There are few things as sacred as a Real Housewives 1-on-1 sit down. As two women awkwardly order prop food items they’re sure to ignore while trading vicious jabs inside a public space, the 1-on-1 is one of the finest Housewives set-ups, from an undercover hipster Cynthia Bailey dueling with a chronically late Porsha Williams to Diana Jenkins and Sutton Stracke ping-ponging “So you say” and “That I know.”
But the 1-on-1 has become somewhat of an endangered species in the past few years, all but erased on fractured shows The Real Housewives of Potomac and The Real Housewives of New Jersey. It’s fitting, then, that the original franchise has perfected the delicate formula.
Tonight’s episode features not one but two sit-downs that exemplify how effortlessly The Real Housewives of Orange County is firing on all cylinders. It’s an episode that is jam-packed with juicy plot, revealing just how confident Bravo is in their material this year, feeling no need to space out these top-tier scenes.
