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By now, it’s no secret that Bravo‘s Summer House is in the spotlight.

Ten seasons in, after cameras stopped rolling, the cast was catapulted into the zeitgeist over a relationship scandal with two castmembers, Amanda Batula and West Wilson, who were previously attached to two other castmembers. Batula was married to Kyle Cooke for four years before they announced their separation in January, and Wilson had dated Ciara Miller on and off over the past three years. Cooke and Wilson were friends, and Batula and Miller were even closer friends.

But Summer House finished filming the just-ended 10th season before that scandal rocked the Bravo-verse, setting the ratings stage for the upcoming three-part reunion (starting on May 26) as the can’t-miss event for devoted viewers of the hit reality series. The reunion, which was filmed last month, is the first time the cast had the opportunity to hash out how everything went down — from feelings around betrayals, from both friends and lovers; to clarifying the timeline of when Batula and Wilson got together; and even addressing if the pair are, actually, in love. The trailer peeked into the highly anticipated confrontation between Miller and her former close friend and ex-boyfriend, where she accused them of being together only to spite her.

It’s going to be dramatic and emotional, just like the final episode of Summer House was.

In the May 19 season ender, titled “Ski Ya Later,” the cast attempted to move on after an epic blow up from Cooke the week before by throwing one final house party. But after their après ski-themed rager, the heaviness of the end of an era began to reveal itself — even if the people involved couldn’t have possibly known then that they would never be able to go back to how things were once wrapping season 10.

The lingering goodbye hugs between the cast hit different for viewers, who have been dissecting every whisper and stolen glance between Wilson and Batula ever since they confirmed they were linked in March, as well as any curious reactions from those around them, like from Cooke, Miller or Lindsay Hubbard. But that didn’t lessen any emotions felt when watching Batula and Cooke address the failing state of their marriage when sitting on the steps of their cast Hamptons house before ending the summer.

“Seeing the way you snapped … that’s the shit that scares me,” Batula told Cooke when bringing up a separation. “Is this what forever is going to look like for us?”

“I just feel like I let everybody down,” Cooke responded in tears. “Everything just feels like it’s crumbling.”

“The past 10 years of our lives have been here,” summed up Batula. “We’ve been through so much together. We’ve been through cheating rumors and infidelity and engagement and fake weddings, real weddings. It’s been so amazing, and also really fucking hard. We’ve had some of the best memories, but also some of the absolute fucking worst. And I feel like leaving here this weekend, I want to close that chapter and start over, whatever that looks like for us.”

In this moment, filmed in the summer of 2025, Batula and Cooke couldn’t have known what things would end up looking like.

Bravo fans, however, have been through this sort of all-knowing viewership experience before — most notably with “Scandoval,” when the Vanderpump Rules romance scandal catapulted that cast into virility. But that moment became so big that it ultimately ended them. Vanderpump Rules rebooted with an entirely new cast, and the starring players went onto widely varying levels of post-zeitgeist success.

Cooke and Batula, however, are only beginning their what-comes-next in this final scene. Summer House then concluded with Batula driving back alone to New York City, and she drove right into the beginning of their new spinoff series, In the City, which launched with a one-hour episode immediately after.

The Manhattan-set series picks up in January 2026, four months after that doorstep conversation in the Hamptons, with headlines of Batula and Cooke announcing their split. In the City then zoomed through clips of Batula, Cooke and Wilson denying then-rumors about Batula and Wilson dating, before catching viewers up to March 31, when Batula and Wilson released their joint statement. Then the opening scene, filmed on April 9, 2026, catches up with the Loverboy CEO and his estranged wife once again having a hard conversation.

Cooke tells Batula he’s worried about her weight and mental health. Batula says she gave their relationship everything she had and it “got so messy” because she was afraid of not having him in her life. Cooke accuses her of having been one foot out the door.

“I had nothing left in me to fight, but I was still trying to give it everything I had,” she says, denying she was having an “emotional affair” with Wilson or that she was unfaithful.

“It just makes me so upset that someone else gets the version that I fell in love with,” Cooke says through tears.

Then the series rewinds seven months earlier to September 2025, when In the City begins in earnest and introduces the familiar — Summer House star Hubbard and alums Danielle Olivera and Andrea Denver — and new faces who make up the spinoff’s cast. The season finished filming in February, but picked cameras back up after the scandal came to light to capture moments like the opening conversation between Batula and Cooke.

Summer House has been renewed for season 11, but the cast is not confirmed. So with Summer House‘s future somewhat unknown, in comes In the City and the next era for Cooke and Batula and their cast as they prepare to enter the “Scamanda” scandal waters.

As In the City‘s prescient first episode plays out, Batula and Cooke’s relationship remains in focus. To end the hour, Batula tells the cameras that, at their wedding anniversary dinner, they are celebrating anyone who said they would get divorced within three years: “We made it to four,” she says.

But, she still tells Cooke that she’s moving out. She wants to physically separate and try dating again. She makes it clear that she’s not asking. She’s telling him. “I’m not doing this to run away, I’m doing this because I want it to work out,” she says. Cooke remains skeptical, but what can he say?

The trailer for the rest of the season shows them arguing over not having a prenup and hints at more cheating, while Hubbard blows up over the dismantling of her friends’ marriage. “If you come for me, I’ll come for you,” Batula tells Cooke in one scene.

Once again, it’s going to be dramatic. It’s going to be emotional. And we’ll all be watching.