Pull that wig! Real Housewives of Atlanta recap, season 2, episode 3

As NeNe struggles to keep the two apart, Sheree grabs Kim’s hair. Sheree said she “tugged” Kim’s wig with no intention of pulling it out. “I only wanted to shift it a little bit,” Sheree said later.

“You have no class!” Kim says to Sheree. “Get your xxxin’ hands off me!”

Pot, meet the kettle black.

Later, Kim psychoanalyzes Sheree: “I think Sheree is very angry,” Kim said. “I think she wanted to live off what [ex hubby] Bob Whitfield gave her and she didn’t get it.” (That elusive seven-figure divorce settlement she mentioned season one never landed in her bank account.)

NeNe, who had entered the restaurant trying to get to the bottom of Kim’s gabby ways, was flabbergasted by the tiff. “What the hell just happened? Nothing was accomplished!”

Sheree’s take on Kim: “Kim is dramatic and full of lies,” Sheree said. “She needs to be on medication.”

Kim later tells her friend Jodi that Sheree turned “into the devil. Very violent, very aggressive… she crossed the line.”

Lisa’s take on Kim: “She’s bonafide crazy.”

It looks like the two buds Sheree and Kim last season (”ebony and ivory” as Lisa snidely called them) are now enemies. Bad for them. Good for the TV viewers.

NeNe, who has a long history with Kim, meets with her and they call a truce yet again. Another Kim-tervention is unlikely anytime soon, though. And we know this friendship remains precarious based on future events that include a police report and alleged choking.

Other plot points:

Lisa works on a clothing line and Sheree mocks her by thinking she isn’t doing much designing while she, Sheree Whitfield, is.

Kim gets her skin done, including something called Velashape in which the doctor (Louis Cole, who I met at the opening party) rubs a heated device onto her skin. Amusingly, Kim gets quickly bored so she calls her kids, who are also bored. The ADD is in the DNA, eh? And as the only one of the five now truly showing conspicuous consumption with no consequences, she said she paid $3,000 or so to the doc for the work. "I don't know how much I paid," she said, in that typical blase manner. "I just gave him my card."

Oh, Kandi was in the episode, too. She finally meets Sheree and is a bit wary of her but there is no conflict. She also meets with T-Boz for lunch at Aja in Buckhead.

With Sheree’s independence party derailed by Ty Shorter’s dictatorial planning in episode one, she goes for a much more modest “housewarming” party instead with a few “positive” friends, as she calls them. NeNe and Lisa are included. Kim, of course, isn’t.

But one of those so-called “positive” friends Tania insults NeNe’s weight and then Lisa’s hair. Neither are pleased. “I feel attacked,” Lisa said. Sheree said to the camera, “they started off wrong. [Tania] was insulted that NeNe said to her, ‘Eat a sandwich.’ ”

In this case, NeNe and Lisa decide to de-escalate and change the tenor of the situation. So there is no big confrontation. The Bravo producers were probably saying, “Shoot! What’s wrong with these women? We need another catfight!”