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  • ‘Unreal’ season 2 to take on gender and equality based issues

    ‘Unreal’ season 2 to take on gender and equality based issues

    MUMBAI: Critics’ Choice Television Award winner Unreal will push the bar on equality and gender based issues, according to show runner Sarah Gertude Shapiro.

    Unreal takes place behind the scenes of a fictional reality dating show, “Everlasting”.

    The first season features Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer in leading roles as producer Rachel Goldberg and executive producer Quinn King respectively. They are joined by an ensemble cast which included Harry Potter alumni Freddie Stroma as Everlasting’s devastatingly charming suitor Adam Cromwell, Johanna Braddy, Josh Kelly and Jeffrey Bower-Chapman amongst others.

    The second season which will be telecast in India on Star World is all set to tackle issues of race, gender and men’s rights. Featuring B.J Britt as the latest suitor, the show’s season two is already breaking the norm by doing what no dating reality show did – casting an African-American leading man.

    Joining him will be veteran actor Bruce Davison who plays Randy, a cowboy musician from Quinn’s past, Christopher Cousins as Gary, the President of the channel that airs the fictional show and relative newcomer Lindsay Musil as Beth, a small town girl vying for Britt’s character.

    Shapiro said: “The first season was really about the princess fantasy, and the power of this fantasy of being rescued. For both sides of the gender spectrum. or all sides of it, [there is] the idea that one person can show up and rescue you and change your whole life. And [in] the second season, we’re really exploring race and masculinity. And that is a big shift for us. It’s still Everlasting, but with a different suitor, and the suitor is going to be black, so [we’re] exploring the race politics of that.”

    Shapiro said Season 2 will top all the reality TV tropes covered in Season 1, “I think race is a big way to top that. It’s the elephant in the room … the fact that those shows have never had an African-American lead. For us, I think you top that by pushing our universe into a place the real universe hasn’t gone.”

    Unreal is created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, and was inspired by Shapiro’s award-winning independent short film Sequin Raze. The show has been awarded the Critics’ Choice Television Award for being the Most Exciting New Series and the American Film Institute Award for Top 10 Television programmes of 2015.

    Unreal season 1 is currently being telecast on Star World and Star World HD. The show’s second season will be telecast on the channel following the US premiere.

  • ‘Unreal’ season 2 to take on gender and equality based issues

    ‘Unreal’ season 2 to take on gender and equality based issues

    MUMBAI: Critics’ Choice Television Award winner Unreal will push the bar on equality and gender based issues, according to show runner Sarah Gertude Shapiro.

    Unreal takes place behind the scenes of a fictional reality dating show, “Everlasting”.

    The first season features Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer in leading roles as producer Rachel Goldberg and executive producer Quinn King respectively. They are joined by an ensemble cast which included Harry Potter alumni Freddie Stroma as Everlasting’s devastatingly charming suitor Adam Cromwell, Johanna Braddy, Josh Kelly and Jeffrey Bower-Chapman amongst others.

    The second season which will be telecast in India on Star World is all set to tackle issues of race, gender and men’s rights. Featuring B.J Britt as the latest suitor, the show’s season two is already breaking the norm by doing what no dating reality show did – casting an African-American leading man.

    Joining him will be veteran actor Bruce Davison who plays Randy, a cowboy musician from Quinn’s past, Christopher Cousins as Gary, the President of the channel that airs the fictional show and relative newcomer Lindsay Musil as Beth, a small town girl vying for Britt’s character.

    Shapiro said: “The first season was really about the princess fantasy, and the power of this fantasy of being rescued. For both sides of the gender spectrum. or all sides of it, [there is] the idea that one person can show up and rescue you and change your whole life. And [in] the second season, we’re really exploring race and masculinity. And that is a big shift for us. It’s still Everlasting, but with a different suitor, and the suitor is going to be black, so [we’re] exploring the race politics of that.”

    Shapiro said Season 2 will top all the reality TV tropes covered in Season 1, “I think race is a big way to top that. It’s the elephant in the room … the fact that those shows have never had an African-American lead. For us, I think you top that by pushing our universe into a place the real universe hasn’t gone.”

    Unreal is created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, and was inspired by Shapiro’s award-winning independent short film Sequin Raze. The show has been awarded the Critics’ Choice Television Award for being the Most Exciting New Series and the American Film Institute Award for Top 10 Television programmes of 2015.

    Unreal season 1 is currently being telecast on Star World and Star World HD. The show’s second season will be telecast on the channel following the US premiere.

  • Star World & Star World HD to premiere ‘UnREAL’

    Star World & Star World HD to premiere ‘UnREAL’

    MUMBAI: Star World and Star World HD is all geared up to premiere UnREAL, an American dark comedy and reality dating series. The entire series will premiere on 19 and 20 December 2015 at 12 pm on Star World Weekend Binge, where viewers can watch the show uninterrupted. The series stars Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer in the lead role. The entire series will be aired on a single weekend for the binge viewers.

    The provocative drama series will offer behind-the-scene glimpse into the chaos surrounding the production of a fictitious dating competition show titled as Everlasting, which happened to be a big hit with the audience. The series, co – created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, will find a young producer Rachel Goldberg, played by Shiri Appleby, whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage that the program’s dispassionate executive producer Quinn King, enacted by Constance Zimmer, demands.

    Speaking about the new show, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro asserted, “It’s anyone who’s ever had a job really.  I mean, it’s sort of about growing up in the world. I think it’s truly a quandary that most people can relate to, is how do you stay yourself and respect your morals as you become an adult.”

    UnREAL also stars Craig Bierko, Chet, Freddie Stroma and Adam Cromwell. The plot of the show would have Josh Kelly playing the character of Jeremy, a cameraman who is Rachel’s ex-boyfriend. Siobhan Williams enacts the character of Lizzie, Jeremy’s current fiancée and on-set makeup artist. Everlasting’s contestants include Grace played by Nathalie Kelley, who is seen winning Adam’s heart in the show. Anna played by Johanna Braddy is shown as classy and shrewd with her eye on the prize. Faith, a sensitive and vulnerable tomboy from the South is portrayed by Breeda Wool and Mary is played by Ashley Scott, a gorgeous single mom who has been unlucky in love. Arielle Kebbel will guest star as Courtney, a contestant who has no filter and isn’t on Everlasting to make any friends.