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Though I have no particular affection for Michelle or Brittany, it’s impossible not to root for them to get far away from their toxic man-children of husbands.

With enough time — and enough alcohol — the truth has started to leak out, and subtext has become text.

The first male-centric episode of the season is a fascinating, incelly look into how the husbands of The Valley operate.

It’s starting to feel like Janet is the bad kind of villain: messy, petty and vengeful, but totally unwilling to own her shit.

As much as I’d like to blame the flop alliance for this episode, Kristen is letting her personal feelings get in the way of making good television, too.

I can’t help but wonder whether any of our cast will decide to just get to the point and say what’s on their minds.

If you have secrets that you want to keep secret, do not sign up to do a reality show.

We are now deep enough into these peoples’ lives to see the cracks in their relationships, and shit is bleak.

I will always throw my support to the cast member who reveals a secret they shouldn’t have, over the one who tried to hide it to begin with.

Calling Kristen “crazy” is the oldest trick in the book, but it’s not hard to see why she’s dogged about not backing down.

The Valley’s second week delivers a veritable smorgasbord of conflict that sets up the central tensions of the remainder of the season.

If Vanderpump Rules was about the horror of heterosexual dating, The Valley is shaping up to be about the horrors of the heterosexual nuclear family.