REASON TO WATCH: Two of ’em. This is the second season of one of Bravo’s hottest series. Also, new ATL lady Kandi Burruss joins.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Let’s talk about Kandi, as she is the most notable change this season. She replaces DeShawn Snow, who explained to Essence.com in the winter why she was fired: “I was ‘too human for a circus show’ and ... they are about to pump up the drama.”
But from first impressions, Burruss is no drama queen either (unlike, say, NeNe or Kim). A former member of Xscape and a songwriter (TLC’s “No Scrubs”), she’s still writing and is a single mother of two. Kandi is, in fact, engaged to someone named A.J., who has six kids of his own, so her life is about to turn into “The Brady Bunch.”
Thursday night’s big story has to do with Sheree, who’s prepping an extravagant “independence party” for a new product line and to celebrate her breakup with Bob Whitfield, formerly of the New York Giants, who was briefly infamous for some on-field head-butting incidents.
BOTTOM LINE: Speaking of head butts, Sheree has a memorable one tonight, salvaging an otherwise bland season premiere. It comes in the last minutes, when she and the party planner get in a gusty, spittle-flecked brawl, yielding this priceless Sheree line: “Who says ‘yo mama’? Whatever happened to customer service?” Beautiful! Now that’s what we come to “Real Housewives” for. In fact, either my tastes have been eviscerated, or my brain rotted (almost certainly both) by “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” but I want to see the tables overturned. I want to see hair pulled out by the roots. There’s waaaay too much nice talk this week. But there’s a whole season to go. I’m confident mud-wrestling will turn up at some point.