![]() I’d love to try out the place that sent Brynn and Sai into a deceitful panic!īeing the nosy amateur investigator that I am, I performed an exhaustive search of every new RHONY Housewife’s Instagram account, combing them for evidence. I understand not wanting this eatery’s poor owners to be caught in Housewives crosshairs, but if anything, I’d think this would be great promo. You may as well burn my apartment building to the ground, that’s the level of joy the producers are stripping from me by redacting this restaurant name. For a snoopy little sleuth like myself, this is extremely frustrating. Every time any of the Housewives utter the restaurant’s name during the episode, the editors have not only bleeped the name, but blurred the women’s mouths, so we can’t read their lips. There’s just one problem: We do not know what restaurant Brynn and Sai were apparently so perturbed by, and Bravo isn’t telling us. Erin hypothesizes that her fellow cast members didn’t want to go to the restaurant she picked out, instead opting for the uber-trendy but still timeless New York staple, Casa Cipriani. But Sai and Brynn told a last-minute fib that they couldn’t make it, and ditched Erin’s dinner for their own ladies' night out-a lie they incriminated themselves in by posting a picture of them together on Instagram. In the weeks prior to filming, Erin had organized a group dinner for the entire cast at a restaurant in the city. However, it blessedly only takes 10 minutes into the episode to get the first controversies of the season underway. It’s awkward, but it’s a hurdle all new Housewives franchises must clear to settle into a groove. Now, we must be party to bestie hangout sessions and play dates that serve as our first glimpse of group dynamics. ![]() Gone are the days when we could be eased in slowly, and meet all of these women one by one, with the show winking at it being, well, a show. This may not be a new franchise, but because our cast has shifted entirely, the premiere starts a tad shaky, which is typical of any modern Housewives introduction. In order, we have Brynn Whitfield, a lion-maned, flirty wild child, who is allegedly a marketing consultant, though we see hide nor hair of that Jenna Lyons, the fashion world superstar and former head of J.Crew, now a false lash guru Jessel Taank, a publicist who is very proud of her job Sai De Silva, a content creator, and five-foot-nothing firecracker Ubah Hassan, a beyond gorgeous model and philanthropist and Erin Lichy, a born and bred New Yorker, clearly being primed to be the new Bethenny. Sunday night’s Season 14 premiere starts off with a brief introduction to our new cast of characters. Only God and Andy Cohen know whether or not Bravo’s big swing to revitalize this franchise will pay off, but we can gorilla glue our fingers crossed and see what happens together. Now, we must forge forward with the RHONY that is: an entirely new cast, composed of plucky, determined career women. I’ve done it for too long, and my neck is starting to get a crick in it. Truth be told, it’s not worth looking over our shoulders anymore. Sure, it was still better than most reality television, but the drunken, middle-aged women we knew and loved were now filled with both rage and hyperawareness, a far cry from the starry-eyed, naive ladies who lunched from the show’s beginnings. Devoted audiences spent the next two seasons watching the show slowly deflate, until it was no more than a rubber shell of what it once was. Up until Season 13, RHONY had arguably been Bravo’s most consistent franchise it produced the most drama, the most memes, and the most memorable faces.īut when the show’s guiding light Bethenny Frankel departed the series for a second time ahead of Season 12, it was as if the wheels that had kept the show moving drove over a tack. ![]() Looking back, it feels strange that it has only been two years since we saw The Real Housewives of New York bow its head in shame, and putter off our television screens for a then-indeterminate amount of time.
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