sommer wasn't a good enough lightning rod replacement after all.