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VH1′s “Single Ladies” returned for their second season Monday evening (May 28, 2012).
The “Single Ladies” of Atlanta return with one major change… Val (Stacey Dash) has been replaced with a brand new friend who could probably pass for her lil sister.
[READ: Single Ladies Season 2 Official Cast Photos]
As you know, Dash quit the show after season 1 (or was fired, depending on who you ask) but Keisha (Lisa Raye McCoy) and April (Charity Shea) return with a brand new BFF, Raquel (Denise Vasi), who was billed as Dash’s “replacement.”
[READ: Unemployment Looks Great on Stacey Dash (PHOTOS)]
In case you missed it, check out a recap of the “Single Ladies” Season 2 premiere + watch full video of the first episode…
On the “Single Ladies” Season 2 premiere episode, entitled “Slave to Love,” Keisha (Lisa Raye) finds herself in hot water with the FBI for staying loyal to Malcolm. There’s another encounter with FBI Agent Winston (Rick Fox), who questions Keisha about her boyfriend’s whereabouts.
Keisha stays true to her boo and winds up in handcuffs as Winston puts the heat on her to give up information on Malcolm.
Meanwhile, April starts a new career as a club promoter, and is looking forward to dating now that her divorce is final.
[Sidebar: My booski Antwan "Big Boi" Patton makes a cameo appearance as one of April's club bookings.)
Due to her newly found "celibacy,"April (Shea) begins having wet dreams (literally) about some random Mandingo looking male model. She's dating, but decides that instead of focusing on one man, she wants to remain single for a while.
Raquel (Vasi) is introduced as Keisha's childhood friend.
The newest "single lady" in town, who just so happens to eerily resemble Val (aka the "missing link" ) hits Atlanta’s social scene to start a new chapter in her life after breaking off her engagement.
And in case you're wondering about Val (Dash)
Well she has run off to Milan, Italy in an attempt to get over the embarrassment of being a hoe and screwing up her long awaited marriage proposal.
Val sends her two BFFs an email stating that she's "never coming back... EVER!" and they hold a ceremony of sorts in the middle of her boutique as they pour out a lil liquor for their missing homie.
Did the premiere episode of Single Ladies (Season 2) meet your expectations?
How to you feel about the way Val's departure was addressed?
I think this season is wack. Like she sent her a TEXT MESSAGE TEXT MESSAGE!!! stating she wasn’t coming back? I mean damn a bitch cant get a phone call. they addressed that so poorly. We need some better shows out with better writers.
I thought the show was going to suck without Stacey Dash but it turned out to be great. So caught up in the story line with Keisha and Malcom…
I am loving the new season of Single Ladies!!!! I agree, the whole Keisha and Malcom story line has me interesting to see where they take it!
No!!!!! It seems forced and very unlike season 1
I loved it
Was so disappointed! Denise Vasi is not a good actress sorry.
I agree 100%, Stacey Dash WAS the show, since she left, I just stopped watching it as Denise Vasi is not a good actress at all.
I agree, Dash was much more natural…her acting and her hair.
Denise Vasi can bounce with that Minnie Mouse voice of hers! I like the show, a nighttime soap opera is change from all the reality shows.
The acting was so bad…
So much better without Stacy Dash! Think I will be watching this season after all.
It did. Wanting to see more.
I’m not crazy about Denise Vasi. I hate her voice. She sounds like a little girl.
Denise cant act and neither could Stacy. So it’s almost like she never left. I like the show.
I loved it and I can’t wait to see future episodes!
The show was good.
Thank Gawd! For Malcom, Omar, April, Rick Fox (yes him) Big boi (did a good job) and all the other actors made the show.
Lisa Raye and the New girl acting were Not Good at all! However, Lisa/Malcom chemistry is off the hook.
I didn’t get how ole boy droped Raquel off in the afternoon and Keisha/April picked her up that night standing in the same spot. Thats not believeable. Was she that far away?
I liked the first show. Stacey Dash was cute and dressed well. Now they have Denise for that. She is younger and cutier. The acting has gotten a little better and the storyline was enjoyable. I plan on tunning in again.
Text message was a little weak, how you not going to text the employee of your shop. I am hoping that Denise character will buy the boutique since it is now up for sale. I dont want the male sales rep to go away, he is too funny.
it was aight. I will continue to watch with hopes of the storyline picking up. It was better then these damn reality shows. So sick of them.
Vasi can’t act AT ALL. As hard as this is to say, Stacey was a much better actress. She had major sex appeal. Vasi just has nothing. She’s just so lame.
I see this show getting cancelled too. Why can’t there be a black show that is taken seriously. These actors suck. Lisa acts like Lisa in Player’s Club, The Real McCoy, Single Ladies – no matter what show or movie, she plays Lisa.
And who really believes that old ass Lisa was raised with young ass Vasi…..really, raised together, more like Lisa was babysitting her since she was born. That whole story line is ridic.
It sucked majorly. I only watched to see how they were going to introduce the new character..BOOO for You! The whole poor little rich girl struggling to find her way in life is played. LisaRaye’s story line is interesting but not enough for me to watch the whole debacle. I think at least had they brought Stacy back it could have continued in its regular mediocre fashion…new mediocre doesn’t work for me
no didnt enjoy it , needs stacy back
So far not feeling denise and her character its just like stacy. Love the way they wrote val character off the show. I agree with everybody else denise cnt ask and her voice is annoyong.
Epic fail. I dont see it getting another season if this trend continues.
Yeah… It stunk!!! Lisa Raye and Queen Latifah should have known that this show was over when they fired Stacey, i’m not saying that her attitude wasn’t bad off set but the viewers don’t really care about what she does off screen. We just care about what she gives us on screen. Good luck with the new flop cast , mediocre writers and horrible actors/actress.
I only watched to see how they were going to explain Stacy’s disappearance, REAL WHACK! Denise was horrible on All My Children so this isn’t a shock. “Diamond’s” one dimensional character is ridiculous and she is TOO old to “attempt” to be a women in her 30′s. The white chick is just annoying. This show needs a BETTER CAST with TRUE ACTING SKILLS! And the writers need to do better. Awful! I cannot.
what a crakkkers bullsh’t. again interracial sex racism against real dark/brown skin black man, sons, kids and race. first of all non one of these wh0res black! secondly black/mixed women are shame, they b’thing most every f’ckin day about why black men don’t want date/marry them and how we destroy black race and our community but will the first who the f’ck with nasty pale ugly racist white men or white fagg0t with diseases, but surprised why black men hate and don’t love them anymore smh!
i am not support any of these lame ass racist crakkkers/jew’s shows about ugly pale racist crakkkers and black sex slaves …. and will never support all these sellout dirty black or mixed white man’s porno wh0res who f’ck pale small d’ck slave masters. f’ck all you dumb self-hating black wh0res i hope you die very soon with your ugly pale crakkkers and ugly white looking kids!
i didnt really like this particular show but maybe it will get better over the next few wks
I didnt really care for season 1 with Lisa Raye non-acting a$$ but I watched it. But this season I dont think I will be watching. Doesnt seem like it will be the same without Stacey Dash
It was definitely a culture shock….Val made the show and it was a little crazy/off putting her dress on the floor and pouring champagne on it like she died…To me they were trying to be funny. The only thing I did like was that she didnt take Val’s role but took on her own role. I do not believe in her acting skills as she is lacking seriously. Something just wasn’t right. They should have picked up where they left off.
P.S. @Blackman…This section is to comment on the show if you watched it. What you are saying is hella irrelevant!
I mean you got a lesbian writing about male/ female relationships. ok. Love me some Latifa but uh..yeah…not much of an expert on the topic.
I don’t think she’s writing the episodes…lol
I haven’t watched since the third episode…it’s boring I think I did like Val’s character more than I thought.
They should have got rid of the annoying, AWFUL so called ‘actress’ Lisaraye McCoy, I will have it on only when that sexy Willam Levy is on, otherwise its not worth a peep.
I thought they introduced the new character in a clever way and I am so glad they didn’t "replace" Val. I do agree she could have done a phone call, or skype or something to be a little more realistic. Who walks away from a company via text?
The acting is awful, but it beats BBW, & all the fake reality shows!!!
Actually who ever is writing…L&HH Atlanta is doing a good job.. Tifah might need to call Mona.
It’s odd the show is set in Atlanta…yet it doesn’t feel like Atlanta and I don’t like the way they wrote Val off and that new chick storyline is boring and played…sorry.
I enjoyed the show!! I must say they had alot going on but thats because they wanted to get everything in on the 1st episode. I’ll be tuning in next week , i think its only going to get better!!! #TeamKeishaAndMalcolm
I think that Stacy and Lisa Raye balanced each other. The new girl to me is tryuing to be Stacy she even sound like Stacy. But I will watch this season.
It was losing me in the beginning but as the show went on it got better and seemed just as interesting as season one. I am about SICK AND TIRED of Malcolm and his damn lies. He always got some drama going! But I can’t see Keisha with any other guy, she and Malcolm have the most chemistry.
@Blackman someone might agree with you if we understood what you wrote, grammar is your friend Sweetie. They are still "black women" because no matter the complexion if this was back in the day, they too would be owned. Plenty of light skin sistas was in the Black Panther Party, marching for civil rights and getting hit with firehouses. Get over yourself and pick up a dictionary.
The acting has always been terrible, so no change there. Keisha and Malcolm’s story line keeps me interested. The premiere episode was ok. The dancing scene with Keisha/April and what’s his name was stupid. As well as the scene where they poured drinks on her dress.
I think they were trying to do too much in the 1st episode. The acting was forced, certain scenes were very corny (the tango, the pour some liquor on that dress…). Nevertheless, I LOVE Single ladies and trust that other episodes will be just fine. The story line with Vasi is a tad annoying though (the photographer…) but I can’t wait to see where her character goes and wish everyone involved in that project the best of luck!
Loved it!!
I am just glad they deported that Brittish girl back to London. She was whack.
I thought it was interesting how they starting off addressing the Val departure, but a phone call would have sealed it up a bit better, than a text. And my thought is, if you are going to get someone that could pass for Stacey Dash, why not just replace her like most soaps do? I was sad to see the other white chick leave. Her storyline of fucking for good grades was interesting. But there is more high stakes drama to come.. so just stay tuned…..
Denise Vasi is one of the soap actors with no talent. Block of wood is more like it. I always fast forwarded through all her scenes. Because she is a tremendously TERRIBLE actress. For real. Terrible. Monotone, flat, boring. Just terrible. Denise is a girl who can’t act to save her life. A truly terrible actress even for daytime TV’s standards. She has as much personality as a puppet, which by the way can convey more emotions than she is able to. She is the master of the blank stare and the babydoll voice. The girl has zero talent & shes a whore who sleeps around with old men to get ahead in this industry!
I thought it was awesome…..can’t wait for sunday!!!!
Denise "Vasi" AKA new girl on Single Ladies Ok so I read blogs about you and people that went to school with you called u out like the cheap SKANK that u are. Your name is NOT Denise "Vasi" is Denise FELIX. You slept with almost every guy in this industry to land roles.
You met Noah Tepperberg, a really old ugly fat white man who had connections into the industry (yes I saw pictures of u with him on google) he helped u land a role on All My Children and then u dumped him! You later moved on to Russel Simmons, and u saw u weren’t getting ISH out of him so u moved on to the next fellow who was rich and owned a "pasta shop (Hello Pasta in NYC)" Oh wait I missed one, u were engaged to Sevan Arslanian another connected man in the industry, u lasted 48hrs and that was that.
Now you are dating another poor soul, Anthony Handler a big time music video producer who helped you land this current role. You’r teeth are FAKE(I saw pictures of you when you were young) Your face is all BOTOXED out to the point where you cant really move it. Your head is too big for your body (remind me of a BRATZ DOLL, You speak with this annoying boring NO emotion "tone" sounds allot like Minnie Mouse and you certainly lack in the acting department. Are you really under the impression that you can actually play a character on screen? Honey, you couldnt even play a TREE in a musical.
EVERYONE on this planet knows that the ONLY and I repeat the ONLY reason why you have made it this far is A) Your colored eyes AND B) You sleep with high powered men to get ahead in this industry! Point BLANK! It’s not shocking to believe because well, we saw you on screen TRYING to act and you are ABSOLUTE torture to watch! You will always be a hood-rat. Stacy is a talented amazing lady and u honey will never measure up. Your acting shouldn’t be aloud in a kindergarten play.
The tango/waltz thing in the beginning was throwing me off, but other than that, I liked it. It sure in hell beats these horrible reality shows. I’m upset though that we won’t get to see how the Jerry and Val debacle will play out. I loved them together.
LisaRaye cannot act…she has to take some classes to get beyond that "Diamond" character from players club. Until then…wonk wonk wooooooooooooooooooonk!!!
I sure am excited to see Single Ladies has returned! I can’t believe Val isn’t on the show. Out of all the women I could relate to Val the most. I do find Raquel pretty but her acting is not great. Either way this show is already set to record on my Hopper. I’m just glad it can record more then one show at a time. My kids don’t like what I watch. I hope the acting improves and I can’t wait for the second episode. Even a few of my co-workers at Dish said they didn’t really like the first episode but will continue watching it.
I loved it. Keshia and Malcolm are my favorite couple.
Writing was really poor in this first episode. Writers were struggling for a way to bring everything together and wrap up Stacy Dash’s departure. The text from Milan was lame. I wish they would have just brought in another actress to play the "Val" part, rather than hustle to create a new character and storyline. Love Keisha and Malcolm storyline. Hope show gets better in next two weeks or I’m history (and sadly, so will be the show).
Lord have MERCYYYYY on the new girl Denise Vasi. Watching that child TRYYYYY so hard to act was torture. I read some blogs about her & I truly believe she sleeps around with men old enough to be her father just to land screen roles. I seen pictures on the web of her and them. Stacy lit up the screen when she played Val. Dash always did her THANG while this new girl is struggling so hard. That child couldnt play a tree in a school play if she had too. Lawddddd save us. Stacy u will b missed. I cant watch this show anymore.
it was not the best acting what can be said about lisa ray and minnie mouse. i was excited for the new season but after watching the first episode I will be ok with not watching.
Keisha you need to shut your stank ass. Obviously you have personal beef with Denise Vasi. I’m not a big fan but she’s young and most of her experience has been in soap operas. She is genuinely gorgeous and seems like a sweetheart. Attacking her on a personal level like that is not classy.
The new season does nothing for me. That’s unfortunate because I liked last season. Mostly watched it to see Stacey Dash in motion. The thing everybody has noticed now is that these girls on the show have to work real hard to be anybody. They can’t even be theyselves. Acting? You can’t act when you acting to fit a pretend image of yourself pretending to be somebody else. Lisa Raye. Honey, your looks have passed. You were never all that to begin with. You over reach and your "acting". Girl how you think you going to carry a whole show? Everybody knows you were jealous on Stacey and you ran her off. Stacey is effortlessly beautiful. She don’t need a wig or a weave or contact lenses or spanx. Stacey carried the show because she is a veteran. Everybody talking about how she can’t act. Please. That girl is as good a actor as any other veteran in the business as long as she is. The male actors are nearly as bad as the women. Rick Fox? Who hired him? He’s fine and all but putting him with Lisa Raye? That’s just too much to watch. They need to get Tasha Smith in there. She’ll beat these heifers down to business. That’s a real black woman that’s effortlessly beautiful that would respect Miss Stacey and represent Atlanta’s community. Stacey needs to come back with new writers and Tasha Smith. They need to fire Lisa Raye. White girl is working it. She can act and she look good. Denise Vasi isn’t ready for prime time and neither Lisa Raye.
it was sooo refreshing to have a show on that wasnt reality,but now that stacey dash is gone and they have gotten this look a like,sound a like wannabe my interest is not there anymore.i would have preferred if you wouldve just let stacey be gone if that was gonna be the case.this show is beginning to suck by the episodes
OMG!!!DID NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE THIS WOMEN(DENISE VASI)I WATHCED ALL MY CHILDREN FOR ABOUT 20YRS.THEY HAVE HER TRYING TO FILL STACEY’S SHOES SO MUCH I DIDNT EVEN LOOK AT HER AND REALIZE THAT SHE WAS FRANKIE’S WIFE??WHAT ARE THE WRITER’S AND OR PRODUCERS THINKING?!THIS SHOW IS A MESS NOW PLEASE STOP NOW WHILE YOUR AHEAD!
Please just cancel this show!!, the acting is just plain horrible!!!!.
I have never seen such a bad show in all my life. I don’t know why anyone would waste a good hour of their life watching this crap!!. Just cancel this show and put on another reality show, please anything but this!!.
all the negative comments just makes me sick the show is a hit with or without val Keisha and Malcolm makes the show if you dont like it then dont watch it
They are still doing the samething they did last in season one, have SEX with a new guy?