Whether it was tooting on paper horns and slinging back champagne in a crowded bar, or watching the ball drop on TV in the comfort of home as your Postmates order from the only restaurant delivering on New Year’s Eve inched closer and closer to its destination, it’s safe to say that while celebrating the calendar flipping from 2024 to 2025, few could have anticipated the interactive horror experience awaiting us in the months to come, or how the time between then and now would zoom past like the blink of Elon Musk’s shiner eye — but here we are, and half of the year is already behind us. “Next Gen NYC” (Bravo) I admit it is a stretch to call this nepo baby fest the “best” of anything yet, but at a mere handful of episodes in, Bravo’s ridiculously watchable “Next Gen NYC” is at least a necessary antidote to Bravo’s other summer spin-off, the sad-sack midlife-meltdown that is “The Valley.” No divorces, no foreclosure threats, no Tom Schwartz ringing the doorbell to eke out an appearance fee, just a gaggle of 20-somethings indulging in pointless gossip and a surfeit of confidence whilst “whiteboarding” a business plan for a nightclub in which FUN is the first bullet point. A motley mix of “Real Housewives” offspring, Gen Z influencers and random hangers-on, the show is ostensibly about recent grads hustling to make it in New York but is really about the simmering TV-class tension between the kids who grew up suckling on the Bravo meme-factory teat and only moved to the city to attend NYU and eventually star in this show, and the smug TV arrivistes who think they’re going to outsmart Andy Cohen at his own game.
Author: Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
Published at: 2025-06-28 21:21:20
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