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It’s another week, and another indication that Bravo’s next generation of Housewives has found its guiding light in the rebooted Real Housewives of New York. Unlike Real Housewives of Orange County, where the drama is juicy, but ultimately repetitive, and Real Housewives of Potomac, which fell into the trappings of manufactured fights and falsely fractured friendships, RHONY is unimpeded by the conventions of the other cities in this franchise. These women want nothing more than to hang out with each other and revel in all of the goofy theatrics that come with that. Drama be damned, this is how watching Housewives should always feel.
Episode 3 of Season 14 finds the cast on their second day of a three-day girl’s trip to the Hamptons. It’s a brisk November morning, made even more nippy by the fact that the heat in Erin’s guest rooms has stopped working. This is either just an unfortunate occurrence or an ingenious form of psychological torture, implemented by Erin to keep everyone on their toes. As it turns out, Jenna fled the house in the middle of the night before Erin’s wicked machinations turned her home into an igloo, avoiding both the loss of sleep and the loss of a toe due to frostbite.
While everyone else was partying the night away, Jenna tried to covertly slip out without anyone noticing, citing a 6:30 am business call that she had to be rested for. Call me a buzzkill, but I see nothing wrong with leaving in the middle of the night to get some sleep, going to your own Hamptons home that’s 10 minutes away, and coming back first thing in the morning. These women are all working professionals! If anything, that’s the best-case scenario of work/life balance. The only thing Jenna missed out on was some drunken dancing, which she couldn’t partake in any way since she doesn’t drink, and again, she had a call! The world of hyper-realistic false eyelash implants rests for no one.