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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Jab Jabs and Kikis
The wives are shit-talking and kiki-ing, and comedy has finally returned to the series.
As one scholar put it, “The themes about which joking is allowed seem to be those most condemned by our social order in other contexts.” We do it to bond, to entertain, to fight, and, as some have argued, to exercise our minds, as getting in a good read requires real quickness and savvy (in his memoir, activist Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin equated our proclivity for shit talking to white people playing Scrabble). Although hearing Shamea say in her confessional that wearing Porsha’s clothes for “a moment” touched her heartstrings was a little creepy à la Sutton Stracke’s obsession with Kyle Richards (desperation for friendship never looks good), it’s great that everyone is friends again, and the energy remains copacetic. Kelli, proud of a successful trip but wary of returning home to her rocky divorce situation, shares with the group that right after a particularly hard phone conversation with her lawyer, the rose quartz she’s kept on her during the vacation broke in half.
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