Next Gen NYC’s Premiere Was As Unhinged As Expected
Featuring the gay grapevine, the crypto torture house, and one really gnarly bodega sandwich.
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Next Gen NYC’s Premiere Was As Unhinged As ExpectedFeaturing the gay grapevine, the crypto torture house, and one really gnarly bodega sandwich.
Next Gen NYC (aka my new favorite show on Bravo) is back, and judging solely by the premiere, the second season is shaping up to be just as delicious as the first. Last spring, when Bravo announced a reality TV show following the children of Real Housewives living in New York, I, like many on the internet, was skeptical. Would I really want to watch Meredith Marks’ son Brooks Marks and Teresa Giudice’s daughter Gia Giudice pal around the West Village? The answer is yes. Yes, I would. Season 1 of Next Gen NYC presented a delightfully delusional cast of characters, each more out-of-touch than the last, and yet against-all-odds, I found myself rooting for them. Joining a quartet of The Real Housewives children that also includes Kandi Burruss’ daughter Riley Burruss and Kim Zolciak’s daughter Ariana Biermann, were Hudson McLeroy, the heir to the Zaxbys chicken fortune, model and influencer Emira D’Spain, and crypto trader/trust fund baby Charlie Zakkour. Season 1, however, presented some members of the cast as so deranged that I thought surely they’d grow a bit more self-aware in Season 2, but seemingly the opposite has happened. If the Season 2 premiere is any indication, we’re in for another summer of highly watchable delusion. The thing that sets Next Gen NYC apart from other reality shows is that the majority of the cast grew up extremely wealthy and are completely untethered from reality. While many of the Real Housewives lived, at one point, on a more modest existence, and the stars of shows like Vanderpump Rules or Southern Hospitality are actively working in the service industry, the Next Gen NYC cast have no concept of money or privilege, making them both fascinating, and somewhat tragic, figures. But while we wait for Episode 2, let’s break down the 10 most unhinged moments from the premiere: The most unhinged moments from the Next Gen NYC Season 2 premiere1. Charlie lived in the Crypto Torture House, but can’t talk about itAs we are shown about 50 times in this episode, Charlie was caught on camera during the arrests at the “Crypto Torture House,” aka a SoHo townhouse where two kidnappers were torturing an Italian man for his Bitcoin password. According to castmate Georgia McCann, Charlie was living at the house off-and-on for months. Supposedly, Charlie was enlisted by the kidnappers’ assistant to bring women from the nearby Brandy Melville store to their parties. Unfortunately for us, Charlie can’t really talk about his time at the #CryptoTortureHouse for legal reasons, but I’m locked in for any morsels of info he drops this season. 2. Hudson and Ariana post a joint breakup note to InstagramIn the modern era, are you really broken up if you haven’t posted a joint IG announcement? In the premiere, Ariana moves out of their shared apartment after the conscious uncoupling. Unfortunately, the weirdness of the announcement causes the rest of the cast to question if the breakup is real or just for the show. 3. Hudson is bringing his ex-girlfriend straws for her drinkThe supposed breakup (which didn’t last long) is called further into question by the fact that neither Ariana nor Hudson appears to want to stay broken up. In addition to FaceTiming and texting one another, Hudson spends most of Emira’s birthday/work party fetching Ariana drinks and straws. She has to remind him at one point that they’re broken up so he can’t touch her ass. 4. Ava was “given a notice” because her dad couldn’t pay rentSince Season 1, Ava Dash’s father, record executive Damon Dash, filed for bankruptcy, prompting headlines that Ava had been evicted from her apartment. Ava clarifies in the episode that she wasn’t evicted, but was “given a notice,” and that while she shared an apartment with her father, she paid her portion of the rent on time and that it was he who hadn’t paid. I’m obsessed with the concept of splitting rent with your millionaire father. 5. Georgia and Ava don’t know where Kansas City isOf course, Ava and Georgia have no idea where Kansas City is. Who needs to study geography when you’re a model or planning bowling-themed parties? (As a side note, I’m also intrigued as to just how Georgia’s ex-boyfriend is stealing her party ideas, but hopefully we’ll get more intel on that soon.) 6. Teresa has way too many dishesIn other news, Gia is moving out of her mom’s house to be closer to the city, but has decided to raid her mother’s china cabinet on the way out. I was gagged at just how many hideous dishes Teresa owns, including one massive leopard-print glass bowl. 7. Georgia’s gay grapevineAt Emira’s birthday party, Georgia (perhaps the best character on the show), decided to confront the birthday girl about a rumor she’d heard through the “gay grapevine.” Georgia then clarifies that she has a network of international gay people who tell her secrets, and that she’d learned this rumor from one such global homosexual. 8. Liam is on three separate hockey teamsWe’re introduced to one of the show’s new cast members, former Nickelodeon star and general cutie Liam Obergfoll, in this episode. Somehow, the man has time to play on three different recreational hockey teams, which I found astounding. 9. No one knows why Shai is thereThere’s nothing more baffling about Next Gen NYC than the presence of Shai Fruchter on the cast. He’s genuinely more of a background extra than a character most of the time, barely getting screentime or his own plot. I was shocked when he was brought back for Season 2, and so apparently was the rest of the cast (and also possibly Bravo). There’s a whole segment in the premiere about how he accidentally ended up on the show because he was friends with Charlie’s roommate in Season 1, and now he’s just stuck on the cast like a lost puppy because the roommate skipped town. He did, however, dress up like a horse for Emira’s “Cuntry”-themed party. 10. Georgia tells everyone that she ate bad salami and blew up the toiletGod love her, but the most unhinged moment of the episode was Georgia telling anyone who would listen (including new hottie Liam) that she was “fighting for her life” on the toilet the night before, because she’d eaten a bad salami sandwich from a bodega. I’m just praying she washed her hands after all that bad salami ejected itself from her system. |





