The beautiful thing about House of Villains is how it pulls from every corner of the reality TV world. You have competitive gamers, daters, and a drag queen fighting for the prize. This week, however, the game was all about The Real Housewives. Everyone thank Andy Cohen for the House of Villains Season 2, Episode 5 shenanigans.
Not only did we watch two Housewives go head to head this week, but we also saw a new honorary Housewife get inducted into the sisterhood. It’s all a part of the fight for the $200,000 prize, and in the true spirit of Housewives, things got messy. Keep reading for a breakdown of House of Villains Season 2, Episode 5: “Housewife v. Housewife.”
What happened in House of Villains Season 2, Episode 5?
After Richard’s unanimous elimination, the villains regrouped for another round of gameplay. Joel challenged the remaining players to an election-themed Battle Royale Challenge, which wound up having a domino effect on the house. Politics can be so divisive, right? By the end, a new Supervillain won control of the game and nominated three villains for the Hit List. Most of them didn’t see it coming.
New York is having visions
This week, we learned that there might be a psychic in our midst, and her name is Tiffany. You might recall how in Episode 2, she correctly predicted that Kandy would win the Redemption Challenge. Once again, the Flavor of Love alum had a psychic vision. This time, she predicted that Larsa would win Supervillain of the Week.
Meanwhile, the rest of the house reflected on Richard’s surprising exit from the game. How is it possible that the original Survivor winner went home second in this competition? According to Wes, it can all be attributed to bad gameplay.
“He played a bad game when you get voted out unanimously over Safaree,” Wes bluntly told the villains.
A villainous election
Just in time for the U.S. presidential election, Joel showed up at the Villains’ Lair in a red power tie holding a big ballot box. Safaree grabbed the box, which turned out to be a big mistake. The Battle Royale Challenge had already started the moment Joel walked in the door.
Safaree opened the box and learned that he was the first player eliminated from the challenge. They had to keep passing around the box of surprises to help dwindle them down to two candidates, who would move forward to the final election. It’s not a very democratic election, but oh well. That’s life.
Safaree passed the box to Camilla, who also got eliminated upon opening it. Then, she passed it to her “best friend” Victoria, who she had been fighting with all morning. Victoria’s box got her eliminated, too.
In the end, New York won safety after getting a lucky box. Larsa and Teresa won the final nominations. That meant they had to immediately campaign around the house to try to earn votes to win Supervillain of the Week. That’s when the differences between these Housewives really became clear.
A tale of two Housewives
Although Larsa came into the competition late, she has quickly earned a positive reputation in the House of Villains. When it was time to campaign for the Battle Royale Challenge, she quickly sprung into action and started talking strategy with the other villains to secure their votes.
“I come from a culture of winners,” Larsa claimed during her campaign.
Meanwhile, Teresa had a different approach. She went around telling all of the villains, “You’ve known me longer, so you should vote for me.” It doesn’t take a political strategist to know that’s not an impressive message to get out the vote.
When it was time to cast ballots, Larsa won in a landslide. They definitely didn’t need a recount for this one. It came out to a 6-1 vote, with Teresa’s only vote coming from Victoria.
Despite the positive results, Larsa felt betrayed by Victoria. She’s like, “You literally came to my dog’s birthday.” Sure enough, they dropped in a flashback from Real Housewives of Miami Season 5 where Victoria showed up at Larsa’s dog’s birthday party. How could she betray her like this? It turns out they never really liked each other in the first place.
As the Supervillain of the Week, Larsa decided to choose Teresa and Wes to join her on the villain’s outing. Let’s be real though, the villain outing is really less about fun and more just about talking strategy. With that in mind, she chose Wes and Teresa as her dates.
Larsa might have won the election, but Tiffany got the last word in the challenge. Fed up with Teresa “floating” through the competition, she decided it was time to start a feud with the New Jersey OG.
“I feel like I’m entitled to my own room, so at this point, I feel like want Teresa to leave,” New York announced to the house.
That activated Teresa, and all of a sudden you could see the Real Housewives of New Jersey spirit starting to possess her. She looked at Tiffany and said, “That’s interesting to know. I see where your loyalty stands.”
In a confessional, Tre added, “To me, loyalty is everything, so if you cross me, I’m going to be your worst nightmare.”
The Real Housewives of the Valley
Wes is just like us. When he found out he was going on a villain outing with Larsa and Teresa, he couldn’t help but fan out a little bit. He’s like, “Wait, am I an honorary Housewife?”
He dubbed their group “The Real Housewives of the Valley” as they ventured off for a session of goat yoga. They had taglines and everything. It was perfect. What wasn’t perfect was that Wes falsely claimed to be the first red-head Housewife. No sir. The first one with a beard? Maybe.
During the Housewives/Villains outing, Wes spent most of the time throwing out strategy and trying to align with Larsa. Once again, Wes is pulling the strings without actually holding power in the game. It seems like that could be his end-game strategy.
Larsa told the Housewives that she wanted Victoria out of the game because of all of the drama she’s been causing. Meanwhile, Wes suggested nominating Kandy and Camilla. He lied and said that they were targeting Larsa, just to make sure that she would go through with the plan. There is expert-level pot-stirring happening here. He really is a Housewife.
Who is on the Hit List this week?
At the end of the episode, Larsa plopped on a cowboy hat and made her picks for the Hit List. Remember when she first came into the house, she claimed she wasn’t a villain? This whole scene proved her wrong.
Her first nominee was Victoria, which wasn’t too surprising after they spent the whole day fighting. What was surprising was how Larsa dragged her in the process.
“There’s probably a reason I never followed you on Instagram, and there’s probably a reason I never liked you when we hung out three times socially,” Larsa told Victoria.
The next person on the list was Camilla. She seemed completely surprised and realized that Larsa couldn’t be trusted. She and Victoria locked eyes and decided to put their beef aside to get revenge on Larsa.
Finally, Larsa hit us all with the big plot twist. Rather than nominating Kandy as she discussed with Wes, she decided to blindside Teresa and nominated her for elimination. How could she turn her back on a fellow Housewife?
In a confessional, Larsa justified her decision by referencing her time on The Traitors. On that show, she got targeted for teaming up with the Housewives. This time, she doesn’t want to make that mistake, but was it worth pissing off Teresa? We’ll see how it all shakes out next week.
House of Villains continues Thursday nights on E! at 10/9c.
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