Just because the Housewives Institute Bulletin took the summer off for some much-needed rejuvenation (no surgery, just Botox and fillers, in the classic Housewives style) doesn’t mean that the Bravoverse stopped in its tracks. While the shows have been in their own summer doldrums — The Real Housewives of Atlanta stumbled to a close, The Real Housewives of Miami is getting dark, The Valley got even darker, and The Real Housewives of Orange County has gotten so complicated that our handy-dandy Beef Chart filed an OSHA complaint — that doesn’t mean there weren’t bright spots, amazing news, sad scandals, and everything in between.

To celebrate everything that happened while we’ve been away, here are our Summer Superlatives. May reading them feel just like one of those

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