Now, in the real world, I would never revel in the simultaneous and rapid decline of someone’s
And with Kenya knocked down a peg or seven, now we have a new HBIC-in-training candidate on the track: may I present to you, Kim Fields — the woman who just gasped and covered her mouth when she let a curse word slip is the very same woman who just flipped the switch on the social standings of RHOA. And she probably did it all while carrying around a Ziploc bag of Cheetos, wearing some sort of polyester one-sleeved number she’s had since Living Single, and reading all the Bible verses about not getting so angry you flip a table.
The jury is still out on if Kim can really keep up with this crew long term but one thing is for sure: Kim is an actual professional with a real-life job, and she knows how to get her work done. Around here, that’s as rare as a heel under four inches or a bikini without 17 extra straps. Tonight, the women head to Jamaica, where Cynthia intends to shoot the commercial for her eyewear line. I say “intends” because this is what we are to believe: that Kenya has flown to Jamaica under the impression that she would be either producing or directing — or both — this ‘mercial without ever having spoken to Cynthia about her concept for it or hiring any talent.
Now I’m pretty lenient on blaming Kenya for just about anything — global warming, Donald Trump’s hair, having to pretend that Potomac is a city — but for Cynthia not to have talked to her about the decision to choose Kim to take on the project alone has Flamin’-Hot-Cheetos-level producer fingerprints all over it. But for Kenya to make a single comment about anyone acting unprofessionally when she was trying to act like she would come into a producing gig with nothing but a few ideas is insane. I’ll do my very best to limit my use of “insane” to 30 times in this recap.
Let’s break it down: Cynthia is shooting a commercial for her eyewear line, a thing that will benefit greatly from being advertised on television. Someone told her that it would be in her best interest re: job security to have Kenya and Kim, who don’t particularly seem to enjoy each other, work on it together in some split of the producer/director responsibilities. She held a pitch meeting where Kim presented her ideas, some nice storyboards, and a sunny disposition; Kenya didn’t show up, and when Cynthia called her, she told her she wouldn’t be coming due to some emergency with Moore Manor, presumably that it was sliding down the cliff it seems to be located on. Kim made it clear that if she was to be working on the project, she would not be up for co-directing. And as her potential co-director was currently scraping mold off of drywall, she got the gig solo.
Kim has been working on preparing for the commercial since then: making a budget, scouting the talent, connecting with people she knows in the Kingston area. Kenya has been making a detailed flow chart of screen-time ratios and quippy one-liners for her now “boyfriend,” Matt. And yet Kenya heads into this trip to Jamaica thinking that she’ll be…what, directing this commercial that she has never discussed with Cynthia? And Cynthia has been just so swamped with packing Peter’s sneakers and, specially, sunblock for his head that she simply hasn’t had the time to tell her friend Kenya that she decided to just hire Kim. She’s planning to tell Kim when they get to Jamaica on the trip that was planned entirely for the purpose of shooting the ‘mercial.
Phaedra has different plans: When everyone gets on the bus to the hotel in Jamaica, she asks Cynthia out loud who’s directing and who’s producing. Cynthia kind of says that Kenya wasn’t able to make it to the pitch meeting, so Kim will be handling it, but you know it doesn’t stop there. There will be fireworks in Jamaica, and they will be coming from Kim Fields’ eyeballs when Kenya tries to tell her she doesn’t have the TV experience
Yeah, that’s the argument Kenya is going with — that Kim Fields, who has been acting and directing in television for at least three decades does not have enough experience for a Cynthia Bailey Eyewear commercial that’s going to air on local Atlanta television. Oh, this is one for the record books. Cynthia decides the best way to explain to her friend that she chose someone else over her to direct her commercial is with that someone else sitting at the table with them. Cynthia, Kim, and Kenya gather for sushi and a conversation where Kenya says the decision not to let her help on the commercial is “rude and as a businesswoman I’m insulted.” No, no, lady. You can be personally insulted that your friend chose not to hire you, but you can’t be professionally insulted that you weren’t hired for something that you didn’t show up to a meeting to talk about and then came to Jamaica to take part in without doing one bit of preparation.ew,youtube
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