Robyn Takes On the Medium

Ok, so I have a confession to make...I watch Bravo...like a lot. I won't always admit to it in mixed company but it's a good channel for background noise (especially during the day when nothing else of interest is playing on any other channel) and I do actually like some of the shows. Like Millionaire Matchmaker which I don't just like, I love, even if Patti can be over the top at times and the millionaires appear to be getting crazier each season. But I'm not wanting to discuss Millionaire Matchmaker, I want to talk about one of the many housewives shows. The one in particular that has been re-running constantly and therefore I am subjected to watching lately even if it is one of my least favorite of the housewives series is the Housewives of Beverly Hills. Mostly because of Camille Grammer but even barring her it is still a bit much most of the time.

I'm not even trying to bash Camille, even if she seems fake especially when she waxes poetically about how kind and wonderful she is but continues to throw lashing comments about Kyle constantly in those interview sessions or to her fellow housewife friends. Kyle's got her kids and a family that she's worried about while Camille's worried about how her fake ta-ta's look to visiting lecherous male family-friends and is running around kissing married men on the lips...in front of their wives. Yet she is wonderful and fabulous (cough, cough, delusion) so I shouldn't say anything bad about her.
My biggest beef with Camille is about a dinner party she hosted at her house, and it isn't even about her but about a friend she invited named Allison DuBois. Years ago I watched some of the television show Medium and really enjoyed it. I learned that it was based on the medium Allison DuBois and thought she seemed like a very interesting person especially with the work she does with the police. When Camille mentioned in one of the interviews that her friend Allison DuBois was coming to dinner, I was excited because we would have an opportunity to see the really medium.

I am sad to say, though, that never before in my life have I been more disgusted with a person. That is saying a lot because I have seen many of the housewives interacting with each other (such as crazy Danielle from the Jersey housewives-unstable much?), but this was horrible. She smoked on a fake cigarette that blows steam out of it and acted stuck up the entire time at the dinner table. I can get that she may have not wanted the guests to ask her about her profession since she was "off the clock" but when you introduce yourself just say your name and don't even mention to people what your job is. Plus, don't down a bunch of cocktails and act psychotic. I'm not saying I doubt her gift, even if some people are mentalists and use their keen senses to read others body language to make it appear as if they have psychic powers. But if you have a gift like she claims to have, don't use it in such a spiteful and malicious way. She started spouting off things like that she can tell people the exact moment they will die and how. How horrible of a person are you? Even if you are capable of doing that, having a gift like that carries burdens and is not to be taken lightly. Obviously you were given it for a reason and I doubt the reason was to spread hate around in this world. If anything it was to bring closure and peace to people. I never imagined the real medium to be so vindictive and she really lost a fan the day she appeared on the housewives. I was expecting someone who would be able to rise above the petty drama that the housewives had going on (and that they even wanted to put behind themselves) not add fuel to the fire. If anything I was hoping, especially when she told her profession, to be able to help the women come together not tear each other apart. Now I think of her as a pot stirrer who knew the exact words to say to make everyone blow up at each other and I'd be ashamed to call that my gift--to read the emotions of others and play with them. No matter what, you should never take someone's word about the character of another person that you haven't met even if it is a close friend. You don't know what is going on in other people's lives and it is unfair to the person you've never met to make judgments based on another person's assessment. I have learned this many times the hard way but I learned these lessons in high school and the first year or so of college. Why hasn't this forty-year-old woman learned it yet? It is heavy to carry so much hatred around with you and it makes me sad to see her wish so much harm to come to people that she barely even knows. She even made a comment about something happening to one of Kyle's children and how, if one of them went missing, she wouldn't help them find the child (because of her powers) even if they begged her to help-how awful! I don't wish her any ill will but it is my sincerest hope that she find some love and light in her heart and life. This world could use more of it, that is for certain.