The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles trailer dutifully promises impolite people getting real
The iconic reality show’s second cast is appropriately back for seconds
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The Real World: Los Angeles is getting the band back together for a season of Homecoming, the original reality series’ reunion show. Beth Anthony, Beth Stolarczyk, David Edwards, Glen Naessens, Irene Berrera-Kearns, Jon Brennan, and Tami Roman are heading back to the original and iconic Venice Beach home. It’ll presumably be the first time they’ve all darkened that doorway since 1993.
They’re all here, the two Beths, the guy with the cowboy hat, and David Edwards, who got kicked off the show after pulling the bedsheets off Tami and being voted off the series. Only nine of the show’s 252 cast members have ever been evicted from the Real World house, and David was the first. So that’s something.
Here’s the synopsis:
This groundbreaking season of The Real World made history with a number of series firsts, including never-before-seen “confessional” style interviews, cast members exiting mid-season with new houseguests moving in, a wedding and more. The series also tackled important issues such as same-sex relationships, abortion, consent, safe sex and eating disorders. After spending decades apart, the roommates will reconnect to find out how the series transformed their lives since the cameras stopped rolling, and they’ll discover, once again, what happens when people stop being polite… and start getting real.
As the trailer explains, this was the first cast to enter the show with a vague understanding of how things worked. So it’s basically the first instance of regular people swallowing their pride, throwing caution to the wind, and going on a reality show knowing that they’d probably embarrass themselves. That trend hasn’t bucked one iota since then.
Appropriately, the cast is still willing to make themselves look kind of foolish for our enjoyment. The trailer, which features the cast reliving and relitigating some of those controversial moments, isn’t light on conflict. Long story short: David is still driving everyone to the brink. What is with that guy?
The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles begins streaming on Paramount+ on November 24.
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Huh, that guy who was drunk half the time had the good sense not to show up.
Is that Dominic? I liked him but the first thing I think of is him passed out drunk on the sandy beaches of Mexico. It also looks to be missing the Republican surfer who thought Bill Clinton was the Anti-Christ.I thought most of the people in the season were awful.
Hey, that’s exactly what I remember about Dom.
It also looks to be missing the Republican surfer who thought Bill Clinton was the Anti-Christ.So who’s the bald guy with the mustache in the photo? I don’t remember another white guy in the cast.Edit: Apparently it’s some guy named Glen who replaced David? I don’t really remember him at all and time has not been kind.
Apparently it’s some guy named Glen who replaced David?Yeah, he was the grunge rocker that they brought in after David. He was kind of a douche who tried to start shit with everybody (most famously calling out Tami for lip synching during their “talent show”) I remember his band being absolutely terrible.
I think I kind of remember him now that you say he was a grunge rocker.
The snippet I remember involved atonal vocals from Glen. It was like the Chili Peppers and Mike Patton combined, if you take away the talent and originality. Tami’s, Jon’s, and even Stick Kitty’s (who Dominic was managing) performances were at least tolerable. They’re all largely uninteresting and unoriginal, but at least didn’t make me want to leave the room.
We get to watch aging Gen Xers cooped up in a house? Yay…..
Whatever
Hopefully Jon just sits on the couch all day watching TV, just like the first time around
That was the moment that producers found out that you can’t just leave people to their own devices (now a literal thing), and that a narrative must be crafted.
Not true at all. It’s the 4th season in London when that happens. The Americans spent most of their time watching TV and sleeping. Helping to make it a very boring season. The next season they got money to start a business and they got jobs from then on.
It wasn’t not funny.
I wonder if that Beth the racist has changed at all
These days, Perch is more of a bluegrass band.
I understand why Dom and Aaron didn’t participate. Dom is a VP at Disney Music and Aaron is a CEO of an eyewear company. I think they have too much to lose by going on the show. It would have been nice to see them all together, though.
Seems like they see each other from time to time, even Dom.
There never was a “Real World: Los Angeles”It’s “Real World: California” or GTFODoes this mean Real World: San Francisco will be coming next year? If so, who will play the part of Pedro, since the original actor died? Luis Guzman would get my vote.I hope this doesn’t continue. I don’t know if anyone really wants 31 years of the Michael Apted project no one asked for.
Wow, that was a whole lot of unfunny. You can stop now.
I “stopped” when I clicked the publish button, ya dumb dick.
Would Rachel Campos Duffy show up with her 10 kids in tow? She was barely tolerable in the original airing.
These days, Perch is more of a bluegrass band.
We Gen Xers appear to have long since passed our Big-Chill-older-wiser-but-still-hot phase and are now well into our Grand-Canyon-boring phase. I for one am proud to be a part of it!
This was an interesting season. Almost everybody was so ambitious that they had to throw somebody in the cast (Irene) who actively didn’t want to be there, at all, and left early. I think David was the last time they specifically cast for “angry Black guy” and I think the whole conversation about the kerflule with Tami was an important conversation that we are still having today.Tami, in particular, was some pretty interesting television. She was on multiple reality shows, was in a girl group, had an abortion, was sexually assaulted, and had her teeth wired shut to stop eating. She was a whole deal.
Also, she worked at a heath clinic with many patients battling AIDS, but had reservations over co-habitating with a lesbian roommate.
Where’s Dominic and Aaron? Was one of them the bald dude?Also, they should have skipped over this boring, drama-inducing group and went right to SF. Or do NY again WITH Eric in the house.
I hope these reunions are successful enough for “Real World Homecoming: Seattle”!