Louise McSharry

And I think that Madison kind of saying to Craig as an aside that Austin should have intervened or Austin should have calmed him down was true.

I was surprised that Austin, like, really let that go.

because in the car it's austin charlie charlie's just horrified by what's happening craig is screaming in sally's face and rod is sitting beside sally and ultimately sally rod is like rod is trying to calm things down then ultimately he's like austin get involved and austin was like i was just gonna let it happen shouldn't have taken rod asking austin to intervene for for multiple reasons i mean first of all that's your friend ostensibly albeit their friendship is on rocky territory but

But like, you know, you should be.

But also he had been smooching Sally the day before.

And then he's just going to let this very drunk man scream in her face, like right in front of him.

He was just going to let that happen.

I think it really like I think that's who Austin is, actually.

I've never had any time for Austin, but like he's just I don't think he's a good guy.

You know, I really don't.

And but look, at least at the end, Craig did apologize.

At least he did say he's working on himself.

I liked when Madison was like, you should watch it.

And he was like, oh, after I've done the work on myself, to be honest, I don't know what they're going to do, because there's a moment in the reunion where he says to one of the producers, he's like, I don't even know if I'm coming back at this stage.

And then she's like, cut the cameras.

So that felt to me like he.

um hold some power within this show that like you know a producer would be upset at the suggestion that maybe Craig wouldn't come back um I thought that was interesting it would suggest to me that they view him as like a valuable asset I think that they're gonna they need to rejig the cast for next year and I'm not really sure how they continue to make it work because

the Austin Craig Shep dynamic is really tired Madison is a superstar no matter what but like at the end of the day she's popping out babies and you know she doesn't seem as up for it anymore she still delivers great TV all the time I don't know how much more there is from Vanita on this show to be honest Sally is you know she's I suppose it's good TV to a certain extent but like what is there beyond her getting hurt feelings all the time yeah I'm just I don't I don't really know where they're gonna go

But I will say when they all sang happy birthday to Charlie at the end, I counted my lucky stars.

I wasn't there.