Paramount Plus THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS -- Top Row L-R: Matt Smith, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Julie Stoffer Seated L-R: Kelley Wolf, Danny Roberts, David "Tokyo" Broom in THE REAL WORLD HOMECOMING: NEW ORLEANS streaming on PARAMOUNT+.Photo:Akasha Rabut/Paramount+©MTV ENTERTAINMENT 2022, All Rights Reserved.
Nearly 22 years after its initial season, the cast of the “Real World: New Orleans” will gather for an anticipated reunion season.
“Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” is available exclusively on Paramount+, which you can watch through either Amazon Prime or Paramount.
Here’s a full rundown of how to watch “Real World Homecoming: New Orleans”:
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Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime subscribers (Prime comes with a 30-day free trial) can watch all Paramount+ content via Amazon channels. You can try both Amazon Prime and the Paramount+ Channel at no cost with a free trial right here:
Once you’re signed up for the Prime Paramount+ Channel, you can watch “Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” on the Amazon Video app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), Xbox One or Series X/S, PlayStation 4 or 5, various smart TV’s, Xiaomi, Echo Show or Echo Spot, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet.
You can also watch on your computer via the Amazon website.
Paramount+
This is ultimately the same as the Amazon Prime option above, only you’ll watch on Paramount’s digital platforms instead of Amazon’s. This option also comes with a free trial:
Once signed up for Paramount+, you can watch “Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” live on the Paramount+ app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Samsung Smart TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet.
You can also watch on your computer via the Paramount+ website.
‘Real World Homecoming: New Orleans’ Preview
Coming on the heels of the very successful “Real World Homecoming” specials for New York (season one) and Los Angeles (season two) comes “Real World Homecoming: New Orleans,” which jumps ahead a bit in time in the chronology of the show to season nine.
“Real World: New Orleans” consisted of seven people living together in a remodeled Civil War-era mansion in New Orleans. The cast members were 22-year-old entrepreneur Jamie Murray; Matt Smith, a devout Catholic web designer who was 21, 22-year-old Melissa Howard, a funny girl who was eager to break out of her traditional Filipino upbringing; Danny Roberts, a 22-year-old gay man who was in a relationship with a man named Paul, whose face had to be blurred out at the time because of his job in the military; Kelley Limp, a 21-year-old college girl who ended up getting married to actor Scott Wolf; Julie Stoffer, a 21-year-old Mormon college student breaking out of her strictly religious upbringing, and 22-year-old David broom, a singer who aspired to be the first Black president of the United States.
Now it is 22 years later and “the roommates are moving back in for a dramatic, nostalgic, heartfelt reunion, where they’ll get a second chance to stop being polite and start getting real,” according to the Paramount Plus press release.
In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” Kelley Wolf said the reunion was so “meta,” saying production “would show a clip” and then they would “sit around in the room” and reflect on those moments.
“It was really interesting. I mean, the first time that I did the show, I didn’t have a ton of knowledge because I was too busy in the woods, thinking about Matt, apparently,” Wolf joked, adding, “But no, I didn’t have a ton of knowledge about it. I did it because it sounded interesting and I’m the kind of person who liked interesting. I liked to, you know, jump out of an airplane. I liked to do things that scare me a little bit and I don’t know what’s gonna happen next. That’s what this felt like too. Even having done it before. I mean, I’m a grown up person now.”
She also said that while the reunion was full of “strange, bizarre, chaotic experiences,” she felt a sense of love among the group, and she counts Danny Roberts and Melissa Beck as two of her closest friends even now.
“Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” premieres Wednesday, April 20 on Paramount Plus.