Entertainment Editor, Shelby Stewart, shares her thoughts on Real Housewives of Atlanta season 16 episode 8.
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00:00Portia, my girl, what are you doing?
00:03I hate how Portia looked in this episode.
00:06It really gave mean girl.
00:09And while she said, you know, I never made Drew feel uncomfortable,
00:13at the same time, it was very clear how you were feeling.
00:17And while she did say Dennis is the person who owns her loyalty,
00:22it seems like the aggression,
00:24we only saw the aggression on the side of you giving it to Drew
00:28and kind of giving it to Angela as well.
00:31Okay, well, I want to address the elephant in the room.
00:33Portia, I just want to say happy birthday.
00:35I know I wasn't invited necessarily by you,
00:39but I want to ask the question,
00:40are you good with me being here because I know I wasn't invited?
00:44You're straight.
00:44All right, ladies, got y'all's on the trays.
00:47Anybody else want fish?
00:48Hey, Essies, we are back,
00:50and it is episode eight of The Real Housewives of Atlanta,
00:52so let's get into it.
00:53So the ladies are in Nashville for Portia's birthday trip,
00:56and things were heating up at the dinner table
00:58because, of course, someone asked the question,
01:01where was Drew?
01:02And obviously, Angela is fighting for Drew's honor by herself,
01:06and she is losing this battle, honestly.
01:09And she wants to advocate for her friend
01:11and stand 10 toes down,
01:13but it's just not looking good.
01:15And I also think,
01:16given the reason why Portia and Drew aren't good,
01:20I think there's wrong on both sides.
01:22But I don't know that you should be actively advocating
01:26on Drew's behalf in that sort of way,
01:28at least not at Portia's birthday party, you know?
01:31Drew finally shows up,
01:32and we all know how Housewives group trips go,
01:36and she lands the room with the bunk beds.
01:38Once she's there, she's chatting it up with Angela,
01:41and Angela encourages her to have a conversation with Portia,
01:44and Drew's kind of like, why?
01:46And Angela is sharing, like,
01:48so I can get some of this heat off of me.
01:50Being in the hot seat is a little well-deserved,
01:52because you fought for Drew to be here,
01:54and now she's here,
01:55and now Portia is equally upset with you,
01:58as she is with Drew.
01:59There was another moment in the episode,
02:01the ladies are all in the sprinter van,
02:02headed to Whiskey Tasting and Coyote Ugly,
02:05and Shamia opens up about her issues in the past
02:09with domestic violence,
02:10and it was something that I really appreciated,
02:11just because it humanizes these Housewives for us.
02:15Like, those are the moments where we find
02:17a little bit of relatability with some of these ladies.
02:19At Coyote Ugly, Kelly, Shamia, and Portia
02:23are all chatting about the night before,
02:25and Portia thinks that Angela is setting Drew up for failure,
02:29essentially, because why advocate so hard for Drew to be here,
02:33and you know that we have issues,
02:35and everybody's kind of giving that sort of side-eye to Drew
02:38because of how I feel on my birthday trip.
02:41I just feel like you wanted Drew to come,
02:44even though Portia was like, she's not invited.
02:47She's never told me that.
02:48On the pause, she actually did say,
02:50everybody that's on this call is invited.
02:52Okay, but she did not say Drew wasn't invited,
02:54so maybe I need to say here's a...
02:54But Drew wasn't on the call.
02:56Maybe Drew missed the call.
02:58Drew, did you miss the call?
02:59I wasn't on the call.
03:00Were you invited to the call?
03:02No.
03:04Portia reveals that someone called her
03:07and said that Dennis ended up filming with Drew,
03:11which is something in earlier episodes she had explicitly asked him not to do.
03:16And so you can kind of see the whole vibe of the dinner change.
03:20And then so towards the end of the night, after dinner,
03:23everybody's kind of like, let's leave that in the past.
03:26Let's all go to the pool.
03:28Angela stays upstairs.
03:29She's getting ready for bed.
03:30All the other ladies are outside.
03:32They start kind of gossiping about Angela
03:34and people are bringing up issues with her husband,
03:38other kids, all of those things.
03:40And Portia drops a bomb about potentially sleeping with Charles.
03:46Portia denies it in her confessional when she says,
03:49I didn't say anything.
03:51But I love Kelly because Kelly absolutely verified
03:55that Portia did in fact say that.
03:57And it was so funny because Angela made a point to say,
04:01if history is any indicator, you got to take that seriously.
04:05You better listen when Portia says she want to f*** your husband.
04:08This episode really made me like Angela a little bit more.
04:11I truly, truly do.
04:13And I'm interested to see the next episode
04:16because Cynthia is going to throw a bailey cue.
04:18So we're going to see how all that goes down.
04:21But at season, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
04:25Bye.