COVID Enters the Housewives - The RHOA Season 13 Review
- Ben _
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2022
With only 18 episodes this season the ladies were put through more than they bargained for. From BLM and Breonna Taylor to Bolo-gate, the ladies were going above and beyond, politically and socially. Let's go over all the tea on this season of RHOA.
1. Porsha Stewart follows in the footsteps of her grandfather.
As a Jewish person living in America with great-grandparents who were Holocaust survivors, there's a sense of kinship one feels with their forefathers. Porsha's grandfather, Hosea Williams, was a civil rights activist who was on the front lines with Martin Luther King Jr. With the political issues surrounding our country today we look towards those with platforms to help and Porsha took action just as she did before.
2. Bolo-gate
In all my years I've never seen one as big as a certain stripper, Mr. Bolo. The entire situation that was created by this made me dislike one cast member even more than I already did, Miss Kenya Moore. The housewives that opted to participate in the 'real bachelorette party' all agreed that it was not for the cameras, which is why they taped over the cameras or moved them out of sight. Some of the ladies did say they went down a few times during the night and may have even peaked at the fun, but nobody was more ready to bring up the after-party than Kenya. She was the only housewife that would bring it up the next morning, and continue the slander of Porsha, Tanya, and Drew for the remainder of the season and the reunion. Whatever the ladies wanted to do after shooting the show was for them to decide, and it was wrong for Kenya to bring up the events and make it into the issue of the season. But maybe all the anger was from something else, maybe Mister Daily has a new boyfriend, but what a man does in New York is his business and his alone.
3. The Bailey-Hill Wedding
10/10/20. The date we've been waiting for. As Dwight mentioned in the COVID re-watch episode of the engagement party for the #CHill couple, Mr. Hill isn't able to keep his hands off of his new wife, but it's time to show off what viewers have been waiting for since season 3, a happy, gorgeous, in-love, Cynthia Bailey. It was really unfortunate that Cohen's crew could not get into the wedding and record more, but fortunately, we had the opportunity to see her in her gorgeous gown and watch her down the aisle. Mark's vows were beautiful, detailing his love for Cynthia in ways we didn't know he could iterate. Her vows were simple and cute, leaving Mark ready to say "I do!". Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Hill may you celebrate many many many happy years together!
4. Sheree Whitfield was invited to the engagement party but couldn't go
One of the best lies told this season had to be to the newly married couple. Telling the Mister and Misses that then-President-elect Joe Biden would be at this event is hilarious to hide the real intentions of the party. Cynthia and Mark even admit that they were a little disappointed for the first three hours of their own engagement party due to the fact that Joe Biden WASN'T there. But as viewers didn't have access to the guest list until Miss Whitfield admitted to not being able to attend the event on the COVID re-watch episode with Sheree and Dwight. I could only imagine how much funnier the event would be with shady Miss Sheree in attendance. Hopefully, she'll be invited and able to show up to the next engagement party, and that it's not another one for Cynthia.
5. LaToya vs Drew
For such a short season it was shady, shady, shady. One might theorize that Kenya only brought LaToya to start drama with brand-new housewife, Drew Sidora. LaToya started attacking Drew on Day 1, by telling her how much she hated Drew for her past roles on another show. The drama between the two would only escalate through the season with LaToya constantly hitting below the belt and Drew threatening her with violence. All of the back and forth between the two of them is only able to hide the real tea of the season, Porsha stealing the husband of another new cast friend, Falynn, which was brought to light on Porsha's own show, "Porsha's Family Matters".
6. Halloween costumes to beat all Halloween costumes
October, not only is it Porsha's birthday, but it's also the beginning of fall, and at the end of the month is Halloween, a yearly celebrated holiday by the ladies of Atlanta, where they can show off their ass-ets and let their wigs fly high. There were past costumes that took the highest of awards like Cynthia's 50 CYNT, something I will not personally be forgetting. But this season Falynn decided to host a Halloween bash at her house including a scary haunted mansion the ladies had to go through before entering the house. The ladies worked really hard on their costumes, expecting a large crowd on the dance floor, but unfortunately for them, they were the old guests. The makeup and decoration that these women pulled together have definitely earned them 'Best Group Halloween Costume' from us at ACT. (We won't even mention the offensive costume that Kenya had on, the same one that made Bravo issue an apology after the episode aired.)
7. Riley's going to college!
We watched Riley grow up in front of our very eyes, and from the young age that she was to being 18 and going off to NYU, it was emotional as the edit of her leaving brought us through all the times we've spent with her, as she's grown out of her shell and became a young woman. Riley leaving was impactful, as her storylines have been filled with hardship and overcoming the obstacles in her path. We wish her luck and good grades for her upcoming semesters!
We're excited to see what this current season has to offer next!
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