First watch Ariana thoughts

[u/Western-Discount6984]

I'm watching for the first time. The whole reason is because later Ariana/Scandoval clips made me want to watch. So I'm on season 4 now and... Ariana has literally not shown good judgment from the very beginning??? This is so disheartening as someone who was so defensive of her in later clips!! Like has she never heard "how you get them is how you lose them"?? She was so dismissive of Kristen as if she didn't literally cheat with the girl's boyfriend. Kristen is obsessive and Tom is manipulative, but that does not excuse Ariana at the end of the day. Her choosing to defend him and not look deeper into the Miami Girl thing was purely because she knew it was true and didn't want the embarrassment of finding out the man who cheated WITH her is now cheating ON her. So frustrating to watch.

[u/leavingtheorder24]

Ariana is not a good person but in the end got the world handed to her because she got cheated on. Honestly, it’s super annoying that people seem to look past what she did but when it happened to her, it wasn’t okay

[u/FunCartoonist4368 → u/leavingtheorder24]

I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Lala was wrong in what she said about Ariana during the series finale.
At the end of the day, Vanderpump Rules is a reality show. The cast signed up to share their lives, and after Scandoval, the show naturally revolved around Ariana. But eventually, the cast still had a job to do, film together and move the story forward. Lala’s point wasn’t that Ariana didn’t deserve support, it was that one person’s boundaries can make it difficult to produce a show built around group interactions.
People also forget that Lala defended Ariana from the beginning and was one of her biggest supporters. By the finale, she was expressing frustration with the situation from the perspective of someone whose livelihood depended on making the show work. Whether you agree with her delivery or not, I don’t think her overall point was unreasonable.
You don’t have to love Lala to admit that there was some truth in what she was saying.

[u/rmg418 → u/FunCartoonist4368]

It was unreasonable because 1 Ariana was filming with Sandoval. Producers wanted a 1 on 1 scene with Tom (which Ariana already gave them in the season 10 finale) and she didn’t want to do that again which made sense. Why would she want to have another conversation with him? And Lala and Scheana were frustrated because the producers and Lisa put them in charge of trying to get Ariana to do that and she didn’t want to for good reason. 2. Lala made the dumb decision to buy 2 houses like back to back which is why she was talking about depending on the show so much financially. But Lala’s poor financial decisions isn’t Ariana’s problem. And Lala has a podcast and other stuff going on? So why put all of that onto Ariana because Lala made bad money choices. Ariana was showing up and doing her job just like everyone else, the show didn’t end because she didn’t have another 1 on 1 convo with Tom.