We’re five episodes into Season 6 of “The Real Housewives of Miami” and our favorite South Florida females are showing no signs of letting up on the drama.
What makes this season so good is that each episode either introduces a new intriguing storyline or preexisting drama is expanded upon in a meaningful and entertaining way.
As Julia drove Adriana to her first ketamine treatment for anxiety, she called Marysol to invite her to Martina’s “F Cancer” party.
Initially, Marysol was shocked to receive a call from Julia, as the two didn’t exactly leave on the best of terms after the Nuevos Horizontes party, with Julia even calling Marysol “the problem within this group.”
After a couple minutes of awkward conversations, Julia eventually extended the invite and all seemed well.
Marysol was primed to attend … until she mentioned that the party was going to be held at Adriana’s house.
Suddenly the call went silent. Suddenly Maryol mentions she has a “medical procedure” that requires her to go home and lay down. Sigh.
I understand not wanting to show up to your enemy’s house, but Marysol you are on a reality television show where conflict is paramount! Go! Cause some chaos, it’s what makes the housewives franchise’s thrive.
Something else that makes them thrive is unorthodox ways to treat mental and physical health.
I’d never heard of using ketamine as a means to treat anxiety, but apparently Adriana has and she was extremely vulnerable in this episode, having her first treatment on camera.
As she was injected with the anesthetic, Adriana strayed in and out of clarity until she eventually said “Oi irmão” which translates to “Hi brother” in her native language, Portuguese.
This episode really humanized Adriana because she shared that she lost her father, lost her brother and got divorced all while the show was on its hiatus.
Adriana broke down and started crying. “I want my brother” and “I should have gone first” were some phrases she said while in her ketamine-induced state.
This was a first for me, in terms of feeling bad for Adriana. It’s very rare that we get to see her vulnerable and it will be interesting to see how she handles conflict after these treatments.
Mental health wasn’t the only thing explored in this episode. A brand new storyline is looming in Miami and it’s not a nice one.
At a sort of off-putting boat party, the overarching development of Guerdy’s diagnosis was brought up yet again and it seems like whenever Larsa and cancer are mentioned in the same scene, nothing good comes about.
Larsa’s continuous questionable behavior seeped its way into this episode in the form of posing the question: “Does she (Guerdy) even have cancer?”
Yes, she’s questioning Guerdy’s cancer but it’s important to uncover how this came about.
Apparently at a filmed, but unaired dinner, Guery, Adriana and Lisa got together.
At the gathering, Lisa told Guerdy that she knows she is going through a health problem. When Guerdy asks Lisa who told her, she refuses to say.
Guerdy, using better judgment, came to the correct conclusion that it was Larsa who told Lisa and the other ladies and immediately revealed she told Larsa as a test to see if she was going to say anything.
To me, I understood exactly what Guerdy was doing. She wanted to test her friend’s trust and she failed.
Not only did Larsa fail, she even doubled down and said it was repulsive that Guerdy was “testing cancer.”
She wasn’t testing the cancer Larsa. That already came back positive, she was testing you and you came back negative.
Not only did Larsa prematurely reveal her friend’s cancer diagnosis, but she has also shown no remorse in doing so and is now trying to spin the narrative that Guerdy is somehow in the wrong.
My fury didn’t stop at the boat party. At Martina’s “F Cancer” party, Alexia also reveals to Lisa that she already knew about Guerdy’s diagnosis prior to her Instagram post where she disclosed to the world that she had breast cancer.
Guerdy, as expected, was angered that she didn’t get to divulge her own health issue and expressed her feelings of betrayal to Alexia.
Alexia, in her interview said she wouldn’t have liked her secret being revealed in such a blatant fashion, but when talking to Guerdy, she seemingly defended Larsa saying “She (Larsa) said it as a place of concern.”
Again, I’m not sure how outing your friend’s health problems can come from a place of concern, but that’s just me.
In better news, Alexia and Adriana were pleasant with one another with Alexia even saying Adriana has “always had good taste.”
That was refreshing to watch, but I’m not sure if these party pleasantries will translate into shifting alliances. Either way, RHOM is set to get even more dramatic in the episodes to come and I simply can’t wait.
