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The Real World (TV series)

The Real World is MTV's reality series premiered May 21, 1992, created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, placing seven strangers aged 18-25 in a house; 33 seasons, over 640 episodes, and the model for modern reality TV.

The Real World: Austin

The Real World: Austin is the 16th season of MTV's The Real World, airing June 21 to November 22, 2005, with seven roommates including Danny Jamieson, Melinda Stolp, and Wes Bergmann in a downtown Austin warehouse, filming an SXSW documentary.

The Real World: Back to New York

The Real World: Back to New York (2001), tenth season of MTV's The Real World, first season to revisit a prior city; 22 episodes at 632 Hudson Street, West Village; Arista Records job with eviction rule.

The Real World: Boston

The Real World: Boston is the sixth season (1997) of MTV's reality series The Real World, set in a Beacon Hill firehouse with an East Boston after-school job; cast included Sean Duffy, later US Transportation Secretary.

The Real World: Chicago

The Real World: Chicago is the eleventh season of MTV's The Real World, filmed in Wicker Park in 2001 and aired in 2002, marked by the September 11 episode and protests against the production.

The Real World: Hawaii

The Real World: Hawaii (1999) is the eighth season of MTV's The Real World, the first filmed outside the contiguous US, airing June 15 to November 9, 1999 from a Diamond Head, Honolulu house with 25 episodes.

The Real World: Key West

The Real World: Key West is the 17th season of MTV's The Real World (2006), set on Key Haven near Key West, Florida, where seven roommates ran a tanning salon amid hurricane evacuations.

The Real World: Los Angeles

The Real World: Los Angeles (originally The Real World: California) is the 1993 second season of MTV's reality series, set in a Venice Beach house with seven strangers; notable for the first mid-season cast removal and replacement and a dedicated confessional room.

The Real World: New Orleans (2000 season)

The Real World: New Orleans (2000) is the ninth season of MTV's The Real World, filmed January–May 2000 at the Belfort Mansion, Garden District, with cast Broom, Howard, Limp, Murray, Roberts, Smith, and Stoffer.

The Real World: New York

The Real World: New York (1992) was the first season of MTV's reality series The Real World, placing seven strangers including Kevin Powell, Eric Nies, and Julie Gentry in a SoHo loft; it premiered May 21, 1992 and founded modern reality TV.

The Real World: Paris

The Real World: Paris is the thirteenth season of MTV's reality series The Real World, premiering on June 3, 2003, and the first filmed in a non-English-speaking country.

The Real World: Philadelphia

The Real World: Philadelphia is the 15th season of MTV's The Real World, filmed from April 30, 2004 in Old City's Corn Exchange National Bank building, first season with two gay cast members and one-hour episodes.

The Real World: Portland

The Real World: Portland (season 28) is MTV's 2013 Portland, Oregon season, airing March 27 to June 12, 2013; the last original-format season with the true-story opening, featuring Nia, Jordan, and Daisy the credited dog.

The Real World: San Diego (2004 season)

The Real World: San Diego (2004 season), the 14th season of MTV's The Real World, aired January 6 to July 13, 2004. Notable for Frankie Abernathy's cystic fibrosis departure, Jamie Chung's later career, and a rape-investigation scandal.

The Real World: San Francisco

The Real World: San Francisco is the third season (1994) of MTV's reality series, set in a Russian Hill house with Pedro Zamora, Puck Rainey, Judd Winick, and Pam Ling; famed for Zamora's AIDS advocacy and death.

The Real World: Seattle

The Real World: Seattle (1998) is the seventh season of MTV's The Real World, filmed at Pier 70 on Elliott Bay, the first Northwest season, with castmates David Burns, Nathan Blackburn, Irene McGee, Stephen Williams, and the infamous slap.

The Reality Dysfunction

The Reality Dysfunction (1996) by Peter F. Hamilton, first book of the Night's Dawn trilogy, a space opera set in AD 2600 where the dead possess the living, beginning on the colony world Lalonde.

The Reality War

The Reality War is the 31 May 2025 series 2 finale of Doctor Who, written by Russell T Davies, ending the Wish World two-parter and Ncuti Gatwa's era as the Fifteenth Doctor with a regeneration into Billie Piper.

The Realm

The Realm (El reino) is a 2018 Spanish-French political thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen starring Antonio de la Torre as a corrupt politician scapegoated by his party; it won seven Goya Awards.

The Reaping

The Reaping is a 2007 American horror thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Hilary Swank as a former missionary investigating apparent biblical plagues in a Louisiana town.

The Reason (Hoobastank song)

"The Reason" is a 2004 power ballad by American rock band Hoobastank, from the album The Reason. Written by Dan Estrin and Doug Robb, it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, went 4x platinum in the US, and earned two 2005 GRAMMY nominations.

The Rebel (book)

The Rebel (L'Homme révolté, 1951) is Albert Camus's essay on rebellion and revolution, arguing that unlimited revolt becomes murder; it triggered his 1952 break with Sartre in Les Temps Modernes.

The Rebel (South Korean TV series)

The Rebel (역적: 백성을 훔친 도적) is a 2017 MBC Monday-Tuesday historical drama, 30 episodes, reimagining outlaw Hong Gil-dong against King Yeonsan; highest rating 14.4%, ABU Prize winner, 2017 MBC Drama Awards Daesang for Kim Sang-joong.

The Rebel's Silhouette

The Rebel's Silhouette is a 1991 bilingual Urdu/English selection of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poetry, translated by Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali for the University of Massachusetts Press.

The Rebound

The Rebound is a 2009 American romantic comedy written and directed by Bart Freundlich, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a single mother who dates her younger nanny, played by Justin Bartha.

The Reckoners

The Reckoners (Reckoners trilogy) is Brandon Sanderson's non-Cosmere YA superhero-dystopia series: Steelheart (2013), Mitosis, Firefight, Calamity, plus the 2021 Texas audio novel Lux, in which unpowered humans kill superpowered Epics by exploiting each Epic's unique weakness.

The Reckoning

The Reckoning (1970) is a Jack Gold British drama, John McGrath screenplay from Patrick Hall's novel The Harp That Once, starring Nicol Williamson as London businessman Mick Marler returning to Liverpool to avenge his father's death; often compared with Get Carter.

The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South

The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South (Sassi namjeonggi) is a classic Korean novel by Kim Man-jung about a wife cast out by a scheming concubine.

The Recruit (American TV series)

The Recruit is an American Netflix spy-adventure series (2022-2025) created by Alexi Hawley, starring Noah Centineo as rookie CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks; two seasons, 14 episodes, canceled March 2025; distinct from the 2003 film of the same name.

The Recruit (film)

The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, in which CIA trainee Colin Farrell is trained by instructor Al Pacino and assigned to find a mole.