by Ashley Thompson

 

 

"I'm not here for your amusement... you're here for mine." The London Ladies are baaaaack! Are you ready to be beautifully and artfully condescended to for an entire reality show season?

 

 

 

Let's catch up with what the Ladies have been doing since last season:

 

 

 

Julie Montague is planning the slow transition from London to her castle in Mapperton. She's also not over Caroline S.'s yoga comment from NYE a year ago. Now that she and Sophie are good friends, it would seem that most of their conversations are about Caroline.

 

 

 

Marissa is pregnant and on bed rest for her entire pregnancy. When they were told the sex of their baby, Marissa was also told she has a life threatening illness that would require her baby to be born 2 months early. Basically she will be having a hysterectomy during childbirth which could cause her to bleed out. Very scary stuff. Watching it play out, even though you know the outcome, is very emotional. The American audience probably cried more than Marissa and her husband. Those Brits really know how to hold it together!

 

 

 

Caroline Stanbury has said goodbye to her business, become a housewife and has celebrated her 40th birthday in style... which means lots of alcohol. So, of course, her and her sister-in-law/best friend, Sophie, are getting rehydrated via IV in their bedroom. Caroline's husband has a job offer in Dubai so the family is moving. But not until the end of summer because "Everyone knows you do not summer in Dubai".

 

 

 

Sophie is currently going through a divorce after 7 years of marriage. Do you think that will be awkward at Caroline's family dinners? Your best friend and your brother can't really be in the same room. To celebrate her new beginning, Sophie is hosting a brunch.

 

 

 

Adela looks American with her large chest and blonde, sausage curled hair, but she is definitely English. And besties with Caroline S.

 

 

 

Juliet seems to have made amends since last year. Until Sophie's brunch when she wedges herself right in between Julie and Caroline S. Julie feels that the pair are trying to get her to cry. That their intent is just to crawl under her skin and bother her. In anyone else's eyes it is just your average housewife confrontation. If you cry, you cry... and that's pretty standard. And in actuality, it's Sophie that ends up in tears.

 

 

 

Caroline Flemming travels back to Denmark weekly now that her father has been ill with cancer. According to the promos, it doesn't look like she'll be missing much camera time this season, though.

 

 

 

Basically, it's still the Caroline Stanbury show and we wouldn't have it any other way.

 

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