The 28th season of "The Real World,” this one set Portland, began on MTV last night. The latest iteration of the show is exactly as you would expect: seven attractive strangers getting drunk in a house for three months and all the copulations, misunderstandings, and fist-fights that accrue. But if this installment of “The Real World” is stagnant— as reliably and crassly entertaining as the 10 or so seasons that have preceded—when you take all 28 seasons of “The Real World” together, it's a document of change: the way MTV has changed, the way the viewing audience has changed, and the way that the participants— a swath of college kids in America— have changed by embracing reality television.Continue Reading... … Read More
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