Just a day after "Real Housewives of Atlanta" ends its sixth season, VH1 brings back its equally hot show "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta."
Most everyone on the cast seems to have hooked up during the break between seasons two and three.
Here are the five most notable plot points from episode one:
1) Stevie J and Joseline are... married? They didn't have a big wedding. They did a quickie City Hall deal in July, Joseline said. They now live in some monster "White House" with more rooms than either one needs. The opening scene shows them in marital bliss. But bliss is short-lived because Joseline is rather sensitive. When Mimi Faust hears they are hitched, she is skeptical so her friends Erica Dixon and Ariane go to a Stevie J/Joseline party to find out. Their obnoxious interrogation doesn't sit well with Mimi, who storms out. Later, she complains about the situation to Stevie J, who thinks she's making much ado about not much. So he goes to the "bunker" downstairs.
Sample quotes: "I'm a lucky guy. What a life!"- Stevie J
"I won't entertain those sheninigins [sic]!" - Joseline, about Erica and Ariane's questioning, almost getting the word "shenanigans" right
2) Rasheeda and Kirk Frost are back together... sort of. Rasheeda had her baby Carter during the off season. She had kicked Kirk out last year for his transgressions. But she brought him back in to help raise her son, though they are not romantically involved. M&M, who has five other kids, also doesn't get along with Rasheeda's mom. Yawn. Kirk is one tedious human being.
Sample quote: "I don't know if we can be back in a really good place." - Rasheeda
3) Sex tape time! Nikko and Mimi reunited and they are in non-marital bliss. They even like making sex tapes. Then there's the dubious story that Nikko's bags were stolen and as a result, a sex tape was "leaked" to mediatakeout.com. But the video looks too professional to just be made on the fly. So this whole story sounds dubious. She does cry on demand when she "finds out," though. Impressive! (Ryan Cameron on V-103 was deeply skeptical on Tuesday morning before Nikko and Mimi and even stuck around after 10 a.m. to keep talking to them. He even offered a charity boxing event with Stevie J.)
Sample quote: "My friends think he's trouble but I'm having the time of my life. I don't care what anybody thinks." - Mimi
4) Waka Flocka Flame shows up. The Atlanta hip-hop star and his beau Tammy Rivera have been engaged for seven months. They are introduced to the audience as new cast members and while he has not been consistently faithful, he makes a vow to be loyal going forward. Better yet, Tammy and Waka's mom get along.
Sample quote: "Boys make mistakes and admit their mistakes." - Waka
5) Scrappy dates a Bambi. Scrappy is out of rehab and out of Erica's life. So he's dating a girl named Bambi who loves him. But he doesn't love her. Or at least he's not there yet (and probably will never be). Momma Dee warns Bambi that he always keeps extra eggs in his basket. She gets (rightfully) paranoid.
Sample quote: "How many guys can smash a girl, then hoop it with her?" - Scrappy, after playing basketball with Bambi.
Karlie Redd and Yung Joc are not yet introduced. And we don't hear anything from Benzino yet. Erica is dating, too, but we don't meet him.
Number of Springer-like fights: zero! We're just warming up here, folks.
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