RHOBH Episode 1 Season 11 (Premiere) Recap & Reaction ("Dressed to the 90210s")

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH) Season 11 Episode 1 (Premiere) recap & reaction.

This season stars Erika Jayne / Girardi (wife to famous lawyer Tom Girardi of Erin Brockovich fame, currently in scandal), Kyle Richards (child star in Halloween film franchise, upcoming Halloween Kills movie, sister of child actress Kim Richards, half sister to friend of show this season Kathy Hilton, the mom of Paris Hilton & wife to Hilton heir Rick Hilton), Lisa Rinna (actress married to actor Harry Hamlin who's daughter Amelia Hamlin is dating Scott Disick), Garcelle Beauvais (co-host of 'The Real' & actress), Crystal Kung Minkoff (wife of 'The Lion King' director Rob Minkoff), Dorit Kemsley & Sutton Stracke.

Chapters
0:00 Intro & Welcome
1:30 Cast Overview RHOBH Season 11
9:46 Live Chat Break #1
10:07 Reason I'm Covering This
15:21 Live Chat Break #2
18:58 This Season on Cold Open Trailer
22:55 Act 1
33:45 Act 2
44:25 Act 3
50:47 Act 4
56:39 Act 5
1:04:15 Season Preview Thoughts
1:06:51 Channel Announcements / Next Live Tomorrow

This season focuses on Erika's lawsuit and divorce, Lisa Rinna's personal life with daughter in spotlight & her rebuilding friendship with Garcelle, Sutton & Crystal and Kyle & Garcelle on race relations, & more.

This episode (titled "Dressed to the 90210s") started with Kyle's new nose, Sutton & Garcelle friendship, then Erika, Dorit, Kyle, & Lisa touching on the effects of a challenging year and setting the stage for Erika's life troubles to take center stage. Then, we see Dorit & husband PK in their Encino home and Sutton renting Kyle's former house for $20,000 a month in Bel Air (near Beverly Hills & UCLA) plus we saw Garcelle & Lisa meet up to begin repairing their friendship and tie up lingering Denise Richards drama from Season 10 Reunion. Next, we see Erika at her Pasadena house now on the market as a result of the legal issues plus Garcelle & Dorit talking in interesting Chanel outfit while Lisa & Kyle head to meet Crystal to give games for Children's Hospital Los Angeles (flashback to Jamie Lee Curtis cameo from fundraiser in years past). Then we get an intro to Krystal and her older husband and we learn they met when she was 20 & from the valley. We learn about Crystal's Chinese heritage & similarities / differences between her & other housewives. A glam “barbecue” at Dorit’s house brings Kyle's sister Kathy Hilton & Crystal to meet the entire group and get a glimpse at the "snobby" side of her when being introduced to Dorit and saying "if you don't know someone they may not be worth knowing". We are then present for the announcement of the first cast trip to Lake Tahoe, California for group bonding after a rough year. Episode ends with girls saying what the past year taught them and Erika giving insight on her "very dark summer" to get us interested in what is to come.

Next episode appears to dive into race talks with Garcelle & Kyle then Kyle, Crystal & Sutton, before & during the Tahoe trip.

Then on "Watch What Happens Live" with Andy Cohen the entire cast minus Erika & Kathy joined live virtually and from the vibe of the show I think the group will bond over the Erika situation. In this episode of WWHL we also get talks of former housewife Lisa Vanderpump & references to Lisa Rinna's "own it" tagline from the premiere episode. We shall see!