Frankly, there really wasn’t much of interest on “The Real Housewives of Orange County” episode that aired Wednesday, Dec. 2 until the final few minutes of the show.
Then the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit home when on March 14 the production shut down as the real world intruded into a reality TV series in ways it normally does not.
Executive producer Thomas Kelly contacted each of the six housewives via video calls.
“We might be looking at, I don’t know, a month, two months down,” Kelly told them. “We’re going to have to see, like the rest of the world, what happens week to week.”
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Remember when this all started? Remember when we didn’t know how long our lives would be turned upside-down but could still hope normalcy would return sooner than later? That’s where the housewives end the episode.
“None of us were put on this earth to be a coronavirus statistic, damn it,” declares housewife Shannon Storms Beador, who we know from news that broke over the summer ended up one of the 80,000 people in Orange County diagnosed with the illness since then.
That fact — that Shannon and her daughters tested positive — is alluded to in a lengthy preview of events over the rest of the season, which included a handful of other hints of plot points to come, including:
— Possible trouble in paradise for Shannon and her new boyfriend John? We get a glimpse of what looks like him ill in bed, too, but additional clips suggest that their relationship might not last.
— A second housewife’s family in Covid jeopardy? A clip of housewife Emily Simpson showed her talking about husband Shane not getting better.
— The newly vow-renewed marriage of housewife Braunwyn Windham-Burke on the rocks? Husband Sean is seen telling her he’s “becoming a roommate and someone you don’t want to be around.”
All of that is yet to come. So let’s hit rewind and sift through the compost of what actually happened this week.
— The Palm Springs weekend to celebrate the renewal of Braunwyn and Sean’s 20 years of marriage wrapped up with Shannon, Emily, and housewife Gina Kirschenheiter going for a hike in the desert to dish about housewife Elizabeth Lyn Vargas — she talks too much about her divorce, they agreed — while Braunwyn, Elizabeth and housewife Kelly Dodd checked out the landmark mid-century modern Arthur Frey home on a hillside overlooking the desert.
“I’m a history buff,” Kelly says of her interest in the house. But that’s not the only kind of buff the house inspired in her. “There’s some big windows in this thing. If (boyfriend) Rick and I were here, we could be big huge exhibitionists.”
— Braunwyn attended her first session with a therapist with the TV cameras tagging long, because the best therapy happens when the whole world is watching.
— Elizabeth started work with a personal trainer though she warned her she might not be able to do push-ups because she has breast implants. “I can’t believe I didn’t know this, and I live in Newport Beach,” the trainer told her.
— Covid started creeping into the conversations over the latter half of the show even before things shut down.
“Shannon called me last night fuh-reaking about coronavirus,” Gina tells Emily. “She’s like, ‘Tom Hanks got coronavirus, they’re going to shut down the world!”
Later we see Shannon’s supplies piled on her kitchen counter as she’s almost moved to tears over paper towels.
“I’m afraid to use the paper towel because we’re not going to have any more,” she tells boyfriend John. “Like this is out of a movie!”
To be fair, I have never, ever seen a paper towel used in any episode of “The Walking Dead,” and I’m pretty sure neither Man nor Boy used any in the adaptation of “The Road” even after enjoying some delicious canned peaches.
Kelly, meanwhile, starts to get moderately concerned about a different paper product.
“You can’t get toilet paper, it’s like getting a Birkin bag,” she says, helpfully putting it into terms with which we all can relate. “You have to be like on a list for this special thing; it’s bizarre.”
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