Next Gen NYC<\/a><\/p>\nTikTok Boom<\/p>\n
\n Season 2<\/p>\n
Episode 4\n <\/p>\n
\n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n
4 stars<\/p>\n
****\n <\/p>\n
\n Riley\u2019s drunken night out reveals a fascinating dynamic among the cast.
\n Photo: Bravo\n <\/p>\n
If you can even believe it, there\u2019s still more drama left to play out at this girls\u2019 night from hell that began in the last episode. Emira bizarrely tells Georgia that she should team up with Charlie and Omar since they\u2019re stealing her club idea, which she understandably pushes back on because it makes zero sense whatsoever. They don\u2019t let the back-and-forth get too carried away, but the conversation does turn to Emira feeling like Georgia was hitting on her boyfriend last year. Georgia admits that, in addition to the gay grapevine, she heard about that claim via Charlie \u2014 and Emira is shocked that he\u2019d betray her trust like that! Really, girl? Rowan isn\u2019t following any of this, and quite frankly, I envy her.<\/p>\n
As we established last week, Riley is very drunk. The silver lining of that is Georgia feels like that\u2019s when she gets along with Riley best. But she jinxed it \u2014 because as soon as she offers up that olive branch, Riley swats it away. She orders her to go get her a drink and then when Georgia offers up her own drink, Riley makes a face and says, \u201cYou probably have some ketamine in that thing.\u201d What is wrong with her? Georgia doesn\u2019t know where this is coming from because, as she says, she\u2019s never been on drugs around Riley in her life (I appreciate the qualifier there). Next thing you know, Riley is berating Georgia to \u201cshut the fuck up.\u201d<\/p>\n
And what I truly couldn\u2019t believe was that it only got worse. Ariana was so desperate to get Riley to sober up that she tried to get the whole table to make a toast with water, at which point Riley looked to Georgia and said, \u201cI know you\u2019re not a part of this \u2018cheers\u2019 because you can\u2019t afford a Birkin.\u201d Oh, I\u2019d jump across the table. Rowan was disgusted, and Gia had to jump into producing mode (to her credit, it\u2019s what she does best) and whispered to Riley to backtrack immediately. Instead, Riley tells Georgia to \u201crelax before I slap this piece of pizza on your face\u201d and then picks up an empty glass and winds up as if she\u2019s about to throw it across the table at Georgia\u2019s head. Something is seriously wrong here \u2014 this is not the Riley we\u2019ve come to know. This is a spoiled, privileged, rich girl who should be on MTV\u2019s My Super Sweet 16 instead of Bravo.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, the public fight made headlines \u2014 so the next day, Riley gets a FaceTime call from her mother, Kandi. There\u2019s not much actually said about what happened, presumably because Riley doesn\u2019t remember, but she does express the difficulty of growing up and making mistakes under the spotlight like this. She also goes on to text Georgia a message that is technically not an apology, though she does use the words \u201ctake accountability\u201d and says that she was never going to get physical. Everything she\u2019s saying about that night feels like it was pulled right from the blog headlines as opposed to her own recollection, but she clearly knows something went down that shouldn\u2019t have. Georgia graciously gives her a complete free pass, saying that she knows it was the alcohol\u2019s fault. I bet the producers were banking on getting a season-long story line out of this, but Georgia is just too benevolent to drag it out!<\/p>\n
Then we\u2019ve got the budding flirtation between Ariana and Liam to deal with. He does, as promised, show up at her apartment to build her wardrobe \u2014 all of which is strictly performative because she has a Taskrabbit on call for immediately after in case he fucks it up. But it\u2019s a flirty moment, and she even makes pumpkin-banana bread in return, and he invites her to meet his parents. Sure, that might seem like things are moving fast (I\u2019m talking about the banana bread), but in Liam\u2019s defense, the parents thing is sort of a technicality because it\u2019s really just a birthday gathering.<\/p>\n
In any case, this of course won\u2019t go over well with Hudson, but at least he doesn\u2019t know. Well, that is, until Shai takes it upon himself to uphold the bro code and tells him later in the episode. But in Shai\u2019s defense, he was corrupted into doing so by Charlie, who we know is evil. Hudson doesn\u2019t necessarily take the news well but pretends not to be stressed over it by saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think Ariana is gonna go from me to dating some guy who rides horses for a living.\u201d Well, at least he does something for a living.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Rowan, whom I\u2019ve instantly grown fond of, invites the whole group out to House of Yes for a Rocky Horror Picture Show night. The problem is that this group is mostly comprised of uncultured idiots, so Shai and Georgia are the only people who know what Rocky Horror is. My blood boils at the ignorance. Listen, it\u2019s not a crime to not know something, and blind spots are very normal \u2014 but what I especially take umbrage with is their lack of shame. It\u2019s almost like they take pride in the fact that they don\u2019t know things. Also \u2014 did they not watch Glee??? There\u2019s a whole Rocky Horror episode! The stage show is on Broadway as we speak! There\u2019s really no excuse.<\/p>\n
But as they get ready for said evening, the episode ends with a truly perplexing interaction between Ariana and Riley, who feels that Ariana wasn\u2019t supporting her during her crashout at girls\u2019 night. I think it\u2019s incredibly bold for Riley to take such a hard stance on this, because there\u2019s very little indication that she actually remembers much of what went on that night. She tells Ariana that her other friends never would have let that happen, but Ariana pushes back, saying that she was fighting for her life to try to sober Riley up and remove her from the situation. But apparently, at least according to Riley, it was Ariana\u2019s job to get in the middle and stop Georgia from antagonizing her. The thing is Georgia wasn\u2019t antagonizing her (and Ariana tells her as much). Riley is gaslighting so hard that even I start to question what I saw with my own two eyes.<\/p>\n
One of the most fascinating parts of this show, which we\u2019re finally getting to see materialize, is the class politics at play. We\u2019ve seen the impacts of their privileged upbringings time and time again, when they look down upon taking the subway or living in certain neighborhoods \u2014 but now we\u2019re seeing the way they can weaponize class against one another. In this episode alone, we have Hudson alluding to Liam\u2019s status being beneath him and Riley ordering her friends around and making fun of Georgia for coming from a poorer background and not being able to afford certain things. In each case, they lack the awareness (or are too drunk) to realize the optics of what they\u2019re saying. It\u2019s disgusting behavior, but thank goodness disgusting behavior makes for great television.<\/p>\n
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