It all comes down to this on our Southern Hospitality Season 4 recaps! This week, Michols and Molly go head-to-head, Grace tries to make amends, and Joe has to decide if he wants to stick it out with Leva or go his own way. What a summer! Here’s everything that happened in the penultimate Southern Hospitality Season 4, Episode 13: “Mardi Gras Mayhem!”
What Went Down on Southern Hospitality Season 4 Episode 13?
The episode begins with a look back at the summer, and boy, was it one for the books! The gang from Republic partied hard, but it wasn’t all fun and games. Throughout the summer, big feuds cropped up and friendships dissolved. Will they be able to resolve things before saying goodbye? We’re about to find out!
We’re looking at Maddi and Joe vs. Grace, Michols vs. Molly, and Emmy vs… well, a bunch of people. Let’s see how everything pans out.
The episode opens with Leva organizing a fun Mardi Gras party for the staff. It’s their way of showing their people they appreciate them and pump them up at the end of another action-packed and successful summer.
Lake’s special art show and supportive mama
Lake has curated her special art show at Zach’s Daiquris. This is her second art event there. She shares that she hopes to get into the gallery business, so curating her own pieces in this way is a great first step.
The gang arrives to support Lake’s show, and it turns out there’s an interactive portion. Lake asks the boys to don pink board shorts so the ladies can draw them. Brad, Justin, TJ, and Michols are down, but Joe declines. Since he hurt his back, he hasn’t worked out and doesn’t want to put his body on display.
Meanwhile, the other guys strike a pose, and the ladies get to work. Lake is really happy with the turnout. Her dad couldn’t make it, but he did share the exhibit on his social media, which made her happy. Lake’s mom arrived, and Lake was thrilled to have her support.
Michols has a new position, and he wasn’t demoted!
Meanwhile, Michols and Leva chat at the art show. It was a bit of a cliffhanger when he got the email last episode. It’s revealed that he was not demoted. He reacted to the email badly, but it was mostly out of shock.
It turns out, he had previously asked Leva what it would look like if he had a position that granted him some autonomy so he could pursue his modeling career. So Leva talked to her partners, and they created a new position just for him.
Leva makes it clear that it’s not a demotion. If anything, she’s freeing him from the grind to allow him to spread his wings and explore new opportunities, but also keep him in the business. She thinks Michols is one of the best AGMs they have. So, they created a position because he is valuable to them
The crew discusses the “demotion” at their table. They ask Michols about it. He explains it’s not a demotion, but no one believes him. To be fair, he isn’t explaining it well.
Joe talks to Leva and hits another wall
The next day, Joe talks to Leva again. He’s still riding high from his successful emo night events and is ready to pitch Leva his new plan. He feels he didn’t have a plan before, which is why she wasn’t receptive.
This time he tries to put his ego aside and be humble and hungry (“humbry? humblery?”). He tells her about his ideas for a music venue that does live shows and caters to wedding after parties.
Joe feels the wedding market is an untapped market and wants to open a versatile space with a rooftop and space for big events. He is very excited about the idea, but Leva looks a bit confused.
She tells him she needs more. She needs to see a numbers breakdown, costing, market research, investments and returns, and competitor studies, to name a few. She feels his pitch is premature.
Leva tells him to start small, book DJ nights, book wedding after parties, and use their spaces. He doesn’t understand. In his mind, he feels Leva doesn’t want him to leave the front door.
Joe tells Maddi about his meeting with Leva after a game of pickleball. Maddi is heartbroken for him. Joe feels tired of people not believing in him and staying in the same spot. He says he’s not going to do it anymore. What does that mean for his future with the company?
TJ talks about his new man, Matt!
The gang is getting ready for Mardi Gras! Emmy, Maddi, and Lake are together getting primped, and Maddi shares that Joe is bringing a date for TJ.
At the same time, TJ is telling Molly and Mia about his date and how it went really well. Apparently, after they met up the first time (with Joe as a buffer), they hit it off right away. TJ reveals the date continued at his place, and it wasn’t awkward in the morning. Score!
Joe arrives with TJ’s date, Matt, and Molly and Mia both agree that he is sexy AF and that he has big hands. We know what that means. TJ confirms it’s “girthy.”
Grace arrives at Molly’s place, and Joe looks really uncomfortable. After all, Molly’s place is the scene of the crime of Girls and Gays Night, and Grace’s inappropriate comments to Maddi. He’s not okay with her yet.
Michols vs. Molly, and it escalates quickly
The Mardi Gras is in full swing. Justin is looking loved up with Charley, while Brad and Julia are being cute in love. But it’s not all happiness. Michols meets Matt. It’s a bit weird considering he made out with TJ a lot this summer, but he shakes it off and says, “Good for them.”
Joe spills the beans to Michols that Molly thinks he got her fired, and he says he’ll talk to her. He pulls her aside and says he has no idea where she got that idea, and she tells him to cut the sh*t. She reveals Emmy told her in Punta Cana that he was involved in her firing.
So, of course, they pull Emmy into the conversation, and once again, she makes things much worse. She backpedals on what she initially told Molly. And now the story is that Michols just knew about the firing as opposed to orchestrating it or agreeing to it. Molly calls out her lies.
Michols finally erupts and tells Molly he thinks she’s a sh*tty employee, and if it were up to him, she wouldn’t be working at Republic to begin with. Wow. The pair starts fighting it out. Molly throws his “demotion” in his face, and he has had enough. He storms out to Leva’s disappointment.
More issues are addressed at the party
That feud is not getting resolved tonight. But Grace does manage to pull Joe aside and apologize to him about what happened. He reveals he cares about her, and she just needs to be honest. They hug it out.
Joe Fiore, the new incoming CEO of the company, and Leva make a speech thanking everyone for their hard work. Joe also reveals that they are very excited to open their new location, On Air. It’s a live music venue with a rooftop deck. Sounds a bit like Joe’s idea?
Understandably, Joey Bottles is quite upset. He goes off with Maddi, and Leva comes to speak to them. Joe admits he felt like throwing up when he heard the announcement, and Leva says the On Air was supposed to be his.
But then he just ditched for a year and went off with Maddi. He didn’t communicate; he just stopped going to work. Joe says he doesn’t regret it because he fell in love with Maddi and she’s his future (despite her saying she doesn’t see herself marrying him to Molly?).
In the end, Joe tells Leva a lot of people want to start a bar with him, and she tells him to go right ahead. She says she doesn’t need him. It’s really bad.
At the end of the episode, Brad toasts the summer, but it actually seems like most things are still falling apart instead of falling together. Will these issues be resolved at the reunion? We’ll have to wait and see!
Southern Hospitality airs Wednesday nights at 9/8c on Bravo. It streams on Peacock.
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