It’s not great.) If it wasn’t clear that the party’s over, LMFAO makes multiple appearances. (A more serious example comes about midway through the season when a cast member with a history of self-mutilation cuts herself and is rebuked by some of her roommates for seeking attention. Two decades of sticking to the same formula gave way to debauchery by numbers, so while Cancun had plenty of big moments-there was a threesome involving two cast members and a guy who threw a fire extinguisher for some reason, and a love triangle that includes only two of the threesome participants-any emotional weight had been scooped out. This is when I gave up on The Real World. Season 20 is most notable as being the first to feature hour-long episodes previously, the show was aired in 30-minute installments. In 2008, The Hills was at its peak performance, so perhaps there was room for only one MTV show about young, beautiful people following their dreams while keeping it real in the City of Angels. Here are The Ringer’s top 25 seasons in the history of the MTV franchise.Ĭuriously, a season set in the heart of Hollywood was so unmemorable.
Strangers are picked to live in a house, where they will stop being polite and start getting real, etc.