# The Real World: Los Angeles
**The Real World: Los Angeles** is the second season of MTV's reality television series *The Real World*, which follows a group of strangers living together for several months while cameras record their lives and interpersonal relationships. It was originally titled *The Real World: California* and was retrospectively renamed to distinguish it from later installments set in the same state[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles). The season aired from June 26, 1993 to November 11, 1993 and ran for 21 episodes[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles). It is regarded as the point where the series stopped being a one-off experiment and became a repeatable format[2](https://tiered.tv/shows/the-real-world/season/los-angeles).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Season position | Season 2 of *The Real World*, following New York and preceding San Francisco[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles) |
| Original title | *The Real World: California*, later re-dubbed *The Real World: Los Angeles*[3](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/) |
| Original run | June 26, 1993 – November 11, 1993; 21 episodes[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles) |
| Setting | A beachside house in Venice Beach, Los Angeles[3](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/) |
| Cast | Seven original roommates, with two mid-season replacements[3](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/) |
| Format firsts | First dedicated confessional room set; first season to lose and replace a roommate mid-run[2](https://tiered.tv/shows/the-real-world/season/los-angeles) |
| Reunion | *The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles* brought seven cast members back to the Venice Beach house on Paramount+ in 2021[4](https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/real-world-los-angeles-cast-revisits-jon-brennan-irene-berrera-kearns/) |
## Cast and house
The season was filmed in a beachside Venice Beach home where the original roommates were Aaron, Beth S., David, Dominic, Irene, Jon, and Tami, later joined by Glen and Beth A.[3](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/)
**The first removal.** In Episode 7, following a confrontation involving Tami and Beth, David's fellow housemates voted to expel him from the home[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles). In doing so he became the first person to be kicked off a reality show[5](https://www.tvinsider.com/1023359/real-world-homecoming-los-angeles-premiere-tami-david-aaron-dominic/). Los Angeles was also the first season in the franchise to lose a roommate mid-run and replace them, a decision later seasons treated as routine[2](https://tiered.tv/shows/the-real-world/season/los-angeles). The season also included a midseason wedding among its cast events[6](https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-real-world-los-angeles-cast-then-now/).
## Format significance
Retrospective assessments treat Los Angeles as the season where *The Real World* became a format with rules rather than a single experiment. The Venice Beach house introduced the confessional room as a permanent set, a structural choice that every later season kept, and the season demonstrated that the format could survive a cast change[2](https://tiered.tv/shows/the-real-world/season/los-angeles). A TVDB season description adds that while the New York cast was the first reality TV cast, the Los Angeles cast was the first to actually know they were on a reality show[7](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-real-world-homecoming/seasons/official/2).
The season arrived at a formative moment for the genre. MTV's vice president of series development at the time, Lauren Corrao, said in a June 1993 interview around the season's premiere that she was optimistic *The Real World* would progress beyond Season 2[3](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/). It did: the series ran for more than 640 episodes and is described as the first modern foray into reality TV, a genre that now spans three nontechnical Emmy categories[8](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-06-20/reality-tv-has-changed-since-real-world).
**Production personnel.** The director and producer J. Rupert Thompson, whose career in reality TV dates back nearly to its inception, worked on Season 2 of *The Real World*, set in Los Angeles[9](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-08-21/reality-tv-jobs-moving-overseas-hollywood-slowdown).
## Homecoming reunion
In 2021, [Paramount+](https://www.edgepedia.org/paramount) produced *The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles*, the second season of the *Homecoming* reunion series, in which Beth Anthony, Beth Stolarczyk, David Edwards, Glen Naessens, Irene Berrera-Kearns, Jon Brennan, and [Tami Roman](https://www.edgepedia.org/tami-roman) returned to the Venice Beach house from their 1993 season[5](https://www.tvinsider.com/1023359/real-world-homecoming-los-angeles-premiere-tami-david-aaron-dominic/). Cast members Jon Brennan and Irene Berrera-Kearns said before the debut that they returned to address unresolved issues from the original show; Brennan described the reunion as feeling like the group was back in the 1990s[4](https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/real-world-los-angeles-cast-revisits-jon-brennan-irene-berrera-kearns/). The reunion revisited what had happened between Tami and David, the conflict that led to his removal from the house[5](https://www.tvinsider.com/1023359/real-world-homecoming-los-angeles-premiere-tami-david-aaron-dominic/).
## Place in the series
The season sits between *The Real World: New York* and *[The Real World: San Francisco](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-real-world-san-francisco)* in the series chronology[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles). It was the first season of the franchise filmed in the Pacific States region of the United States, specifically California[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles). The house itself remained a point of interest long after filming: when its current owners purchased it in 1996, the exterior was painted light blue-gray with white trim and the interior pink carpeting had been changed to gray[1](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles).
## References
1. [The Real World: Los Angeles, Real World Wiki (Fandom)](https://mtvrealworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_World%3A_Los_Angeles)
2. [The Real World S2 — Los Angeles (1993), tiered.tv](https://tiered.tv/shows/the-real-world/season/los-angeles)
3. [Scene It Before: The Real World: Los Angeles House, LAmag](https://lamag.com/tv/scene-it-before-the-real-world-los-angeles-house/)
4. ['Real World' Star Jon Brennan Says Old Issues Lead To 'Butting Heads' In Reunion For 1993 Cast, CBS Detroit](https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/real-world-los-angeles-cast-revisits-jon-brennan-irene-berrera-kearns/)
5. ['The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles' Revisits What Happened With Tami & David (RECAP), TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/1023359/real-world-homecoming-los-angeles-premiere-tami-david-aaron-dominic/)
6. ['Real World: Los Angeles' Cast Then & Now Ahead of 'Homecoming', TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-real-world-los-angeles-cast-then-now/)
7. [The Real World Homecoming - Season 2: Los Angeles, TheTVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-real-world-homecoming/seasons/official/2)
8. [It's been 30 years since 'The Real World' introduced reality TV. How things have changed., Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-06-20/reality-tv-has-changed-since-real-world)
9. [Reality TV workers on cuts to Hollywood jobs and overseas production, Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-08-21/reality-tv-jobs-moving-overseas-hollywood-slowdown)
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