While there have been very few changes within the show's core group of frenemies, several newcomers have come and gone from the Vanderpump Rules cast over the years.
Few lasted more than a season, which is not good, as they often represented attempts by producers to address the series' diversity problem.
We suppose this is what we get for having high expectations of a guy who shaves his forehead.
For years, Tom Sandoval was regarded as that rarest of reality TV breeds -- the genuinely nice guy.
Sometimes, when two adults are involved in a petty conflict, you might hear someone remark that the situation is "just like high school."
Sadly, at a certain point you realize that for many people, life is like high school, and grades 9-12 were just their first exposure to all that back-biting and social manipulation.
Well, another summer is almost at an end.
It's a bummer in many respects, but fall offers much to look forward to -- the return of football, memes about how much pumpkin spice flavoring sucks, and of course, a new season of Vanderpump Rules.
More big news from the world of Lisa Vanderpump's sexy unique restaurant!
Just weeks after Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright tied the knot, another Vanderpump Rules couple has announced that they're getting ready to exchange vows.
We're finding out an awful lot about Stassi Schroeder this week, and the Vanderpump Rules star's long-awaited memoir is still two weeks away.
In the past 24 hours alone, we learned that Stassi flirted with Scientology when she first got to LA and that -- like Kristen Doute -- Ms. Schroeder can be a bit of a "problem traveler."
On Monday night's episode of Vanderpump Rules, there was a good deal of talk about James Kennedy's drinking problem.
And while it certainly seems as though James has some serious issues with the sauce, it's important to bear two things in mind:
We can safely say this about Vanderpump Rules Season 7 Episode 1:
It did not lack for drama.
Vanderpump Rules star Stassi Schroeder has been notoriously unlucky in love.
Sadly, Stassi typically attracts guys like Jax Taylor and Patrick Meagher, who are almost impossibly douchey, even by the standards of GNC-junkie West Hollywood Zoolander types.
By the time they reach their sixth season, most reality shows are beginning to show their age.
In the case of Vanderpump Rules, however, the drama seems to become more compelling with each passing year, to the point that we're pretty sure Bravo should just start live-streaming the cast member's lives 24/7/356, a la The Truman Show.
If you watched last night's episode of Vanderpump Rules, you may have been surprised and disappointed as several cast members engaged in the egregious practice of victim-shaming in an attempt to bury some unsettling allegations.
What could have served as an edifying reminder that the lessons of the #MeToo era often force both men and women to confront uncomfortable truths was instead a painful lesson in how not to handle an accusation by a woman who has been mistreated.
If you've been watching the current season of Vanderpump Rules, you know that former SUR girl and reigning controversy queen Stassi Schroeder is having a tough go of it.
Granted, many of Stassi's problems are self-created, but it's still jarring to see the former queen bee take such a tumble from the top of the social ladder.
On last night's Vanderpump Rules, sh-t got real.
And we don't mean "drunk people yelled at each other about pasta" real - we're talking "actual social issues of consequence were discussed on a Bravo reality show" real.
There are certain words in the English language that should never go together:
Donald Trump and genius. Justin Bieber and humble. Ryan Gosling and ugly.
Jax Taylor and Stassi Schroeder broke up way back in Vanderpump Rules Season 1, so it's easy to forget that they ever dated at all.
And based on his latest description of life with Stassi, it seems Jax would love nothing more than to have the relationship wiped from his memory, Eternal Sunshine-style.
There's certainly been no shortage of drama thus far on Vanderpump Rules Season 6.
In fact, the conflicts and controversies are so plentiful that they're spilling off the screen and overflowing into our tabloids and Twitter timelines.
While it's no surprise to hear that a reality star said something stupid and out-of-touch, Stassi Schroeder mocking the #MeToo movement and seeming to defend the alleged rapists was beyond the pale.
Even for the already controversial Vanderpump Rules star.
Stassi Schroeder is persona non grata around the Internet right now.
And for a fairly understandable reason.
A new season of Vanderpump Rules is almost upon us.
It's been seven months since we last checked in with the men and women of SUR, and a whole lot has changed in their lives in the interim.
Earlier this week, we reported that Vanderpump Rules star Stassi Schroeder was dumped by boyfriend Patrick Meagher, seemingly out of the blue.
That's bad enough on its own, but Stassi's situation gets so much worse from there.
If you watch Vanderpump Rules online, you know that Stassi Schroeder spent much of the most recent season coping with the emotional fallout from her breakup with Patrick Meagher.
The split seemed to take a serious toll on Stassi, who only began to move on and re-enter the dating pool in the season's final episodes.
Feuds are what make great reality shows work, and if you watch Vanderpump Rules online, you know the series has never been lacking in the bad blood department.
But we're a little concerned that the show's upcoming sixth season might be lacking the seething hostility that's made the happenings at SUR so compulsively watchable up to this point.
