Whether it's a van, a boat, or a plane, there's no mode of transportation that Meredith won't be mad at Brittany on.
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Leave it to Brittany to bring up Seth's alleged cheating and then act completely shocked when Meredith gets angry about it. Moreover, regarding yoga (where everyone but her gets a mat), Brittany even describes pressing charges as having good intentions. Meanwhile, Meredith is still fuming in her room, where she tells Lisa that Brittany “thinks she's a Disney princess” but to be fair, she did play Ariel and Belle at Disney World. Looking for an even better comparison, she asks Lisa to remind her which of The Wizard of Oz there was no brain. “The Tin Man,” Lisa replies confidently, and Meredith calls Brittany the “Tin Woman.” What a missed opportunity Evil: For good cross promotion!
But luckily for Meredith, Bronwyn comes to her door with a chance to vent some of that anger. She has stolen Brittany's stuffed unicorn and incites Meredith to throw it overboard with her. But we should have known that, first of all, it was actually just a ploy for Bronwyn to use those stupid inflatable suits again – and she and Meredith wear them so they can be “incognito” while throwing the unicorn off the ship. “Leaving forever” is the only sure way for Brittany to hear Jared tell her that he loves her.
As the unicorn slowly floats away, Meredith turns her anger over breakfast on Whitney for apparently joining the TikTok blame game. Meredith tells them all that she is done with Brittany and everyone who supports her. Heather correctly believes that this is absurd, because it is impossible to work with such an approach in the series. Bronwyn even tries to bring down the temperature by asking Mary for help: “Mary, can you say something as a mother, as a woman of God?” But some things simply came out of God's hands.
As they disembark and apologize to the crew for their behavior and volume, one of the crew runs out to give Brittany back what she thought was gone forever: a unicorn… soaking wet. “Who threw it?” – she asks everyone, as if this is some kind of big secret. Meredith eventually deals with it while throwing Bronwyn under the bus just in case, and then obsessively says, “Uni wanted to swim. You were all tan and makeup. He needed a little dip in the ocean.” Vacationer.
What happens next is an all-too-familiar phenomenon that Housewives fans will recognize this immediately by the sudden change in editing. Something happened when the cameras were turned off. It's a producer's nightmare, and yet they have to think on their feet to cover any off-screen incident, usually filling in the gaps with confessional retellings and dramatic reels. In general, this is put together like an episode from Date or Celebrity ghost stories. We're told Meredith's rampage continued at the airport, and then when they boarded, she and Lisa sat right behind Brittany – and a scene broke out. From the stories these women told, you would have thought Meredith was going to shoot down the plane. She apparently called Brittany names, grabbed and shook her seat, poured wine on her, pulled her hair, demanded to see TikTok, and made her cry. On Meredith's side, she says she was just letting Lisa loose and adds, “Obviously it wasn't that deep because I would have been arrested by an air marshal.”
While this is good, none of the other women (except Lisa) support her story. While very few people were on Brittany's side on the trip (or ever), this mid-air incident seems to have really turned the tide and now they have no choice but to sympathize with her. When Brittany meets up with Heather after the flight, she tells her that what hurt her the most was that Lisa kept egging her on, which she felt was the biggest betrayal – especially since she supported her so much at the beginning of the season. “I keep saying I'm an unsinkable rubber duck, but I feel really broken right now,” Brittany says, demonstrating her ability to string together some truly insane turns of phrase even in the darkest of times.
Since Bronwyn was on a different flight altogether, Whitney has to tell her what happened, and she brings up a good point. Bronwyn wonders how this could happen on a commercial flight without anyone reporting it on a cell phone? Firstly, you would think that at least one other passenger would have wanted to record this scene, especially if he recognized the players. But what annoys me even more is that the producers should have taught these women to start recording on their cell phones if the drama starts to unfold after the cameras go off. Again, secretly recording Meredith Last year was Brittany's first time getting into this mess, so I'll cut her some slack.
But then Bronwyn hits us with an even crazier blow. “Apparently Todd and Meredith need a reminder of battle etiquette,” she says in an awkward silence. “I don't know if you've seen on Twitter or not that people are blaming Todd for getting caught on a plane cheating on me.” She learned from this trip and brings it up herself, not only to get ahead of the situation, but also because she believed it to be true. She says the man who claimed Todd had been sent underwear pictures knew too much precise information about the flight and where Todd was sitting, so she blamed him for it and temporarily kicked him out. This leads to a fascinating conversation between her and Whitney about how she is open to the idea of being open and how it wouldn't be such a problem for her if they had discussed it or agreed on it. This conversation solidifies Bronwyn's place as a phenomenal Real Housewife.
We then see Heather arrive at the cafe and a chyron appears that says “11:10 am” – we all know what that means. Someone is going to be late. Sure enough, we watch a montage of Heather sitting there for over an hour until Lisa finally arrives at 12:26 p.m. without apologizing. What's most interesting, however, is that Heather never once mentioned her tardiness, which is either an incredibly mature, power move, or focused on a more pressing issue.
Lisa is shocked when Heather tells her how upset Brittany is with her because, as you might have guessed, Lisa claims she didn't do anything wrong. According to her, all she did was tell Brittany to show Meredith the TikTok in question, and she denies that a big scene broke out. She explains the chair's shaking as Meredith using it as leverage to stand up, and says that the spilled wine actually fell on her, not Brittany. But all these explanations are more like confirmations. However, Lisa says she was trying to diffuse Meredith, not incite her, and she's annoyed that she's being accused of something she claims she's innocent of again.
Meanwhile, Mary gets the unenviable job of dating Meredith, who continues to be in denial. -What do you think happened? she asks Mary, who quickly replies, “I don’t think something happened; I was there.” Meredith claims she was just letting Lisa loose for maybe 15 minutes. Mary says it was a lot longer and then they start doing math. Meredith says she slept for over an hour on the flight and watched two movies and there wasn't much time left on the flight, so how long could this incident have gone on? I for one would like to know what movies Meredith was watching. fight club? Snakes on a plane? She believes that this exaggerated story began to spread among women who did not actually see it themselves (because they were either on the other side of the plane or asleep). Either way, if Meredith actually waited until they were airborne without the cameras rolling, it would be the perfect crime.
