In what might be the strangest piece of remote social accommodation I’ve seen all this year – and-counting-oh-god-still-counting the crisis, TVLine notes that The real world roommate Eric Nies didn’t actually live in the show’s house during the recent filming of the future meeting season, The Real World: Homecoming New York. Instead of serving as a loft colleague, Nies was instead a screen colleague, being broadcast via a video monitor in the loft where the other members of the show’s cast – retired from the famous first season, at least partly as an effort. to make you all fuck up Paramount Plus, Please-traiau. Given that the whole point of The real world, depending on who you ask, is to see how rude human beings can get close to each other in a prolonged period of forced rule, this guy seems contrary to the apparent purpose of the show, but Nies says it wasn’t his calling, noting that the setting “was not my choice, but I accepted the result”.
The explanations promised by Nies will be forthcoming, but the immediate assumption is probably related to the COVID quarantine requirements, as it would be a bad thing for MTV to push 7 people into a house and see what happens when it ceases to be polite. and start becoming really infectious. The other six participants in the show – Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi and Kevin Powell – all formally reunited, however, living together in the SoHo loft where the reality show was first filmed. the innovative 29 years ago.
The Real World: Homecoming New York will be released starting tomorrow, March 4, with the launch of Paramount Plus.