Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 4 Finale

I seriously don’t even know where to begin! That was one hell of a season finale. First off, and I have heard this numerous times, it seems like this show has definitely taken on a darker tone, and this finale episode really proved that. Essentially, it was Teresa’s final, and in a way successful, attempt to destroy her sister-in-law, Melissa. Sadly, because Teresa refuses to open up to anyone and be an honest, genuine person, we as the viewers have never really gotten a straight answer on why she hates Melissa and Kathy. But, if this season, and especially this season finale, has taught us anything, it’s that to be in Teresa’s life, you just can’t discuss things openly with her when the cameras are around, and if that means looking the other way and pretending to be oblivious to  her blatant lies, well then you better damn well do it!

Anyways, let’s look at the season finale highlights:

1. Melissa looks beautiful, even when she’s crying:

2. This is the last time we’ll be seeing this crazy look from Teresa…

3. Melissa was NOT a stripper. In fact, she didn’t even really work at a strip club. In her own words: “Well technically, it’s not a strip club. It’s a bikini bar.” (btw, what exactly is a “bikini bar”?)

4. In her hero shot, Caroline insists that she “has no time for drama”, yet if we look at the entire season, she’s the one who starts everything! In fact, she’s the one who showed the text messages to Melissa, which essentially exposed the entire “set-up,” and led to the episode’s dramatic end. Now granted, she is not the responsible party when it comes to causing the conflicts, but she is the one who insists on bringing them up and getting her nose in things every time the cameras are around. I guess that’s what you’ve got to do though to stay on a show like this. Because, quite honestly, no one really cares to watch you coddle your children for an hour. (Below is a screen shot of Caroline lurking in the background, just as things were beginning to heat up between Teresa and Jacqueline)

5. Speaking of Caroline’s children, can we just take a moment to talk about how fucking annoying Lauren is?? At one point, she tells her mother that Teresa had told her that Melissa was once a stripper, but she didn’t want to bring it up earlier because she didn’t want to “start a big problem.” Like mother, like daughter, always stirring things up & then saying they “don’t have time for the drama.” Even more annoying? This entire season, it seems like this bitch just had to be in the middle of everything. If she wasn’t complaining about being fat or her brothers being more successful than her, then she was inserting herself right into all her mother’s issues with Teresa. First of all, this girl is one of the most immature little brats on television. I don’t even think Milania or Gia are as bad as her, and let me tell you why.  All I’ve heard out of her mouth is how she wants to be skinny, and once she’s skinny she wants to be rich, she wants to be more successful than her brothers, her brothers don’t care about her, she wants to have a makeup line, no, now she wants to own her own spa/beauty bar (btw, what the hell is a beauty bar? and don’t even get me started on the name Cafface haha that was one time I did agree with her–horrible, horrible name!), blah, blah, blah. And, the sad thing is that her mother allows her to act this way. Throwing little tantrums and whining until she gets her way. At the end of the day, that is not how you parent. All that shows people is that you’re a pushover Caroline, and that all your kids have to do is complain and bitch enough until they get their way (Case in point: Lauren finally got that lap-band didn’t she?) Sidenote: did they get the lap-band for free because they mentioned it in the season finale? That little registered TM logo leads me to wonder. hmmm…

And one more thing: why was she directing her mother and Jacqueline around during the episode?

Who cares if Jacqueline is standing alone? And, right beforehand, she told her mother, “Ma, go over there so he [Joe Gorga] doesn’t think you’re against him please.” Why would Joe Gorga think that Caroline is against him? The whole thing was a little confusing.

6. Teresa couldn’t pronounce the word “coincidence”

7. Kim D “plays with the big boys” and was a bit of a coked up monster. Joe Gorga summed it up perfectly: “You can’t even talk, you’re so drunk & high!”

8. Yet again, we see that Teresa is a horrible actress and that when she is lying she becomes extremely flustered. In fact, for a mother of four, she is seriously lacking in her maturity level (although, that’s not exactly breaking news). If you notice, every time someone calls her out on something, or she gets backed into a corner where there is really no way out, she turns into a raging monster whose only defense is to turn everything on the other person. That’s what guilty people do. We saw this a few times last night, but the best example was when she tried to imply that there was some sort of set-up, where she was the target and Jacqueline was involved. Seriously Teresa? That doesn’t even make sense. But then again, crazy people rarely do make any sense. And, given how things ended this season, I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this Teresa at the reunion next week:

9. Teresa says that she was angry at her brother and hated him, so therefore, she wasn’t going to cry. She was going to, but she’s just so mad at him that she doesn’t want to shed a tear. At the end of the day, you’re not fooling anyone Teresa. You didn’t cry because you’re an evil bitch and have no remorse for the damage you cause in people’s lives.

10. Remember her:

When Joe and Melissa kicked her out of their house last season, at the request of Teresa, they proved their loyalty to their sister/sister-in-law. Teresa shit all over the importance of that action with her antics last night. She had the chance to “repay” that act of loyalty by shutting Angelo down before he came over to the table, but instead she just let it happen…

11. In her own words, Melissa pretty much sums up exactly what I was feeling about Teresa. Essentially, the bitch is pretty twisted and, in my opinion, needs some psychological help to deal with the underlying issues:

12-17: OBVIOUS POINTS THAT PROVE IT WAS A SET-UP:

12. Why was Pete Guidice there? There really is no explaining away the fact that he congratulated Teresa and told her “good job” after everything had blown up. I really hope they ask about it at the reunion because I’d love to hear Teresa try to rationalize that one. Something tells me, it’s going to be as unbelievable a story as the one she used to deflect attention away from her husband’s call to his mistress during their time in CA. Worker my ass!

13. Before things get crazy at the event, Teresa’s friend offers to take her home, but she decides to “stay for one drink”. Again, if she really wanted to avoid any conflict, she would have left then and there. Instead, she stayed because she wanted to keep the drama going.

14. When Teresa is speaking to her brother, she says, “I wanted her [Melissa] to go up to him [Angelo]”, then she says that she wanted to go up to Angelo with Melissa. If someone genuinely wants to protect someone they care about, they don’t instigate situations (and on camera no less) that would hurt them. Instead, that’s exactly what Teresa did.

15. This is weird:

16. Speaking of Angelo, why did Teresa pretend not to know his name, when everyone else knew it? She just kept calling him “that bald guy”. In her twisted mind, I’m sure that she thought if she “didn’t remember” his name, then the other women would think they weren’t involved in the whole thing together. Unfortunately, because everyone else kept using his name (and they really had met him just that night) it drew more attention to her and actually looked even weirder than if she had just called him Angelo. Classic Teresa…

17. There is no explaining away what Angelo told the fat bitch in the corner when he “forgot” his mic was on.

So, there you have it. I know it was quite long, but there was A LOT there to talk about. We’re very excited about the reunion, and especially since it’s the first time they filmed together since LAST season’s reunion. This is the first time in Housewives history that this is happening, so it will be like a season premiere (in that they are together for the first time) and a reunion special all rolled into one! We can’t wait to see it all unfold. Be sure to give us your own thoughts on everything in the comments section below!

UPDATE: We almost forget about this little gem:

What was with Melissa telling Joe to yell out the window at his sister? …either way, we secretly LOVED it 😉