NYC Prep (Bravo)

A reality series set in the upper echelons of New York City society, NYC PREP tracks the privileged lives of six wealthy prep school students. Most of them attend the same elite private school on the Upper East Side, but 15-year-old Taylor attends a magnet public school and mixes with kids of various backgrounds. Followed by the cameras, the teens go about their daily lives -- which often include hook-ups, friendship dramas, night club outings, high-end shopping trips, and more.

Pointing out the fact that NYC Prep is a real-life Gossip Girl is sort of overstating the obvious. But even if you don't want to admit it (or watch it), it offers a fascinating and sometimes frightening peek into the world of the wealthiest 1 percent -- a world most of us will never experience firsthand.

After all, these cocktail-swilling kids are trying so hard to act like adults: They have the money to buy $675 sunglasses but lack the maturity to understand how life really works when you're trying to pay your own way. And yet they're fully aware that starring on a reality show somehow makes them even more "important." With that knowledge -- and the means to do pretty much whatever they want -- they're all too willing to preen and spout self-assured statements like "If you were a veggie burger, I'd so eat you."