On Tuesday night, devotees of the Bravo series “Summer House” packed an AMC theater near Union Square. The gathering was not far from where cast members sat down with Andy Cohen in late April, surrounded by many, many lanterns and other Hamptons décor to hash out their issues after a summer sharing a multimillion dollar mansion in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

The fans, who had bought one of the $70 tickets for the first episode of a three-part reunion wore themed apparel including shirts and hoodies with several of Kyle Cooke’s most popular lines: “Carl’s a mess” and “Summer should be fun.”

Gibson Johns, the host of the reality TV podcast “Gabbing With Gib” and an early viewer of the show, wore his own “Carl’s a Mess” T-shirt, which he said strangers had complimented on his way to the theater.

“There’s a yearning for communal experience,” Johns said. “In such a fractured world, but also a fracturing pop culture landscape, it’s very rare to feel like everybody is talking about and watching the same thing. And all of a sudden, ‘Summer House’ is that show.”

The series’s current season was filmed from July to September 2025. Its early episodes were a lighthearted run of reality TV, with boozy nights, rocky relationships and raging costume parties.