The line from “The Godfather Part II” — about how one should “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” — could be the theme for this week’s mafia-influenced episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” where the line between friend and enemy sometimes gets blurry. Like the season’s first episode, this week’s action centers around a single event: A 25th anniversary party for Angie Katsanevas and Shawn Trujillo, with Angie setting a theme — “mafia wives.” Early in the episode, in a bit of foreshadowing, Whitney Rose makes an offhand comment to her makeup team that “there’s nothing worse than a husband jumping into a fight.
” By the end of the episode, just before a tantalizing “to be continued,” that’s exactly what we get. Angie sets the tone Angie’s idea for a “mafia wives” party is a tongue-in-cheek callback to last season, when former cast member Monica Garcia helped float a rumor that Angie was tied to Utah’s “Greek mafia.” Angie was angry about the accusation at the time, but now chooses to make fun of it — even having a Greek flag and the word “mafia” decorating a large cake.
Angie has one of her “associates,” a burly man identified as Gharzai, deliver the party invitations — printed in the style of wanted posters — to the other cast members. The party allows a bridge between Angie’s “Real Housewives” family and her real family. The most poignant moment comes when Angie’s father, Loui.