So, the 20,000th season of The Real World, The Real World: Brooklyn premieres this Wednesday on MTV. Leading up to this mildly anticipated event, MTV has been telling everyone who will listen that The Real World is, was, and will always be the realest of the real. MTV is spreading the reality gospel via The Real World: Secrets Revealed, a special airing basically everytime MTV gets a chance up until TRW:B kicks-off.
The producers would like you to know:
As far as reality television goes, it doesn’t get less scripted than TRW. Apparently, aside from casting polar opposites, following them around with large camera equipment, sending them to packed rock-shows/clubs/bars/spaces with alcohol, and asking all the people they interact with to sign a waver, the show’s producers do not interfere with the real goings on. Brooklyn, of course, promises to be even realer than the last 16 seasons. You know, since it’s Brooklyn and all. Reportedly, a few of the cast members worry out loud about getting shot, in DUMBO. That’s amusing, we guess. Whatevs.
Forgive us for sounding jaded, but this show has been on since 1922. The first cast was driving around in a model T. And as The New York Times aptly points out the whole thing smacks of the early 1990’s. Sexuality, racial Issues, religion . . . all the conflicts, revelations, and resolutions of the latest Real Worlders seem familiar, because they’ve played out 20 times already on designer sofas, chaise lounges, and Sealy Posturepedics in MTV lofts from New York, to Philadelphia, to Los Angeles. Remember Las Vegas, and Hawaii (what a hot mess those seasons were). Of course its Real-ish. But do we still care?
