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It's Ben and Lauren here to recap part one of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island

Reunion.

But before we dive in, we want to bring in a huge fan of the Real Housewives

franchise, someone who has seen it all when it comes to the episodes and the seasons and

different locations. She's watched the reunions. She's analyzed these reunions before.

It's producer Heather who started this conversation. We don't know what she's going to say. She started by saying to Lauren and myself, this reunion was

unlike any other reunion in the Real Housewives franchise. So Heather, guess the easiest way to do

this is, what do you mean? Yeah. So what I wanted to

say is typically these reunions are three parts. Now, should they always be three parts? I think

some fans would agree with me and say that in previous franchises, they definitely didn't need to be three parts and we got a lot of

filler stuff. So this one only being two parts is kind of good because we do get to the meat of a

lot of things quicker than we typically do on these reunions. But what I will say that stuck out

that was different to me is typically in these reunions, Andy will go to each person and we will get a

highlight reel of that person's time on the season. Then that person will get to chit-chat about,

you know, highs and lows from the season and address drama in that.

We kind of got like glimmers of that and then got like just straight into fighting,

which is just not really how we see it done on the show on these reunions.

So that was probably the biggest difference for me.

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