Vanderpump Rules might not be the only Real Housewives spin-off, but it's easily one of the most popular and most talked about.
One of the show's key sources of drama for the series is Stassi Schroeder, whose ridiculous exploits frustrate Lisa Vanderpump but entertain viewers to no end.
If you watch Vanderpump Rules online, you know that the show's past season wasn't particularly kind to SUR hostess/aspiring pop singer/fake eyelash enthusiast Scheana Marie.
In addition to chronicling her divorce from Mike Shay, VPR Season 5 featured a storyline about Scheana being booted out of the chick clique that's since dubbed itself the Witches of WeHo.
It's only been seven months since Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Marie filed for divorce from Mike Shay, but Scheana has wasted no time in moving on to what appears to be a much healthier relationship.
(In fairness, Mike spent the last few months of their marriage sleeping in a studio and recording terrible hip hop with Nicole Arbour, so Scheana may have felt single long before she actually was.)
Vanderpump Rules Season 5 may have come to an end, but the contentious cast is certainly not through taking shots at one another.
The only difference is that these days the drama is playing out not on camera, but on social media.
Last night's Vanderpump Rules reunion show may have brought the show's fifth season to a dramatic conclusion, but it seems the cast is far from finished firing shots at one another.
On part three of the Vanderpump Rules reunion recap last night on Bravo, Scheana and Mike Shay's divorce once again took center stage.
What did we learn this time around, if anything?
Lala Kent quickly became a pariah on Vanderpump Rules. Part of that was down to the way she was acting when she first appeared on the show.
She was put on blast for her actions on Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 22 about her actions, but she had one last explosive argument with Stassi Schroeder.
Lala Kent returned to Vanderpump Rules last night for episode one of the show's three-part (?!) reunion special.
The rest of the cast was clearly taken off guard by the surprise cameo, with Scheana Marie (one of the few ladies on the cast who doesn't have active beef with Ms. Kent) remarking that she thought Lala was in New York.
Monday on Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 21, Scheana Marie realized that Mike could be back on drugs after his erratic behavior.
When the episode got underway, Katie Maloney was walking down the aisle to become Katie Schwartz with Tom Schwartz.
On Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 20, it became obvious that Stassi had changed for the better, to the surprise of no one ever.
How did Lisa react to that, and did she figure out what was going on with Scheana when her waitress started acting erratically at work?
If you watch Vanderpump Rules online, you know that this season has been about two things:
1. Tom and Katie's wedding (and formerly one-note nice-guy Tom revealing himself to be as amusing a hot mess as anyone else on the show.)
On Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 19, Lala Kent returned to SUR, where the boss made it clear she won't tolerate her unreliability.
Of course, Lisa Vanderpump has a rather long fuse when it comes to these lunatics she employs - as long as they bring in the ratings.
It was back in August that we first learned Lala Kent was quitting Vanderpump Rules, reportedly due to unwelcome scrutiny of her personal life.
On Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 18, Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney tried to find someone to officiate their upcoming wedding.
Who declined the offer because of their belief - shared by pretty much everyone at this point - that the troubled pair isn't going to last?
On Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 17, Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval engaged in an epic blowout over accusations of cheating.
While in drag, naturally.
Last night on Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 16, Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney sought to put all the bickering behind them.
We know, yes. We know. Hence the word sought above.
Tom and Katie's awkward, tension-filled journey to matrimony continued Monday night on Bravo's Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 15.
Before the couple, who somehow determined marriage was a good idea, can make it to the altar, first they had to make it to New Orleans.
Lala Kent's departure from Vanderpump Rules has felt more than a little anti-climactic.
Lala quit the show back in August, while season five was still filming and thus far, the show hasn't addressed her absence in any concrete way.
Monday on Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 14, Schwartz voiced his opinions about his bachelor party, while Katie raged at Scheana.
Elsewhere, Stassi was given more relationship advice, but if you watch Vanderpump Rules online, you know how that typically goes.
You've gotta hand it to Lala Kent.
Kent just went off on the Vanderpump Rules cast in an online tirade, accusing them of slut-shaming her and basically being terrible people.
Amid speculation of why she's leaving the hit Bravo show, and whether it has to do with dating a married man, Kent issued this tweet:
Monday on Vanderpump Rules Season 5 Episode 13, Schwartz decided it was high time for one of his co-stars' ongoing feuds to end.
Which feud would that be? And how did his fiancee feel about Tom - of all people, the most awful at conflict resolution - meddling in this?
There's nothing Stassi Schroeder likes to say more than, "I told you so."
That has been crystal clear over the past five seasons of Vanderpump Rules, but we would not change her for the world.
On many, if not most reality shows, the drama comes off as staged and carefully scripted for the sake of the audience.
Of course, the reason we get that impression, is because that's usually, quite literally the case.
