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It’s not that the RHONY reboot is boring, it’s just back-to-basics in a way that’s disconnected from modern-day Housewifery.
RHONY 2.0 feels a little old school in a way I appreciate: The women act more aspirational than messy, and the show is focusing on their luxurious lifestyles in a way we haven’t seen since teenage Avery Singer was in her mother’s closet talking about what an embarrassment she is. These are the sorts of fights that we used to have on the show before Real Housewives got cranked up to 11 million; the biggest blowup of the first season was when Bethenny Frankel didn’t introduce Countess LuAnn (as it was then spelled) to the driver as “Mrs. Ramona walked out of the first-ever reunion because Alex took some nude pictures, and by the end of her reign, she had peed on various surfaces, talked about how she likes a man to please her but won’t please him, and acted so horrible that she not only ruined Black Shabbat but got the whole damn show canceled.
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