A spokesman for Bravo said that four episodes of ‘Southern Charm’ were taken off the channel’s video-on-demand services due to race-charging moments within them. Three of them have been re-posted on BravoTV.com and to the Bravo app, and will return to VOD shortly. (Uploading something on cable and satellite services on demand will take longer.) The fourth episode will also return, but with a scene set at a plantation that has been removed from there.
TikTok user @thetalkofshame first noticed the missing episodes of the Bravo docusoap, which premiered in 2014, and follows the lives of socialites in Charleston, South Carolina. On August 11, in a three-part TikTok series, she pointed out that an episode of ‘Southern Charm’ – Season 1, Episode 2 – broke out in Bravo’s on-demand services. She wanted to watch the episode again, and discovered that it was not there. In it, former cast member Thomas Ravenel had lunch with his father, former Congressman Arthur Ravenel Jr. In the scene – which she plays in part 2 – Arthur tells Thomas that he likes to lose $ 5 bills because Abraham Lincoln is pictured with them, smiling wryly at the camera.
‘This was sent out! Primetime! Bravo! ”She says.
The next day, @thetalkofshame discovered that more “Southern Charm” episodes missed from Bravo’s VOD services: Episode 1 from Season 3, Episode 1 from Season 4, and Episode 8 from Season 4.
The Bravo spokesman confirmed that the episodes were filmed as part of a review the network is conducting to highlight potentially offensive content. The Black Lives Matter protests that erupted earlier in June led to a cultural outcry that prompted media outlets to investigate practices that were once standard. In the wake of this recontextualization in June, Bravo resigned ‘Vanderpump Rules’ original cast members Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, along with two other members of the cast. Bravo also shoots in Cast member of “Under deck: Mediterranean” for a racist and misogynistic Instagram post.
It’s not the first time Bravo has watched an episode because it’s offensive. A transphobic episode of the first seasons of “Under Deck” was not only removed from their VOD services, but has also disappeared from Amazon and iTunes.
The Bravo spokesman said many shows have been under review recently, but these “Southern Charm” episodes are the only ones so far that have been taken down for further investigation. Although three of the episodes were considered in the order, season 3, episode 1 of the show will be edited as a result, and a scene where “Southern Charm” star Kathryn Dennis gives a tour through the plantation of her family to occasional guest K. Cooper Ray will be excluded.
It was this scene, in which the two accidentally discuss the slave cemetery on the property, that @thetalkofshame highlighted in has TikTok, asking: ‘Is it the accidental reference that you live on a plantation on top of a slave cemetery, before you sit down to drink mint juleps with your friend? Is it that every plantation is really just a giant slave cemetery? ”
When the episode returns to Bravo’s VOD channels, that scene will be gone.
