If the idea of watching six teenagers go through a variety of facial expressions, while shopping, eating out and going to clubs sounds like as much fun as trimming your toe nails with hair thinning shears, then perhaps ‘NYC Prep’ — the new reality show on Bravo TV, debuting Tuesday June 23rd — is not for you.

In fact, it’s not my cup of tea either, having never even warmed up to its scripted counterpart and inspiration ‘Gossip Girl’. I mean, I liked being a teenager in private school in NYC as much as anyone, but OMG, I am so over that now! And while ‘Gossip Girl’ at least has fantastic clothes, worn by glamorous actresses and the over-the-top appeal of a TV serial, ‘NYC Prep’ possesses all of the squalor and pathos that watching a bunch of misdirected and misinformed kids on the loose, with way too much money for their own good, could offer.

From the same franchise that brought us such timeless classics — NOT! — as ‘The Real Housewives of…’ (fill in any city or state in the US these days), ‘NYC Prep’ follows four girls and two boys around town, getting into a series of mishaps, bitching fights while generally misinterpreting the news, culture and real life. One of the girls doesn’t from the same posh background as everyone else, she even attends — GASP! — public school and that produces, like, OMG, many conflicts and apparently insurmountable issues.

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