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Elsbeth Recap: Reality Certainly Does Bite
In case Andy Cohen is watching: Lavish Ladies is absolutely, positively not The Real Housewives of New York.
Skip — Jesse Tyler Ferguson, expertly delivering an increasingly high-strung and indignant man on the verge of a nervous breakdown — proudly displays framed posters for all of the Lavish Ladies franchises he’s spun off over the years in his office. I can’t help thinking that if this guy had gotten out of the Lavish Ladies game just after it hit big, he could have enjoyed a long, luxurious, residuals-fueled retirement entirely free of these women who he spends the rest of the episode describing as spoiled, silly, untrustworthy fame whores and lushes, each of whom he also (privately) claims is his favorite. Instead, he’s stuck on a gilded hamster wheel of his own creation, applying his editing skills, excellent memory for details, and technological know-how to create an alibi-furnishing voicemail using a snippet of Tracy (Rebecca Creskoff), a chronically late Lavish Lady, celebrating being almost on time for once.
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