I have had to think about this review, because TBH, this episode felt like a lot. It felt like whiplash, really. It was as if it was too many things that felt forced and badly written. It’s hard to say that, because I do know that we are dealing with peoples lives. In the same breathe, I will say that this episode felt like a lot of forced tears.
And a lot of unnecessary drama.
For a bunch of grown adults, these people act like high school students. And that’s giving them credit where credit isn’t due. Toddlers is more like it, but I am trying to be kind. These men and women like drama and what is bothering me is that it’s the same people over and over again. We don’t know these cast members, but the editing of the show has managed to not do them any favors.
It’s bachelor/bachelorette party weekend and well, there is all different types of drama and these people all have irresponsible as their middle name. The boys have gone to Miami and they’re of course going to a strip club. Shocker.
And by shocker, I mean not shocked.
Back in Cayman, the girls are throwing Vic’s bachelorette weekend. Cass has been in charge of planning and while everyone says that she’s the person to come to for party planning, I am just not seeing it. Then again, maybe somethings aren’t available on the island. Who knows?
The beach picnic is cute. It’s really cute. I can understand why it is that Vic wanted something so calm and sweet. I can also understand why it is that the girls should have honored that. Yet, like in life, everyone thinks they know better (and we’ll get there).
Enter Chelsea to the event, and she decides to make the announcement that her and Tyson have broken up. She says that it is for good. While, I do think that she should tell her friends, there is a time and a place, and she should have kept her mouth shut. This wasn’t the time. She had to make everything about her and her drama, when whatever was going on should have been about Vic and Vic only.
But Chelsea tells them all and it starts the drama that was only going to get worse. We need to talk about Teri and Dillion.
We’re on episode 6 and these two have barely been there. But here we are, this episode with both shoved down our throats. Yes, every show – reality or not – needs a villain and these two are just that. Dillion being the leader and Teri being the obedient follower. We get it by her crocodile tears later that she’s a bad actress, but he’s her “ride or die” so she has to turn them on.
Dillion and Teri are angling for a storyline and while sometimes that can be respectable, right now it’s just hilarious because it’s pathetic. It’s pathetic because even with what they are angling for it’s just so bad that you cringe and laugh and wonder what sort of nepotism existed for these two to get a job.
When Chelsea starts letting loose Teri makes a comment about breakups and it’s definitely a dig at Chelsea. She hears it, takes it to heart, and then later that night at the BDSM party, you know it’s going to come back up.
What we do know about Dillion is that he did tell everyone that Tyson got some other chick pregnant and he’s made sure to tell everyone that. He’s made sure to try and insert himself into situations for the sake of giving himself a storyline. Teri gets some mad when Chelsea talks smack about Dillion. The truth is neither one of them are acknowledging – Dillion and Teri – their desperation to have a storyline.
Chelsea is out of line with the way that she talks, but Teri is also out of line. Every single one of these people are forcing things that aren’t there. But I also get why everything feels so intense and big to them. Yet I can’t get over why it is that Teri thinks that anyone would take her seriously. This whole thing – her being so upset over her “ride or die” is comical. It’s comical because she’s got nothing but crocodile tears.
I don’t think that Cass was out of line trying to give some perspective to Chelsea. While we haven’t had enough of Teri to say that she does or doesn’t talk about Dillion a lot, no one can deny that Chelsea talks a lot about Tyson. So for her to get mad, when Cass points it out in a positive way really had me going, WTF is wrong with her. Chelsea is hurting, I get that. But hurting doesn’t mean you get to be an asshole.
And then it doesn’t mean that you get to blame your best friend. Courtney ain’t my favorite person, but hey, Chelsea, you should respect the fact you best friend loves you enough to be honest. I think it’s respectable, if we’re being honest. The way that Chelsea reacts isn’t the sign of a person that knows what she’s thinking or feeling.
I am hoping that she’s just gonna think about the shit she said and apologize.
Because she owes a lot of apologies.
But she also needs to take her behind to therapy. It would be good for her. If she thinks she doesn’t need that, she needs to talk to the editors and ask what she did. Because they aren’t making you look good at all.
And hey, I don’t care what’s happening in Miami – whatever the boys will be doing – that’s whatever. Hopefully next week it wouldn’t be what I think it is, because me thinks someone was a really bad boy.
Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise airs on Freeform.