‘Southern Charm’ Recap, Season 11, Episode 6

southern charm

A rare apology

season 11 episode 6

Editor’s rating 2 stars **

Sally pines for Craig, Craig cries on ChatGPT, and Shep wears dirty khakis to the celebration. Photo: Bravo

In this episode, Shepard Rose, a boat-shoe with developed organs, goes to visit his cousin Marcy, and Marcy grills him about when he’s going to settle down, a question the women always ask on this show and which the men shrug off as if it’s bouncing off into the raging waters of the Atlantic. hang on. Where did you find out about Marcy? Was she… on the show? I’ve been watching this show since season 4 (what am I doing with my life?) and I remember Danny, Chelsea, Cam, and even Naomi’s cat Gizmo, but there’s only a black hole where Marcy should be. Was she part of the COVID-19 season? Science says we’re already losing memory of the coronavirus, and maybe that’s where Marcy lives.

There were a lot of other random scenes this week. Molly went to Whitney’s Stubbin’ Cabin just to give him some wicked-flavored cupcakes, and I loved every second of it. Whitner went to Craig and Austin’s restaurant, “By the Way,” but they didn’t even mention it was Craig and Austin’s restaurant. We got a little glimpse of my ultimate Bravo crush, Craig’s business partner Jerry. I want to show him my Excel spreadsheet and suffocate him with Craig’s pillowy arms. We met Charlie’s sister, Davis Renee. His first name is either a full sentence or the name of a skin care product we can’t buy.

There were only two important scenes in this entire episode. The first is when Venita and Sally meet for drinks and talk about Sally’s unrequited love for Craig. This was a heartbreaking scene, as Sally arrived and told Venita that she had no intention of stopping dating Craig. Venita tells Sally that Craig doesn’t care about her and that Craig will break her heart, saying, “I’ll pick you up and walk you like a dog on a leash, and you’ll let go of the leash until the end.” Sally says you need to learn that yourself, but no, girl, you don’t. Listen to your friends. Let her intervene. Accept the advice of anyone in your life.

The ultimate irony is that we know that Sally has completely ruined her friendship with Venita, ruined her standing in her friend group, and risked everything for a man who isn’t even interested in her. He would rather hang out with Charlie! Venita’s best defense against Sally is that Sally wants to get married and have children. If that’s her end goal, Craig isn’t that end goal. He confesses on the show that he intends to win her back if Paige asks him to, and Paige thinks he will be the man who will give her a baby and lead her into early retirement with a pillow fortune. She’s riding Craig this hard, even though he hasn’t even kissed her yet. I mean, he sure has great hair, but what about Craig? Do you need to italicize it again?Craig?

Another big moment occurs at Patricia’s annual gentlemen’s dinner and chair-breaking contest, where chairs break again. This time it was by Stephen, a new British-Nigerian doctor. Wait, why was this guy invited and Rodrigo, who is actually a member of the cast, wasn’t? Is this a gay thing? Is this homophobia at work? Miss Pat needs to get the gays out there to say that if the chairs keep breaking, it’s either time for more chairs or more Ozempics.

Everyone is nicely dressed for this white jacket dinner. No, wait. I’ll take it back. Shep arrived wearing a stained khaki shirt, an orange striped shirt he bought at the Tommy Bahama outlet store and a white jacket over it, with a scar on his forehead from a moving-related accident. He seems to be going to his first official fraternity event, and his date is his cousin Marcy, who no one remembers. Whitner could have done better, too. He’s all glamorous, but he’s wearing a white jacket over a black shirt and a bow tie that makes him look like two ducks having sex. It’s like dressing up as a member of Mumford & Sons to perform at a state funeral. It’s a series of choices that I don’t understand at all.

At dinner, Patricia asked Austin when he was going to marry his girlfriend, and Austin shrugged. The question bounces around and tries to find the raging waters of the Atlantic, but instead settles in a storm drain by the curb and decides to fester there until just before Austin breaks up with his girlfriend, which has already happened. Austin is in a relationship and Craig has Sally and Charlie as options, but he only really likes the blonde and doesn’t know anything about Stephen, so there’s not much to the dinner conversation. Things don’t get too interesting until Austin asks Craig to come outside and talk.

Craig is talking to his new therapist, ChatGPT, so be prepared for this chat. I’m ostensibly an elderly person, so I’m not against AI, but I can’t really get much use out of it. You can look it up on Google or do your own research. I’m a professional writer, so I can write sentences faster than I can figure out the prompts to write to an AI. All your travel plans are made by searching for “gay bars in (city you’re visiting),” so you don’t have to think about an itinerary. Well, I don’t understand AI, but I always wonder who the people are who talk to AI like a friend or use it as a therapist. Of course that person is Craig. This fact is obvious, so it must be mint. (You don’t need the AI ​​to tell you that the joke is more effective if you say it out loud.)

I’d like to say that ChatGPT shouldn’t be your therapist, but to be honest, Craig seems to work. He reports that he cried while talking on the phone because he realized he had to finish Page’s chapter and move on to sleeping with the bad guys who were clogging the bathtub drain on an extension. But then again, he’s also said he’s going to get back together with Page, so we don’t know, but maybe that perception isn’t as good as he thinks.

He also ends up apologizing to Austin for offending him at Whitner’s literary party, but he and Austin are still upset about it. The reason I don’t believe this apology at all is because in his confessional, Craig says that Austin’s problem is not with him. Being in a bad relationship is your own problem. It’s very Craig-like to avoid responsibility, as the woman asked when Craig and his girlfriend were getting married. Craig asks Austin for a “grace,” but then realizes that “grace” means “gaslighting” in 2026, and wants him to split in half like Miss Pat’s dining room chair. Craig says he’s sorry, he misses being with Austin, and sure enough he’s angry that his rant caused so much damage.

Austin accepts the apology, but is right to warn him that he can’t deal with Craig and his instability anymore. He says he never knows when Craig will laugh at his bargains or flip his wig like a RuPaul’s Drag Race tour bus jumping off a cliff. He says he’ll be fine as long as Craig doesn’t bite him again, but hey, it doesn’t take a ChatGPT therapist to know that’s inevitable. Craig is like a mousetrap with a cocked spring. If a rodent takes a bite of the cheese, it can be left there for hours, days, or weeks without starting a fire. But just as the waves crash on the shore and the question arises as to when the bad guys will get married, it is certain that the spring will eventually burst and someone’s neck will be snapped.