Konbanwa!
Have you ever found yourself wondering, "What if The Real World had conversations about feelings instead of fistfights?"
Wait, no, come back!
So, Terrace House is a Japanese reality show, available on Netflix. Three men and three women live in a house, pursuing their dreams (and romance). This is a show that is patient, and gentle, and deeply rewarding, and nice. When is the last time you watched a show that was just nice? Everybody genuinely wants the best for everyone else, and people are kind to one another, and goddammit the world is a mess and a nice television show is a fuckin' panacea right about now.
The action is commented upon at regular intervals by a panel of hosts, who are frequently insightful and regularly hilarious. They riff on the stories and characters, dish on their favorite 'ships, and pitch their own bizarro theories on secret pasts and hidden plots - it's like getting a big gang of your funny friends together to watch a reality show, but it's built into the show itself. It's incredibly well done, and adds a whole lot to the enterprise.
If you further want to be sold on the show, Griffin and Rachel McElroy have an episode of their podcast, Rose Buddies, where they gush about the show's myriad charms.
Now onto our (initial) cast!
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Mizuki Shida
Out of all these nice guys and gals, she's the nicest. She has every single person's back, even when she probably shouldn't, and is supportive and cool and the best. Mizuki 4 lyfe.
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Minori Nakada
Aspiring model, terminally awkward, nice nice gal.
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Tatsuya Uchihara
Hair stylist, and a tough nut to crack. Initially seems like a bit of a jerk, but the secret is, he is staggeringly self-conscious and inexperienced. Deep down, he's a nice nice boy. I have never been so torn between wishing well of someone and wanting to throttle them for their self-sabotage. Watching this dude is like watching a horror movie, sometimes. "Don't go in there! Don't do that! Oh my god, what are you doing?"
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Yuuki Adachi
Occasionally overbearing about the realism of folks' dreams, which is weird because he's a professional tap dancer in the year of our lord 2016. But he's still a nice nice boy and I wish he'd catch a friggin' break.
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Yuuriko Hayata
She's fine, I guess? Kinda oblivious, and a bit of a dork, but harmless enough.
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Makoto Hasegawa
This dude's a chump of the lowest order. He sucks on wheels.
Let's talk Terrace House! The cast ends up being kind of fluid, so make sure you use some spoilers to tag what part of the show you're on - it's 46 episodes long, so there's a lot of room for shit to go down, and a lot of the fun in the show is seeing how the dynamic in the house shifts and evolves.
Terrace House! It's very good!
Have you ever found yourself wondering, "What if The Real World had conversations about feelings instead of fistfights?"
Wait, no, come back!
So, Terrace House is a Japanese reality show, available on Netflix. Three men and three women live in a house, pursuing their dreams (and romance). This is a show that is patient, and gentle, and deeply rewarding, and nice. When is the last time you watched a show that was just nice? Everybody genuinely wants the best for everyone else, and people are kind to one another, and goddammit the world is a mess and a nice television show is a fuckin' panacea right about now.
The action is commented upon at regular intervals by a panel of hosts, who are frequently insightful and regularly hilarious. They riff on the stories and characters, dish on their favorite 'ships, and pitch their own bizarro theories on secret pasts and hidden plots - it's like getting a big gang of your funny friends together to watch a reality show, but it's built into the show itself. It's incredibly well done, and adds a whole lot to the enterprise.
If you further want to be sold on the show, Griffin and Rachel McElroy have an episode of their podcast, Rose Buddies, where they gush about the show's myriad charms.
Now onto our (initial) cast!
Mizuki Shida
Out of all these nice guys and gals, she's the nicest. She has every single person's back, even when she probably shouldn't, and is supportive and cool and the best. Mizuki 4 lyfe.
Minori Nakada
Aspiring model, terminally awkward, nice nice gal.
Tatsuya Uchihara
Hair stylist, and a tough nut to crack. Initially seems like a bit of a jerk, but the secret is, he is staggeringly self-conscious and inexperienced. Deep down, he's a nice nice boy. I have never been so torn between wishing well of someone and wanting to throttle them for their self-sabotage. Watching this dude is like watching a horror movie, sometimes. "Don't go in there! Don't do that! Oh my god, what are you doing?"
Yuuki Adachi
Occasionally overbearing about the realism of folks' dreams, which is weird because he's a professional tap dancer in the year of our lord 2016. But he's still a nice nice boy and I wish he'd catch a friggin' break.
Yuuriko Hayata
She's fine, I guess? Kinda oblivious, and a bit of a dork, but harmless enough.
Makoto Hasegawa
This dude's a chump of the lowest order. He sucks on wheels.
Let's talk Terrace House! The cast ends up being kind of fluid, so make sure you use some spoilers to tag what part of the show you're on - it's 46 episodes long, so there's a lot of room for shit to go down, and a lot of the fun in the show is seeing how the dynamic in the house shifts and evolves.
Terrace House! It's very good!