How Bravo Can Save RHOA After a Disappointing Season 15

Porsha is also a great candidate to come back to RHOA. The GoNaked Hair CEO infamously met her second husband, Simon Guobadia, while filming Season 13 of RHOA with his ex-wife, Falynn Pina. Season 13 was Porsha’s last, and fans desperately want her to explain her and Simon’s relationship timeline.

Porsha’s return is more promising than NeNe’s since she hasn’t sued the network and still has a good relationship with its executives. In March 2023, Porsha appeared on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls’ Trip and has been on Watch What Happens Live several times in 2023.

Kim also sparked a new interest in her life that could be great for RHOA. NeNe herself has often said she and Kim have made RHOA what it is, and I always enjoy seeing them together, whether on good or bad terms.

Plus, many of us fans need answers after Kim and her husband, Kroy Biermann, filed for divorce in May 2023 and then quickly reconciled two months later. Rumors swirled that Kim and Kroy planned to file for divorce amid money troubles, so fans would undoubtedly tune in to see if Kim was broke.

In addition to bringing back some of the stars from RHOA’s early reign, Bravo must take inventory of its current cast. During Season 13, the series hired Drew Sidora as a full-time Housewife, followed by Sanya Richards-Ross in Season 14.

Season 14 was also when Marlo Hampton finally received her peach after years of fans asking Bravo to make her a full-time cast member.

Since Drew, Sanya, and Marlo joined RHOA, they haven’t brought in the fans Bravo hoped for. Despite Drew and Sanya succeeding outside the show, Drew’s dramatic antics and Sanya’s lack of intriguing storylines make them less exciting to watch. However, I am personally invested in seeing what transpired between Drew and her soon-to-be ex-husband, Ralph Pittman, whom she filed for divorce amid claims of infidelity.

Sanya, however, would benefit from leaving the show. During many of her Season 15 scenes, it’s clear that the Olympian doesn’t enjoy conflict. However, Sanya tries incredibly hard to involve herself in drama to save her peach, which never works well in the Real Housewives universe.

Marlo should also hang up her peach and return to a “friend” role. In the last two years of her being a full-time housewife, Marlo has made me like her less and less. First, her decision to kick her nephews out of her house after taking them in from foster care never sat well with me.

Then, in Season 15, she made me want to take the peach out of her hand when she tried to make Kandi look like a bad friend when Marlo’s nephew died in 2020. According to Marlo, Kandi never sent her flowers when her nephew died, even though he worked at Kandi’s restaurant, Old Lady Gang.

The entire storyline was a dark and unnecessary way to make Kandi, the longest-running housewife, look bad. I think Marlo is best suited to being the “fun, shady” friend of the group and should be joined by LaToya Ali.

If you recall, LaToya was a “friend of” RHOA for one season and caused plenty of chaos during her first year with the group. After LaToya claimed that she and Drew kissed at the Season 13 reunion at Cynthia Bailey’s bachelorette party, Drew denied kissing her in Season 15.

She also accused Kandi of orchestrating the rumor, though Kandi has said on her YouTube show, Speak On It, that she saw LaToya and Drew kiss with her own eyes.

Even two seasons after she left the show, rumors of her kissing Drew became a Season 15 storyline.

I am appalled by RHOA’s decision to discuss not one but TWO dramatic moments that happened years before Season 15. The first was with Marlo’s nephew, which Marlo said on the show was only mentioned because a shooting at Kandi’s restaurant, Blaze, “triggered” her. While we can all understand triggers, the storyline didn’t need to be a part of the season for one episode, let alone several.

Then there’s Drew or LaToya’s tired drama. Whether either of them is telling the truth isn’t my problem. It’s none of ours, honestly. The party happened so long ago that Cynthia and the man she was having the bachelorette party for — Mike Hill — aren’t even together anymore.

And even if they were, are these women so unengaged in each other’s lives that they have nothing new to argue about? If so, it’s time to bring some new life to this show so we can go back to drama happening with the ladies in real-time.

As much as I think RHOA needs to change, I haven’t stopped watching and probably never will. However, I don’t want such an iconic show to vanish due to bad ratings. I truly believe small changes can be made to make it appointment television again, and I want Bravo to do better in Season 16.

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