Well, I'll Be! Southern Charm Gets Renewed, Expands From Charleston to Savannah, Georgia  

Southern Charm, which is based in and around Charleston, South Carolina, works for a few reasons. The first is Cameran Eubanks, who we first met when she starred on the Real World San Diego in 2004. Cameran has more charisma than seems fair for a single person to possess, and she dominates the show while (mostly) keeping a genteel distance from the drama, as long as that drama isn’t named Kathryn Dennis.

The second reason is a scene like this: Thomas Ravenel, a 50-something former State Treasurer who got kicked out of office on cocaine charges and recently spent at least a million dollars on a failed Senate campaign, brings a gigantic, expensive Diptyque candle as an offering to the mansion of Patricia Altschul, a 75-year-old martini-obsessed socialite and cast member. Ravenel is there to beg for the social inclusion of the aforementioned Miss Dennis, a highly emotional 23-year-old descendent of John C. Calhoun (this is never acknowledged as a negative), whom he has impregnated twice since the show began. Patricia demurs.

You’ll see, then, why I might be skeptical that a second cast would be able to match the crazy of this bourbon-drenched drama, though the press release for Savannah does reference a “hauntingly romantic”“antebellum” setting—yep, that should go over well—filled with “heirs and socialites who learned to operate boats before cars.”

As Cameran might say: “Dear lord.”