By Meaghan Sollitto – Columns Editor

“The Real World,” the longest-running reality show on MTV, is back for its 29th season.

This season’s location is San Francisco, California. Each season has a different and fun location. Past seasons have been New Orleans, New York, Hawaii and Cancun.

The premise of the show remains the same: eight to 12 people are picked randomly to live in a house together for four months.

Each person is within the age of 18 and 25 years old. As well as varying in ages, each participant differs in sexuality, background, race, or religion in order to create tension or relationships.

The first episode of every season shows the cast members getting the call that they have been picked to live in the house. It then proceeds to show them telling their family, them packing and then them leaving.

Only seven members were picked at the beginning of this season to make room for a “big twist” coming later.

This season of “The Real World” is called “Ex-plosion.” This is an extreme twist and something different from what the show has ever done.

Usually the roommates live with one another and no one else. However, at the end of the first month this season, the roommates will go on an off-grid vacation. When they return, they will find all of their recent exes moved into the house ready to live with them for the remaining three months.

This twist causes even more drama than expected for the cast because for the first time in “Real World” history, everyone in the house was getting along before the exes arrive. The new roommates create extreme tension and threaten to break up new relationships.

New episodes air on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. Tune in this week to find out what happens next.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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