The Real World
FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR
The Daily Beast’s Obsessed
Let’s not talk about this week. Instead, let’s just talk about the really fun, unabashedly feel-good series that are here to distract us.
SINGLE AND READY TO MINGLE
The reality show features eight strangers… picked to live in a house… in Austin, Texas, during the pandemic. So why’s it so utopian and boring?
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LIVE AND LEARN?
‘The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles’ tried to relitigate a violation resulting in the first person ever kicked off a reality show. It was a disaster.
THE REAL WORLD?
“Do I think there was cheating in my state of Wisconsin? Hell yes, there was cheating! Now did it change the results? I don’t know,” Sean Duffy proclaimed on Friday.
‘FOR REAL’
As “For Real,” his docuseries on the history of reality TV, comes out and the “Real Housewives” turns 15, Cohen tells us how the genre shaped his life—and where it’s going next.
STOP BEING POLITE
The Paramount+ reboot—reuniting the original 1992 cast of “The Real World: New York”—is a testament to its powerful legacy.
Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.
After decades of growing more ridiculous, overproduced, and less “real,” reality TV is returning to its simpler roots. HBO Max’s “The Bridge” proves why it’s so long overdue.