![]() ![]() … It’s time for you to grow up and get a job and start figuring out who you’re going to be and what’s your life’s going to be.” How fake is Siesta Key? “When you’re 21, 22 and you’re getting out of college. “These kids have been off to college they’ve seen other things,” he said. “You still have the inherent ins and outs of a clique of friends that have grown up together, but the pressure is that much more profound as life is bearing down on them.” The first season of Siesta Key feels like “that last summer, before the party’s over-at least they’re definitely feeling that,” Ford told me. They deal with more consequential things in their lives, such as MS, which one cast member’s mother has.The cast isn’t in high school, but instead are at the end of their college careers.Episodes are one hour long, versus Laguna Beach’s half-hour episodes.Each episode is narrated by a different cast member. ![]() While there are plenty of similarities, there are several key ways Siesta Key is different: That both shows begin with a love triangle between three cast members was “a really good coincidence,” he said-it just happened to be what was happening with the cast. “We love the references to Laguna Beach, but we’re also very cognizant of trying to carve out a different niche and be different from that series,” Ford told me. “Our goal in general was to up the ante and go deeper into the stories.”Īnd that’s just one of the ways the show moves beyond its predecessor. “We came in creatively and added our ideas,” which included “finding new members of Alex’s clique to include,” Ford told me. Laguna Beach’s creators, Creature Films’ Mark Ford and Kevin Lopez, were brought in after the father of one of the show’s stars hired a production company to film a pilot about his son Alex’s life and friends. Ford praised Florida-based producer Warren Skeels, whose “vision has come across the entire project in a really profound way,” and said “they did a really great job with it.” Eventually those shows collapsed under their own weight, never mind viewers’ desire for more authenticity.Ĭan MTV and reality TV return to those early days of Laguna? Siesta Key (MTV, Mondays at 10) is part of its strategy to return to its core of reality TV and music, and while Siesta uses Laguna Beach’s format and aesthetics, it differs in significant ways from that 2000s show. The spin-off, and its spin-off The City, did everything from faking scenes to texting the cast dialogue to inventing storylines. All of this will be familiar to viewers of Laguna Beach, as will the editing, which is heavier on atmosphere and music than on dialogue.īut what Laguna gave reality TV-a reality TV show produced and shot like a cinematic drama which dropped interviews and confessionals, replacing them with spare conversations between people who were just living their actual lives- The Hills infected with artificiality. MTV’s new reality series Siesta Key begins with a love triangle, and tension in a group of friends, most of whom have known each other most of their lives in a beautiful place that’s drenched in sun and wealth.
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