First things first, I just found House of Stassi, and I’m on the second episode. We will get to all three or four by this weekend.
WWHL I sorta watched it once or twice this week, either way I kind of caught the episodes where they were with Love Island’s winners I believe, which I’ve never seen, but I like that Ariana Madix is hosting it. I really hope she keeps acting because, if you haven’t seen her in St. Denis Medical or Will Trent she has some pretty great acting skills that I didn’t know she had until I saw her on Will Trent. All the same, the WWHL episode with Kevin Hart and the SNL guy was pretty hard for me to watch.
Summer House Season 11 is currently filming in New York City and the Hamptons, and the season is set to premiere next year. This year, Kyle Cooke is single, Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke are back as full-time residents, and Ciara Miller, Jesse Solomon, Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, and Bailey Taylor are all returning to the fold. However, Amanda Batula and West Wilson have exited the franchise, and it is hard to blame them after the reunion aired on Bravo. Paige DeSorbo is absent again for the summer season as well, pursuing her comedy writing career through Amy Poehler’s production company as part of a larger career shift, and the summer season will see the group get together to film what is sure to be an intriguing season. The show’s cameras will capture the group as a social unit transformed by the events of this past season with more drama and more conflict, and their interactions with the Hamptons house will surely prove to be entertaining.
Anyway, we now have The Larry David thing (The Larry Pursuit of Happiness) tonight, and we will get to Big Brother this weekend as well, which this post is going to be long enough as it is, and with multiple big brother episodes to recap, it’s going to be a book. I think that’s it for now, we will get to all of this, and more.
Some movies are disasters because the concept never worked. Some collapse because the filmmaking is simply poor. And then there are the truly baffling ones, the films that seem to have every ingredient for success but still end up as exhausting, incoherent messes that make you wonder what went wrong in the editing room and why no one stopped to fix it before it landed on Netflix.
Kevin Hart's new comedy, 72 Hours, was released on Amazon Prime on July 25, and it falls into the third category, perhaps the saddest of them all. The setup is odd in itself. I thought, or at least assumed, that he was married until about three-quarters of the way through the film, and I just did not understand how it all came together. If there was ever a way to make a story feel completely unbelievable, this was it. It made no sense.
Joe (Hart) is a forty-year-old ad executive who is informed by his bosses that he has lost the connection to youth culture that made him successful in his career. He is mistakenly added to a bachelor party group chat, which made no sense to me, and quickly accepts the invitation, which also made no sense to me. He decides to use the weekend in Miami to research youth culture, which made no sense to me, but soon finds himself fascinated by this strange group of twenty-somethings, which made no sense to me, while getting caught up in a series of increasingly ridiculous situations that, quite honestly, made no sense to me either.
It had the heart of a genuine intergenerational comedy, the opportunities for misunderstandings that make for great comedy, and the emotional payoff of a budding friendship, however, we got a lot of yelling. The writers’ trio of Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and the two other credited writers had the chance to make something special. Director Tim Story is the man behind Barbershop and Ride Along, both of which knew what kind of comedy they were making, so did Hurwitz and Schlossberg, who wrote Harold and Kumar. Marcello Hernandez is one of the funniest performers on Saturday Night Live; Kam Patterson (as Freshman), a former cast member, makes his film debut here. The movie stars Mason Gooding, Ben Marshall, Teyana Taylor, Andy Garcia, Mike Epps, Zach Cherry, and the rest of a stellar ensemble. And then someone decided that a movie about a forty-year-old man finding connection with a group of twenty-somethings wasn’t an adventurous enough summer movie for Netflix, and they added human traffickers, a Cuban drug lord, a boat full of “illegal contraband” such as Whale Penis, and a drug-fueled sequence in which Hart suddenly speaks fluent Spanish and acts like a drug lord himself. Which encompassed a lot of yelling. If you’ve ever wondered what a movie looks like when four writers and a producer have completely lost control of the script in development, 72 Hours is the movie for you.
Honestly, I think Kevin is in the same position that Vince Vaughn was in after Made. The acting just was not there. The conviction was missing, the performances felt flat, and even during interviews, he did not seem like himself.
Much like Vince Vaughn did, I think Kevin needs to reset. He needs to take some time off, just like Vaughn did after Made and before coming back as a much bigger star than he was at that point.
It is my opinion, that if Kevin takes a step back and gives himself some time away from acting, I think he could come back bigger and better than ever. Right now, I am a little nervous for him. I also think this is something that is easy to fix, not easy per se, but someone needs to step in and tell him, “Yo, dude, you need a break.”
Then he can regroup and come back refreshed.
The thing that’s most wrong with the script is telegraphed in the very first press release, they’re reminding you of the premise. As Hernandez’s character keeps noting how strange it is that Hart is on the trip with them, you will find yourself recalling IndieWire’s observation that “72 Hours is such an exercise in willful self-indulgence that it’s surprising that no one asked why Joe is on this mission at all - or better yet, killed the idea before it was finalized.” A movie that has to keep telling you about the setup for the joke isn’t finding the joke, but instead describing it to you, while also finding the time to insert a limo fight and a jellyfish sting that makes Hart’s face look like it’s been run over by a garbage truck. The Variety review is also worth recalling here ca;lling it “a latter-day Hangover retread that frantically throws everything at the wall in hopes that something will stick.” Everything that doesn’t involve Joe’s interaction with the twenty-somethings is busywork for the audience, and it’s not sticking. Nothing is landing, except maybe Hart’s energy and the four young leads when the movie lets them be funny. The Pajiba review has the most direct line on this movie, “give these four young men a decent script with jokes in it, and you could have something special in this summer movie landscape.” And you could. They are genuinely funny, if frequently underserved, people in this movie, and the movie doesn’t serve them. Patterson, who has played a character named Freshman for most of his SNL tenure, because he kept repeating his first year of college, gets mileage out of a performance that is at least a little bigger than the situations he’s given. So does Hernandez, whose likability is on the screen even when the script seems to contradict it, asking the audience to understand something he’s just explained to Joe. These are funny men who know how to cut a joke with some room to breathe, and funny comic actors who get to do the same. That would have been a winning formula for this movie. Hart’s problem is an entirely different one. He is operating at a range where it’s hard to tell what his performance is, because he seems so caught up in the movie’s sense of itself that he has to keep accelerating to stay ahead of it. There are movies in which his performance is precisely what the movie needs. This is not one of them. Hart at his best is a performer who makes you laugh by being trapped in circumstances beyond his control, where he’s the least prepared person for the job he’s been given, and 72 Hours is a movie in which Hart is trapped, and he’s trying to outrun the circumstances instead, so that he can keep accelerating. The movie is rated R and it’s an hour and forty-five minutes long, so it’s about twenty minutes too long for its most successful version.
The WWHL Appearance That Matched the Movie’s Energy Perfectly. Kevin and Marcello were on the show to promote 72 Hours, while Kam Patterson was at the bar, as if to complete the movie’s promotional family. The appearance was, by all accounts, exactly like the movie, extremely loud, extremely fast, extremely confusing, and operating at such a frantic energy level that it left me wondering, “What is going on here?”
They could barely describe the movie, let alone speak about it with any enthusiasm or exuberance.
Hart yells a joke about Hernandez sneaking his phone into Taylor Swift’s wedding, which makes much more sense once you know that Hernandez was a guest at the Taylor/Kelce wedding, and that photos apparently leaked in some way that made people think he took them. Hernandez was asked to address the accusation on the air, and he made it more confusing, while Hart was already on to the next bit before anyone in the room registered that there was a bit to be had. It seemed like there were little digs here and there. I thought he got angry with him once or twice. It didn't come across as jovial to me. Andy Cohen, who has seen plenty of difficult interview situations during his twenty-plus years hosting this program, had the look of a man who was committed to finding the fun in whatever was happening. At times, he was touching his nostril, and while they did get through some games, or at least one game, it was still difficult to watch.
The most honest assessment of this WWHL appearance and the movie it promotes is that it is Hart, at his most energetic, being matched by those around him, who can barely keep up, and wondering if anyone is going to slow down long enough to have some fun.
Most of all, not one human on the planet could convince me that this makes sense. And this is coming from someone who has done many spontaneous things in my life. I have lived on the road at times, but no one, and I mean ever since this planet was created, has had a group chat accidentally sent to them that invites them on a trip, and then that person who received the message by mistake accepts and books a two-and-a-half-hour plane ride to meet people they have never met.
Or something like that. I honestly can’t even explain it.
You could have used any other way to bring younger people and 40- or 50-year-olds together on the same trip. I feel like I have seen Robert De Niro and Zac Efron, or something similar, do a movie with this concept in many different ways.
The film that came up on Sunset was not the Chloe Sevigny-produced Summer Dead & Co. Tour video she made, which I had hoped it would be. Based on her involvement alone, it sounded like something I want to see. The film I actually had available, which gave me eighteen minutes of viewing time before I had to stop watching for good, was My Dead Summer, directed by Bill Brennenstuhl and co-written with Zeke F. Carlton III and Paul Stenerson, who also stars in it.
That was after I had already stopped watching it once after five or ten minutes and then came back to give it another chance. But, man, I really wish his mom had made a documentary about when she was on the road. This was a hot mess. According to the IMDB description, the premise of the film is, on paper, is actually appealing, a wannabe blogger named Kenny Rogers Royce attempts (successfully) to tag along on the Dead and Company’s final tour and had never seen shows which can work either way, traveling with his dog Lily Pad which I walk on egg shells when seeing the people take animals on tour, his ex-hippy stepfather whicgh my god was a complete act, and a film crew that he brings along to chronicle the road trip as a tribute to his recently deceased mother that again, I wish did this on her tour. That’s a heartfelt, appealing hook for a documentary about the Grateful Dead, a band whose fanbase already worships the rock band like a cult. A son doing this in memory of his mother is a feel-good story that few would disagree with. being a newbie can work and then some times it becomes odd.
That hook is not the film’s reality. What the preview gives me, instead, is the kind of amorphous, wandering road-trip documentary that mistakes its presence in the parking lot for profundity. Being around the set of a band that defined an entire subculture doesn’t automatically give one a deep understanding of that subculture and its fifty-year history any more than sitting in conversation with an ex-hippie in the parking lot would provide a window into what that subculture was like in its infancy. I was like yelling at the TV because the emotional core of a son attempting to memorialize his mother through her beloved band is not, by itself, an adequate foundation for a documentary film. It might have been, if that had been the point of the documentary, the centerpiece of a much more compelling film than the one I watched. The film that this subject most needs is the one that chronicles the lives of the people who formed the backbone of the early tours, who kept the informal networks of communication and supplies flowing between the band’s various travels and the people that became Dead Heads.
“The Valley of the Damned.” That’s the name of the Season 3 finale of The Valley , and whomever named it was not wrong. The episode, which aired Bravo on July 29 as part 18, was a fitting end to the season, serving as the convergence point for all of the season’s many subplots and the places where they could either be laid to rest or further intensified. It did not do the latter in any significant way, though. All that throwing ended up on the floor. (The drink, too.)
Let me be first to acknowledge that the entire mess between Janet and Danny has been thoroughly, hilariously complicated by the responses from the peanut gallery, but the reality is that it’s actually quite simple.
The Drink, the Apology, and the Interruption No One Needed. Danny Booko and Lala Kent have been circling each other all season after Lala, upon witnessing Danny yelling at his wife Nia, defended her and took a few verbal jabs from Danny for doing so. Further fuel was thrown onto the fire in Mexico when Danny delivered the sort of gutting remark to Lala that he probably knew would stick, telling her, as a single mother raising his own daughter, that she “should go back to her husband.” It was cruel in the way only a remark delivered with total knowledge of its effect is cruel, and an apology was due. At Brittany Cartwright’s Halloween party, Lala finally got one, although it took some prompting. Danny initially stood by his comment before apologizing for it, acknowledging that it was wrong without much heart. It was enough, apparently, for Lala, who had been ready to continue the feud, to tell Janet Caperna to “just let it go.” It would have been a nice, tidy little resolution of a feud that has run throughout the season, and it would have been the moment where the two could’ve put their long-standing issues aside. It almost happened.
It was not, however, because Janet Caperna had other ideas. “That’s it?” she asked, and with that, the moment between Danny and Lala was destroyed. The next few minutes were spent with Janet and Danny circling each other, and a full season’s worth of drama was spent on this little tiff. To her credit, Janet said that Danny never apologized to her for any of this, which is inarguably true. Danny shot back that every word she ever said to him was true, which is also undoubtedly true. Jason Caperna had words with his wife about the pointing fingers, and in the span of that distraction, Janet was able to throw her drink in Danny’s face. The plastic Solo cup missed its target, bouncing off of him, but not before he was livid.
Look, we all know what Danny Booko is. He’s defensive, he’s rude, he makes a lot of people angry, and he has that look on his face that tells you he’s just one more insult away from punching someone in the mouth. He’s condescending too. None of that excuses throwing a drink at someone, though, and it most certainly does not excuse throwing a drink at someone else on someone else’s behalf, which is what happened here. That is an entirely different level of pettiness and meanness that should be avoided at all costs, and it’s the type of pettiness and meanness that no one should cut anyone any slack for, no matter how much of a prat they think someone else is. Most of all, it shows that you have lost if that is all you have left. You tell the person who did it that you’re not going to their parties anymore. That’s it. Even the proudest, most inflated people in the room don’t deserve a physical altercation for verbally roasting them from a distance. You just ignore what they say, and that should be the extent of it.
Lala knows this. Even Lala, who has also had some issues with Danny all season and generally does not suffer rude people, pointed out that the cup toss was unacceptable on the after-show. That means something, because Lala is not easily swayed, and if she was genuinely offended by it, that’s an indicator that it was not the right thing to do. In fact, she may have been the most offended of anyone present, because Janet’s immediate reaction to the entire affair, which aired on camera, was a defense of herself. “Next time I should’ve had red wine in it,” she said, so that she could’ve ruined his clothes as well. It’s a mean remark, and it’s one that proves that Janet did not feel particularly defensive about the whole thing. She did not feel as if she was in the wrong, and she wasn’t really trying to apologize. She was trying to get back at Danny by tossing her drink at him. That is not the right way to apologize. It is, in fact, not really apologizing at all. It is, instead, being vindictive, and that is not really a good look for anyone. That kind of behavior also doesn’t really lend itself well to someone claiming the moral high ground for something like this, either, which is what Janet seems to be trying to do.
That’s the thing that makes the aftermath of this particular confrontation so fitting for the season, actually. As the Hollywood Outbreak recap so succinctly put it, Danny left thinking he’d gotten away with it all, and Janet left more sure than ever that he would never truly take responsibility for any of it. It was a season full of tension that resulted in very little in the way of resolution, and this confrontation was the culmination of it all. Danny and Janet are both exactly where they need to be after this particular fight. The drink toss accomplished everything it needed to accomplish.
The Aftermath That Actually Matters: Nia. The thing that actually matters most in the aftermath of this particular fallout, though, is not the drink itself. It is what happened with Nia. Lala reached out to Nia after the finale, trying to connect with her outside the context of what was happening with Danny, but was blocked. The entire season had seen Nia, who grew up in shelters and was largely raised by her father, align herself with Danny, because he represented stability to her. When people attacked him, it was like attacking the one stable thing in her life, and she pushed back. It is entirely unsurprising that she blocked Lala, who had taken part in the attacks, but it is very, very unfortunate nonetheless. It was perhaps the saddest part of the entire finale, although it was not shown.
Kristen and Luke: The Wedding That Is Not Happening Anytime Soon. That leaves Kristen Doute and Luke Broderick to pick up the pieces of their very, very messy relationship this season, now that Kaia has arrived and the realities of having a child have started to set in for both of them. Luke, during the couples therapy session seen in the finale, admitted to the therapist and to Kristen that a wedding was not really at the forefront of his mind anymore. Further context was provided when he spoke with the other guys and revealed that it was not really at the forefront of his mind at all during the period when they were the most at odds with each other. There is no wedding anytime soon, then.
The issue between Luke and Kristen, as has been detailed during the season and in the Hollywood Outbreak recap, was that Kristen was struggling emotionally and physically after childbirth and having difficulty with her hormones, while Luke was complaining to his friends about the lack of sex and went out drinking with them when Kristen needed him to stay home and take care of Kaia. Neither is particularly easy to excuse, but neither is particularly easy to defend, either. The two of them are exhausted beyond belief and find themselves in a difficult position, caught between needing each other and resenting each other. Luke’s defense of his behavior throughout this entire ordeal has been that he just wanted them to be able to connect as a couple again, but it has not been an effective one by any stretch of the imagination. The recaps painted Luke as incredibly cruel for bringing up Kristen’s struggles to his friends, which fans have been inclined to agree with. Luke himself, in the therapy session seen in the finale, admitted to saying those things because he hoped that, if he was going to be cruel, at least it would be enough to get Kristen’s attention, which it did not seem to be. It was not the most effective strategy for addressing the issue, perhaps, although it is difficult to think of a particularly effective strategy for addressing the issue, as a whole.
They are together, for what it’s worth. Kristen confirmed as much on social media, and it seems as if they are both trying, however difficult the situation may be. Luke reaching out to Lacy Nicole to talk about fertility issues is the next big step in their relationship, and it is, perhaps, the most honest look at their relationship the series has ever seen. It turns out that Lacy has stage four endometriosis and may not be able to have children, although she is going to freeze her eggs anyway (and was not prepared to talk to him about freezing embryos). That conversation is going to be had, and it is going to be had soon, and it is a deeply human and deeply sincere look at a serious medical issue that should have more light shone on it. It was the most serious conversation that could possibly happen in an episode defined by screaming matches and other interpersonal drama.
The Rest of the Drama, Summarized. Zack Wickham flipped back toward Kristen and away from Brittany Cartwright from some point later in the season, and Janet Caperna cornered him at the Halloween party after finding out from Kristen that he had been talking about her behind her back. The brief truce between Janet and Zack that followed the head injury incident is over. Brittany, who threw the party where all of this happened, ended up screaming at Kristen and Nia, accusing them of lying about what she supposedly said about them behind her back. No one left that party in a better position than they were in when they arrived, and the whole season ended with all of these interpersonal relationships in worse states than when they started. That makes for a good jumping-off point for a reunion special, which is what The Valley needs at this point, because the state that this group of people is in needs to be fixed.
The Valley airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo, with episodes available to stream on Peacock. The First Part of the Reunion Airs Next Week!
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The In the City Season 1 reunion, hosted by Andy Cohen on July 28 in two parts, ended in a significantly more mature fashion than most Bravo reunions have the unfortunate tradition of doing – one where everyone is ready to go home, not needing therapy after they have to spend a few hours staring at the same group of loud, opinionated people.
This does not mean that nothing eventful transpired, quite the opposite in fact, as there were several specific things which occurred that merit mentioning before moving on to the “surprisingly mature” conclusion that framed the entire affair:
The Kyle and Amanda Accounting: What They Said That Actually Mattered. As expected from a show about a group of people whose lives are being documented for the purpose of entertainment, the most substantial content of the reunion was devoted to the Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula storylines, which have dominated the first season of In the City.
The most noteworthy addition to the already complicated tale of their marriage’s demise was the specific, concrete revelation that, in spite of four years of living together and a seemingly endless number of romantic entanglements, Kyle and Amanda physically expressed their affection for each other only three times during their marriage:
Amanda explained that she was depressed and that Kyle was not “courting” her, and neither was there “emotional intimacy,” giving a pretty comprehensive diagnosis of their relationship issues, to which neither party has publicly responded. While the degree to which either person is to blame for their relationship ultimately coming to an end can certainly be debated, there is little doubt that sex every four years is not an indicator of a healthy romantic connection.
The cheating allegation, raised by Amanda once again in Part 2, is a similarly telling development that deserves individual attention, the guest noted that she learned that Kyle had been unfaithful while they were still married, and that she learned about it from “his friend,” who presumably had first-hand knowledge of the alleged affair. Kyle denied the allegations, claiming himself to be surprised by them, as he felt that the reunion, which was ostensibly about their relationship, would not feature “that,” referring to cheating. In fairness to Kyle, while Amanda did not deny the accusations, she did clarify that “it was just things he couldn’t remember,” citing other incidents of cheating as well, each of which he denied.
What he did not deny was the behavior on the night of Amanda’s breakup, which he described as “inappropriate,” though not elaborating further on the specifics, beyond “that’s how [West] is.” It was clear to many that yet another item on a seemingly endless list of things Kyle did wrong has landed on Kyle’s lap once again.
Lindsay summed up the events of the evening most succinctly, saying that “you were giving the fk-me eyes to West and the fk-you eyes to Kyle,” for which Andy responded with a “Wow”, which is probably the correct response in this scenario.
Ultimately, Kyle has done many things over the course of the ten years of his relationship with Amanda, some of which were admitted and others of which he denied, but he has admitted to the majority of allegations, including the most superficial ones, such as the hickey, and even those which seemingly have almost nothing to do with their relationship, like the numerous women contacting him after their breakup, with whom he continued to meet or have a sexual relationship, as well as the DJ lifestyle which resulted in him spending more time in nightclubs than at home with his wife, despite her having been, at the time of the events in question, emotionally unavailable. The DJ tour announcement, which came up at a private dinner with the entire cast before Amanda’s breakup was publicly revealed as well, occurred in front of their entire cast and was a four-hundred-dollar tour. These are all incidents that could have been easily overlooked or written off if it were not for the fact that this was a reunion of sorts of the cast, where all of these people were present and talking about these specific things.
And yet, in spite of all of that, Kyle and Amanda have resolved to keep things cordial, which they affirmed on multiple occasions, which is once again surprising in and of itself, although not in a way that is unrelated to the context of their relationship.
Amanda, West, Italy, and the Olive. Amanda and West Wilson are together and monogamous and, in spite of their still relatively recent engagement, have not yet said “I love you,” in real life or on social media, as it is, technically, “still a work in progress” – at least according to Part 1. The only development that drew much discussion, outside of the Kyle and Amanda “drama,” was the Italy-related content, with the engagement ring pictures being, as one social media user described it, “the saliva incident,” which, not unexpectedly, got quite an amount of publicity. Amanda clarified that it was an olive that she was feeding to West, not saliva, as she claimed on social media, after which the “entire” drama was “deflated,” as many felt that the pictures and comments that fueled the rumor were, objectively speaking, entirely unsubstantial.
Danielle Olivera felt particularly strongly about the timeline of Amanda and West’s relationship, especially in relation to her own issues with Ciara Miller, which is a part of the reunion that is, in fact, connected to the Kyle and Amanda part. Amanda is the one who introduced West into the group, and the man is connected to Ciara, who is one of Danielle’s very good friends, while Amanda and West started dating while on camera, while presumably those relationships continued off of it as well. Danielle described the situation as “diabolical,” in part, no doubt, due to her very close relationship with Ciara – a relationship that was tested, no doubt, by the events of the reunion as well, which neither she nor Ciara chose to talk about.
Lindsay and Whitney: The “Single Mom” Scene Has Its Accounting. Lindsay Hubbard and Whitney Fransway had one of the most anticipated confrontations of the evening. The issue between the two, was the “single mom card” comment that Whitney made, for which Lindsay asked for a public apology, which Whitney gave, only for Lindsay to initially decline it, as she is within her rights to do. However, Lindsay’s counter-argument provided by Kenny Martin in his defense of Whitney was arguably one of the most quotable lines of the season: “You’re gonna need about 15 more apologies to any mom in the entire world.” Whitney’s argument for choosing to continue seeing her boyfriend despite the comment Lindsay had allegedly made was similarly quotable, in fact, it may have been a defining characteristic of the reunion: “You have to know that is not about your kids.”
Lindsay does not believe that it was about her kids, she believes it to be a blanket comment about single mothers and their behavior that is not contingent on their status as single mothers, which is one of the more interesting takes on the affair. Whitney has consistently defended her position throughout the reunion and the appearance on WWHL, saying, once again, that that was not about Lindsay’s status as a single parent, which seems to be the correct position to take, depending on who one asks.
Quieter Resolutions: Yvonne, Danielle, and Kenny’s Peru Hint. Lindsay Hubbard and Yvonne Najor, the pair of women whose friendship has been, until recently, strained to the point of barely existing due to the events surrounding the wedding dinner, said during the reunion that their friendship is stronger than ever, in spite of everything that had occurred: “Their loyalty and their bond is closer than sisters,” stated Andy Cohen, summarizing their statements. This is genuinely a notable development for many reasons, not least of which is that it happened with little fanfare besides them saying it outright: if it is true, it is something that was much needed by both women, who have carried much of the “drama” of the season, as much as there is one.
Lindsay Hubbard and Danielle Olivera have had their share of “drama” as well, with their relationship being one of the most complicated of the entire series – and yet, during the reunion, they have decided to move on from “holding on to things” and attempt a healthier relationship moving forward. Whether or not they will be able to do so is a separate discussion, contingent on many things, including a Summer House Season 11 reunion, which may or may not occur, as it stands, Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke are both back on the property.
Kenny’s Peru story during Part 2 was, arguably, the most notable development of his reunion appearance next to the confrontation with Gavin, and yet, it was only mentioned in passing, as Kenny said that he and Whitney plan on visiting Peru in the future and married. It is possible that Peru may have been the place where they “[accidentally] got married,” Kenny said in response to Andy’s question about the future of his relationship with Whitney, “we’re just gonna have to go back to Peru.” The comment was received with laughter, which it seemingly deserved, being as much a tease as it was a confirmation.
The official cast members currently filming Summer House Season 11 are:
Kyle Cooke
Lindsay Hubbard
Carl Radke
Ciara Miller
Jesse Solomon
Mia Calabrese
Bailey Taylor
KJ Dillard
With the In the City reunion concluded and the entire Season 1 accounted for, the news from the world of Bravo that is genuinely worth mentioning concerns the Summer House Season 11 reunion, which is currently filming right now, with a premiere date set to be announced soon. The cast that has been confirmed to be returning includes most of the people who remained in the house following the events of Season 10. As far as the rest of the cast goes, the news is exciting for everyone except, possibly, Paige DeSorbo, who has decided to take a break from Summer House to work on her comedy writing project with Hannah Berner, under the Amy Poehler production company, which is, arguably, the right decision, if it works out, nobody will ask Paige when she is planning on returning to the Hamptons.
The confirmed returnees, for what it is worth, represent all sides of the complex relationships that were explored throughout Season 10, and the upcoming season promises to feature all of them, not least of which is Kyle Cooke, who is single, as he has already been seen with other people, and will presumably have to live with the knowledge of everything that occurred in the confines of the house without Amanda, with whom he has now formally divorced. The rest include Lindsay Hubbard, who is back at the Hamptons and is once again presumably single, as well as Carl Radke, who is returning to the cast, presumably as a full-time cast member, and Ciara Miller and Jesse Solomon.
Mia Calabrese, is returning as well, as are KJ Dillard and Bailey Taylor. Amanda and West are, obviously, not returning, which is the correct decision for both of them, they have chosen to step away from the Hamptons for now, which can only be for the best, given that the house will feature both Kyle, Ciara, and the entire social circle that contributed to the events of the reunion, with which neither of them wanted to have anything to do with. Paige DeSorbo’s departure, on the other hand, has nothing whatsoever to do with the drama that has been the driving force of Season 10 for so long, as she has decided to take a break from the show to work on her writing project with Hannah Berner, which is, again, the correct decision.
It will be interesting to watch how Season 11 plays out, with Kyle navigating the difficulties of living in a house with multiple women, one of whom, Ciara, has been his best friend for many years and has, up until recently, been very involved with another man whose ex-girlfriend is also staying at the house. It will also be interesting to watch Lindsay and Carl, who have both returned to the house after their respective visits to other properties and spent a substantial amount of time together during the Season 10 finale. It is unclear whether their relationship is now considered to be over or not, but it will be fascinating to see what they say and do moving forward, as will it be for everyone else.
In the City Season 1 is available to view on Peacock, while Summer House Season 11 is currently filming.
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