Bravo: Why are cancelled shows the best to binge watch?

Bravo has been running re-runs of shows that once graced our television screens during prime weeknight hours, but why are these the best to watch?

While many of us are at home watching television more than usual, Bravo has taken a turn from their usual week-day programming of playing the same old movie three times in a row.  Recently, they have been playing old series that are no longer around, or only lasted a few seasons.  Let’s take a trip down memory lane with some of these gone-too-soon shows.

There’s something about a series that ended too soon that everyone loves to watch.  NYC Prep, The Real Housewives of Miami, Ladies of London, Newlyweds: The First Year, Princesses: Long Island, and Gallery Girls are just a few.  Gallery Girls only had eight episodes in the first and only season, but it gained quite the following during its time on TV.  The season aired in late 2012 and never made it back for 2013.  The show is available in the Bravo app if you’re in the mood to binge a show about the cut-throat art world scene!

NYC Prep is also available on the Bravo app for streaming the first and only season in 2009.  The show centered around NYC kids in “Manhattan’s elite high school scene.”  It was sort of Gossip Girl but with a real-life cast of kids.  They partied, they fought, they applied to college, and they got canceled after one season.

The Real Housewives of Miami was a three-season gem set in the hottest part of South Florida.  Some of the cast is still pretty relevant, even eight years later.  Joanna Krupa, Lea Black, Lisa Hochstein, Marysol Patton, and Larsa Pippen (Kardashian-adjacent) are all still big names in Bravo-land though RHOM only aired from 2011 through 2013.  The houses were big but the egos couldn’t be contained even in the biggest of waterfront mansions. Watching these women screech at one another over crystal martini glasses on the water really is a highlight of Bravo-television past.

Ladies of London was another three-season wonder that aired from 2014 through 2017, so one of the more recent series.  The cast consisted of uber-socialite Caroline Stanbury who was later joined by her sister-in-law Sophie Stanbury, and some other eccentric ladies such as Caroline Fleming, Julie Montagu, Juliet Angus, and Marissa Hermer.  Many of these women still run in the same social circles and have been rumored to be joining RHOBH time and time again, but to no avail yet.

There’s something about putting on a show from many moons ago with such irrelevant drama that just pulls you back in.

It’s almost like there’s no guilt or real pressure on watching because you know that everything worked out in the end…for the most part.  So, stay home with Bravo and see what blast from the past they give us today…such as The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills from the beginning!

Check out Bravo every morning to see what series you should binge-watch that day!