As Rachel Fuda put it, “I mean, it’s really the multi-million dollar question — where do we go from here?” she began.

“I don’t know,” she continued in her May interview. “I don’t know if there can be a next chapter with this group of women. I just don’t know that it exists in this world.”

Jackie Goldschneider agreed, stating in her May interview, “I don’t think the group, as it is, goes anywhere from here.”

The same went for Danielle Cabral, who said in May, “What was done this year, there’s no going back. There isn’t. Last year, I was like, ‘Yeahhh, we can all get back.’ This year? No.”

Teresa Giudice, meanwhile, was critical of the group’s complicated dynamic. As she put it in her July interview, “[RHONJ]’s a show about women getting along and not, like, cutting people out, and teams. Like, who does that? That’s so high school-ish.”

Jennifer Fessler had a more optimistic viewpoint, though. “You can see underneath all the madness, there is a love,” she said in her June interview. “You can almost feel it, you can see it, and so it’s so nice at the end when you see women getting back together. But it makes me sad that that is not in the cards for, I think, most of this cast.”

Ultimately, Melissa Gorga was seemingly the most content with the way things shook out. “That’s what life is about to me: It’s just about being happy and enjoying it with good friends and good people, and keeping people around you that really wish well for you and want to see you thrive and want to see you do well,” she explained in her May interview. “I’ve learned — and it might’ve taken me into my 40s to learn — that if someone doesn’t wish you well and someone doesn’t clap for you or want the best for you, then it’s time to remove them from your life. And I’m okay with that.”

Hear more from the RHONJ cast in the above video.

Don’t miss RHONJ’s “Off the Rails” special, which will be Season 14, Episode 14, airing Sunday, August 11 at 8/7c on Bravo.