#reality-tv-drama

#reality-tv-drama

Previously on our favorite show, Kyle and Dorit Loved Each Other, Kyle and Dorit loved each other. Here they are meeting for the first time and declaring their love. Here they are laughing in motorcycle helmets. Here they are promising to support each other forever and ever until the stars fall from the sky and the ocean boils into blood. Previously on our other favorite show Kyle and Dorit Hate Each Other, Kyle and Dorit hate each other. Here they are arguing at a group dinner.

If there is one thing I have learned from decades of watching Real Housewives, nothing good comes from addressing the elephant in the room, so instead I would like to neglect it for as long as we possibly can because, honestly, I'm still upset over the whole thing. It's also difficult because this is a bit of a transition season for Summer House.

Some crew - Aesha, Josh, and especially Sandy - feel the pressure to end the season on a high note. Some others face their last two days of work with the jubilant indifference of a senior on the last day of school before summer break. The chicken nuggets debacle throws Cathy and Max off and affects their work. Uncharacteristically, Cathy is whiny; Max, characteristically whiny, decides that he can put himself down for a nap whenever the mood strikes him.

If there was one unexpected delight of the summer, it was Next Gen NYC, the "Housewives' kids" show that we all wrote off before it aired. Through and through, each quirk was more marvelous than the last: Ariana Biermann confessing her mother spent all of her money; Georgia McCann not washing her hands; Charlie Zakkour becoming a crypto villain; Brooks Marks regularly going catatonic. I was riveted for the entire eight episodes (except whenever Seth Marks was onscreen).

Stop me if you've heard this one before: The twins are annoyed with the other contestants, the other contestants are annoyed with the twins, the twins end up making a variation of an outfit they've made before, none of the judges comment on their narrow design aesthetic, and another episode of Project Runway wraps up. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, well, yeah, we're there, folks.