Staten Island's own Renee Graziano mocks a police mugshot pose in this photo posted to her Facebook.com fan page. This week’s episode picks up right in the middle of the fight between Renee and Karen.
The “ladies” scream and curse, point fingers in faces, and obviously resolve nothing. Drita decides to intervene because she thinks that the two should work things out. Renee doesn’t think it’s any of Drita’s business.
Then the two of them get into an even worse screaming match until Renee, who claimed just minutes earlier that she is never intimidated enough to leave, finally storms out.
The rest of the episode mainly deals with the aftermath of the arguing, Renee’s son’s lousy grades and even lousier father, and Drita’s concerns regarding her husband’s prison release date.
THE SCENERY
Intoxx Fitness, Richmond Valley: Drita and Carla work out while discussing just how much physical damage Drita could have done to Renee.
Buddha Lounge, Charleston: Drita and Carla go out for cocktails and a distressed Drita asks the bartender for her opinion on her husband’s penchant for prison.
Synergy Fitness, New Springville: Renee and her son AJ box while waiting for AJ’s father who never shows up.
CRINGE-WORTHY
-- The ladies fighting at the very beginning is painful to watch. Grown women screaming at each other and threatening to beat each other up is uncomfortable to say the least.
-- Drita’s phone call with her incarcerated husband is nauseating. After she demands to know when he will be coming home and threatens to leave him he curses her out and tells her where she can shove the care package that she never sent him.
QUOTES
“She’s gonna get (expletive) laid out in a (expletive) minute.” - Drita, talking about Renee (see the glossary below for further explanation)
“You just said the ‘F’ word like ten times.” - AJ, 16, talking to his mother Renee
“You should be waiting. You stupid (expletive).” - Lee, talking to his wife Drita on a phone call he made from prison
SHAME-O-METER
Fortunately the ladies didn’t utter the actual words “Staten Island” very often in this episode, but constant images of the Verrazano Bridge and plenty of familiar scenery serve as an upsetting reminder that these women are in fact our neighbors. In this episode the women flaunted their absolute lack of class and viewers also got to see how disrespectful and outright disgusting some of their significant others are as well. The only decent people on this show are the children. On the Shame-O-Meter Scale of 1-10, this episode gets a solid 8.
GLOSSARY
Laid out: to get beaten in a fight, to get knocked out
NEXT WEEK
Watch as the women laugh, cry, and go shopping for fur coats, all while dealing with the aftermath of the Mafia bust that led to the arrest of 127 suspected gangsters earlier this year.
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