The Real World: D.C.

Well...I really don't know what to make of this. After the mediocrity of The Real World's Cancun season, I mentioned that I was actually excited for to see the show go to Washington DC, as it might allow for the cast to engage in some intelligent conversions in between all the boozing and drama. That's kinda what I got, but what I didn't expect was for all of it to be so boring. This may have more to do the fact that the cast itself was pretty dull. Almost all of them were either musicians, artists, or trying to get into the political scene. Now this wouldn't have so bad if there had been a bit more diversity among the cast's interests, but to have 2 to 3 cast members sharing the same goals, made for some pretty repetitive storylines. Its not even worth going into detail on each cast member except for Andrew, who was just weird and quirky and always kept things from getting boring. Mike's coming out to his family story was kinda sweet and some of the strives he takes to become more accepting of his bi-sexuality is pretty engaging. And I guess Ty is worth a mention...for being the most unlikeable twat to appear on the show in a while.

While the political angle of the show was a lot less appealing than I assumed it would be, it was even more disappointing to see that the drama that the show survives on wasn't that appealing. There was a war between "wound too tight" Emily and dumbass Ty that pretty much owned the show for the first couple of episodes, but that didn't really go anywhere and most of the conflict in that war came from Ty's blatant retardation. Even the season's most advertised moment, where Andrew suffers major injury (at the hands of Ty's retardation), went no where and the fact that nothing resulted from it after the episode wasn't much help either. Oh well the season was kinda watchable, at least it was better than the Cancun season, but it still can't measure up to the wonders of the Brooklyn season. I guess I'll never see a recent season as good that one again.