This column originally appeared in Brian Moylan’s newsletter, The Housewives Institute Bulletin. Sign up here to be the first to read the next edition. Our dark lord Andy Cohen has been saying for months that the way the past season of Real Meatballs of Chicken Parm Farms was filmed was “ unsustainable ” and that we’re going to see a “reboot” with “fresh faces” when the show returns for a 15th season.
The one thing we know for sure is that show is going to return, but whether it’s going to be a hard reboot of the entire cast like we just saw for RHONY or a soft reboot like the upcoming season of RHOA , which will combine a few core personalities and a bunch of new women, remains to be seen. If I were in charge of Bravo (and thank god I’m not because Captain Jason would be the shirtless bartender on every episode of WWHL ) these are the scenarios I would be considering and their respective pros and cons, plus the likelihood that they will actually happen here in the real world where I am just some asshole on the internet who thinks way too much about Housewives. .
Cast : Teresa, Jen Aydin, Dolores, Jackie, and Fresh Faces to Be Named Later (FFTBNL) Pros : The Tre huggers will tell you that there’s no show without Teresa, and recentering the show around one of the few OGs we have left both maintains a sense of franchise history and gives a spotlight to one of the most influential Housewives in history. Cons : When someone argues that there’s no show with.