- "Confident" By: Demi Lovato
- "Peter Pan" By: Kelsey Ballerini
- "Drunk on your Love" By: Brett Eldridge
- "False Alarm" By: The Weeknd
- "Write on Me" By: Fifth Harmony
- "Wild Things" By: Alessia Cara
- "Million Reasons" By: Lady Gaga
- "Lush Life" By: Zara Larsson
and "You don't Own Me" By: Grace Ft. G-Eazy
Now onto the review.
Now this is a show I wanted to talk about once the season ended. For those of you who don't know, The Real World is a MTV show that starts a group of strangers that get together for a few months somewhere around the world and as the show quotes "Stops being polite and start getting real". They have been to places in the US like Los Angles, New York, Miami, San Diego *Twice* and Las Vegas *3 Times*. They have also to places outside of US like Paris, London, and Sydney. This show has been around since 1992 and just ended it's Thirty Second Season a few weeks ago and it's spin off "The Challenge" is premiering it's new season in a few weeks. But i'll talk more about that show in a couple of days.
Before this season of The Real World began I didn't know if I wanted to see it to begin with as the previous season "Go Big Or Go Home" was *In my Opinion* a disaster of a season. It tried to be like a former MTV Show "Road Rules" where it has people do multiple tasks and if they didn't, they would go home, and it work out very well as the tasks were not interesting. And that season failed hard due to it's unlikable cast. But i'll discuss more on that trainwrek another time.
So I gave the show another chance with "Bad Blood" and.........well, it's better then "Go Big or Go Home" that's for sure. But I wouldn't call it a great season either. There were more people I liked then I didn't and it had some fun moments but part of me wished they did more with the potential they had. What do I mean by it? Let's dive in with....
The Format
One MTV's has done recently is to give the show one specific twist each season. In "Ex-Plosion" it had the cast live with their Exes, In "Skeletons" it had them dealing with people they had unfinished business with for only a few days, and then there was a Road Rules Rip-Off in "Go Big or Go Home".
In "Bad Blood", we have 7 strangers living with 7 others that they gotten along with before but then drifted apart for multiple reasons. We have pairs that were couples but ended badly (Anika/Will) (Robbie/Jenn), Former Roommates (Mike/Peter), Former BFFs (Jordan/Orlana), Sister Drama (Katrina/Anna), Cousins (Theo/Kassisus) and even a High School Cyberbully (Tyara/Kim) and they had to live with each other for a few months in Seattle.
The Cast of the Season
The cast of 14 is for the most part, passable. Though there were some problems. We don't know much about Will or Kim as the show didn't show much of them. Most I know is that Will is one of the 2 people here with a kid and Kim once said bad things about Tyara and thought her british accent was fake. And that's it, nothing else. Don't know much about backstory, or what they learned here or what their plans were. I'm not asking for much, but I would like to see something and I feel like I got nothing from these two.
But then again, I guess it was better to not know much about then know who they are and not like them at all. Mike who I knew from a different MTV show called "Are You the One?" was someone that instigated drama for the first half and then left after feeling like he will be seen as the bad guy after accidently saying something racist to his "Love Interest" Jordan. I just didn't find much to like about him, but he was nothing against his former roommate Peter. Who started fine but I ended up disliking as the season went on. At first, he started a romance with Anna. Which ended quickly because of Anna's sister Katrina wanting more attention and Peter was not happy and quickly went to Jenn. What Peter says to Anna throughout the season did not make things better. At first, I liked seeing Peter and Jenn as a couple, but then he becomes so controlling, always getting angry at Jenn for little reasons and takes it out on the wall and fridge. Then he started instigating drama between Jenn and Anna for other reasons that you should check the season to know on. I hear that Peter and Jenn are doing fine now and are living together so I guess time will tell to see what happens.
But there were still some people in the cast I did like.
One is Theo from the cousins pair. We start out hearing that he is someone that was on his way to becoming a NFL star until a incident happen involving marijuana that was found in his dorm that he was sharing with Kassius which cost him for the rest of his life. He blamed Kass for the incident and they went their own ways since then. Now Theo has to lives with Kass and wants to makes things right between him and his cousin but things keep getting in the way along with memories from the past and with how the season goes you feel sorry for him. Theo is a guy with a big heart and wants to make things right and loves his cousin but slowly realises that it may not be possible.
I do like Jenn a lot as well. She is a kind soul that has insecurities because of the last relationship she was with that involved some verbal abuse. And again, I was rooting for her and Peter at first until he went insane. Once Peter got evicted after multiple warnings from the producers to cool his temper and he demanded that Jenn joins her, she says No and wants to finish the once in a life time experience. It was cool to see her stand up for herself and show that she can be her own person. She is a kind soul who does her own limits and can get angry when pushed too far.
Jordan is wild one that gets drunk. But to be fair, she also has a good heart and gives fun moments once in a while. And seeing her fix her friendship with Orlana throughout the season is one of the highlights. We get to know their backstory including Jordan not taking Orlana being suicidal seriously, and Jordan saying that she didn't know how to react was sad for her and then we slowly see them become close again and accepting who they are, really was nice to watch.
Some of the other members can be hit or miss. Robbie is a funny guy but can sometimes freak out over nothing. Katrina and Anna can be either fun to watch, or tough to deal with, shame their story never concluded. Kassius *Once you take the cousins drama out* is not that interesting, he says he is only this for his son, and then there was some one-sided romance with Orlana that didn't really go anywhere. All I got from Anika is that she is....nice. That's all I got for her. Orlana though bland at times, does show once in a while to be a cool person and it was nice to see her mature from her past and accept herself because she is not a bad person. Tyara is kinda all over the place and can be entertaining or annoying at times. Though I did enjoy the fun moments she had with Theo.
Controversy
After the season finale ended, there was an uproar on the internet involving Peter and Jenn's relationship and how it was shown in the show. People did not like that after seeing two episodes of Peter controlling Jenn on who she talks too and how she dances, verbally attacks her for it, get angry about her helping Jordan who was throwing up at the toilet, she was that drunk and then threw a tantrum about her not leaving the show with him and threatened to end the relationship over it, and see that they were not only still together a few months after the show, but were living together as well. During that Jenn keeps defending Peter saying that things were good and that fans are only complaing on that they on a hour long episode that filmed a while ago and don't know what is happening now.
What do I think? Honestly it's none of my business. If Jenn is still with Peter after all that's happened a few months ago, then she must see something in him that we don't and we shouldn't judge and let them live their lives. Until we see them in a news in a Chris brown and Rihanna way, then we should not interfere and instead let them live their lives.
Conclusion
Even taking "Go Big or Go Home" out of the equation, how does the season work on it's own. Maybe because I started watching the show at "St. Thomas" but I do overall enjoy the season. There are problems, some big problems but there was enough things in it to make the season worth watching.
Ranking: 7/10
Sadly because of last season, the ratings were horrible but did get a little better as it went on. Hopefully it wasn't enough to cancel the show that has been around for so long because this season was quite enjoyable with some people I am hoping appears in "The Challenge" at some point.
Favourites: Theo, Jenn, Jordan
Least Favourites: Peter, Mike
In the upcoming weeks, I'm gonna talk about the cast of the new season on "The Challenge" as move closer to the premiere in early February. I can say that two people in this cast will be in it. Who will they be? I'll say later.
Until then, I'll see you guys in the next episode. Thanks for listening.
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