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Critic Reviews
Jul 8, 2013
Season 5 Review:
The show's basic appeal is still there. ... But just as the current generation of MTV veejays have adopted the same annoyingly aloof assembly-line attitude, so have the current participants in "The Real World," by watching MTV for years, decided how to present themselves. [9 Jul 1996]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Except for an insistent music track, this initial portrait of the group is considerably less than sizzling. [28 Jun 1995]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Much of the footage is gimmicky and trite, but there's seemingly more going on than there was before. [30 Jun 1994]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The material is all pretty familiar, but the rhythms are new, often surprising. ... But the show isn't completely successful. What makes "The Simpsons" and the other shows work -- a commitment to absolute immersion in the world of TV, and indifference to the distinction between what happens on screen and off -- is ultimately "The Real World"'s higgest stumbling block. [25 May 1992]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Not only does all this style interfere with and distract from the show's content, but the strain to be unconventional leads viewers to expect the unexpected, robbing it of dramatic impact. And that's too bad, because there does seem to be something interesting going on here. [10 Jun 1992]
Jun 12, 2013
Season 5 Review:
In an effort to perk up the show, Real executive producers Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jon Murray have decreed that this year's crew will have to start up their own business. Big mistake. Whatever remaining allure The Real World possesses derives from its fantasy aspect — free house, free-floating surrogate family.
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Jul 8, 2013
Season 5 Review:
But the problem with "Real World" hasn't been the absence of a goal, mercenary or otherwise. It's been an increasingly obvious self-seriousness and lack of self-awareness, traits the show shares with many of its participants. ... Forcing a business startup will surely force a lot of the series' requisite conflict, but it seems as artificial a notion as much of the Miami Beach architecture. [10 Jul 1996]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 3 Review:
This first episode scores on most accounts ... But as show progresses, the first-meeting euphoria of the racially and morally diverse contingent gives way to the ubiquitous whining and bickering. [23 Jun 1994]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 2 Review:
If the other four new regulars are anything like the three shown here, "Real World II" may be hard to watch for anybody who doesn't slow down to linger on car wrecks. [24 Jun 1993]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Real World is entertaining because voyeurism usually is. It's fun to eavesdrop on other people's lives, even if they are living in a fantasy world. Frankly, the conversation in the loft is a bit disappointing, considering the number of aspiring deep thinkers. [31 May 1992]
Jul 8, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Alienation, acceptance, anger, askew camera angles and other such stuff now part and parcel of "R.W.'s" life-as-TV-soap-opera are all here and accounted for. Now if only something truly genuine would occur in MTV's so-called "Real World." [23 Jun 1994]
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