The Miami mami’s are back and bringing the heat with real storylines to our living rooms.
Episode 1 of Season 6 of “The Real Housewives of Miami” (RHOM) aired on Peacock on Thursday, and while the premiere gave Bravoholics (frequent watchers of the Bravo network) drama galore, we were also introduced to a storyline we’re not so familiar with: a Housewife fighting cancer.
Guerdy Abraira, who joined “RHOM” in the Season 4 reboot of the franchise and won the audience’s heart with her colossal personality and go-getter work ethic, is now allowing viewers into her journey with breast cancer.
This will likely be the largest ongoing storyline of the season, and I think I speak for the entire Bravo universe when I say that I am sending Guerdy and her family nothing but love and light.
The Bravo universe would probably be defined as people who dedicate a little too much time of their lives watching the network.
Aside from Guerdy’s heartbreaking diagnosis, the Magic City ladies gave us the typical “RHOM” drama that puts the franchise in the upper echelon of the Housewife series.
Veteran Alexia Echevarria kicked off Season 6 with an apologetic tone.
As the Bravo universe knows, last season wasn’t the greatest for our Cuban bombshell. Following tasteless remarks made toward “RHOM’s” resident Russian cast member Julia Lemigova, and digging up documents about former castmate and now friend of, Adriana de Moura’s ex-boyfriend, Alexia had a softer and more refreshing approach to handling conflict, inviting both ladies to the main course of Episode 1 — the “Nuevos Horizontes” party.
A “friend of” is a cast member who appears occasionally throughout the
season, usually in an attempt to attain the full-time housewife position for the
following season.
Alexia sat down with both Julia and Adriana separately and hashed out their past grievances. Julia, who clearly wanted to pursue a deeper relationship with Alexia was quick to make amends with, however it wasn’t so black and white with Adriana, who said nasty things to both Alexia and former castmate turned friend of, Marysol Patton.
Marysol, Alexia’s best friend, who has also had a minor role on “RHOM” since its inception, seems to be the driving force behind Adriana’s isolation.
Given, Adriana’s behavior in Season 5 was deplorable, she revealed that Marysol’s ex-boyfriend allegedly said he was never in love with Marysol, and also compared Alexia’s son's life-altering car crash to her foot injury on the final Season 5 cast trip.
While Alexia and Marysol are working through their relationship with Adriana, Dr. Nicole Martin is laughing all the way to the bank, as we got a sneak peek at Nicole’s new waterfront house that exemplifies Miami wealth.
From new houses to fighting with old spouses, Lisa Hochstein, who arguably had the roughest storyline in Season 5, went through her first in-person deposition against her estranged husband Lenny Hochstein.
A deposition is an information-gathering testimony from a witness or the “deponent” which can potentially be used in trial according to a Cornell Law School webpage.
While it's hard to see Lisa, who was so blatantly cheated on and left in the dust of this messy divorce process, she looks amazing and her new man Jody Glidden is a welcomed change from a shady plastic surgeon who threw both his children and 13-year marriage away.
In one of the sweeter moments of the episode, Lisa says to her new boo, “If you love me now, you’re going to love me when this (divorce) is all said and done.” A sweet love note that was clearly rooted in so much pain. Heal yourself girl!
New relationships seem to be the new fad on “RHOM” this season, as Lisa’s bestie Larsa Pippen, ex-wife of Scottie Pippen, got into the matchmaking mix when she started dating Marcus Jordan, the son of Michael Jordan and teammate of Larsa’s ex-husband.
Cougar alert! Just kidding. I actually love the relationship between the two. The chemistry is clearly there, and they genuinely seem to be in love.
This was Larsa’s real claim to fame this episode aside from her issues with Guerdy at the “Nuevos Horizontes” party.
“Nuevos Horizontes” or “New Horizons,” was the theme of Alexia’s party, and was the battleground for most of the premiere’s drama.
Right off the bat, we get Larsa confronting Guerdy over calling her “fake.”
To be clear, Larsa had absolutely no idea that Guerdy was going through health issues, but getting that omniscient perspective as a viewer made it hard to see a woman with a breast cancer diagnosis fight over a flippant remark. Expectedly, Guerdy fled the conversation.
The second, more entertaining blowout came when Julia clocked into work and confronted Marysol.
Julia said it was unfair that she was putting pressure on Alexia to not invite Adriana to a party based on moving forward as a friend group, saying she put her best friend in a lose-lose situation.
Much to my surprise, after Marysol muttered her “ayy por favor” presumably to shut Julia down, she also looked to Alexia, her “bro” to step in and defend her.
“Sometimes I feel like you have to fight your own battle,” Alexia said in her interview.
Welp. What is Marysol to do when her bro isn’t bro-ing?
“Right now I really need you to step in my friend,” Marysol said in her interview following Alexia’s.
Is this a new dawn of “RHOM?” A season where Alexia and Marysol (and Larsa, she’s a part of that clique too) might not be a united front? I’m not sure.
What I do know is that this first episode was great. Tough conversations were had, alliances seemed to be shifting and a life-changing realization was had.
This premiere was quintessential Real Housewives, and I can’t wait to see how the conflict unfolds.
