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This same logic holds within the franchises themselves.
How does a newRHONYcast fill in the old moneynew money divides of the original iteration?
Will there be a direct inheritor of one of the previous archetypes?
Four episodes into the revivedRHONY, its fascinating to watch how much has and has not changed.
It is no long anathema to enter Brooklyn.
In other words, newRHONYis full of Bethennys.
Two related clouds of signification defined the Bethenny throw in early in theRHONYworld.
The other is personality, which is both less concrete and less changeable over time.
She was still aggressively argumentative, of course, and very much down in the trenches of various disagreements.
But she was also always pivoting toward meta-analysis.
If everyone else was locking horns, Bethenny was pointing out how absurd it all was.
This combination of circumstance and personality was the real magic of Bethenny as a reality pop in.
She is the desperate, wide-eyed newcomer but nottoowide-eyed, ortoograsping, the qualities that defined poor Alex McCord.
And somehow at the same time, she can be the jaded doyenne.
The influence of Bethenny is all over the newRHONY.
Its no longer about connections to a Gilded Age family or whom your husband does business with.
When it comes to branded products, though, none are better positioned than Ubahs hot sauces.
Jennas combination of already established social power with newcomer status ismesmerizing.
This is the true legacy of Bethenny, reborn into a blazer, jeans, and a slicked-back bun.
What will it mean to have a new cast so dominated by the archetype of one character?
How doesRHONYchange when its less about old versus new money and more about new money versus better-known new money?
The potential pleasures are clear.
The tyranny of small differences.
Ubah is chaotic Bethenny good, Brynn is chaotic Bethenny neutral, Jenna is lawful Bethenny evil.
