Episode
Shahs of Sunset: You Took an Ambien
Overview
The friends decide to take a long weekend in Cabo, but Reza and Asa refuse to go with GG, so the group must make a tough call. GG decides to make the best of being cut out of the vacation by digging in and taking over the launch party for her extensions line, hoping to prove to her sister that she has what it takes to be a real business woman. Lilly and MJ bristle at being forced together by the rest of the gang, and tempers flare when Asa blurts out loud what everyone in the group has been wondering.
Details
- Series
- Shahs of Sunset
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2013-01-06
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
You Took an Ambien is Episode 6 in Season 2 of Shahs of Sunset. It aired on 2013-01-06. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 5: Please Bring a Man
GG meets Omid for drinks and discovers he has been going out with her friends and she was deliberately not invited. After talking with his mother, Reza's heart softens towards MJ and he decides to mend fences. MJ decides to throw herself a deluxe birthday party with unusual party favors and is faced with choosing between inviting GG and inviting the rest of the crew.
Episode 7: Mo-Cedes, Mo Problems
The group finds a way to move on after the explosive fight at dinner the night before by kicking it on a mega yacht. GG scrambles to pull together her launch party at the last minute, while trying to fan the flames with Omid. After going out to get their Heyvoon Vasi on, Reza, Asa, and Mike begin to suspect that Lilly might not be as good a fit in the group as they originally thought and MJ begins to stumble her way back into their hearts.
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Episode 3: I Love You But I Don't Like You
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Episode 9: Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry
MJ has a breakdown at lunch with her mother and finally asks her to go to therapy with her. Lilly is shocked when a friend tells her that perhaps Ali won't marry her because her bikini business is not a "respectable" job for a Persian wife. Reza works behind-the-scenes to get everyone to sit down with GG so they can decide once and for all whether to officially "file for divorce" or mend the fences with her.
Episode 2: The Persian Nose Business
After her spat with Vida at a birthday dinner, MJ heads to the therapist to confront her issues with her mom, and realizes she is carrying more baggage than she thought. Mike has fallen in love with a girl but faces obstacles in their relationship. Then tempers flare at a pool party over a perceived insult, and Asa and GG's simmering resentments come to a shocking climax.
Episode 10: Persh-A-Pelooza
Mike embarks on a mission to break it to his Persian Jewish parents that Italian Catholic Jessica is "the one." Reza finally decides to get serious about his relationship with Adam and tell him he loves him. Lilly is brokenhearted and back to square one after deciding to break up with Ali ... this time for good. Asa makes her public performance debut as the headliner in the Persian pop music festival she created -- Persh-a-Pelooza.
Episode 1: The Whisky Makes You Frisky
Asa takes a big financial risk and moves back into her Venice mansion and MJ and her mother spar at a birthday dinner, but MJ is caught off guard by the viciousness of Vida's response. Reza befriends new Persian Princess, Lilly, and attempts to introduce her to the group, but things go south when GG and new friend Omid hit the bottle a little too hard and get more than a little sexual at the dinner table.
Episode 11: Reunion: Part 1
In part one of the reunion, Asa and GG are in a room together for the first time since the terrible knife-wielding dinner party and apology-gone-wrong in the season finale. Accusations fly about out-of-control-lifestyles plus behind the scenes revelations about MJ's criminal past.
Episode 12: Reunion: Part 2
In part two of the reunion, Reza, MJ, Mike, Lilly, Asa, and GG join Andy Cohen again to address this season's conflicts and craziness. Reza and MJ finally reveal the behind-the-scenes drama that has been tearing the group apart all season.
Episode 13: The Lost Footage
This lost footage special features supersized drama that did not make it into the season, including the never-before-seen early days of Reza and Lilly's friendship, Lilly's trip with Asa to see her favorite plastic surgeon, and an ultra-revealing look into the rumors about MJ's drinking problem.