Washington Post
There isn’t a subject too out there for reality show producers to mine for TV gold – a family of duck-call experts, a group of earnest Americans prepping for Armageddon and now the 2016 presidential election.
Next week, eight politically minded millennials – all strangers, of course – will move into a Capitol Hill rowhouse for one month to hash out their ideological differences while the cameras roll. The show, cheekily titled House Divided, will be produced by Fullscreen Media, a “global youth media company” based in Los Angeles.
“It’ll be like Big Brother meets the Real World but with politics,” a rep from Fullscreen said.
The first ingredient in classic reality-show soup is always the house. We’re told the five-bedroom converted schoolhouse with a pool and rooftop deck near Lincoln Park is appropriately “insane.” The kind of glammed-up frat house reality fans have come to expect of crazy-roommates-meet-crazy-roommates shows.
Next into the pot goes the cast.
There’s the 18-year-old gay, black Republican who will probably vote for Donald Trump, the Libertarian Ivy League beauty queen, the Middle Eastern Democrat who got kicked out of a Trump rally for brandishing a “love Trumps hate” sign, and of course, there’s the bartender from D.C. who says he has never met a Trump supporter.
In between sharing a roof, going out on the town and doing volunteer work, this motley crew will dive into hot-button issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, gun violence, transgender rights, climate change and immigration. House Divided begins shooting July 20 and is scheduled to stream on Fullscreen sometime in the fall.