The Real Housewives of Sydney episode 10 recap: ‘It’s not over’ for Terry Biviano

The season may be over, but the Real Housewives of Sydney drama and the squabbling isn’t for Queen Bee Terry Biviano. The series finale stirs unresolved tension ahead of next week’s reunion.

The Real Housewives of Sydney does what it says on the tin: Dishes up a bird’s eye-view to the trials, tribulations, and excess of our city’s well-heeled.

The finale episode ends on the same note as much of the season — in petty squabbling.

They might be back in Sydney, but everyone’s still stewing about the drama that filled their Tokyo trip of the past few episodes.

Nicole O’Neil is catching up Victoria Montano, who has returned from her European holiday glowing sans Bondi Sans.

She zipped around Lake Como on a boat that “took us to George Clooney’s house and to Richard Branson’s house!” she trills.

Nicole O’Neil fills Victoria Montano in on all the Tokyo drama she missed.

There’s an implication that they’re friends, but lezbehonest, it was probably a tourist boat.

“Since Terry met Kate, every step she’s taken closer to Kate, is one further from us,” O’Neil says. “I’m surprised that Terry is giving her love to Kate,” Montano muses. “I really wish she’d come back to the fold.”

From left: Sally Obermeder, Terry Biviano, Caroline Gaultier, and Kate Adams at the finale party. Photo: Supplied/Binge.

In filler content this episode, Marsh buys her mother a $16,000 coat, and does a PT session in Rose Bay with Gaultier and celebrity trainer Jono Castano, and O’Neil’s farewells her daughter to the U.S.

Meanwhile, Dr Kate Adams and her “real friend” Terry Biviano picnic together. Marsh says she’s nervous about “simmering holes” in her frenemyship with Montano post fur-gate.

The Bondi Vet also reveals she sexually attracted to “teachers”, and surgeons in the workplace: “It happens to me quite a lot during surgery – I look at them and I think, ‘Oh man, I could so f**k you right now.’”

“If I was going to marry a woman, though, you’d be my type,” Marsh says.

Kate Adams explaining that she’s sexually attracted to the surgeons in her workplace.

The Housewives mentally prepare for a return to Sydney party hosted at Watersedge at Campbell’s Stores on Circular Quay.

Note to self: If a second season of RHOS is commissioned, turn it into a drinking game. Take a sip every time someone says: “I’m hoping there’s no drama tonight.” This time it’s Biviano.

Victoria Montano and Kate Adams call a tentative truce. Montano: “I do want to be friends with you, and if that’s something you want, the basis of some of the best friendships are people that can think differently and can still love and respect one another.” Photo: Supplied/Binge.

Victoria tries her best to make amends.

Kate: “Agreed. I have said a lot that Victoria’s my favourite.”

Montano pulls Adams aside for an end-of-season, let’s-wrap-it-up-for-the-cameras chat where they finally agree to put their animal skinning or saving differences aside.

Through gritted teeth and while shooting daggers at one another, they vow to rekindle their friendship.

Nicole O’Neil’s spidery senses tingling as Terry Biviano makes her entrance. Photo:Supplied/Binge,

O’Neil tries to mend fences with Biviano with a framed photo of the group in their Japanese kimonos. Biviano thinks it’s a “lame” gift without an apology, and is heard complaining to a producer off-camera.

“SHE did the wrong thing. I’ve apologised, she will never apologise,” she vents to a producer off-camera, in another hot mic moment.

Sensing drama, O’Neil grabs her for a chat, but then they’re both rehashing their arguments in front of the group, clutching at other Housewives to drag down with them in their race to the bottom.

“It’s not over for me. Because they hurt my feelings, they insulted me, and they personally attacked me,” Biviano tells the camera.

Terry Biviano explains she is the real victim, because it was “rude” of Nicole O’Neil to call her rude: “You were aggressive. You were very defensive. It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it.”

They are having an apology-off.

“Please be brave enough to look at the intention behind the action,” Gaultier tries again. “What triggered you? If it was a time thing, I don’t believe that is enough to come for somebody.”

Sally Obermeder, Gaultier, and Marsh put the Real in Real Housewives, and deserve a shout out for their efforts to put some of the relatability and vulnerability promised into these spats.

“If the issue was about being late then that’s very disappointing,” Gaultier tells O’Neil. “What was the actual issue? I found it very confusing … because it held no weight.”

Sally Obermeder and Caroline Gaultier having a little giggle. Photo: Supplied/Binge.

Caroline Gaultier, Victoria Montano, Krissy Marsh party at Watersedge in Circular Quay. Photo: Supplied/Binge.

O’Neil confesses she also felt abandoned in her friendship and tries to end the season with a resolution, offering Biviano an apology if she came across as “aggressive” in Tokyo.

“I appreciate your apology,” says Terry, as the others breathe a sigh of relief.

“But … it was forced,” she shrugs.

Sally Obermeder losing all faith in humanity.

Nicole O’Neil’s eyebrows say it all.

Everyone groans. The phenomenal facial expressions show the last shreds of tolerance disappearing from Obermeder’s eyes, right there on camera.

Much like the small plate fine-dining that takes place on the show, this season has been a visual feast but left us wanting a little more.

Next week, Joel Creasey hosts The Real Housewives of Sydney’s reunion, where each of the cast members will have an opportunity to reveal what has and hasn’t been resolved since the cameras turned off.

If the palpable tension Confidential felt at the season launch party in October is any indication, the latter is more likely.