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.
