Last night's finale of NYC Prep on Bravo was full of so much drama, snark, and petty intrigue it was practically a real-life episode of Gossip Girl. That's no coincidence. Bravo can now legitimately lay claim to being the network that mints that ever-elusive "buzz" (whatever that is) by turning proven scripted shows into solid, low-brow reality TV. Witness The Real Housewives of Orange County-essentially Desperate Housewives gone SoCal. Miami Social? Friends in Florida.
But NYC Prep actually trumps its scripted predecessor, Gossip Girl, in terms of quality guilty-viewing pleasure. Despite its flagging ratings, the series is actually more entertaining than the show from which it was born. Below we present seven reasons why:
1. Ummm, drama! Say what you will, but the nail-biting freak-outs about whether uber-high-strung Camille will woo her Harvard tour guide or faux-French Sebastian will flip his hair coyly enough to bed his 15-year-old ingénue trump the tired antics of Gossip's Constance Billard/St. Jude school set any day. Sure, the Bravo show might be more chaste (about as sexually tense as last night's finale got was when seniors Jessie and PC were up to their typically vague verbal allusions to the bedroom: "I have really intense heels on and I have no problem shoving them in your ass"), but we double-heart Prep for keepin' it clean. Who needs all that gratuitous lip-locking anyway?
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