The problem seems to be the women did not know each other before the show started. Ayan is a gorgeous model and she's running around throwing shade at women she just met (You said I was unimportant?) and picking silly fights to create drama because there is none otherwise. Caroline Stanbury is a wealthy hard-working influencer who is busy hyping her shoe brand, her podcast, and all the brands who pay her in Dubai including the hotel Raffles where she has a second wedding to her husband Sergio for the cameras. Add to that the restaurants who are paying the producers and its not a tour of billionaires backyards in Palm Jumeriah but a string of waiters welcoming ladies to lunch in restaurants that can be anywhere offering up
the specialty of the day. They intercut it with shots of Dubai landmarks and hit a few but this show could be anywhere. The women are ethnically diverse with one caucasian, two Arabs, and three of Black or Afro-Caribbean descent. But they aren't really diverse. The women are five American citizens, one British citizen, and one Emirati who I came to watch because she was the manager and girlfriend of Michele Morrone the most gorgeous actor of 365 Days. But that relationship professional and personal seems to be over and he has not so far appeared in the show. So that thrill is gone. The Emirati Sara Almadani is frankly quite boring despite her many tattoos which are "haram" in Muslim culture. She takes a shot at the toxicity of the Emirates masculine culture and tells us she's raising her son to be a person but then goes through this fake pantomime of trying to get him to sit on the floor and eat with his hands to pass on the tradition. When he refuses she turns to the nanny and says "Maureen I tried." Sure once for the cameras. She is not rich enough to be a thing of envy her kitchen is a 1970s laminate hell. And there must be many rich Emirati women they could put on the show - some with traditional values who might clash with the other stars or perhaps could give us a real lesson in Emirati culture. Honestly, this is a miss for Bravo. They were led by brand sponsorships and forgot all about talent and character and plot.
