Midway through the RHOC season, Dylan is joined by writer Louis Peitzman, who has lots of thoughts on Alexis Bellino’s comeback experiment. They discuss why her approach this season is falling so flat, and the particular difficulties of being a friend of. Later, Dylan picks Louis’s brain on the upcoming seasons of RHONY and RHOSLC, and whether there’s hope for RHODubai after a second season that hasn’t made much noise. They also discuss Jo’s declaration that she’s moving on from… whatever she had with Tom Schwartz.

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