The camera was up in their pores like a dermatologist’s magnifier.
#The hills new beginnings series
A prelude to the new series caught these people primping in their mirrors, putting on their faces. traffic, passive-aggressive ultimatums, devastatingly accurate behind-the-back analyses of other people’s problems, and exchanges guided by an approach to psychology espoused in group sessions at Passages Malibu. The castmates communicate in lucid plot summaries, upspoken gossip, small-talk complaints about L.A. The new show retains the original’s Warholian purity of inaction and its languid tension: nothing much happens, and it is not happening at a soothing pace, under a glazy gaze.
Mostly, they are chatting about attempting to evolve. Now they are approaching the cusp of a “Real Housewives” ripeness and “evolving” in their interpersonal lives and entertainment careers. The dramatis personae of “The Hills: New Beginnings,” legends of the game, were barely adults when we met them. Most crucially, “The Hills” furthered the profession of reality-TV stardom: the moment when it stopped being a thing one did in the spirit of a gap year, or a turn on “The Price Is Right,” and started becoming a show-business calling and a path to the Presidency. “The Hills” was itself a spinoff of “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” and presaged the dramatic methods and presentational styles of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” on Bravo, and of vast tracts of reality programming across basic cable. It is a haunted sequel to the original series, which aired between 20, and remains both a decadent summit of summertime reality soaps and a glowing ill omen of spiritual rot. “The Hills: New Beginnings” reconvenes the cast of “ The Hills” as if undertaking a case study in the dysfunctions of self-exploitation.
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