In the City Season 1 Finale Recap: The Perfect Ending That Wasn’t, a Reunion That Promises Fire, and an After Show That Exposed Whitney and Kenny’s Ceiling
Next Gen NYC Season 2 Has a Bigger Problem Than Drama: Nobody Knows Anything, and Nobody Seems to Mind Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
There is a specific kind of annoyance that comes from watching people perform curiosity without possessing it. You recognize it immediately. The affect is there, the posture is there, the vocabulary of worldliness is present in every outfit and every Instagram caption and every casual reference to places they have been, but the actual substance of a curious mind, the restlessness to know things, the willingness to be ignorant about something long enough to actually learn it, is completely absent. That is the what that Next Gen NYC Season 2 generates, and it reaches another point this week when the cast encountered “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and collectively demonstrated that they had no idea what they were looking at.
I am not saying every homan should know this musical, or better yet, they should have at least heard of it. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” for any reader who somehow needs this established, is not an obscure footnote in film history. Released in 1975 and based on the 1973 British stage musical, it is one of the longest-running theatrical releases in cinema history, having played continuously in midnight screenings at theaters across the United States and the world for half a century. It is a foundational text of camp culture, queer culture, theatrical participatory experience, and the specific tradition of turning a film screening into a communal social event. It has been a rite of passage for multiple generations of young people in every major American city, including and perhaps especially New York City, which has been hosting midnight screenings at venues like the Village East since the film’s original release. For a group of twenty-something New Yorkers who present themselves as sophisticated, culturally literate, worldly and plugged into the creative identity of Manhattan, not knowing what “Rocky Horror” is represents a failure of such basic cultural literacy that it almost circles back to being impressive. They are not even trying. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller Serve Up Apple TV’s Pickleball Comeback Comedy
Pickleball has spent the past several years quietly taking over the American backyard, and now the sport finally has the big, broad, unapologetically silly comedy it deserves. Apple Original Films is set to premiere The Dink globally on Apple TV on Friday, July 24, 2026, a summer sports comedy built around the collision of old school tennis pride and the paddle sport that has been steadily eating its lunch. Produced by Ben Stiller, who knows a thing or two about turning an underdog sport into a cultural moment after his work on Dodgeball, and led by a cast stacked with reliable comedic talent, the film arrives with the kind of pedigree that suggests Apple is treating this premise with far more care than a quick punchline about middle aged suburbanites and their paddles. Read More!
In the City Season 1 Finale Recap: The Perfect Ending That Wasn’t, a Reunion That Promises Fire, and an After Show That Exposed Whitney and Kenny’s Ceiling
If Bravo had rolled the credits on the In the City Season 1 Finale and not alerted us to a reunion because, honestly, considering how the production was ending, I thought this was it. No reunion. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
They literally went through every couple and every issue, all of which ended on such a beautifully positive note. Pregnancies, people seeming happy, and then, boom. The trailer for the reunion gets shown, and it seemed ugly. Then the after-show revealed even more information, which wasn’t ugly per se, but it also wasn’t happy, and I want happiness with these people.
The show would have closed on something genuinely rare in the Bravo universe, a warm, earned, emotionally satisfying conclusion. The Connecticut Friendsgiving drama got resolved. Whitney Fransway and Lindsay Hubbard had it out directly and arrived somewhere that at least resembled a peace treaty. Kenny Martin and Gavin Moseley worked through the tension their friendship had accumulated across the season. People hugged. The car rides back to New York City had that specific bittersweet quality of a group of adults who survived something together and knew it. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Whitney and Kenny on WWHL
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Season 23 Episode 115, airing July 15.
Closet Case and the Lexi Question
Andy wasted no time going after the material that matters, which is what Closet Case is designed to do. The segment surfaced the question of Whitney’s current trust level with Lexi Sundin, Andrea Denver’s wife and In the City cast member who was responsible, on camera, for introducing the “single mom card” comment into the group conversation in a way that made its full impact visible to everyone in the house. Whitney’s response made clear that her trust in Lexi has not recovered. That answer was honest, which is a point in its favor, and it also confirmed that the alliance damage done during the Connecticut Friendsgiving has not been repaired by the weeks between filming and the WWHL appearance.
The “mom card” comment itself, in which Whitney accused Lindsay and Georgina of claiming the primary suite by leveraging their status as mothers, had already been processed extensively in public by the time of the WWHL appearance. What the Closet Case segment did was confirm that Whitney has not arrived at a meaningfully different relationship to the comment than the one she had when she made it. She characterized it as a response to Lindsay’s pattern of behavior rather than an isolated misstep, described Lindsay as someone who deliberately positions herself as a victim to manufacture audience sympathy, and noted that Kyle Cooke’s behavior this season constitutes a “massive red flag,” which is a not particularly bold take given that Kyle’s behavior had been the subject of multiple episodes of analysis by that point. She also remarked that Amanda Batula’s apartment, as shown on the finale, was notably messy. The remark about the apartment landed with the energy of someone looking for additional ways to establish that people around them are not as put-together as perceived, which is a specific social move that audiences recognize immediately and rarely receive warmly. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
The Valley Season 3 Just Got Its Biggest Off-Camera Storyline: Jax Taylor, His Publicist, and the Betrayal That Forced Bravo Back Behind the Camera
Bravo had wrapped production on The Valley Season 3. The season was complete, the reunion had been filmed on schedule, the editing was underway, and the network was preparing to close the book on one of the most dramatic and emotionally dense chapters in the franchise’s young history. Then Jax Taylor went to Puerto Vallarta for his 47th birthday, and TMZ published photographs of him chest-to-chest in an infinity pool with Lori Krebs, the woman who has served as both his and Brittany Cartwright’s personal publicist for more than a decade.
By July 15, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter had confirmed that Bravo was scrambling to resume filming. The season was not over after all.
The specific nature of what the photos documented is worth understanding clearly, because the subject of these photographs is not simply Jax Taylor’s romantic life, which has never been anyone’s idea of stable territory. The subject is Lori Krebs, and the particular category of trust she occupied in Brittany Cartwright’s life, which makes the photographs something considerably more serious than a straightforward post-divorce dating story.
Who Lori Krebs Is and What Her Role Actually Was Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
SPOILER ALERT: Big Brother 28 Week 2 Live Feed Update: Ashley Is Out, Rick Devens Is Running the House, and Rome Seymour Is Walking Into a Trap
Stop reading immediately if you are watching Big Brother 28 exclusively through the CBS broadcast and want to experience the season unspoiled. Everything below comes directly from the live feeds that happened minutes ago, which are running days ahead of the television schedule. The nominations revealed here will not air until Sunday’s episode. The eviction result is from Thursday night. If you want to be surprised, close this tab and come back after Sunday. For everyone who is already refreshing the feeds and wants the complete picture of what has happened since Thursday came and went, here is everything. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Ashley Trail is gone. Rick Devens has the HOH key. The nominations just dropped. And the house, which had been maintaining a fragile illusion of social cohesion through the first week, is now in open fracture. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!