EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
The Real World Homecoming - Season 1
The original cast return to the house and explore how Real World transformed their lives.
April 20, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 April 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 July 1977, Rockmart, Georgia, USA
17 April 1970, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
January 23, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
23 May 1971, Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA
1971, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
1955, New York, USA
1971
4 June 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
August 14, 1967 in Covina, California, USA
March 04, 2021
It's a wormhole between this pandemic year and my teenage years, allowing instant passage back and forth, so we can live in two places at once. And it's perfect.
March 05, 2021
It's all very sweet, a little wistful, and slightly depressing, as we acknowledge that 29 years in our lives apparently evaporated overnight.
March 05, 2021
There's a palpable feeling of warmth between all of them and maybe, depending on how things unfold in the next five episodes, a greater willingness to hear one another and see beyond the youthful overconfidence that can close open minds.
March 04, 2021
The perspectives of the now middle-aged first cast are so much more welcomed than what we've seen from younger, very hyper-aware casts of late.
March 05, 2021
The idealism of the project then is what makes this concept, and this cast, worth revisiting today. And even though Eric can't participate, that's part of what makes it real.
March 05, 2021
To get the obvious question out of the way first: No, I can't imagine this being of much interest to people who didn't watch the first season of The Real World, either in its original airing, during subsequent reruns, or on DVD.
March 04, 2021
There is definitely an innocence to that long-ago first season that can never be recaptured, but the new series acknowledges that, and I'm already fascinated to see all these foundational "characters" recontextualized for our new reality.
March 05, 2021
What's satisfying isn't that the roommates have evolved to become what Kevin calls woke, so much as that (in Homecoming's premiere, at least) they come off as thoughtful, empathetic, reasonably intelligent and self-aware adults.
March 05, 2021
The show feels a little like going to your college reunion. You are just glad to see everyone and check in on how they are doing, but overall the premiere-a throwback to the kinder, gentler days of reality TV-is a little, dare I say it, boring.
