Chapter 1: What is the main focus of this episode on reality TV?
Hello, my friend, and welcome to Catch Up with Louise McSharry. This is the show where... show? Why do I keep doing this? I keep referring to this as a show. It is a podcast. I suppose in some senses, it's a show as well. It's like my radio days are coming back to haunt me every once in a while. Actually, speaking of which, I recently had an anxiety dream that my former boss...
was trying to convince me to go back to the radio. And I feel like that says a lot about the impact of that entire phase of my career. But anyway, welcome to Catch Up with Louise McSharry. This is the podcast where I do my best to keep you caught up. On Mondays, we do news. On Wednesdays, we do entertainment. And now on Fridays, we are catching up on reality TV, certainly for a while.
Anyway, we're going to give this a go. Basically, we figured out from looking at the numbers what you guys are into. And it seems like you like to hear me reacting to things and sometimes more than you like the interviews. And so we thought we'd give it a go for a while and see how it goes. And maybe it'll work and it'll be great. And maybe you guys won't really like it. And then we can change.
And this podcast is for you. I very much make decisions based on what I think you're going to like and enjoy. You guys, many of you have been begging me since I started this podcast to talk. Begging is maybe a little bit dramatic, but have been asking me. repeatedly to talk more about reality TV.
And to be honest, like I'm dying to talk about it, but I suppose the challenge is that I watch more reality TV than most people do. And so it's kind of hard to find someone who's as into it and as like up for the chats about it as I am. And it's a lot to ask someone to watch as much reality TV as I do. So the plan basically is it's
And essentially, every episode will feature me talking about reality TV, what I've been watching, my thoughts on what I've been watching, as well as some reality TV news. But then we're also going to bring in other people who are reality fans to talk about whatever it is that they're watching from time to time. That's not going to be in every episode. Some episodes will just be me.
And then also sometimes people who are in said reality TV shows will also pop up and we will have chats with them too. I appreciate, as said previously on the podcast, that this isn't going to be for everyone. Not everyone is going to love it. Not everyone is into reality TV.
If you're one of those people and this episode isn't for you, I hope you don't mind that we're trying this out for a little while. I will say I do have friends who don't watch reality, but still somehow like to hear me talk about it. So who knows? Maybe I'll convert you. And I'm hoping that enough of you will really enjoy this, that it will work. I'm looking forward to it.
Nice to do something different. I realized the other day that I'm four years into this podcast now, which is... like crazy to be honest. I kind of can't believe it. So it makes sense to try something new for a little while anyway. Monday and Wednesday aren't going anywhere. They are staying as they are so don't worry about that. They're going to be exactly as they are.
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Chapter 2: What recent news is there about Summer House?
You know, one of the things they do is almost every weekend, one of them comes up with an idea for a party and they have a themed party. And, you know, so it is structured somewhat in those terms. But like, you know, there are cameras in every room because they all live in the house together. So like a lot, they really never miss anything.
So I think they have to do less suggested conversations or structured conversations than some of the other shows do. Because they literally live together, they do have real relationships. And because many people end up in the show for years, those are relationships that are established over summers over the course of multiple years.
So at this stage in the game, you know, you're, we're really in rich, layered relationships, like Two of the cast members, for example, were engaged and broke up and they're still there. And actually, I've been really amused by Lindsay and Carl's interactions in this most recent series of Summer House where they're like, you know, trying to be civil, but Lindsay's still getting the digs in.
But I suppose the biggest story arcs of this season so far are Kyle and Amanda and West and Sierra. If you don't watch, Kyle and Amanda are a couple who've been in it from the very beginning. Amanda arrived in season two, but I think she did feature in season one, but she wasn't a castmate. She did. In season one, Amanda was someone who Kyle was sleeping with, basically.
And so she'd pop up from time to time. Season two, she comes back. She's Kyle's girlfriend. He's decided to take it from booty call to actual relationship. And then we see them together, we see them get engaged, and now we are seeing them disintegrate. We knew before the season started to air that they had separated.
Amanda has definitely mentioned divorce in interviews, so I don't think there's any question of them getting back together. But obviously, this season was filmed before any of that, so they're still together, but the relationship is in very dark territory. And this week's episode, we really saw that, I think, more than ever before. We see them fighting. We've seen them fight a million times.
And I think one thing I've seen people say is that neither of them are innocent in the terms of the problems within this relationship. And I would agree with that. But one of the points that I've seen made is that they both knew who the other person was when they decided to get engaged. And they both knew who the other person was when they decided to get married.
But they both kind of, I think, expected the other person to change a little bit to meet them in the middle. And neither of them can do that now. Obviously, I'm team Amanda. Do I think that Kyle has acted like an absolute dick? Yes. But he has also been acting like an absolute dick for years. Like, you know, the fact that he cheated on her is like the basis of one of their big problems.
He's a really, I would say, bad drinker, to be honest. And that doesn't kind of feed well into their relationship. I think she kind of thought that he would grow up and then a lot of this behavior would stop. And then he instead has absolutely doubled down by...
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Chapter 3: How are the dynamics changing in Southern Charm?
Aside from that, just to mention that in this episode, we saw one of the cast mates, Grace Lilly, talk about an addiction to ketamine, which I thought was really powerful. And again, I think this is one of those things that reality TV does really well when people are willing to actually be honest. We don't always see that in the housewives.
The housewives can be a bit cagey, but we saw it with Mary and her son, Robert Jr., when they spoke openly and honestly about Robert Jr. 's challenges with addiction. It was so moving. And I saw online the feedback, you know, the difference that it made to people's lives to see things that they'd experienced represented so accurately and respectfully on TV.
And I have no doubt that there will be people watching Grace Lilly kind of talking about her ketamine addiction and her kind of determination to come back from it and also seeing kind of the impact it's had on her personality and stuff. I think that's going to be really powerful. And I think it's really brave of her actually to be as open and honest about it as she was on the show this week.
I think that's all I have to say about Southern Hospitality so far, except to say that Maddie is so pure. I love her. She is such a kind, lovely person. If you're watching, you know what I'm talking about. I do not understand her relationship with Joe Bradley, but frankly, that's none of my business. Okay, let's talk about some housewives. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills continues.
I'm not so sure what's happening here. Is this a good season? I don't know. I don't know. Like, so much was made ahead of it of, like, the Kyle Durit rivalry, as it were. Um... And I just I'm not like we're well into it now. And it's it's just kind of hard to watch as opposed to being entertaining. I'm not I'm not loving it. I think, you know, Sutton is trying to be a bit softer, which is nice.
I think, you know, this most recent their trip to Italy where she decides to like be a marsher and room with Amanda is quite amazing. Like putting herself in that position and deciding she wants to be kind of like a supportive, like almost mother-like figure for Amanda in the context of her being new to this group is amusing.
I really enjoyed when she got so upset about Amanda putting her laptop on her pillow. I'm because I'm like quite loose when it comes to, I don't know. I just don't worry that much about germs is the reality. Lots of people do. It's not a thing that I particularly get stressed about, but when people get upset about things like that, I find it kind of amusing.
Amanda as a character, I can't decide, like, I don't like her. Like, I don't think very many people like her. And I think it's interesting that she's like, you know, thinks that her kind of personal development or self-actualization means that people think she's like unemotional or, you know, removed or
um you know people feel like she's being fake like she's not really giving of herself like the other cast members say this that she's not vulnerable with them and she's basically kind of suggesting that like she's just so evolved that she doesn't have vulnerabilities which is just cannot be true and she seems so disconnected from reality it's wild she is just in case you're not watching she is called the self-made money queen her whole business is essentially selling
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