As a sensible lady as soon as mentioned, don’t be tardy for the occasion. On April 15, Bravo opened the vault, so to talk, and has made many long-gone actuality sequence like The Rachel Zoe Project and NYC Prep accessible to stream on Peacock. On a particular episode of Still Watching, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy dive again into the depths of Bravo and share their favourite classic Bravo moments as they take into account the previous, current, and way forward for the fact TV juggernaut.
Lawson opted for a traditional second from Top Chef—season one, episode seven, to be particular—when chef Dave Martin turned to fellow contestant Tiffani Faison following the franchise’s first installment of Restaurant Wars to ship the immortal line, “I’m not your bitch, bitch.” Noting Top Chef’s virtually 20 years on air, Lawson remarked at how a lot and the way has little has modified on the community. “It’s funny to look back,” he mentioned. “Top Chef, which is now so distinct from the Housewives, back in the day did have these pretty ugly moments that people really relished.”
Busis opted for a stand-out second from one other widespread Bravo competitors sequence, Project Runway: when Santino Rice did a pitch-perfect Tim Gunn impersonation, demanding to know “What happened to Andre?” She touched upon the star-making issue Bravo had, even again within the previous days. “By season two, Tim Gunn has kind of become this personality in his own right,” Busis famous. “He was plucked from mainstream obscurity, and then [Bravo] turned this humble teacher into a giant star.”
Murphy opted for a traditional Housewives second, singling out Kim Zolciak’s first single “Tardy for the Party” from The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Name-checking different Bravo songstresses together with Countess Luann, Candiace Dillard Bassett, and Erika Jayne, Murphy remarked on how Zolciak unwittingly created a subarchetype of the Housewife. “I do think we need to pay our respects and listen to it, and think about that phenomenon,” he mentioned.
Have a favourite Bravo second that wasn’t coated on the podcast? Send an e-mail to Still Watching at stillwatchingpod@gmail.com, and keep looking out for brand spanking new episodes because the podcast tackles the Real Housewives of the Regency period, Netflix’s Bridgerton, within the coming weeks.