#3483 The Valley S3E18: Down for the Count

**Ben Mandelker** (0:21)
Hello and welcome to Watch What Crappens, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about. I am Ben Mandelker, and joining me today is the one and only Ronnie Karam. Hi Ronnie, how are you doing today?

**Ronnie Karam** (0:33)
I'm good. How's everything going with you?

**Ben Mandelker** (0:36)
It's fabulous. We're really excited because today is the season finale of The Valley episode that we're talking about. So we're about to dive right into that. Join us on Monday, Amazon Live. We always are there every Monday talking about the stuff that we've found lately and why you should also find it in your lives. So go check that out and patreon.com/watch what crap ins for video bonus episodes. Roni trailer. We covered it this week.
Ad free listening newsletter. It's really just a cornucopia of delights over there. So go check that out without further delay or ado. Let's get into this that the Valley Season 3 Episode 18, The Valley of the Damned. That's the name of the episode. And based on the reunion looks, the answer is yes, this cast was definitely damned. By the way, we talked extensively about the reunion looks of The Valley on this week's Crappy Hour. Go check that out on your feed. We do that every other week. So if you want to hear us weigh in expertly on some of the, I would normally I would say the hits and misses. I would say more like the miss and misses. Go check that out.
Yeah.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:52)
Do you know this show is not really known for its fashions or styling. It's called The Valley, you know? The only reason they called it The Valley was because copyright wise, they couldn't call it The Rayon. And that's just how this show rolls, you know? And we're not even fashion gays, as we've said a million times. So for it to stand out to us, that's really bad. But God bless their hearts, you know?
I'm still...

**Ben Mandelker** (2:19)
Yeah, poor Britney. I mean, so much has been said about that. I still want to draw attention to the fact that What's-his-face Jessie doing the sneakers with the suit look. I'm so sick of that.
Like the middle-aged Drake guys thinking they're so clever by wearing a sneaker with a suit. It's like, oh wow, did you just invent that? You're really on top of it. Anyway, as I sit here in my cheap t-shirt and gym shorts, but that's my right. It's my own inherent style and fashion. So we see previously everything that happened this season, which is pain, sadness, fighting.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:55)
Emotional abuse.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:59)
Torn MCO, ACL.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:00)
God, being with absolutely the wrong person despite the entire world telling you, no, Brittany, don't do it. And that goes for pretty much all of you at this point, I think. Maybe except Janet and Jason. I wouldn't say Janet and Jason or Benji and Zach. Well, I guess Jasmine and Melissa. There are just such big ones that get you this year.
Danny and Nia.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:25)
Danny and Nia.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:25)
Luke and Kristen. The big fails this year are big enough that we should all be warned.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:33)
I know. It seems like it was forever ago that Brittany was going down the red flag path of Brandon, her boyfriend. And that came and went so quickly.
It's like, was that a different season? Because I just feel like so much has happened since then. I mean, it also is because the season has not really ever ended. But here we are. And we're at Kristen and Luke's house for what's going to be a very cheerful and happy scene that is going to put a hopeful bow on their very tumultuous season long storyline. Just kidding. It's going to just plunge them deeper and darker and have us sending out a life raft for Kristen to get out of this relationship before it's too late.

**Ronnie Karam** (4:13)
Even as she sits there and smiles psychopathically trying to make it all okay in our, it's just like, look, we're going to have a really cute scene. Just us packing the baby in the car or whatever they're doing. And the baby throws its pacifier on the ground and Kristen picks it up and what kind of wipes it on her shirt and then just starts sucking on it, I guess, to clear whatever was on the ground. I guess she figures like you neutralize it with mom spit.
What was that?

**Ben Mandelker** (4:46)
Or maybe she just wants it to snack. Let's not forget that this is someone who plucked a flower from a highway divider and chewed on it during vanipump rules on a cast trip. So she's not afraid. But yeah, she's sort of cleaning the pacifier for the baby.