Next Gen NYC<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe Bunny Hill I Will Die On\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Season 2<\/p>\n
Episode 11\n <\/p>\n
\n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n
4 stars<\/p>\n
****\n <\/p>\n
\n Not since Jax Taylor have we seen a master manipulator like Charlie, who manages to talk his way into the group\u2019s good graces yet again.
\n Photo: Scott Gries\/Bravo\n <\/p>\n
After last week\u2019s episode in which Liam professed his love to Ariana in an ill-advised late-night heart-to-heart \u2014 which was notably not reciprocated \u2014 we need a bit of a state of the union on this union. And the state of it is \u2026 a mess. As they start the day skiing, they\u2019re largely pretending like the previous night didn\u2019t happen, but Kendall can tell there\u2019s something up with her best friend, Liam. He\u2019s left trying to reckon with the mixed messages he\u2019s getting from Ariana, and while I do feel for him, there is something almost refreshing about a man getting played by a girl on Bravo for once instead of the other way around. I just wish it was literally any other man. Because poor Liam has been nothing but sweet and kind, but now he\u2019s left confused because Ariana has been simultaneously love-bombing him (granted, without using that word) while also recoiling at dinner at the thought of saying they\u2019re \u201cdating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the Charlie of it all. At least he\u2019s had a bizarre change of heart and suddenly decided to go back on everything he said last night and announce that actually he does respect their relationship and thus won\u2019t fuck Ariana. What a gentleman! Why tell Liam this, you might be wondering? Well, Charlie explains that it\u2019s so his own conscience is clear in the event that he does, in fact, hook up with Ariana \u2014 because to him this statement means that said hypothetical hookup won\u2019t be perceived as a vengeful act on his part but rather as Ariana not wanting to be with Liam. I couldn\u2019t make sense of that thinking if I tried \u2026 and I did try! And do you know what happened? My brain short-circuited so severely that I had to get a full brain transplant. They replaced it with a monkey\u2019s brain, and my new monkey brain still works better than Charlie\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Back at the house, they\u2019re planning a little joint surprise birthday celebration for Kendall (someone must have lifted the curse, because the rest of the cast can suddenly see her!) and Ava, the latter of whom dresses up for her \u201csurprise\u201d like Lindsay Hubbard wearing shoulder pads to her beach engagement. During the celebration, Georgia and Shai talk about her calling him a clown the night before \u2014 which she maintains was a compliment, and I believe her. Shai didn\u2019t see it that way, nor did he think her changing it to \u201cjester\u201d was any better. Gia, who doesn\u2019t know things, doesn\u2019t know what a jester is, so she looks it up during a confessional. But her phone defines \u201cgesture\u201d instead, so she naturally doesn\u2019t see the problem. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m a gesture,\u201d she says, and if she were a gesture, she\u2019d be a confused shrug.<\/p>\n
Now I have to change the subject for a minute to bring up the fact that it is casually mentioned at dinner that Charlie clogged the toilet, and after he maintains that it was just from tissues he was using to blow his nose, it\u2019s revealed that Georgia used her hands to unclog it. We move on from this much too quickly, but I\u2019m glad for Georgia\u2019s sake \u2014 and my own. There\u2019s only so much I can defend! I\u2019m honestly just shocked that Riley even stayed at the table after hearing that.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s largely been a fun trip, Emira has noticeably been on edge and says she\u2019s still thinking about the Charlie situation and what he apparently said about her identity. Those feelings especially come up after Georgia and Charlie come to a truce of sorts after he explains that he and Omar are opening sports bars and not stealing her idea outright. Georgia decides to put that conflict to bed, and Emira somehow manages to make that about herself. \u201cCharlie said some really problematic shit. If the things that Georgia has told me were so upsetting to her that she felt the need to tell me, then why would she all of a sudden now be buddy-buddy back again with Charlie? Really fucked up,\u201d she says, perhaps forgetting the massive free pass she personally delivered to Charlie with a hug even after that problematic shit came to light. The hypocrisy is, of course, insane, but at least Emira is finally ready to hold him accountable herself.<\/p>\n
She pulls him aside to talk through her lingering feelings about his alleged transphobic comments, which he\u2019s not even attempting to deny. She tearfully tells him that she\u2019s having a hard time shaking it, understandably so, and needs some space away from their friendship. For his part, Charlie says he feels terrible. \u201cHopefully I can be forgiven for whatever nonsense stupidity that I let come out of my mouth that I obviously didn\u2019t mean or feel,\u201d he says, manipulating the English language in a truly crazy way that uses the passive tense to avoid as much responsibility as possible. He\u2019s not sorry; he hopes forgiveness can be bestowed upon him. It\u2019s not something he said; it\u2019s something that left his mouth. Not since Jax Taylor have we seen a master manipulator like this on our screens.<\/p>\n
Luckily, the trip ends with a palate cleanser that brings me such an enormous amount of joy. As the gang all packs up and loads into the cars to get ahead of an impending snowstorm, Rowan asks if she can take a rotisserie chicken home with her to make chicken salad, and does just that, hopping into the SUV with the rotis\u2019 chick\u2019 en tow. A girl after my own heart, and finally someone on this show who is making some sense.<\/p>\n
Back in New York City, we forge ahead to our dueling clothing line pop-ups being thrown by Brooks and Shai, respectively. Unfortunately for Brooks, his mother, Meredith, has to pass on attending, telling him, \u201cUnfortunately, I don\u2019t think I can be there because I have to DJ.\u201d Imagine your mother saying this to you under any circumstances whatsoever. That\u2019s what makes the Marks family so special. That, and the fact that Seth takes Georgia under his wing at the event itself after she seeks his expertise for her newly renamed cleaning brand, Messy. \u201cSeth Marks is one of the great spiritual leaders of our time,\u201d she says, just after he calls her the Ralph Lauren of household cleaning. And you know what, you can\u2019t argue with that.<\/p>\n
Shai\u2019s pop-up has a much cooler, grungier vibe, but the big headline out of that event isn\u2019t about the clothes; it\u2019s the fact that Ava is starting to warm up to her not-so-secret admirer, especially now that she gets to see him in his element. No longer the jester (or gesture), the flirtation is suddenly mutual. And honestly, what a relief \u2014 the secondhand embarrassment from his rejection earlier in the season was too much to bear.<\/p>\n
Since cameras went down after the pop-up, we naturally missed all the good stuff, but to the cast\u2019s credit, they fill us in via confessional. They went to a bar afterward, where Ava mentioned that he\u2019s suddenly hot, to which he replied that he\u2019s always been hot. That\u2019s a hot response, and Ava must have agreed because they then made out.<\/p>\n
They went back to Charlie\u2019s place along with Ariana and Liam for what I can only imagine was set to be some kind of twisted Gen-Z take on Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? \u2014 but Liam left early to go walk Ariana\u2019s dogs. Now why the hell would he do that, especially after asking her to stop hanging out at Charlie\u2019s late at night? These two are a complete mess, and I can\u2019t believe they\u2019re set to spend Christmas together. Somebody free Liam from this girl\u2019s torture! Ava and Shai naturally did some more making out at Charlie\u2019s, but what did Ariana get up to? I\u2019m almost too afraid of what the answer might be, and worst of all, Ariana is leaving us on a cliffhanger until next week. At least we\u2019ll have time to prepare for the worst, just in case.<\/p>\n
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