The plot of this season of Southern Allure was transferring at a languid tempo, and Shep Rose’s girlfriend Sienna Evans has ignited the plot and is transferring it ahead. The fact star has all the time been a participant, going from lady to lady and his nomadic tendencies have him flitting from one metropolis to the following island to a wholly totally different nation when he’s not stationed in Charleston filming for Southern Allure.

A romantic may name him a wayfarer, a realist would reckon that he’s acquired main dedication points, and Shep himself would say he is each. Shep is slowly reckoning with himself and endeavoring to be extra self-aware, with a significant catalyst being Andy Cohen confronting him about his conduct after he acquired blackout drunk throughout BravoCon. A redemption arc would not make anybody proof against karma, and in Shep’s case, karma comes within the type of a pageant queen who is nearly twenty years youthful than him.

Shep Rose Was Overdue for Some Humility on ‘Southern Allure’

It looks as if Shep has lastly developed the capability to suppose past himself as he fell for Sienna, claiming he is in love along with her and needs to set down roots with a household in her native Bahamas. However is he actually in love along with her after assembly her perhaps six instances? Or is he simply excessive off experiencing a fleeting connection for the primary time since turning into extra in contact with actuality? After all, the primary woman he calls “The One” is a considerably youthful magnificence queen who’s unattainable in that she lives in a special nation and overtly snubs him. He fantasizes about residing on an island and elevating youngsters collectively along with her when he is aware of that it’s going to by no means shake out. If Charleston is simply too claustrophobic for his bachelor life-style to remain there for longer than a few months, he can’t even fathom how suffocating it’s being tethered to a small island with a bunch of youngsters and a spouse could be.

Shep went from boarding faculty to an SEC faculty to Vanderbilt to coasting via life in Charleston, so he has always been in situations which are fairly actually made for him to flourish as a WASPy, objectively enticing man with an prosperous final title and actuality TV clout. He has been rewarded for his stunted conduct and he is lastly being confronted with a actuality that is not tailored for him. Sienna is a BIPOC lady whose profession is on the rise and whose DMs are bursting on the seams with males who’re extra profitable, so he is out of his comfortable component on each stage. Sienna has been visibly dismissive to Shep on the present, and she or he’s a pageant winner, so one would suppose she would a minimum of feign enthusiasm when the cameras are rolling. He is bending over backward to appease her, frantically surveying his buddies about what he ought to do about sending her a easy textual content to test in. She remains to be doing nothing to hide that she doesn’t like him, however is giving him small doses of feigned curiosity as a result of she appears to relish that he is determined. Shep has been the primary to confess that Sienna is giving him a style of his personal medication, and it has been gratifying for girls all over the place who’ve dated a man like Shep.

Reactions to Sienna Have been Telling

The solid has a number of opinions about Sienna, regardless that she’s had minimal interactions with any of them. Patricia Altschul is telling on herself by claiming Sienna is “a stalker” for cozying as much as Shep after matching along with her 60-year-old son Whitney Sudler-Smith on Raya. Madison Lecroy is airing herself out by echoing the identical sentiments simply because Sienna’s grandmother runs a Southern Allure fanpage. Patricia’s been married a number of instances to extraordinarily rich males and Madison acquired on the present by courting Austen Kroll and has a historical past of texting married athletes, so they’ve a historical past of positioning themselves to climb the social ladder and their internalized misogyny is inflicting them to editorialize Sienna’s conduct, making it one thing a lot darker than it really is regardless that they’ve accomplished related issues. In the meantime, Craig Conover is exposing his lack of self-awareness by saying he can learn Sienna’s darkish “power” and “aura” as quickly as she walks right into a room, however he persistently misunderstood when his now ex-girlfriend Paige DeSorbo repeatedly advised him she would by no means transfer to Charleston and did not wish to calm down at this level.

Then there’s Taylor Inexperienced, Shep’s ex-girlfriend, who’s delighting in schadenfreude and it is probably the most likable she’s ever been. Shep dishonest on her repeatedly, condescending her, and being a middle-aged man prowling King Avenue for a lot youthful ladies wasn’t sufficient to present her The Ick and understand there was nothing she might have accomplished to vary him. Taylor has been a polarizing determine, with a number of her dangerous conduct stemming from self-sabotage after Shep mistreated her beginning at an age the place she did not actually have a absolutely developed frontal lobe. Taylor witnessing Shep being humbled has made her a extra empathetic determine, and hopefully she is taking private stock on her patterns with males like Shep, particularly her new boyfriend Gaston Rojas. She is witnessing firsthand how troublesome it’s to have a private reckoning at a a lot older age, so fingers crossed she’s doing it now at youthful age when it is simpler to vary.