Rich Girls, Episode 10: Together Apart

This morning I awoke in a blind panic, having realized that the final episode of Rich Girls aired nine days ago and I hadn’t even watched it yet. A moment later I relaxed a little, having remembered that only twenty people actually watch the show.

I would like to extend my thanks to the six people who have read my recaps of this utterly forgettable program.

Okay, I finally saw the last episode. And while it does have one or two entertaining moments, none of them involve Jaime. (My greatest joy of this day is that I will no longer have to listen to that annoying little girl whine anymore.)

• Jaime is packing to leave for Barnard College.
• Jaime is freaking out (WHAT A SURPRISE!) about Ally being late to pick her up and asks her mom to get out her car just in case.
• Ally shows up not a minute later.
• They pack Jaime’s stuff into Ally’s Range Rover.
• Sheila’s car has “clean my nuts” written on the hood. (Not really relevant, but more interesting than anything involving Jaime.)
• Jaime says goodbye to her dog, Star.
• They drive the 5 to 20 miles to Barnard College in Manhattan. (Nothing like “going away” to school, eh Jaime?)
• Jaime registers for class while some ear-splittingly bad song plays in the background.
• Jaime tells Ally that Barnard was her first choice school and that “if you work hard and don’t give up, you too can go to college.”
• Jaime and her new roommate decide to go to Urban Outfitters to buy more stuff for their room, because they didn’t bring enough. (And it’s much too far for Jaime to go home and get the rest.)
• Ally leaves feeling “relieved and free, now that Jaime is settled.”

Okay, moving on to Ally.

• Ally has lunch with her friend Chloe, who’s a British person. (Ally loves British people.)
• Ally and Chloe discuss not having to go to college because they already work in the fashion industry and what more can they learn from school, really?
• Ally goes to Tommy’s office the next day to offer the designers her “sensibility and taste.”
• Ally doesn’t like graphics on t-shirts. (Unlike 98% of the clothes-wearing public.)
• Ally thinks that kids aren’t ready for things that are “so eighties fashiony” yet.
• Tommy wants to mix rock & roll and hip-hop in his new line.
• They discuss developing a juniors line called “T.”
• Ally talks about creating a funky line for age 18-30 that’s not as conservative as the “H” line. “You know what I’m saying. It needs to be fashiony.”
• Ally is met with blank stares from the designers.
• Ally tells Tommy that she doesn’t want the designers to think she’s coming in and telling them what to do (even though that’s exactly what’s happening).
• Tommy and Ally walk through a Ralph Lauren department, and someone mistakes Tommy for Ralph Lauren. Ally finds this hysterically funny.

Now back to Jaime. (Great.)

• Jaime calls Michael V. to meet her for dinner.
• Ally goes to visit Jaime at school and brings her a Sex in the City book.
• Leo, Jaime’s dad, is with them and makes his opinion of that show known once again.

Leo: Terrible. Worst show on television.

Jaime: I happen to like it.

Leo: That’s why we sent you to school.

Ally and her friend Liz set out to organize Ally’s closet in Connecticut. Ally enlists her dad to help them. Tommy suggests they start with all things denim. He finds a denim skirt designed by none other than Ralph Lauren and makes a huge deal about how he can’t believe anyone would buy this. Ally tells him that she got it at “a discounted price.”

Tommy comments on 842 “very cool” denim items in Ally’s wardrobe, and checks all the labels to find out where all of his money is going. He returns to the denim Ralph Lauren skirt. (It really is pretty awful… it appears to have a train of denim attached to it, sort of like the train of a wedding dress.)

Tommy: I don’t want to know how much this cost.

Ally: Well, he needs the money.

Tommy: Yeah, he needs to buy another Ferrari.

Eventually Ally decides that she needs to finish this project alone. Tommy leaves, and Liz has a good laugh while Ally rolls her eyes.

Jaime and Michael Villa meet for dinner. Michael blathers on endlessly about his vision of perfection girlfriend Julia. Jaime thinks she’s being all tough and macho about confronting him, when really she just calls him an @$$hole once and concedes to everything he says after that. At the end of dinner, Jaime asks if this is a happy ending now. Michael points out that if she wants it to be the end, sure. Jaime quickly backpedals and says no no no. Then she talks about how she scared him by not talking to him for two months, but it’s pretty obvious that he couldn’t give a sh*t either way if she never talked to him again.

Ally and Jaime don’t get to see each other as much anymore and are moving in two different directions, but that will just prove how strong their friendship really is.

MTV wraps up the show by showing highlights of the entire season. And I breathe a huge sigh of relief at the thought that I’ve just wrapped up my last recap of Rich Girls.

Dana can be reached at danasongwriter@yahoo.com.

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