henry wrote: >A recent experiment along similar lines was MTV's series this summer, "The Real >World" (I think). They did casting calls and pulled together a group of >attractive, multi-racial, multi-gender, multi-sexual young folks, gave them >an expensive loft apartment in Manhattan to share, and filmed their >interactions. I didn't see the series, but I am told that it was hard to >determine what >was documentary, what was staged, etc. The whole situation was of course >contrived, but theoretically, the young adults were not told what to do, so >the "plot" unfolded in an improvizational and unscripted fashion. >Did anyone see this thing? yes, henry...while not seeing the whole series, i did see a few episodes. it wa s mainly mishmash and very difficult to understand in my opinion. it did a good job though in getting improvisational interations and thoughts of the actors. i can't say it would be my choice of TV time, but would suggest it if you like unrelated sceens of nothing in particular to make up the plot of a show. i do think it covers some important topics, but is only the opinions of the actors that were chosen for the series, and therefor bias. of course, as i said, i only saw a couple of the episodes, so some of the other s might have had more substance to them trista