SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the series premiere of “In the City,” streaming on Peacock as of May 20.
Picture the intro to “The Sopranos,” substitute Tony for an anxious-avoidant Italian woman exiting a hellish decade-long relationship, brighten up the score, and you have the opening beats to “In the City,” the much-ballyhooed “Summer House” spinoff.
“In the City,” which premiered Tuesday night on Bravo following the Season 10 finale of “Summer House,” revolves around Amanda Batula, Kyle Cooke and Lindsay Hubbard, three cornerstones of the aforementioned Hamptons-set series, as they navigate their lives in the not-so-mean streets of Manhattan. Amanda, 34, is the estranged wife of Kyle, 43, the founder of a canned cocktail company inexplicably called “Loverboy” that is hemorrhaging money; Kyle is her recently-dumped husband, who chose to pursue a DJ career in his 40s both to spite Amanda and to funnel money his struggling company; and Lindsay is a former publicist and single mom to a ridiculously cute baby girl, Gemma, whose palatial apartment would make Nancy Meyers blush.
There are other assorted cast members sprinkled in, such as former “Summer House” star, founder and president of something, Danielle Olivera, and her Irish live-in boyfriend Eoin; occasional “Summer House” cast member Andrea Denver, a really, really, ridiculously good-looking Italian model, and his wife Lexi; Lindsay’s pals Yvonne and Georgina; and Kenny Martin, an insufferable venture capitalist who immediately emerges as the villain of the show, and is joined by his lovely-seeming girlfriend Whitney, a former “Bachelor” contestant who should run for the hills.
