But trust me, this meat crime is riveting as it rocks the cast mates. Long story, short: roommates eat food from another roomie that they really shouldn’t have eaten. My personal all-time favorite example of this comes from an incident known as the “meat crime” in a late episode of Boys and Girls in the City.

Multiple episodes can go by with minimal conflict, but astute viewers can still pick up on micro-issues that come up in typical interpersonal roommate situations. And unlike reality shows like Big Brother, the housemates are expected to go about their everyday lives with jobs, school, dating and so on. The show is like The Real World because it involves six strangers (typically three men and three women) sharing a house together in a specific location. The above caption is exactly how I’ve described Terrace House to friends and family members before. Like The Real World, But Not At All Like The Real World The newest season is just now coming out, so I thought it would be a great time to write up a little article explaining Terrace House to newcomers and celebrating it with long-term fans! Since its first Netflix season of Boys and Girls in the City, Terrace House has also put out three new seasons titled Aloha State, Opening New Doors, and now Tokyo 2019-2020. It’s been almost three years, but I’ve never forgotten what a treat it was to discover this quirky reality show. With its funny banter and sterile fly-on-the-wall filming style, the Japanese reality show Terrace House: Boys and Girls in the City was the perfect television show to enjoy after a busy, loud, long day in the holiday retail trenches. Lucky for me, this was the exact moment in my life that Terrace House made its way into my pop culture diet. I would come home, flop on the couch, and feel incapable of engaging with much of anything since I was in self-preservation mode.

It was December 2016, and I was in the middle of the most grueling time of year at my otherwise sunny retail job.

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