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April 12, 2007

Oh, please

The folks behind The Real World have a new plan for filling the reality TV hours quota on MTV: They're reuniting the cast of The Real World: Las Vegas. The cast is even going to live it up at the Palms again. One can only hope they've grown in the past five years, but given how much time they've all spent on other reality shows since then (see link), I'm guessing not.

I'm very unenthused about this development. As far as I'm concerned, Vegas was the season when the show began to take its turn toward all partying, all the time. Lately, on the Denver season, all anyone does is fight, cry, make out or hook up or fight or cry about who was making out or hooking up. It's monotonous, immature and boring, and the show started down this path with Vegas.

But hey, people can change, so maybe we'll see the growth we used to see on the show five years after the show. On the other hand, we are talking about Trishelle, so maybe not.

Posted by Sarah Kickler Kelber at 5:08 PM | | Comments (1)
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I've been amazed at the downturn of the show since the early seasons. As annoying as some of the people on the first season were, they still seem so much more mature than they have in later seasons. It's mind-boggling.

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About Sarah Kelber
Sarah Kickler Kelber, an editor in the features department since 1999, got sucked into reality TV with the first episode of MTV's The Real World in 1992. Then came Survivor and American Idol, and suddenly, the genre was everywhere. She started blogging about it for The Baltimore Sun in January 2006 and has logged more hours watching and writing about such shows as Dancing With the Stars, Big Brother and, of course, Idol, than she'd like to admit.
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