I still haven't seen the first... (c'mon NZ!)
Last year I missed all kinds of episodes because I was working. I missed so many in fact that to this day I have no idea why Barbie killed Julia's husband and even less notion of why she's madly in love with him now. Unless she hated her husband, but I never saw it. In any of the episodes I've watched, Julia's never spoken of her husband nor even said she has one. I found out she has one because the first episode of Season 1 tells you Barbie kills Julia's husband. Not that I got a chance to watch it since when I tried it failed to load.
Right now I'm annoyed with the person who plays her anyway, since she decided she gets to talk to everyone like she's their mother but never mind. It just means I can't ask her about it.