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‘RHOC’ Premiere Recap: Chaos Returns to Orange County<!-- wp:html --><p>Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images</p> <p>It feels a bit risky for this season of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/tamra-judges-return-could-save-the-real-housewives-of-orange-county"><em>Real Housewives of Orange County</em></a> to begin the same way as the utterly dreadful/borderline unwatchable Season 16, like the producers are placing a curse on the show.</p> <p>Last season kicked off with a cold open of Heather Dubrow dramatically pulling up to her former mansion and walking through her home with a signature glass of “champs.” After four seasons off, the <em>Malibu Country</em> star had been summoned by the Bravo gods to rescue a show that was currently floundering thanks to Kelly Dodd’s controversies and Vicki Gunvulson flying off the handle. (Dubrow, sadly, did not.)</p> <p>Season 17 begins similarly with a vignette of Bravo’s most fired Housewife Tamra Judge driving a motorcycle on a highway, intercut with some of her greatest one-liners (“That’s my opinion!”) and bitchiest moments (calling Emily Simpson Shrek.) Welcome our new Captain Save-a-Show!</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/real-housewives-of-orange-county-premiere-recap-tamra-judge-returns">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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It feels a bit risky for this season of Real Housewives of Orange County to begin the same way as the utterly dreadful/borderline unwatchable Season 16, like the producers are placing a curse on the show.

Last season kicked off with a cold open of Heather Dubrow dramatically pulling up to her former mansion and walking through her home with a signature glass of “champs.” After four seasons off, the Malibu Country star had been summoned by the Bravo gods to rescue a show that was currently floundering thanks to Kelly Dodd’s controversies and Vicki Gunvulson flying off the handle. (Dubrow, sadly, did not.)

Season 17 begins similarly with a vignette of Bravo’s most fired Housewife Tamra Judge driving a motorcycle on a highway, intercut with some of her greatest one-liners (“That’s my opinion!”) and bitchiest moments (calling Emily Simpson Shrek.) Welcome our new Captain Save-a-Show!

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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