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When Bravo announced their official viewing party for the first night of the three-part Summer House reunion, tickets sold out in seconds. Hundreds of fans showed up to fill three auditoriums at the AMC Theatre on 19th street in New York City on Tuesday night to watch the cast of the hit reality series discuss, for the first time, the relationship scandal that has rocked both their friend group and the Bravo-verse at large.
Josh Brown, vp of current production for the network, was in attendance at one of those live screenings, and in his decades of film and TV-making — including the last 10 years working on Summer House — he’s never seen anything like it. “I was expecting the fans to be engaged, but I was surprised at how engaged they were,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “There was either cheering or clapping or laughing or booing every 15 seconds. It just showed the incredible connection the fans have to the series and how meaningful it is to them.”
THR spoke with Brown after part one of the Summer House reunion aired on Tuesday night to go inside the taping, which he attended when the 10 hour-plus day was filmed back on April 23, to get all of the details from someone who was in the room when Ciara Miller confronted her former friend, Amanda Batula, and her ex, West Wilson, about their shock relationship, which has continued on after that taping. Below, Brown reveals where they are with the cast for season 11, which begins filming in July; if viewers will get clarity on the confusing Batula-West relationship timeline; and what to expect when the final two parts of the reunion air on June 2 and 9: “If you think you’ve seen twists and turns in Part 1, get ready.”
