The Real World is 25 today: a quarter century of reality TV
MTV’s The Real World debuted on May 21, 1992, starting a television revolution that has lasted for a quarter century and shows no sign of stopping.
Real World Seattle Irene’s must-read indictment of Real World, MTV, and reality TV’s evolution
Irene McGee is best known for her 1998 exit from The Real World Seattle: Citing her Lyme disease as the reason, she leaves the show, only to be hit in the face by a fellow cast member, Stephen, as cameras rolled. Now, 15 years later, Irene tells the story of her time on the series–not …
Real World’s Puck arrested for domestic violence yet again
The Real World San Francisco cast member David Rainey, better known as Puck, has again been arrested for domestic violence. This time he was arrested for “July 13th in L.A. and charged with inflicting bodily injury on a woman who cops say is a “spouse, former spouse, cohabitant or former cohabitant” of Puck (a.k.a. domestic …
MTV’s Real World marathon this weekend: let’s all feel old together
In advance of next week’s debut of The Real World Portland, the 28th season of the reality series, MTV announced that it will air marathons of three curiously chosen seasons of the show this weekend: season one, three (The Real World San Francisco), and season 12 (The Real World Las Vegas, also known as the …
Happy Endings + The Real World = awesome
ABC’s comedy Happy Endings parodied The Real World on last Tuesday’s episode, with the storyline revolving around Damon Wayans and Adam Pally’s characters appearing on The Real World Sacramento, a season that was never broadcast season because one of the cast members burned down the show’s firehouse home. Happy Endings has been really hit or …
Sean Duffy speaks at RNC: still weird to see a Real World cast member like this
Former The Real World Boston cast member Sean Duffy spoke at the Republican National Convention yesterday, and although he’s been a member of Congress for a while now, it’s still weird to see him in this context. It’s also weird that he’s introduced as “the former world champion lumberjack athlete” instead of “the former MTV …
The Real World (smartly) alienated its original fans by refusing to age with them
In the nostalgia surrounding The Real World‘s 20th anniversary on Monday–a day MTV ignored–one thing that’s pretty clear is that many of us who found the show in our teens now find ourselves not watching the show we once loved. That the cast members rarely have lives or ambitions outside of the show is now …
