The next season of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter is upon us, with Season 2B scheduled to begin airing later this month. Before MTV’s now-thirty-something “teen moms” can trash up our TV screens, though, the network has given us a sneak peek at the storylines each of the girls will be dealing with this season.

Naturally, The Ashley has decided to rank the storylines in order of most-interesting to “why the hell is this person still on the show?”

All eight ‘Next Chapter’ girls— Maci Bookout, Leah Messer, Cheyenne Floyd, Amber Portwood, Catelynn Lowell, Jade Cline, Ashley Jones and Briana DeJesus— will be back for Season 2B. (As The Ashley previously told you, MTV was “one and done” with Jenelle Evans and booted her from the show after just one season.)

Here, The Ashley weighs in on which storylines she’s most looking forward to this season.

Most-Interesting: Amber Portwood

While any ‘Teen Mom’ fan would argue that Amber herself is far from interesting– largely due to the fact that the infamous couch queen does very little “mothering” on this show to begin with– Season 2B may finally see Amber forced to face the consequences of her own actions, or rather inactions.  

In the new trailer, Amber reveals that she still hasn’t spoken to her teenage daughter Leah, potentially since June, the month that Amber’s former fiancé Gary Wayt “went missing” after attending Amber’s brother’s wedding in North Carolina. (Leah’s dad, Gary Shirley, revealed on TikTok in August that Leah hadn’t seen Amber since Gary 2.0’s Great Escape, though it’s unclear when the mom and daughter last spoke to each other.)

While Amber may be expecting Leah to welcome her back into her life, it appears that Leah isn’t even open to the idea of calling Amber “mom” these days. 

“At this point I don’t want Amber to step up,” Leah says of making amends with her mom Amber. 

The Ashley is likely not the only viewer hoping that MTV actually covers Amber’s Christmas Eve meltdown on TikTok Live, in which she made serious (and horrible) allegations against Gary Shirley. 

Interesting: Ashley Jones

In one of the more emotional moments of the Season 2B trailer, fans see Ashley struggling over her daughter wanting to visit her dad, Ashley’s estranged husband Bar Smith, behind bars. 

“Holly wanted to go visit her dad in jail,” Ashley says in the trailer. “It’s just a triggering situation.” 

As The Ashley previously told you, Ashley and Bar in the process of divorcing– a move Ashley initiated last summer, less than a month after Bar was arrested on a slew of charges stemming from an incident that occurred between he and Ashley in July. Bar, who had an active warrant out for his arrest at the time of the incident, was charged with Second Degree Kidnapping; Coercion Constituting Domestic Violence with Threat of or Use of Physical Force; Residential Burglary; and Aggravated Stalking. He currently remains in jail and his case is set to go to trial March 31. 

After facing criticism in November from Bar’s mom, Shen Williams, for booking all of Bar’s available jail visits, Ashley fired back, claiming she was booking the jail video visits so that Holly could see her dad, not to visit Bar herself.  

Interesting: Catelynn Lowell

It appears that Catelynn’s segments of the new season will be devoted to her campaign against adoption and the parents of her biological daughter, Carly. (This is, of course, no surprise, given that Cate and her husband Tyler Baltierra spent months calling out Brandon and Teresa Davis on social media for cutting them out of Carly’s life.)

 In the trailer, we see Catelynn and Tyler meeting up with their trusty adoption counselor, Dawn. Catelynn vows to continue her quest to get a message to Carly.

“You’ve never had to give a child to somebody!” Catelynn sobs before telling Dawn, “I will not stop until I am dead.” 

 

Semi-Interesting: Mackenzie Douthit

Mackenzie’s storyline will likely be wrapped around her and her fiancé Khesanio Hall going through IVF to have a baby together; however, her scenes in the trailer seem to focus on the love life of her 13-year-old son Gannon. 

Apparently, Gannon has become quite the ladies’ man since we last saw him. 

“The girls you’ve dated, you’ve broken their heart,” Mack tells him.

“What do you expect?” Gannon replies coolly. 

Mackenzie is worried that Gannon will impregnate someone.

“Hopefully I don’t blink and I’m a grandparent!” Mack tells her very worried-looking father on videochat.

 

Semi-Interesting: Maci Bookout

Maci’s storylines will— as per usual— center around Bentley and her ex, Ryan Edwards. As The Ashley previously reported, MTV was there to celebrate at Bentley’s 16th birthday party, which was attended by Ryan and his pregnant fiancé Amanda Conner. 

“Are you gonna let him run wild like you did at 16?” Ryan asks Maci.

“Not a chance!” she replies. 

Although Maci’s storylines are usually slumber-inducing (unless she’s talking about Ryan or Bentley), having Amanda around may help wake things up a bit. And fans appear to be eager to see how fresh-from-the-‘hab Ryan and Amanda will handle parenting their newborn.

The last part of the trailer is perhaps the most-interesting though: Maci tells Bentley that most teens who find themselves with an “Oopsie Baby” aren’t lucky enough to use it to score an MTV paycheck for 16+ years.

“Don’t think that if you get pregnant, you’re going to get a TV show for 16 years!” Maci tells her son.

 

Yawn:  Leah Messer

Leah’s segments will seemingly be focused on her daughters, Ali and Aleeah, turning 15 years old and beginning to date. In the trailer, we see that Aleeah is already being gifted jewelry by her gentlemen callers.

“Where’d you get that ring?” Leah asks Aleeah, who tells her that “my little boyfriend got it.” 

Major Yawn: Briana DeJesus

Briana is finally out of Kail Lowry exes to date, so there will be no storylines about that. In the trailer, Bri talks to her baby daddy Devoin Austin and is worried that their daughter Nova will “follow in” Briana’s footsteps.

 

Snoozefest: Jade Cline & Cheyenne Floyd

Jade and Cheyenne barely even made the trailer, making us assume that they have no interesting storylines this season.

‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’ returns January 30 on MTV. Watch the Season 2B trailer below! 

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