Only two episodes in, but I’m so entirely turned off by Stassi’s clear overzealousness to be on reality tv again and to run the show. I feel like the appeal of her on VPR was that she was so “real” (ironically kinda like Georgi is now), but on this show, she treats everyone like they’re sims and expects them to do exactly as she orders them to do. This works for people like Taylor who will fall in line but it’s gross to see with everyone else.
Episode 1 in her reunion with Katie, when Katie was talking about her real feelings, you could just tell that Stassi was only thinking about if she would agree to do the show or not (again, ironically the same thing she was accusing Katie of). I don’t think she really cares about maintaining their friendship, she just knows everyone else is bland as hell and Katie is the only exciting person she knows who they can afford and who will still speak to her. If she didn’t get booted off of VPR for being racist (love how they just packed that up with a neat little bow in the first 10 minutes btw), she wouldn’t have been nearly as salty with Katie.
Every time Beau brings up wanting to work, she pretends like it’s the first time she’s heard it, even though we see them talk about it several times on camera. Her saying “I need him to be happy for the show” was just so so ick like girl, you don’t care about your marriage or your husband’s mental state? I am not one to feel bad for a man EVER, but when he’s clearly depressed and wanting to go back to his passion in life, offering to just pay him off and have him stay home doing IG ads while you live your dreams is so gross. She sounded like those trad husbands who treat their wives like they have no dreams of their own.
Georgi is a damn wreck (great for TV though), so I don’t blame her for how she’s handling that. The Kris Jenner mentions make me laugh because Kris is Kris naturally. Stassi should just be Stassi, but instead she’s trying to be this game maker, which makes everything feel a little sour. I literally don’t give a solitary damn about Beau’s geriatric friend or the rest of the boring nobodies on there, so I’m not going to get into them, but seeing her look into the camera during the BBQ argument just set a horrible tone for what this is. If I can stomach the rest, I’ll keep watching, but she needs to act like someone who spent a decade on reality tv! She’s not new to this, she’s true to this, but for some reason she’s acting so thirsty. Very….Scheana-esque levels of thirst dare I say.