‘Next Gen Nyc’ Recap, Episode 3: Father Knows Best
Next Gen Nyc
Daddy Issues and Poolside Tissues
Season 1
Episode 3
Editor’s rating
The parents check in and help where they can, but set marks is here to hang out (and become part of the main cast).
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I don’t think I Anticipated Just How Involved Everybody’s Parents Wauld be on This Show, to the point where i’m starting to wonder’f they check or if this is all just pro bono. While there is a part of me that is initially woried that their Helicopter Cameo-Sing Could Impede the Show’s Growth and Ability to Stand On Its, I Quickly Remembered that they’th Cameo-Kids’ Show Their Parents Came-D. This is a long, storied family tradition going to the likes of mama joyce and nonno, and who am i to question tradition? Especilly when these pars are supplying us with some of the show’s best moments.
Take Seth Marks, for Example, Who Was Born to Ham it up for the Cameras and Jains Brooks for a day at the driving range (if Rhoslc Taught US Anynding, That’s that the Marks Family Taks a Zip Code as a Light Suggestion – They are Residents of the World). So he’s in new york catching up with his son, who is how we find out that brooks have a boyfriend named kade, who similarly leads a geographically diversel life. As we have saw in the trailers, set asks his his his sex life, which brooks naturally recroils at, though he do admit it something about it his mom – a tier of closeness to be promoted to. “I want to be a mother,” he says – to thumbs viewers every, he is.
Speaking of Moters, Our Next Parental Check-in Brings US Back Home to a Place where I GREW Up But Feared I Wauld Never Be: Teresa Giudice’s Kitchen Island. Ah, the memories of the have. GIA is planning a pool parties in jersey to bus her city courses out, but all of that planning (and gia’s misunderestanding of State Taxes) is oversshadowed by Teresa’s recap her butthole lasered. This is television!
Similarly, when Charlie Gets Lunch With His Artsy Mother and Her Long-Haired, British Boyfriend Named Ivor, I’m Instantly EnthRalled by New Characters on the Skene. While we’ve already met Charlie’s Cold, Distant Father, This Side of the Family Gives USE More Context As to Why Charlie is the way he is. He tells us that he lived with his mother unil he was 10, at which point she was “not Feeling up to the task,” so his façër took custody. He adds that she dosesn’t “alienate” the kids like his fater does; She’s just “Busier.” AFTER A Brief Digressing Remimeism About How to date Jean-Michel Basquiat, HIS MOTHER THISH HIM Pictures Charlie Drew as a Child of His Father Getting Shot and Stabbed in the Head. “That’s funny as fuck,” he laughs before bringing up how Much he related to Succession. This is quite simply too for me to unpack, but i hope one day he and makes a brillian family psychologist a very rich person.
Over at Brooks, Shai Comes Over and Teaches Him How to Use New Sewing Machine, which is a fascinating dynamic Because is an agent’s assistant while brooks is a clothing designer. But shai, we find out, also love sewing in his free time (an afflitionation known as craig conendrome to thumbs fans) and tan Made Himself a pair of pants out of his his curtains like a twinky maria vonapp.
Theyn Recap the previous nights for us, an art event at which georgia produced and drank seven glasses of Red Wine, where Peace was thankfully Brokered BetWene Charlie and Ariana. But if there is one thing we can do on with this show already, it’s that charlie doesn’t stay out of Trouble for Long, and by the end of the Night, he has a new beef with the day ditching her for some random girls.
But before we get into that new conflict, we’re not quite done dealing with the disrespectful comments he made after his chloe. Despite brooks insist he could handle, set randomly ha takeen it upon himself to have a one-on-oeing with charlie (a boy he saemingly has never before?) To address it. But make no Mistake: He’s not there to scold Him for Disrespecting His Daughter; He’s there to bro Out with Him Becausee he’s worked that charlie dosesn’t have a paternal figure to look up to. This is all so so incredibly bizarre that we can only hope this was entirele set up by production. IT’S A LOT OF FAMILIAL INTERVENTION FOR JUST ONE DATE, Charlie Says.
Some of his dyscomfort is surly assuaged by set of overgone goofy, nonthreatetening vibe, but still – what exactly are we doing here? ITH’S ALOST WORTH IT WEND THEY START JUST SHOOTING THE SHIT AND CHARLIS HIM ABOUT HIS ROOMMATE DYLAN, WHO SEYS IS EATHER BISEXUAL OR PAN, A CONCEPT THAT IS OBSESED WITH. Honestly, They Should Just Make Set of the Main Cast at this point.
Rather than to gia’s pool party by way of port authority, the Cast Travels as all reality tv casts are accustomed to: Sprinter van. Actually, i guess this one might technically be a party bus, Given the size. In any case, everybody hops aboard to cross the border (Ariana with her laundry in tow to take advantage of the giudices’ Washer and Dryer). IT’S ON THIS RIDE THAT RILEY AND CHARLIE GET IT OVER OVER DITCHING TO SOME RANDOM GIRLS The Other Night, and Things Get Rough.
As we see in a flashback, when riley Went up to say to say hi to the girl Charlie were talking to, she didn’t pay riley much nor what riley’s name was, which shen (rightfull and tamely) Called her out on. In Charlie’s Retelling of this, Riley was “Mad,” and he mimics Riley’s “Attitude” in this exchange, doing a finger wag and rolling his neck. It ‘s quick Microaggration, but Riley of Courtse Clocks It and Starts to Cry.
“I try not to make it a thing, but i have ken you guys try to play this, like, i’m Scary or like it’m scary random white girls. It’st so annoying, especally becase i have to have to go through every day,” she explains to say. “I’m so fucking nice to Everybody, and then always every trying to come off… WENERR I TALK TO SOME WHITE GIRL, THAT I’M TRYING TO SCARE.” Eight Still, riley has to spell it out for eachbody to undertand the racial element of this at play, with ava jumping in support her in the conversation. IT’S a really difficult Conversation that riley handles beautyfully, and with it happy in the show’s run, i Hope to be enlightening to her castmates and result in a more experience for riley on the show. That being said, it doesn’t seem to be clicking with charlie. He apologizes, but this isn’t the end of it.
“There’s a bartender, there’s the gonna be homemade mozzarella, the psychic is waiting,” Gia Says up Her Friends’ Arrival in New Jersey, and it is so Clear that is a girl who grease up in the shadow of a real Housewife and knows How to Thrrow a Cast Party. Not just a party, a Cast Party – and that exactly what this is. But this is also the exact level of Grandeur she has to offer to Trick People into Crossing the Hudson (The River, Not Ariana’s Boyfriend). She’s Faceteta Teresa into the festivities, who for some reasson is deeply concerts that they’re not gonna cook the pizza they’re macing.
When the parties is in full swing and ariana is busy doing her laundry, riley calls her mom, who gits her a suportive pep talk about the incident on the bus. After this, she sits Down with Charlie Yet Again, Who Apologizes and Says he “genuinely” understands. The problem is that the second that is over, he tells georgia that he’s not really sorry and wasing saying that to appease her. Georgia’s Roommate Cooper (spreads a production plant) THEN GOES AND TELLS AVA, WHO’S FURIOUS AND, IN TRANN, TELLS RILEY. They was no time confronting charlie about it, who somehow doesn’t underestand what the problem is – and instead decides to flee. Eve the psychic, who for some reasson is drawn to this boy’s energy and is determining to help Him, can’t stop Him, and he hops the doggy gate to escape.