A lot of people were mighty skeptical when Jax Taylor proposed to Brittany Cartwright -- and rightfully so.
After all, Jax had been caught cheating on Brittany just months before he popped the question.
Vanderpump Rules is entering its eighth season, and its senior cast member just turned 40.
But if you were concerned that the show was in danger of losing the drunken, chaotic energy that's long made it one of the most consistently entertaining series on the reality TV landscape, fear not.
It's been less than a month since Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright tied the knot in front of friends, family, and a full camera crew.
But now, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it seems the Vanderpump Rules couple is already experiencing trouble in paradise.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright has officially completed their journey.
They've gone from nightmare couple ... to cantakerous exes ... to sort of stable couple ... and now all the way to the altar.
Earlier today, we reported on the sad news that Lisa Vanderpump's mother has passed away at the age of 84.
The death of Jean Vanderpump comes just one year after Lisa's brother, Mark Vanderpump, committed suicide.
The fateful wedding between Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright is nearly upon us, and the controversy has been all over Twitter.
This goes beyond people's issues with Jax. It turns out that the Kentucky pastor Jax and Brittany chose has said a lot of hateful things.
Reunion episodes are often as boring and superfluous as those recap talk shows that used to follow cultish TV dramas like The Walking Dead.
Fortunately, as several of them creep up on 40, the cast members of Vanderpump Rules remain so violently angry and pathologically narcissistic that they create an interesting hour of television just by rehashing old beefs and making Andy Cohen question his life decisions.
For the first six seasons of the show's run, Jax Taylor was Vanderpump Rules' resident troublemaker.
He wasn't always the show's biggest villain -- that title often belonged to James Kennedy -- but no one stirred the pot quite as effectively as Jax.
At times, the current season of Vanderpump Rules has felt like the final episodes of a long-running high school drama.
The characters we've watched party, cheat, fight, and generate endless drama for the past several years now appear much too old for such shenanigans, and the realization that it's time for a change is bittersweet.
For seven seasons now, Jax Taylor has persistently confounded and baffled Vanderpump Rules viewers.
Sure, Jax might seem like an open book at first -- it's hard to drink that much and hold on to many secrets -- but it's important to bear in mind that Taylor is also a compulsive and unrepentant liar.
The most consistent complaint about the current season of Vanderpump Rules is that the show has reached the point at which the cast members' lives are simply too settled to be consistently entertaining.
While we still believe Vanderpump has plenty of life in it -- if nothing else, it remains arguably the funniest reality shows on television -- it's not hard to see why viewers might be growing frustrated with a group that seems more concerned with promoting side projects (ranging from beer cheese to horror flicks) than stirring up drama.
On Tuesday, Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club premiered on MTV, reminding the world that Lindsay Lohan is still out there and still trying to rebuild her decimated career.
Lindsay would likely be the first to admit that she's made quite a few mistakes over the years.
