Sona Fixes
Your TV Binge
CONAN O’BRIEN’S LONGTIME
ASSISTANT—WHO HOSTS S O NA
FIXES YOUR LIFE ON THE TEAM
COCO INSTAGRAM—IS HERE TO
GIVE YOU THE LOWDOWN ON
MAXIMIZING YOUR COUCH-POTATO
POTENTIAL. By Omar SanchezLast year, Sona Movsesian famously
watched 58 episodes of Friends in
just four days. The binge skills are
unmatched. If you need help chew-
ing through the latest season of The
Great British Baking Show or slippin’
your way through Better Call Saul
or plowing through the first 39 sea-
sons of Survivor to figure out what
is going on during this season’s
all-winners edition, let Sona save
your Sunday with these clutch tips.Get Comfortable
Comfort is a big deal. I think that
it’s important to have a throw near
you. Temperatures fluctuate. If
you’re a true binger, you’re going
from the daytime to nighttime
without moving off the couch. You
don’t want to go to the thermostat
or fiddle with, like, heating or cooling
systems while you’re binging.When in Doubt, Rally!
I most recently binged the second
season of Sex Education. At night,
when I would get really tired, I just
rallied. It’s important to get caffeine
in you or sugar of some kind.Binge Solo
My husband will watch one episode
of a show and say, “We’ll watch the
second one tomorrow!” What are
you talking about? It’s taking us so
long to binge Deadwood. Binging is
a solo activity. You’re never going
to find someone who has the same
stamina as you do.↖ Sona Movsesian
and Conan O’Brien
taunting a puppy
that hasn’t finished
Cheer yet
↗ Dorinda Medley,
Sonja Morgan,
Tinsley Mortimer,
and Leah
McSweeney try
very hard not to
mention JovaniTHE REAL HOUSEWIVESOF NEW YORK CITYCAN THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF
New York City survive without
Bethenny Frankel? Bravo’s
Manhattan-to-Hamptons docu-
soap lost its breakout star once
before to marriage and spin-offs.
Divorce plus cancellation brought
her back for five addictive seasons.
Now she’s gone again, getting that
WarnerMedia money for a new
competition series on whatever
HBO Max is.
New addition Leah McSweeney
is a single-ish mom–slash–owner
of a famous clothing brand I’ve
never heard of. She’s a demo-
graphic ally for Tinsley Mortimer,
long the “Partied With Don Jr.”
cub among “Partied With Donald”
wolves. Tinsley’s no longer dating
Scott. Except: Is Tinsley Still
Dating Scott? The season 12
premiere implies this year’s
Whole Big Feud comes down to
ever-probing Dorinda Medley ask-
ing that question, over and over.
They start battling at a party
Dorinda throws to celebrate, um,
summer being over, or something.Ah, the high-society joys of
RHONY, where every nonsense
event becomes an arena for
gladiatorial pique. “I had sex on
his sink in Saint-Tropez!” declares
Sonja Morgan mid-soiree, by way
of conversation. That sentence
pretty well sums up everything
fashionable and trashy (Saint-
Tropez, ahh! Sex, ooo! Sink, whaa?)
about this most wifeless of House-
wives spin-offs.
I guess I love this show. I paid
money to see Luann de Lesseps’
cabaret; I regret nothing. Still, I
worry the premiere lacks the
Bethenny punch. She classed
everything up by dressing every-
one down. But I remain invested
in these women, and their sparkly
striving life in the eternal after:
after husbands, after kids, after
Florida mug shots, after a few
drinks. “I want a man to hold me,
to love me, to want me, to be with
me!” Ramona Singer cries out to a
steak lounge full of plastic Upper
East Side faces. It’s a display of
emotion so extreme that I had to
laugh, which is part of RHONY’s
heartless appeal. But dammit, I’ll
keep watching. I do want Ramona
to be happy. B —DARREN FRANICHDAT E APRIL 2
NETWORK B R AVO
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