Ava Dash versus Ariana Biermann is such an unbalanced matchup that it’s barely even fun to watch. After Ava lightly shaded Ariana at the end of last week’s episode by saying she was surprised that she was starting a fashion line, Ariana, being the reality-television professional that she is, springs into action. Ava immediately tries to walk back her comments, but it’s too late — Ariana, with Gia by her side, is ready to pounce. For Gia’s part, she’s not helping the mouthpiece allegations and continues to insert herself into conflict that has absolutely nothing to do with her.

The first time was passable, since it seemed like Brooks really needed her help to confront Charlie, but this one feels gratuitous. The problem is that this is the only way for Gia to get any airtime. She’s not getting into conflicts of her own because she lives in New Jersey. Try as she might to drive into the city for as many cast events as possible, the Hudson River makes it impossible for her to fully integrate into this friend group. As a result, she’s not getting into any conflicts of her own, so instead she’s piggybacking onto other people’s drama. The result is ultimately unsatisfying television because while she’s a good fighter, the stakes just aren’t there.

Something I always find interesting with these shows is when they decide to have scenes play out as flashbacks rather than showing them chronologically. For example, last week, Charlie and Riley’s reconciliation was shown as a flashback as he recounted it, rather than having it play out as its own scene. That move makes sense when there’s key plot progression during an otherwise boring or uneventful scene. But this week, the show did that for a plot point that could have been its own dramatic story line.

Georgia and her partner, Dani, arrive at the location where they’re throwing Meredith’s caviar party the day before for a walk-through, only to find an eviction notice on the door. In less than 24 hours, they have to find an entirely new venue for their Real Housewife client. This alone could have been a whole episode, but it’s all shown as a brief flashback as Georgia tells her boyfriend Omar about it. Perhaps the issue was that Georgia was simply too good at her job, and what otherwise would have been a drama-filled nightmare was a problem she solved without breaking a sweat.

In fact, her recounting of that hiccup isn’t even the most interesting thing to happen at this dinner. It’s there that Omar tells Georgia he loves her, which you might think would be a sweet moment, right? Well, it is until Georgia calls bullshit, since she knows he’s said the same thing to girls he’s only known for a day. Who among us! She tells us in her confessional that she has trust issues after her dad bankrupted the family company, left them with nothing, and started a whole new life. Fair! It’s because of that that she now finds herself in a perpetual state of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The caviar party itself is largely uneventful until the very end. When Shai goes to say good-bye to Seth and Meredith, Seth somehow turns that quick good-bye into an inquisition about sexual fluidity — a topic he’s clearly obsessed with. While Bravo’s churning out these spinoffs, here’s a proposal it can have for free (and by free, I mean it has to pay me one million dollars): Love Island with all bisexual contestants, hosted by Seth Marks. He’d be in heaven. Speaking of this cast’s parents, when Ava arrives late, she reveals that while she did apologize to Ariana over text earlier that day, Gia’s mom (the artist formerly known as Teresa Giudice) followed and then promptly unfollowed her on Instagram. A shiver went down my spine.

Charlie tries to get them to go to a club called the Box after the event, which Emira says is the most exclusive club in New York. But if they’re letting Charlie in, it doesn’t sound all that exclusive to me. Thankfully, our voice of reason, Georgia, chimes in to say, “You must understand that I would never pay to go out in New York City … that’s crazy.” She is New York. If you’re actually an “It” girl or as cool as this cast likes to consider itself, the club should be paying you to go out. Georgia understands this because she’s the only one of them who is actually cool. Everyone else pays to be cool, and at the Box, they pay a lot.

The next day, Riley debriefs the finances of the night with her parents … in person! That’s right, after getting Teresa and Meredith (what feels like) every episode, we’re finally getting a cameo from Kandi Burruss. She’s disappointed when Riley tells her she’s thinking about pursuing DJ-ing over law school, but that’s nothing compared to her reaction when she’s told that as a group, they spent $14,000 at the Box. She starts swinging on Riley, and rightfully so. And on top of that, Charlie once again put a group of random girls over his friends, whom he stuck with the bill.

Soon enough, the entire group comes together to realize that he owes or has owed all of them money, which is particularly annoying given that he gets a monthly allowance of $10,000 from his father. If I had a friend who was getting a $10,000 allowance from their parents, you would never in a million years catch me spotting them at the bar. In fact, I’d rob them. The craziest part is that Charlie is completely shameless about collecting these handouts, even asking for more money from his dad on-camera. To his credit, he does so in a hilariously roundabout way. He doesn’t outright ask for money; he says, “Could you please add $5,000 to the loan I owe you?”

He’s a mess. And perhaps nothing demonstrates just how much of a mess he is more than the way he is desperately trying to get back the speakers he lent to Georgia. It’s this episode’s through-line. He calls her, he texts her, he begs, he offers to Uber them back to himself. And the best part is she simply won’t give them back. At one point, she texts that she needs three days’ notice to return them, as if she’s the bank and someone’s trying to withdraw their savings. She’s hilarious. And, by the way, she has her phone back! No longer will she be breaking out the laptop at the club. Best of all, her phone was under her bed this whole time.

When the pair gets lunch at the very end of the episode (with Georgia’s business partner there to bear witness), the speaker drama comes to a head. But just like how on Vanderpump Rules it “wasn’t about the pasta,” this fight isn’t just about the speakers. This is class warfare. Georgia views Charlie as an unproductive fuck-up who sits around on Daddy’s dime, and he hates that she’s clocking him. “You are a stupid, delusional bitch, Georgia,” he tells her, adding that she wouldn’t be on the show if it weren’t for him, and he calls her dirt poor. He’s not just adding fuel to the fire; he’s dropping a nuke. It’s so incredibly crazy that in today’s day and age, someone is willing to be so objectively morally repugnant when they know cameras are watching. He even says he’d slap her if she were a man. First of all, Georgia would beat his ass in an instant and give him pink eye in the process, so don’t even try it.

His attack on her is so vile that it feels impossible to imagine him bouncing back from this, especially now that the rest of the cast is starting to catch on to his grift. If this whole series is one big intervention for Charlie to grow up, at what point does everybody get sick of his shit and stop trying?

 Charlie picks a fight with Georgia, easily the coolest person on this cast, and is immediately outclassed.