The Real World: Boston
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The Real World: Boston was the sixth season of MTV's popular reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. The Boston cast lived in a converted historic firehouse at 127 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The show made its debut in 1997. This was the only season to be filmed in New England and the second of four seasons to be filmed in the Northeastern United States (The Real World: New York in 1992, The Real World: Back to New York in 2001 and The Real World: Philadelphia in 2005).
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[edit] Assignment
Every season of the The Real World, beginning with its fifth season, has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates. The Boston cast worked with children at an after-school program in East Boston. Some of the cast worry they will not get along with kids or like the job, but in the end they all enjoy it. Montana, however, gets fired from the job as a result of allegations involving alcohol and has to find another way to volunteer, since she doesn't want to sit at home while everyone else works. Kameelah and Elka also get into trouble for an argument they have, within earshot of the children, stemming from Kameelah's anger towards Elka for discussing what she believes was a sexual interlude that Kameelah had at the house. At the end of the season, Syrus becomes emotional when he talks about how he will miss the children.
[edit] Cast
- Elka Walker
- Genesis Moss
- Jason Cornwell
- Kameelah Phillips
- Montana McGlynn
- Sean Duffy
- Syrus Yarbrough
This is the first season of Real World or Road Rules to have all castmembers come back to compete in Mtv's other reality series, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
Elka Walker (February 2, 1978 in Brownsville, TX) is a Mexican-American who comes from a well-to-do background with conservative values. (For example she admits in the casting special that she doesnt know many gay or lesbian people and wasnt sure how she would feel if one of the roommates was gay.) She is still struggling with her mother's death from cancer. Before she leaves for the show, Elka's father requires her to sign a contract saying she will not smoke, do drugs or have premarital sex while in Boston. She is later filmed having a cigarette. She gets her eyebrow pierced against her father's wishes and she finally stands up for herself against his controling ways in a tearfilled phone conversation later in the season. Her boyfriend Walter visits from Ireland. The housemates expect she will have sex with him, but Elka insists she is a virgin and will stay that way until marriage.
Montana McGlynn (April 13, 1975 in San Diego, California) is fond of science and is a proud feminist. She is committed to her boyfriend Vaj, but he later discovers she is seeing other men while in Boston. He texts her to say he is dumping her and she needs to get her things out of their apartment or he will throw her stuff in the street. Montana is shocked, but everyone else in the house saw it coming.
Genesis Moss (April 19, 1976) is a lipstick lesbian from Gulfport, Mississippi. She has had a troubled past and says during her childhood she sometimes lacked basics like food. She has a long-distance lover. She becomes friends with a gay drag queen named Adam and spends a lot of time dancing/partying at a gay club. After a child at the daycare center says that she hates gay people, Genesis overhears this, and Kameelah telling the girl that homophobia and bigotry are not acceptable, and cries.
Kameelah Phillips (September 20, 1977 in San Diego, California) is a student at Stanford University. Like Montana, she never knew her father. She tells her mother she is not having sex, but the housemates hear what sounds to them like her and a man having sex in the house. When a young girl at the daycare center tells Kameelah that she hates gay people, Kameelah tells the child that being gay is OK and it's wrong to hate people just because they're gay or not like her. Later, the daycare program's staff calls a meeting and tells Kameelah that it is not appropriate for her to discuss the topic with the children.
Jason Cornwell (July 10, 1972 in Russellville, Arkansas) is a poet with a girlfriend named Timber. The relationship is tumultuous and Genesis expresses her displeasure at how Jason talks to Timber. Jason is not faithful to her in Boston.
Sean Duffy (October 3, 1971) is from Hayward, Wisconsin, is a conservative Republican and an aspiring lawyer who often clashed with the liberal minded Kameelah. He later says he feels for Genesis because she is so hard on herself. After the show ended, he met Rachel Campos of The Real World: San Francisco, and they married. They've since had a son and two daughters.
Syrus Yarbrough (September 12, 1971) is named after the Egyptian god Osiris, and is an African-American from Santa Monica, California. Syrus gets in trouble for dating a mother of one of the kids. The director tells Syrus to stop immediately. Syrus says he will but keeps dating the mother a little while longer. After the show, he went on to star in more than one season of the spinoff, Real World/Road Rules Challenge and did video game work that appeared in an edition of the basketball game series March Madness.
[edit] Season highlights
- Some conflicts include problems with Syrus bringing friends home at all hours of the night, with Kameelah finding two people she doesn't know making out in their bathroom, whom she tells to leave. Outside of the house, Syrus says all the women in the house are "bitches" except for Genesis.
[edit] External links
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