Kathy Hilton has saved this season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

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"As the franchise reckons with more serious topics — in ways that sometimes work wonderfully, and other times fall disastrously flat (RHONY trying to get Trump voter Ramona Singer to talk about race is the fucking pits) — Kathy’s interludes are the hits of jubilation I so desperately crave night now," says Shannon Keating. "She refuses to go on stupid little excursions because she’d rather sleep than get screentime, but she will climb into Kyle’s bed and keep her up all night while she ruffles through multiple physical newspapers and accidentally drinks Red Bull. Her failure to finish sentences is utterly beguiling. And she’s a prankster; at one point she orders martini glasses full of water to convince the other women she’s getting sloshed. Classic Kathy! The consensus on Kathy I’ve seen shared across various Housewives fan communities, including the podcast Bitch Sesh, is that she doesn’t seem to need this show the way that pretty much every other Housewife across the franchise does, whether for increasing awareness of their brand, launching silly business ventures, or for general attention and infamy."