Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and, listen, without any further ado,

I am here with the Queen of Summer House. TVD if she's activated or not right now, it's

Lindsey Habbert. Hi Jess, thanks for having me. Don't ask me me, but we'll see, we'll see

by the end of this. If I do, can I get some free merch? I mean, yes, some of your address.

How are you? How are you feeling today? I'm good. You know, it's, we're nearing the end of the

season. I'm a little exhausted. I think we all are a little exhausted, but it's been a great season

so far. I feel like it's maybe one of our best yet. And yeah, you tell me. Oh, I definitely

feel that this is the rare show that with every season, like it gets exponentially better and

better because this, it seems like the stakes are higher and you need, in order to have a great

show, there need to be stakes, whether it's scripted or reality. If there's no stakes, it's just,

like an often complaint now with the housewives is that it's just antics. And so you need like

relationship drama. And so that's why I think a show like Yours and Vanderpump, you know, in the day,

like it can reach those high highs, you know? Totally. And we've also been kind of preparing for

this moment, you know, since the history of Summer House came about, it's like, okay, oh, it's

quarantine style. Oh, no problem. They've been like leading up to this for the last four seasons.

So why not just throw them in a house and see who survives? You know, speaking of Vanderpump

rules with Vanderpump rules on hiatus, it really paved the way for Summer House to be to suddenly

become the critical darling of Bravo. It must be so gratifying. I think we were, you know,

one of the first shows production wise that was able to film because we had an easier

structure and format to film during, you know, quarantine. So, but yeah, I mean, you know,

I love almost everyone from Vanderpump. I obviously know them all. And I actually miss seeing them

on TV, you know, it's like your friends. You just like miss seeing them. But yes, we're very

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