Summer House Season 11 is currently filming in New York City and the Hamptons, and the season is set to premiere next year.
First things first, I just found House of Stassi, and I’m on the second episode. We will get to all three or four by this weekend.
WWHL I sorta watched it once or twice this week, either way I kind of caught the episodes where they were with Love Island’s winners I believe, which I’ve never seen, but I like that Ariana Madix is hosting it. I really hope she keeps acting because, if you haven’t seen her in St. Denis Medical or Will Trent she has some pretty great acting skills that I didn’t know she had until I saw her on Will Trent. All the same, the WWHL episode with Kevin Hart and the SNL guy was pretty hard for me to watch.
Summer House Season 11 is currently filming in New York City and the Hamptons, and the season is set to premiere next year. This year, Kyle Cooke is single, Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke are back as full-time residents, and Ciara Miller, Jesse Solomon, Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, and Bailey Taylor are all returning to the fold. However, Amanda Batula and West Wilson have exited the franchise, and it is hard to blame them after the reunion aired on Bravo. Paige DeSorbo is absent again for the summer season as well, pursuing her comedy writing career through Amy Poehler’s production company as part of a larger career shift, and the summer season will see the group get together to film what is sure to be an intriguing season. The show’s cameras will capture the group as a social unit transformed by the events of this past season with more drama and more conflict, and their interactions with the Hamptons house will surely prove to be entertaining.
Anyway, we now have The Larry David thing (The Larry Pursuit of Happiness) tonight, and we will get to Big Brother this weekend as well, which this post is going to be long enough as it is, and with multiple big brother episodes to recap, it’s going to be a book. I think that’s it for now, we will get to all of this, and more. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
Kevin Hart’s 72 Hours Is the Comedy That Had Every Possible Advantage and Wasted Them All
Some movies are disasters because the concept never worked. Some collapse because the filmmaking is simply poor. And then there are the truly baffling ones, the films that seem to have every ingredient for success but still end up as exhausting, incoherent messes that make you wonder what went wrong in the editing room and why no one stopped to fix it before it landed on Netflix.
Kevin Hart’s new comedy, 72 Hours, was released on Amazon Prime on July 25, and it falls into the third category, perhaps the saddest of them all. The setup is odd in itself. I thought, or at least assumed, that he was married until about three-quarters of the way through the film, and I just did not understand how it all came together. If there was ever a way to make a story feel completely unbelievable, this was it. It made no sense.
Joe (Hart) is a forty-year-old ad executive who is informed by his bosses that he has lost the connection to youth culture that made him successful in his career. He is mistakenly added to a bachelor party group chat, which made no sense to me, and quickly accepts the invitation, which also made no sense to me. He decides to use the weekend in Miami to research youth culture, which made no sense to me, but soon finds himself fascinated by this strange group of twenty-somethings, which made no sense to me, while getting caught up in a series of increasingly ridiculous situations that, quite honestly, made no sense to me either. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
The WWHL Appearance That Matched the Movie’s Energy Perfectly. Kevin and Marcello were on the show to promote 72 Hours, while Kam Patterson was at the bar, as if to complete the movie’s promotional family. The appearance was, by all accounts, exactly like the movie, extremely loud, extremely fast, extremely confusing, and operating at such a frantic energy level that it left me wondering, “What is going on here?”
They could barely describe the movie, let alone speak about it with any enthusiasm or exuberance.
Hart yells a joke about Hernandez sneaking his phone into Taylor Swift’s wedding, which makes much more sense once you know that Hernandez was a guest at the Taylor/Kelce wedding, and that photos apparently leaked in some way that made people think he took them. Hernandez was asked to address the accusation on the air, and he made it more confusing, while Hart was already on to the next bit before anyone in the room registered that there was a bit to be had. It seemed like there were little digs here and there. I thought he got angry with him once or twice. It didn’t come across as jovial to me. Andy Cohen, who has seen plenty of difficult interview situations during his twenty-plus years hosting this program, had the look of a man who was committed to finding the fun in whatever was happening. At times, he was touching his nostril, and while they did get through some games, or at least one game, it was still difficult to watch. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
The Dead and Company Documentary That Had a Better Story and Told a Different One
The film that came up on Sunset was not the Chloe Sevigny-produced Summer Dead & Co. Tour video she made, which I had hoped it would be. Based on her involvement alone, it sounded like something I want to see. The film I actually had available, which gave me eighteen minutes of viewing time before I had to stop watching for good, was My Dead Summer, directed by Bill Brennenstuhl and co-written with Zeke F. Carlton III and Paul Stenerson, who also stars in it. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
The Valley Season 3 Finale Is a Season-Long Argument That Ended With a Drink in Someone’s Face and Nobody’s Mind Changed
“The Valley of the Damned.” That’s the name of the Season 3 finale of The Valley , and whomever named it was not wrong. The episode, which aired Bravo on July 29 as part 18, was a fitting end to the season, serving as the convergence point for all of the season’s many subplots and the places where they could either be laid to rest or further intensified. It did not do the latter in any significant way, though. All that throwing ended up on the floor. (The drink, too.)
Let me be first to acknowledge that the entire mess between Janet and Danny has been thoroughly, hilariously complicated by the responses from the peanut gallery, but the reality is that it’s actually quite simple. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
Sugar: Inside the Neo Noir Mystery That Hides an Alien Detective in Plain Sight
Few television show premises have such audacity to flip the script as dramatically as was done in Sugar, the Apple TV+ series that ran its first season. It started by making viewers believe that they were watching a typical Los Angeles detective story, but it revealed many twists about the case that the protagonists were investigating. The second season has been running in 2025, making it one of the most unique shows of the current ecosystem. It features a performance by Colin Farrell that continues to gain steam as much as his character’s storyline develops. The series started in 2024 as an atmospheric noir-tinged drama and has grown into a two-season piece that combines detective genres, science fiction, and an oddly uplifting exploration of grief and belonging. Read More!
The Hawk: Will Ferrell’s Absurd Golf Comeback Comedy Is Splitting Critics and Conquering Netflix’s Charts
Every so often a show comes along that exemplifies the growing disconnect between critics and audiences, and Will Ferrell’s new Netflix comedy, The Hawk, is proving to be the definitive example of the summer of 2026. The ten-episode golf farce, which debuted on July 16, has been a huge hit for the streaming service, garnering 4.8 million views in its first few days and climbing to number 2 on the U.S. Top 10 chart on Netflix, just behind some of the service’s most popular titles. It is, without a doubt, one of the most-watched shows each month, and it has also been one of the most disappointing comedic turns of the year, according to critics. Both statements are correct. Read More!
The In the City Reunion Was Surprisingly Mature, and Also More Devastating Than Anyone Expected
The In the City Season 1 reunion, hosted by Andy Cohen on July 28 in two parts, ended in a significantly more mature fashion than most Bravo reunions have the unfortunate tradition of doing – one where everyone is ready to go home, not needing therapy after they have to spend a few hours staring at the same group of loud, opinionated people.
This does not mean that nothing eventful transpired, quite the opposite in fact, as there were several specific things which occurred that merit mentioning before moving on to the “surprisingly mature” conclusion that framed the entire affair:
The Kyle and Amanda Accounting: What They Said That Actually Mattered. As expected from a show about a group of people whose lives are being documented for the purpose of entertainment, the most substantial content of the reunion was devoted to the Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula storylines, which have dominated the first season of In the City.
The most noteworthy addition to the already complicated tale of their marriage’s demise was the specific, concrete revelation that, in spite of four years of living together and a seemingly endless number of romantic entanglements, Kyle and Amanda physically expressed their affection for each other only three times during their marriage: Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
Summer House Season 11: The House is Filling Up Again.
The official cast members currently filming Summer House Season 11 are:
- Kyle Cooke
- Lindsay Hubbard
- Carl Radke
- Ciara Miller
- Jesse Solomon
- Mia Calabrese
- Bailey Taylor
- KJ Dillard
With the In the City reunion concluded and the entire Season 1 accounted for, the news from the world of Bravo that is genuinely worth mentioning concerns the Summer House Season 11 reunion, which is currently filming right now, with a premiere date set to be announced soon. The cast that has been confirmed to be returning includes most of the people who remained in the house following the events of Season 10. As far as the rest of the cast goes, the news is exciting for everyone except, possibly, Paige DeSorbo, who has decided to take a break from Summer House to work on her comedy writing project with Hannah Berner, under the Amy Poehler production company, which is, arguably, the right decision, if it works out, nobody will ask Paige when she is planning on returning to the Hamptons. Read the Sunset Daily Substack!
Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller Serve Up Apple TV’s Pickleball Comeback Comedy
Pickleball has been steadily invading the American suburbian landscape over the last few years, and now the sport has the broad, dumb, middle-aged comedy it so desperately needs. Apple Original Films will debut The Dink this summer (Friday, July 24, 2026) on Apple TV+, a sports comedy about middle-aged tennis players who get into a pickleball war, as a way to honor the sport’s rise to popularity. The film was produced by Ben Stiller, who knows a thing or two about bringing a niche sport to mainstream popularity after Dodgeball, and features a star-studded comedic cast, and Apple clearly thinks quite highly of this concept, as they’ve invested a considerable amount of money to make it the heart-warming, uplifting film that we all want it to be. Read More! Read the Sunset Daily Substack!