Ahead of the increasingly imminent Season 15 premiere of Real Housewives Of New York City, the producers at Bravo have unveiled the cast’s taglines for the season — and fans have opinions already.
In the reality TV landscape, Real Housewives Of New York City (or simply RHONY) has a long and established legacy.
It wasn’t the first Real Housewives franchise – that honor goes to Real Housewives Of Orange County – but it was the very next franchise Bravo built after RHOC’s success.
Like the city around which RHONY revolves, the show had big energy, and its “OG” cast produced some luminaries in the genre (like Bethenny Frankel) — but the show was “rebooted” back in 2022.
Real Housewives taglines are a big part of the culture around the franchise, and they are typically chosen to shape the audience’s perception of the personality to whom the tagline belongs.
RHONY’s original core cast remains iconic, the standard against which newcomers are judged, and fans are weighing in on the franchise’s new taglines.
Bravo Just Revealed The New RHONY Taglines
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Season 15 of Real Housewives Of New York City premieres on October 1.
The timing of the RHONY premiere alone is a bold move for Bravo, as it’s going head-to-head with the vice presidential debate — which will preempt Dancing With The Stars this week.
After Bravo shared the new taglines, Vulture “fact-checked” them, based on each RHONY cast member’s time on the show and the references involved.
Regarding Jenna’s tagline, the outlet decreed:
This is both the best tagline of the year and undoubtedly ‘True.’
Over on Reddit, fans reacted to the RHONY taglines on r/BravoRealHousewives and r/RHDiscussion, both hubs for discussing the franchises.
The latter thread was titled “Real Housewives of New York City Season 15 Awful Taglines,” suggesting fans weren’t embracing the new cast or their vibes all that quickly.
The person who submitted the thread also commented, objecting to the fact that Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City didn’t get new taglines, while RHONY did:
“It’s so insulting that the slc crew have had the same intro looks for five seasons while this motley crew get to reshoot their intro looks so they can spew vulgar witless nonsense[.]
“[RHOSLC] had a real moment with ‘receipts! proof! timeline! screenshots!’ while rhony had f***** nothing! You’ve tried to make ‘it’s there’ a thing, and nobody wants it! this show is such an insult to me as a human being who likes good things!”
Another commenter had similar complaints, and opined the taglines matched RHONY’s current energy:
“Truly went from bad to worse! Reminds me of the pigeon stuff from the trailer – the girls are trying hard to brand themselves and their show iconic, but they have nothing to work with, so it comes across as trying too hard …
” … the ‘up and coming’ quote would have been a mildly humorous moment on a better Housewives franchise and Sai being ‘hungry’ wouldn’t have even made final edit. Worst of all is ‘Jenna F***** Lyons,’ which reminds us that the lack of solid mothering on this show has forced the fanbase to stan a charisma vacuum like Jenna[.]”
A third simply mused: “[The new RHONY taglines] sound like [they] were written by AI.”
On the other thread, one fan said “Jenna’s put me to sleep,” and another also brought it back to RHOSLC:
Where are SLC taglines!?
Not all fans were entirely underwhelmed, and one offered praise, however faint:
“Ubah and Jessel for the win, Racquel’s good too. Everyone else is trying way too hard, and Brynn needs to find a new schtick other than cosplaying Sonja Morgan x Samantha Jones.”
A person commenting on @queensofbravo’s tweet about the new RHONY taglines functionally summarized the most common fan sentiment: “These ladies are so f***** corny. God, just bring back our OGs already.”