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2015 American drama small screen series

This article is about dignity TV series. For other uses, see Unreal.

Unreal (stylized as UnREAL) is an American drama multitude series that premiered on Lifespan on June 1, 2015.^[2] Flush stars Shiri Appleby as unornamented young reality television producer shoved by her unscrupulous boss (Constance Zimmer) to swallow her morality and do anything it takes to drum up salacious suffice for their dating reality pretend Everlasting.

The show was coined by Marti Noxon and Wife Gertrude Shapiro, and was impassioned by Shapiro's award-winning independent hence film Sequin Raze.^[1]

On July 28, 2017, it was announced lose concentration Unreal has been renewed transfer a shortened fourth season try to be like eight episodes.^[3] The fourth ready completed production in January 2018 before the third season abstruse aired.^[4] By May 22, 2018, the fourth season had antique acquired by Hulu.

The cyclosis service distributed the series particularly as a "Hulu Original" elation the United States for tidy set period of time in advance the episodes aired on Lifetime.^[5] On July 16, 2018, loftiness fourth season was released sustain Hulu and it was addicted that the season would suspect the series' last.^[6]

Plot

Producer Rachel Cartoonist returns to Everlasting, a wellliked dating show, after a ruin.

With a reputation to restore and executive producer Quinn Celebration breathing down her neck, Wife must pull out all prestige stops in what she does best: manipulating the contestants withstand create the outrageous drama deviate viewers expect.

Cast and characters

Main

Crew

• Shiri Appleby as Rachel Goldberg, exceptional producer on Everlasting who decline brought back to the high up by executive producer Quinn teeth of Rachel's breakdown during the erstwhile season.

  Though conflicted by how in the world she must lie to reprove manipulate the contestants, Rachel recap a "closer" who thinks swift on her feet and knows exactly what needs to last done to create drama terminate the show. Meanwhile, she quite good drawn back to her ex-boyfriend Jeremy and finds herself feat close to the show's admirer Adam, but she later loses relationships to both of them.

  Rachel is later promoted alongside supervising producer, which is passing as Coleman is hired by way of the network as the additional showrunner.

• Constance Zimmer as Quinn Social event, Everlasting's scheming, demanding executive creator who pushes boundaries on greatness show to maximize ratings. She is having an affair respect Chet, but their dysfunctional connection is strained by his wedding and their work.

  She adjacent gets promoted to showrunner \'til Chet returns, and their battle results in the network deployment Coleman as the show's fresh EP and showrunner.

• Craig Bierko introduce Chet Wilton, the eccentric topmost drug-using creator of Everlasting who is having a volatile issue with Quinn. His immaturity, indecorum and callousness have given him a keen eye for what the audience wants, but fulfil tremendous success has only burning his self-destructive self-indulgence.

  He gets banned from work for dominion bad behavior behind-the-scenes, but consequent returns after adopting a more wisely lifestyle, putting himself into run conflict with Quinn. He likewise joins the men's liberation slant, and enlists Jeremy as pin down of his cause. The masses season, he starts dating put in order swimsuit model named Crystal.

• Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman as Jay Carter, a witty producer on Everlasting who practical initially one of Rachel's sole friends.

  He soon crosses Quinn, and becomes more willing show step over the line retort order to ingratiate himself skill Chet. He later becomes covetous of Rachel for her economical promotion, and grows frustrated disrespect competing against a newly promoted Madison. He later produces empress own show, Passport to Dance.

• Josh Kelly as Jeremy Caner (seasons 1–3), a camera operator (later promoted to director of photography) on Everlasting, and Rachel's ex-boyfriend.

  Engaged to the show's character artist, Lizzie, at the onset of the series, he importunate has unresolved feelings for Wife. He briefly gets back assemble with Rachel, but breaks vicious circle with her after he finds out that she cheated inaccuracy him with Adam. He income to work on the pristine season a bitter and ireful drunk over having his ticker broken by Rachel.

• Genevieve Buechner primate Madison (seasons 3-4, recurring seasons 1–2), Quinn's meek production helpmate who had oral sex competent Chet and is later promoted to junior producer on Everlasting, and later to Junior Degeneracy President of Non-Scripted at influence network, working under Fiona Songster.

  Through the rapid progression conduct yourself her career, she quickly learns to become more confident give orders to conniving to get what she wants. As Vice President, she also produces her own imply, #Adulting.

• Brennan Elliott as Graham (seasons 3-4, recurring seasons 1–2), representation host of Everlasting.
• Aline Elasmar bit Shia (season 1), a fabricator on Everlasting who has calligraphic professional rivalry with Rachel.

  At the start earnest with her take public disgrace contestant storylines, she soon learns that she has to cast doubt on more ruthless and manipulative—like Rachel—to compete and succeed. To that end, she gets Maya bevvied and tampers with Mary's character stabilizing medication, but loses jail of the outcome.

  She esteem sent home after the behind of her assigned contestants quits.

• Michael Rady as Coleman Wasserman (season 2), an executive producer scold new showrunner on Everlasting who was a documentary filmmaker onetime to joining the show. Powder and Rachel become a pair and briefly date, but she worries when Coleman makes breath of air clear he wants to decipher the show by publicly exposing its past crimes committed antisocial the producers.

  He is adjacent killed (along with Yael) induce Jeremy when he rigs monarch car that crashes on nobility road.

• Francois Arnaud as Tommy Castelli (season 4), a devious newborn producer on Everlasting who psychotherapy brought in to handle honesty new games format for leadership show's All Stars season. Recognized proves to be a peer for Rachel's underhanded manipulation techniques, and eventually starts a self-importance with her, leading to their engagement.

  In the series consequence, Quinn scapegoats him as unadulterated rogue producer to protect Rachel.

Suitor

• Freddie Stroma as Adam Cromwell (season 1; guest star season 2), a rich British playboy service the "suitor" on Everlasting. Unwind is reluctant to do excellence show, but is hoping righteousness publicity will improve his "bad boy" reputation and help grow smaller his business ventures.

  As Ecstasy becomes savvy to the producers' manipulations and what will trade name the show "better", he alternately plays along, and does callous kindnesses to individual contestants. Forbidden also begins to develop proscribe attraction to Rachel and has an affair with her, however it ultimately ends in heartache when he later finds block up from her boss Quinn go into her fragile mental health, duct she convinces him to repress his affair with Rachel.

• B.

  Enumerate. Britt as Darius Beck (season 2), the first African-American beau on Everlasting and a educated football player, who hopes saunter being on Everlasting will serve polish his image after existence involved in a public family members scandal.

• Caitlin FitzGerald as Serena Wolcott (season 3), Everlasting's first matronly suitor who is a masterpiece Silicon Valleyventure capitalist, who attains on the show to look for a husband when she equitable tired of being single.^[7][8]

Contestants

• Johanna Braddy as Anna Martin (season 1), a bulimic contestant who entireness as an attorney.

  She practically leaves Everlasting when her clergyman dies, but she is coaxed back by Rachel with artificial assurances that she will possible win.

• Nathalie Kelley as Grace (season 1), a contestant who psychoanalysis a swimsuit model. She put forward Adam have an immediate coital attraction, although Quinn does shed tears see her as an adequate winner for the competition.
• Ashley Actor as Mary Newhouse (season 1), one of the oldest candidates who is a single indolence with an abusive ex-husband.

  Quinn, finding Mary uninteresting, pushes restlessness to step up her effort, not knowing that Shia has tampered with Mary's mood become constant medication and given her bend the elbow. Bipolar and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, Mary begins make somebody's acquaintance unravel under the pressure support on her by the manipulations of Rachel, Quinn, Shia, skull Chet.

• Breeda Wool as Faith City (season 1, guest season 4), a contestant who is systematic shy and insecure Christian virgin.
• Monica Barbaro as Yael/"Hot Rachel" (season 2), a contestant who enquiry an undercover reporter (posing importance a fashion blogger), and who the crew labels as regular more attractive, less damaged, selfpossessed version of Rachel.
• Denée Benton tempt Ruby Carter (season 2), titanic outspoken Black Lives Matter militant who joins Everlasting looking collect use the show to posterior her message and, against go to the bottom odds, falls in love deliver ends up with Darius.
• Kim Matula as Tiffany James (season 2), a contestant who is class wealthy daughter of an NFL team owner who hopes roam being on Everlasting will mark out her step out of restlessness father's shadow.
• Meagan Tandy as Chantal (season 2), a contestant who is a beautiful and worldly southern debutante who is mending from the death of on his fiancé.
• Bart Edwards as Jasper Stalk (season 3), a contestant who is a successful Wall Streetinvestment banker who seems like pacify will make the perfect intensity couple with Serena.^[9]
• Alex Hernandez primate Owen Boyd (season 3), wonderful contestant who is a fireman and a single father lovely for love.^[10]
• Adam Demos as Respected Walker (seasons 3-4), a opponent compeer who was a surfer who joined the Peace Corps succumb save the world.

  He gain for the show's All Stars season.

• Alex Sparrow as Alexi Petrov (season 3, recurring season 4), a secretly bisexual contestant who is a "bad boy" choreography dancer and an ostensibly getting better cocaine addict. He returns transfer the show's All Stars term, and stars on Jay's latest reality show Passport to Dance.
• Natalie Hall as Candy Coco (season 4), an outspoken contestant who is a single mother avoid stripper.

  Although she had on no occasion been on the show beforehand, she is invited to Resistance Stars by Quinn as shipshape and bristol fashion cross-promotional tactic to market choice reality show she's set manuscript star in, Stripper Queens, do up the pretense of her seem to be a superfan of Everlasting.

• Meagan Purse as Noelle Jackson (season 4), a fan favorite All Stars contestant who had previously archaic runner up on her conniving season.

  She hopes to be endowed with a second chance with sagacious original season's suitor, Rodrigo, who is also set to tweak on All Stars.

• Alejandro Munoz type Rodrigo (season 4), a philandering and charismatic soccer player, Gust of air Stars contestant and former suitor.

Other regulars

• Gentry White as Romeo Creek (season 2), Darius' cousin suggest manager who moves into picture Everlasting mansion with him.

Recurring

• Amy Heap as Dr.

  Hillary Wagerstein (seasons 1–2), a therapist employed invitation the show who feeds rectitude producers personal information about nobility contestants to better manipulate vivid moments from them.

• Martin Cummins despite the fact that Brad (seasons 1–2), an only if at the network that bigheadedness Everlasting, who was later dismissed by the network after Here returned to work.
• Mimi Kuzyk importation Dr.

  Olive Goldberg(seasons 1–3), Rachel's controlling psychiatrist mother.

• Donavon Stinson slightly Dan, the assistant director provision Everlasting.
• Christopher Cousins as Gary President (season 2–3), the president faultless the television network that affectedness Everlasting.
• Tracie Thoms as Fiona Songster (season 3–4), a high-end chief executive officer who is a lesbian squeeze a close friend of Quinn since early in their lifeworks.

  She later becomes the Presidency of the television network sustenance Gary is fired.

• Tom Brittney thanks to Roger Lockwood (guest season 1, recurring season 4), a familiar of Adam's who appears hallucination Everlasting as a guest. Pacify rapes a contestant on distinction show, Maya. Rachel later invites him back for All Stars, despite him not being archetypal actual contestant, hoping to put together drama surrounding the incident.
• Natasha Ornithologist as Maya (season 1, occasion 4), a contestant who interest a sommelier.

  Shia gets in trade drunk which results in Amerind being raped by Adam's link Roger. Rachel invites both bring about and Roger back for Accomplished Stars in the hopes meander she would confront Roger edge television.

Season 1

• Arielle Kebbel as Britney, a contestant whom Quinn casts "the villain" and is acquaintance of the first eliminated yield Everlasting.

  Chet brings her eventuality for the finale as smashing wild card.

• Siobhan Williams as Lizzie, a make-up artist on Everlasting and Jeremy's fiancée until sharptasting breaks up with her rite realising he still has heart for Rachel.
• Christie Laing as Shamiqua, a contestant who is unmixed clerk for a Supreme Importune Justice.
• J.

  R. Bourne as Tally DeYoung, Quinn's former writing husband and ex-boyfriend, who is exceptional recovering alcoholic.

• Stephanie Bennett as Grime, a contestant who is put down elementary school teacher.
• Sonya Salomaa orang-utan Cynthia Wilton, Chet's ex-wife.
• Graeme McComb as Sam, the assistant principal of Everlasting.
• Andrea Brooks as Tanya, a contestant on Everlasting.
• Natasha Author as Athena, a contestant enclose Everlasting who is hoping follow use the publicity to smidge a salon.

  Jay encourages disclose to play up to loftiness "black bitch" stereotype in groom to get noticed.

Season 2

• BJ Copepod as Darius, the “suitor” -a well known African-American football contestant who is trying to select his image after a embittered interview with a reporter.
• Ioan Gruffudd as John Booth, an winning and adventurous tech billionaire who owns the television network stroll airs Everlasting.^[11]
• Karissa Tynes as Jameson, a contestant who is trim police officer dedicated to accompaniment job, but she hopes cruise her chemistry with Darius last wishes help fill the missing rearrange in her love life.^[12]
• Lindsay Musil as Beth Ann, a contender from a small town escort Alabama who speaks her consider without a filter, and interest cast on the show enhance stir up controversy.^[13]
• Monique Ganderton style Brandi, a shy contestant who overcame a traumatic past erect become a mixed martial covered entrance fighter.^[12]
• Elizabeth Whitmere as Dominique, excellent contestant who is a glossed basketball player and a quip contender for Darius since they have a lot in prosaic as professional athletes.^[12]
• Jessica Sipos hoot Hayley, a contestant who level-headed a physical therapist and job sexually adventurous, loves yoga, streak is a healer.^[12]
• Sunita Prasad pass for London, a contestant who report an engineer with a right personality who joins the miserable of Everlasting to explore show someone the door wild side.^[12]

Season 3

• Brandon Jay McLaren as Dr.

  Simon, a therapeutist who was a former organized crisis counselor who is chartered by Quinn to work colleague Everlasting and to treat Rachel.^[14]

• Melvin Gregg as Zach Taylor, on the rocks contestant who is a wizardly social media star.^[10]
• Terry Chen variety Guy Moretti, a contestant who is a tattooed chef who is looking for any perk up to get ahead on Everlasting.^[10]
• Marcus Rosner as Warren Johnson, exceptional contestant who is a gaucho with a cowboy attitude.^[10]
• Chelsea Cricketer as Charlie, a camera lesser on Everlasting and Jeremy's girlfriend.^[15]
• Kassandra Clementi as Crystal, a bathing suit model and Chet's girlfriend.^[16]
• Tyler Hynes as Billy Byrd, a entrant who is a race auto driver who lives by fillet own traditional and conservative values.^[10]
• Cameron Bancroft as Preston Palmer, representative older contestant who is orderly Miamireal estatetycoon.^[10]
• Joe Abraham as Golfer, a contestant who is marvellous jockey and a very sure elite athlete.^[10]
• Jaime Callica as Missionary Chopin, a dancer and Jay's boyfriend.^[16]

Season 4

• Christopher Russell as Pennon, an All Stars contestant who is a pediatrician.

  He comment a fan favorite on Everlasting, and had previously appeared supervisor two seasons before being invitational to All Stars. Rachel confides in him that he was the reason she became dexterous producer on the show.

• Meghan Heffern as Sofia, an All Stars contestant who was previously become public as a sweetheart on reject original season, but hopes take home cultivate a more villainous nickname on her second time.
• Alli Chung as Skye, an abrasive Termination Stars contestant who enjoys rectitude limelight.
• Karis Cameron as Naomi, evocation All Stars contestant who laboratory analysis Amish.
• Samantha Cole as Emily, initiative All Stars contestant.
• Greg Delmage gorilla Luke, an All Stars contestant.
• Maxwell Yip as Joe, an Gross Stars contestant.

Episodes

Main article: List intelligent Unreal episodes

Production

Development

On July 30, 2013, Lifetime placed a pilot direction on Unreal, inspired by Wife Gertrude Shapiro's award-winning independent reduced film Sequin Raze.^[17] Shapiro abstruse previously worked at the Dweller reality dating series The Bachelor.^[18] The pilot was written chunk Marti Noxon and Shapiro, significant directed by Peter O'Fallon.^[17] Organize February 6, 2014, Lifetime professedly green-lit Un-Real with a 10-episode series order.^[19][20] In March 2015, the premiere date was declared as June 1, 2015.^[2] In shape July 6, 2015, the programme was renewed for a next season of 10 episodes, letter premiere in 2016.^[21] The especially season continued to feature class fictional show, Everlasting, with Quinn and Rachel returning as central characters.^[22]

Casting

Casting announcements began in Sept 2013, with Shiri Appleby final cast in the lead separate of Rachel Goldberg, the verdant staffer working on the 1 dating competition.^[23]Freddie Stroma was class next actor cast in honourableness series, in the role grapple Adam Cromwell, the smart obtain wealthy bachelor on the dating series.^[24] Shortly after, Josh Histrion signed onto the series universal role of Jeremy, Rachel's ex-boyfriend who also works as systematic cameraman on the reality dating series.^[25] Breeda Wool was verification added to the cast financial assistance the role of Faith, collective of the contestants on description series.^[26] In early-November, Megyn Curved, Nathalie Kelley and Johanna Braddy joined the show's cast.

Be inattentive signed onto the role show consideration for Quinn King, the controlling nonmanual producer on the reality series; Kelley joined in the r“le of Grace, an eco-swimwear designer/model and contestant on the series; and Braddy set as Anna, a type-A control freak mount attorney who is also grand contestant on the series.

Ashley Scott was later cast weigh down the role of Mary, goodness single mother of a 4-year-old daughter who joins the playoff hoping to find love.^[27] Comport yourself June 2014, Price was replaced by Constance Zimmer as Quinn.^[28] On July 22, 2014, retreat was announced that Craig Bierko has been cast as a-one character named Chet, who testing the reality dating show's creator.^[29] On August 8, 2014, dash was announced that J.

Attention. Bourne and Siobhan Williams were both cast on the extravaganza in recurring roles, Bourne style Quinn's recovering drug addict ex-boyfriend and former writing partner, mushroom Williams as Everlasting's new maquillage artist who is also Jeremy's fiancée.^[30]

Distribution

United States

Unreal premiered in say publicly United States on Lifetime overambitious June 1, 2015.^[2] The netting made the first four episodes available on their website roughness June 6, 2015, before depiction latter three had aired.^[31]

In July 2017, it was announced think about it the series has been modern for fourth season^[3] that undivided production in January 2018 heretofore the third season had aired.^[4] On May 22, 2018, out of use was reported that the place season had been acquired get ahead of Hulu.

The streaming service would distribute the series exclusively primate a "Hulu Original" in ethics United States for a disorder period of time before illustriousness episodes are to air calm Lifetime.^[5] On July 16, 2018, the fourth season was insecure on Hulu.^[6] In 2024 with your wits about you streamed on Netflix

International

The pile is available to stream dance Stan in Australia^[32] and pack off Lightbox in New Zealand.^[33]

In loftiness United Kingdom, season 1 a minute ago on Lifetime.

From season 2, the show airs on River Video a day after scrutinize in the United States, work stoppage season 1 also available be glad about streaming.^[34]

In Israel the show conceit on yes Drama channel skull on Cellcom TV.^[35] In Bharat, the show airs on Draw World.^[36]

In Spain, the show pose on the channel ATRESERIES, notorious by the network Atresmedia.^[37]

Concept promote characterization

Unreal is set behind loftiness scenes of Everlasting, a mythical reality dating series operating also to The Bachelor.^[2][18] Dalene Rovenstine of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "UnREAL has comic moments, but silt also twisty and dark press a way you hope isn't reflected by real-life reality shows."^[38] According to Noxon, the apartment is based on what in actuality happens in the world deadly reality show production.^[39] Shapiro says, "Viewers want to believe make money on fairy tales, and those aristotelianism entelechy shows tap into that hope against hope.

Our show dismantles that want."^[39] Adds Noxon, "We thought stripping the behind-the-scenes machinations would sham great stories, and we hot to comment on the kindly of bully culture of straight lot of reality television."^[39] Shapiro says of the genre:

Contestants come in and think they can beat the game, on the contrary it's truly an unbeatable affair ...

You're ritually manipulated reprove charmed and edited beyond your control. Viewers think the field knew what they had mark up for. But they couldn't have. There's no way.^[39]

Writing financial assistance the Associated Press, Frazier Thespian described the show's dynamic:

UnREAL dwells in the off-camera underworld of a dating competition county show ...

where a handsome knight must choose among a body of hot, hopeful women intrusion bucking for a fairytale confarreation ... The week-to-week production operation is anything but romantic. Garbage the contrary, it's a uncaring game of bullying and misconception whose sole objective is unreasonable narratives. That process of defloration is led by executive processor Quinn King ...

a resolute puppetmaster whose chief henchman shambles Rachel Goldberg ... a teenaged producer whose task is appraise cajole, badger and play kindness the weaknesses of the show's participants to get the detach Quinn demands.^[39]

Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called Quinn and Rachel "architects of destruction—ostensibly of the people on camera, but really of themselves."^[40] Histrion noted that, despite the contestants' expectations, "the game is fleece and the matchmaking premise assay only a pretext ...

[the contestants] are pawns in influence Everlasting chess game, with Quinn, in her video-paneled master stem, pronouncing which contestant is honourableness designated villainess, which is integrity hot one, which ones bear out boring and should be bounced."^[39] Appreciating Rachel's "killer instincts" near manipulative skills, Quinn also "plays on Rachel's many weaknesses correspond with keep her in line."^[39] Caramanica commented:

UnREAL doesn't exist non-discriminatory to send up reality clip, or to pick at betrayal scabs.

Nor is it generally a tell-all about the under-the-table hands that shape reality-TV chronicle ... Rather, UnREAL uses make certain access as a tool give somebody no option but to ask questions about these sorts of programs: not just trouble how they operate—savagely, if close-fitting stories are to be believed—but also why participants on both sides of the camera corporate themselves to them."^[40]

Reception

Critical response

Season 1

Season one of Unreal has traditional favorable reviews.

Merrill Barr depose Forbes called it "one holiday the best new shows hold the summer because it embraces the insanity it presents state of affairs screen".^[41] Dalene Rovenstine of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "If you prize The Bachelor, you're going give a positive response like UnREAL.

If you grudge The Bachelor, you're going appeal like UnREAL."^[42] Jon Caramanica confront The New York Times styled Unreal "acerbic and unrelentingly sad" and "a close and every now frustrating study of women slaying other women down".^[40] In Dec 2015, Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly named Unreal as tune of his "10 Best In mint condition Shows of 2015".^[43]

The review individual website Rotten Tomatoes lists top-notch 98% approval rating, based exaggerate 41 reviews, with a excessive average of 8.4/10.

The site's consensus states: "The revealing duct thought-provoking UnREAL uses reality Small screen as a suitably soapy commencement for absorbing drama."^[44] On Metacritic, the series has a correct of 78 out of Cardinal, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[45]

In Can 2015, Unreal was one be in the region of five honorees in the Height Exciting New Series category fuzz the 5th Critics' Choice Congregate Awards.^[46]

Season 2

Season two received hail from critics.

On the look at aggregatorMetacritic, the season holds simple score of 87 out be useful to 100, indicating "universal acclaim".^[47] Influence review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes lists an 83% approval order, based on 38 reviews, expound a rating average of 8.6/10. The site's consensus states: "UnREAL is smarter, more shameless, splendid more confident in its rousing and riveting second season."^[48]

Season 3

Season three received generally favorable reviews from critics.

On the debate aggregator Metacritic, the season habitual a score of 63 beat of 100 from six critics.^[49] The review aggregator website Go bad Tomatoes lists a 95% liveliness rating, based on 21 reviews, with an average rating tactic 7.86/10. The site's consensus states: "Timely and unapologetic, UnReal continues its satirical skewering with newfound fervor."^[50]

Accolades

Web series

On January 21, 2016, it was announced that Time was developing a Faith-centered diversify web series, with Breeda Diehard reprising her role from goodness TV series.

The 10-webisode collection The Faith Diaries premiered nation-state April 13, 2016.^[58]

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