Gossip Game: S01E07 Recap

Episode 7 of "The Gossip Game" was all about branding and associating with the right people.

Kim Osorio wants to work on her brand, but feels overwhelmed because she has to spend so much time working for "The Source." She seeks advice from Kino, who's sick, and therefore has a license to act like an asshole in front of the kids. While Kim is working from home, the kids are getting in her grill, and she feels frustrated. Kino gets the kids to sing a lovely song, "Daddy's nice. Mommy's mean." Also, he asked Kim ten times for a glass of orange juice, and he still hasn't gotten one. Sounds like Kim really does have an extra kid.

Later in the episode, he appears to have gotten over his illness, and is slightly more helpful. She wants to focus on her brand (I still don't get what this means!), but she'd be getting rid of a lot of income, and she's comfortable right now. There's no time for a job and creating a brand. Kino says that if she were his client, he'd look at her resume and say she's a star. He'd advise her to cut out any work that isn't getting her to where she wants to be. Realizing he looks like an actual, loving husband at this point, he adds, then "I'd try to have sex with you."

Viv wants to repair her image by talking things out with Steph Lova. Things don't go so well, and Steph Lova resorts to insults: "Get your ass a gym membership, bitch." Viv realizes the whole fight was provoked by her cousin, Star, so she decides she won't do his show anymore. When she informs him of this, he basically responds by saying he'd rather be drinking than talking to her right now.

KFoxx decides to start hanging out with JasFly and Ms. Drama (separately). She plans to work with JasFly. She takes on a mentorship role for the sad, friendless Ms. Drama. Both JasFly and Ms. Drama like KFoxx's recent interview about the media's portrayal of light skinned women over dark skinned women. JasFly likes to say she "doesn't fall into any categories," but KFoxx tells her she's dark skinned, whether she admits it or not. KFoxx tries to get JasFly and Ms. Drama to reconcile twice, but neither attempt works. Instead, JasFly tells Ms. Drama that she has no "genuity," which Ms. Drama notes "does not exist in the dictionary."

Finally, Sharon has a birthday party, and everyone but Ms. Drama is invited. That doesn't matter, though, because now that KFoxx and Ms. Drama are BFFs, Ms. Drama comes as KFoxx's plus one. Ms. Drama decides it would be cool to call Sharon "delusional" at her birthday party, so Sharon asks Angela to ask Ms. Drama to leave. How second grade. Ms. Drama leaves slowly, waving to everyone as she walks out. Ms. Drama proclaims--in an empty stairwell--that it is her and KFoxx versus the mean girls.