Palm Beach has “old money” and “big ass houses” and women should never “show your boobs and your knees at the same time”, according to Netflix’s latest reality series.
The streamer is launching Members Only: Palm Beach on December 29 and it has released its first trailer.
It’s clear Netflix has wholeheartedly entered the world of backstabbing and chaos in the series, which comes from 3BMG’s Superluna Studio.
It may well remind Jeff Gaspin, Netflix’s unscripted chief, of when he became President of Bravo when NBCUniversal acquired it in 2002 and started making The Real Housewives franchise.
The series follows a group of women navigating the unspoken rules, inherited traditions and high-stakes hierarchies of America’s most rarefied social circles, also known as Trump land.
Members Only: Palm Beach (Netflix)
It will see five women navigate friendships and rivalries to answer the question: Who is the true queen of Palm Beach?
The five women? Hilary Musser, Taja Abitbol, Rosalyn Yellin, Ro-mina Ustayev, and Maria Cozamanis.
Musser is a real estate developer who lives in a $40M mansion; Abitbol is the longtime partner of Yankees legend David Cone who was accused of trying to burn down her Manhattan apartment in 2019 to land a spot on The Real Housewives of New York and is bringing her friend Teresa Giudice, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey along for an appearance; Yellin is a Zumba instructor turned socialite; Ustayev is the youngest cast member; and Cozamanis is a former tech entrepreneur turned DJ.
Gaspin told Deadline earlier this year that he was surprised there were so many northeast transplants in Palm Beach. “We like to talk about the familiar with a twist. The familiar is a bunch of women but you add in the town of Palm Beach and that gives us the little twist in its perspective,” he said.
Is it essentially The Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago? “The easy answer is to say yes, but I think it’s actually more than that,” Gaspin added. “We have passed on a lot of shows that could have been the Real Housewives of some other town or city, but honestly, what attracted me to this group was they made the housewives look like Disney characters. They were so loud and big and brash, and the personality of the city was a big part of it.”