Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
And lo, the phrase of the day forVanderpump Rulesis no longer Scandoval.
I resistedVanderpump Ruleshard when it first premiered in 2013.
With the shows success, however, came a shift.
And yet the series did its best to keep those cracks in its reality from showing.
It makes sense that theVanderpumppowers-that-be initially hesitated to shift the approach that first made the show pop.
Youd think the highlight of James Kennedys DJ career was making Pumptinis quake on their brunch tables.
Which brings us back to Scandoval.
In the end,Vanderpumpsplit the difference, satisfying just about no one.
Not that the show bothered to reveal how Ariana was handling all this life-changing goodwill, anyway.
No matter whose side youre on,thatis exactly the kind of layered conflict thatVanderpumpcouldve laid bare.
