We're not given the story behind that, but God, I bet it's good. She hasn't come out with any outright racism just yet, but you can all but feel the collective audience bracing for it. But yes, Julie Stoffer did say those things and watching her in the first episode of "Homecoming" it would not be wholly unjust to say she doesn't seem to have changed all that much. If you had asked me if just 22-years ago people were still walking God's green earth referring to people as "colored," or describing it to be normal practice in their family to cross the street whenever they saw a Black person coming their way, I would not have believed you. Rewatching the original "Real World New Orleans" season prior to their "Homecoming" was, for me, an example of how the Mandela effect can work in reverse. Related: "The Real World Homecoming: New York" is a beautiful suspension bridge between past and present Seeing how fans reacted favorably to watching this jar of bees get shaken up anew, they did it again later in 2021 with "The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles," and are back at it now with New Orleans. In 2021 Paramount + debuted "The Real World Homecoming: New York," which reunited the cast of MTV's first "true story" for the first time since the show aired in 1992. Matt Smith, David "Tokyo" Broom, Kelley Wolf, Julie Stoffer, Jamie Murray, Danny Roberts, and Melissa Beck in THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS streaming on PARAMOUNT+ (Akasha Rabut/Paramount+©MTV ENTERTAINMENT 2022, All Rights Reserved) But what we learn in this latest cast reunion, "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans," is that nostalgia is no match for deep-seated grudges and a level of holier-than-thou ignorance that seems to have first taken root within the womb.įrom the moment Matt Smith, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Julie Stoffer, Kelley Wolf, Danny Roberts, David "Tokyo" Broom come together for the first time since 2000 we see pretty quickly that the personalities of the people who comprised one of the most popular seasons of "The Real World" have not changed one bit and for a few of the people, that's a bad bad look. ![]() " The Real World Homecoming" is a great opportunity to dip a toe back into the gloriously nostalgic "fly-on-the-wall" days of early MTV programming without having to fully submerge in all the problematic issues attached to the years in which it originally took place.
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