A 10-minute preview for the second season of the reality show-centric drama UnREAL has been posted online, and it looks fantastic!
We were shocked last year when we checked out the first episode of Lifetime’s UnREAL and discovered that it is, in no uncertain terms, masterpiece television.
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon perfectly capture the toxic environment behind-the-scenes of a reality series, exposing just how constructed and calculated it all is — while obviously fooling all of us into believing in their made-up reality in the process!
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The first season of UnREAL followed troubled lead character Rachel (Shiri Appleby) as she worked on the Bachelor-type reality show Everlasting. The bachelor of the year was English aristocrat Adam Cromwell (Freddie Stroma), and this year, it’s Darius Hill (B.J. Britt) — which officially means that The Bachelor‘s fictional counterpart has had a black bachelor before the original!
A 20-minute UnREAL TV special will air tonight on Lifetime, including 10 minutes of new footage — but EW already has the clip online for you to watch now!
True to form, Rachel and Quinn (Constance Zimmer) get matching tattoos saying “Money dick power.” Because of course they do. Quinn and Rachel’s complicated friendship and power struggle is set to be the focus of season 2, which is exciting — as delicious as all the reality TV dramatics were, that was definitely the best part of season 1!
As for Darius, B.J. Britt teases that he’s gotten into “a little bit of a situation, a little bit of a mess,” and while he thinks a season of Everlasting will clear his name, reality of course has other plans.
We’ll see if this “perfect suitor” makes it out of Everlasting in one piece — at any rate, we’re sure he’ll fare better than Adam, who’ll also be popping up in this second season.